BROOKLYN STREET ART LOVES YOU MORE EVERY DAYHappy New Year! BSA Highlights of 2010
December 31, 2010
Artists
All posts tagged: Faber
Crotched objects began appearing on the street this year. © Jaime Rojo
Hugh Leeman & Faber at Living Walls
September 29, 2010
Artists, Atlanta, Events, On the Street
The Living Walls Conference in Atlanta ended weeks ago and the organizers still think of all the artists who helped in their first ever event; the art, the conversations, the animated debates, the camaraderie.
The pieces and murals left behind mostly are still untouched and naturally some have been tagged, destroyed, gone over. The life cycle for art on the streets, it would appear, is getting shorter – like 3-week TV pilots, 18-hour news cycles, and the average texting teen attention span, the pace of change is a quickening. Few artists can say that their pieces stay untouched, or “ride”, for very long periods of time.
One artist at Living Walls, Hugh Leeman, saw his portrait of an American civil rights icon actually precipitate the removal of an alcohol ad, due to local community sentiments – although no-one has said who brought it down. Street Artist Faber, takes a less literal, more intuitive approach to creating pieces specific to their location and his inner dialogue.
Hugh Leeman’s first stage (photo © Jenna Duffy)
Following are observations from Jayne McGinn along with photos from Jenna Duffy, who both covered the conference extensively:
Hugh Leeman
Hugh Leeman is easily one of the most inspiring people I met during Living Walls, if not my lifetime. His drive, passion and sincerity shone throughout his short stay in Atlanta.
After losing his wall on the side of Sound Table in the Old Fourth Ward due to a conflict with an Old English ad, Hugh ventured to the establishment at 1 a.m to convinced the owners to let him use the wall. He was allowed to create his piece with the stipulation that he would cut his mural in half and not cover the malt liquor add. Using only the Martin Luther King Jr side of the mural, Hugh pasted up his mural quickly, and before Leeman had left Atlanta the next day- the malt liquor add was down.
Leeman’s mural of MLK is adjacent to the MLK historic district, including his birth house and church. The brief time that the OE advertisement and the MLK wheat paste shared the wall together, it caused controversy within the community, igniting anger and confusion. Leeman and Living Walls posted a sign saying they did not support the advertisement.
Leeman’s mural changed the way OFW looks and represents the people and the neighborhood in an honest and uplifting way.
The completed portrait by Hugh Leeman (photo © Jenna Duffy)
Faber
Faber takes only a basic idea of a mural and his paint to his wall with him. He lets his murals evolve in a stream of consciousness as they adapt and respect the walls they coexist with. 
Faber (photo © Jenna Duffy)
Faber is careful not to break the aura of the structure and to maintain the feeling, form and character of the building.
Faber (photo © Jenna Duffy)
Faber’s interest in graffiti inspired him to study fine arts in school and further influences his work today. His artwork is personal, and appears on the street for the people who don’t have access to an art gallery, thus he creates a “public gallery” with his work. He sees his artwork as alive because of it interacts with the public.
Faber (photo © Jenna Duffy)
Fun Friday the 13th! 08.13.10
August 13, 2010
Artists, Atlanta, U.K., Washington DC
Fun Friday 08.13.10
Atlanta Goes to HellBent
The long awaited Living Walls event in Atlanta officially begins today, even though 30 street artists have arrived over the last week and begun work in earnest. We’ve been hearing some amazing stories – and of course they’re ALL TRUE. Stay toooooned for special reporting from peeps on the ground and on the walls. Check out the Hellbent below from somebody’s blurry Iphone. HELL YEAH! Not a bad pic actually.
Artists included in Living Walls:
EINE: Hoodlum to Heralded
It can be a harrowing and a strange trip that some graff/street artists take, and here’s a new video that gives an intimate inside look at some of Eine’s journey from tagging trains to making what might be described as fine art. Just last month a piece by the British Street Artist was given to President Obama by the Prime Minister on a visit to Washington. “So it’s been a weird day today,” says a July 20th posting on Ben Eine’s website. “David Cameron has given one of my paintings to President Obama.”
In The Guardian article by Jon Henley, Eine was quoted last month reflecting on the two heads of state, “Cameron seems quite a positive kind of guy and Obama’s a dude”. Wonder if it’s in the Oval Office?
Not Safe For Work! Naked White Man Can Jump!
A stop motion video comprised of 2,600 photos of 20 year old Morgan Tespsic doing public performance art that otherwise may be called exhibitionism, if the locations weren’t so bucolic and unpopulated.
Living Walls The City Speaks Atlanta
Living Walls Atlanta
A GRASS ROOTS COLLOQUIUM
An exhibition and conference focused on street art and its role in engaging public space.
We are bringing in the works of an international selection of artists who typically make use of the streets to showcase their work. We have also sought artists that re-appropriate the public realm, attempting to take charge of their media space.
Artists will be asked, along with submitting artwork, to present some form of documentation of their other works as well as their process in order to illustrate via pictures, video, sketches, words, etc, the scale and context in which the artist typically works in public space.
- This is a Detail of Chris Stain Piece in Beacon. He’ll be In Atlanta for Living Walls. (© Jaime Rojo)
| Swampy |
| Miso |
| Chris Stain |
| The $tatus Faction |
| Know Hope |
| Gaia |
| Faber |
| Feral Child |
| The DotMasters |
| OX |
| Xomatok |
| Indigo |
| Drone |
| Ever |
| Nadie |
| Sakristan |
| Olivia |
| Dr. Case |
| Jerm IX |
| The Paper Twins |
| Doodles |
| Tereza De Quinta |
| Urka |
| Loaf |
| yoyoBruno |
| Shaun Thurston |
| Jason Kofke |
| Flix |
| Weak Hand |
| Michi Meko |
| Clown Soldier |
| Mad One |
| Yema |
| cin4ski |
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Living WALLS: Atlanta Conference on Street Art and Public Space looking for Artists for August
Street Artists GAIA, KNOW HOPE, SWAMPY, CHRIS STAIN, FERAL CHILD among others to show work, Jordan Seiler to speak.
An exhibition and conference focused on street art and its role in engaging public space.
We are bringing in the works of an international selection of artists who typically make use of the streets to showcase their work. We have also sought artists that re-appropriate the public realm, attempting to take charge of their media space.
An exhibition and conference focused on street art and its role in engaging public space.
ADD YOUR VOICE – Submit YOUR Work – Poster Submission
They are calling for street artists to submit posters with no constraint on quantity or size.
Public Walls
- Art work will be put up on various walls around the city of Atlanta.
- All posters will be thoroughly documented with all artists credited.
- Events will be scheduled locally around the city of Atlanta in order to give the public notice about the international poster exhibition which has taken place.
Deadline for Submission: 07.13.2010
From Street Artis GAIA on Vandalog: The artwork of 18 influential street artists from around the world will food the streets of Atlanta as part of a coordinated effort to engage the public via street art. Living Walls, The City Speaks, a conference set to take place on the weekend of August 13, 2010 at Atlanta’s Eyedrum Gallery, has put out an international call for artists to submit posters to three locations on three continents. These posters will ultimately be sent to Atlanta to be wheat-pasted on public walls and at Eyedrum. With many more artists expected to take part in this event worldwide, come August, Atlanta’s urban landscape will have a more vibrant, international feel. – READ MORE at VANDALOG.
So far the lineup includes the following artists and speakers:
Learn More About the Event Here
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