Promoting his new exhibition at Cory Helford Gallery this weekend, street artist/muralist/fine artist D*Face paints a new mural in Beverly Hills that will make you think. And wonder.
Who is she remembering? And is the person she’s speaking to trapped alive underground?
Art is open to interpretation, and the best stuff leaves the questions open.
We wrote about his new exhibition Painting Over the Cracks at Corey Helford Gallery HERE.
D*Face. “Blue For You” in collaboration with Branded Arts and his exhibition “Painting Over The Cracks”. Beverly Hills, CA. (photo courtesy of Branded Arts Gallery)D*Face. “Blue For You” in collaboration with Branded Arts Gallery his exhibition “Painting Over The Cracks”. Beverly Hills, CA. (photo courtesy of Branded Arts Gallery)D*Face. “Blue For You” in collaboration with Branded Arts and his exhibition “Painting Over The Cracks”. Beverly Hills, CA. (photo courtesy of Branded Arts Gallery)D*Face. “Blue For You” in collaboration with Branded Arts and his exhibition “Painting Over The Cracks”. Beverly Hills, CA. (photo courtesy of Branded Arts Gallery)D*Face’s mural in Beverly Hills was inspired by his painting “I Know You’re Down There” which is included in the exhibition “Painting Over The Cracks” at Corey Helford Gallery. (photo courtesy of Corey Helford Gallery)
Painting Over the Cracks? Opening this Saturday, August 6th at Los Angeles’ Corey Helford Gallery with over 70 new works. On view through September 10th. Click HERE for more details and schedules.
When you live in certain cities you are accustomed to the sort of cat and mouse game that municipalities play with graffiti taggers/writers with the cancelling out of one another’s work with paint. Today we take a look at a legal mural by Saber and Zes in Los Angeles that aims to capture the action between the untamed madness and wild markings of the writer and the blocky beige paint blobs that redact those markings from the visual cityscape, a practice many refer to as “the buff”.
“This particular style is an homage to this visual conflict that we see everyday on our city’s walls,” Saber tells us of this mural painted on a new art supply store that just opened in downtown LA. He says that the tension between the two forces is what gave energy to the project that used tools like a fire extinguisher, a bug sprayer, and that nice buff color, along with a fair number of fatcaps. Saber says it was a bit of an experiment.
Explaining the approach, Saber tells us they kept their state of mind loose while testing the uncontrolled quality of the substance applicators they were employing. “Usually these tools are used for bombing so the idea that we kept in mind was that there are no mistakes,” he says. “Any mark made on the wall only adds to the layers creating the tension between tagging, color and the beige of buff. Our goal was to capture samples of this conflict that takes place in the urban environment between tagging, handstyles and the relentless buff. Eventually the buffing took on a life of it’s own, almost turning into clouds that were weaving in and out of the scrawls.”
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