The thing about getting lost in Wynwood, Miami’s street art hub, no matter how far you stray off the path if you pay attention to the markers, a Ron English mural here, a TMNK tag there, you’ll always find your way home. But why would you want to leave?
Explore visual relations. Make whole that which lies in-between eyes. Shoot, shoot and re-shoot until it’s right. This is the city of San Francisco remixed. On a Mission, in the district, photographer Germán Walteros captures the hustle of the city that knows how.
One of Miami’s most lovable street artists is set to open his latest solo exhibition Ahol: Full-Time Feb 17 at Mercenary Square in Little Havana. His first exhibition in two years, Full Time finds the artist saluting the working class by visually and sonically documenting the decay of society. Tuning inward, he focuses on fruitless jobs he’s worked while juggling being an artist. This is Economic states and shapes. This is the American Dream of epic proportions. We sat down with the artist, to talk more about his show, the art scene in Miami and his take on the low brow art vs high brow art debate.
Muffin Milk‘s Creative Director/Lead Designer ThirdEyeTrue aesthetically stitching together styles on styles, and as a street artist he is tried and true, spray-painting street brilliant pyramids and the all seeing eye across the urban jungle of New York City. Open your eyes and take a closer look at some of his street work below.
Photographer Urban Outlaw gives us an in-depth tour of Sheffield’s best street art featuring the work of street artist Phlegm. Take a sip of this tea, and travel overseas with us to a place where the motto should be, “go big, or go to Paris.”
“Everything is born of the need to answer the call of the subconscious.
Open a channel where can emerge, these dream images that come to my mind.
I try to illustrate a confusing message, which will take effect over time.
My work reflects a personal universe that is embraced with Dada and Surrealism kisses.
Bright colors, nature, humanity and the spark that gives life, are the protagonists of this in my work, which is constantly evolving. Always with hands full of spray paint, crop images, draw, paint, on paper, canvas or digital, trying to not have any structure or steps. Try my work is an invitation to travel without movement and feel without touching.” – Ale Sinestro
By the age of 18, Niels Shoe Meulman was a rising graffiti legend, known by his street moniker of “Shoe.” Niels was influential in creating an innovative style of European graffiti alongside his crew Crime Time Kings, which he formed with Bando from Paris and Mode2 from London. This March, 941 Geary will show new works by the Amsterdam-based artist in a solo exhibition entitled Justified Scriptures.
Bruno Dias lives in a tropical country, a fact that inspires and drives his work to explore themes of regional Brazilian culture in a free, personal and playful manner. His street art expresses the relationship between physical space and the people of the country. Graffiti is an important reference for his work but it’s the feelings from the nature and the chaos around us which ensure the various painting techniques of manual, digital, spray paint and found art show through. Forever young and spontaneous, Bruno Dias’ latest works take an international dimensional as he showcases not only his unique style, but the unique style of Brazil’s regional culture to the world.
In Elementary school sniffing glue was not only frowned upon, it automatically grouped you in with the future losers, prostitutes and politicians of your class. When you talk about turning a stereotype on it’s ass, you’re talking about the work of Ahol Sniffs Glue.
