Epic street art mural by the international renowned street-artist duo known as the London Police (TLP) in Amsterdam’s Jordaan neighborhood. The artwork features the circle-headed, smiley-faced TLP graphic character called “the Lad.”
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Street Art … Fresh Artwork by Diana Garcia and Gabriel Specter at Woodward Gallery Project Space
This fresh new artwork by artists Diana Garcia and Gabriel Specter at the Woodward Gallery’s Project Space (in front of the Ghost space) on Eldridge Street on New York’s Lower East Side. The work is on view through February 14, 2014. The wall is yet another space dedicated to curated street art, a trend that will keep growing and we love to see.
That “Greetings From California” Retro-Postcard Billboard …
This billboard in the scenic California beach town of Carpinteria, near Santa Barbara, north of Los Angeles, is actually a commissioned artwork titled “A Climate for Health and Wealth,” but referred to by some locally as “that California billboard.” The work is an acrylic painting by a group of artists (see photo below showing list of artists) and is fashioned like an old-school tourist postcard with a retro-1950s style writ as large billboard advertisement. The painting depicts cliched facets of California’s bountiful prosperity and benefits. Two tear-aways at the lower left corner and top of the painting reveal an otherwise hidden, dark underbelly of paralyzing freeway traffic, below-wage migrant workers, pollution and industrial blight. We recently visited the quaint, laidback Carpinteria on a short surf trip and found it had a lot of small surprises, creative and otherwise.
Super Dope Mural by Erik Den Breejen at Rag & Bone
Brooklyn-based American artist Erik den Breejen is the latest painter to be commissioned by clothing brand Rag & Bone to put up artwork on the side of its downtown New York City flagship jeans store at the corner of Houston and Elizabeth streets. The photos below show den Breejen’s meticulous work-in-progress on an image that will eventually be David Bowie. We’ll be back later in the week to see the finished work. Check out more of den Breejun’s work on his Tumblr and at the Freight and Volume Gallery website.
