By Alexis | March 1, 2012 at 4:34 pm | No comments
Miami-based artist Subi Roberto caught our eye with her recent mural series, “The Lightwalkers,” which address themes of human connectivity and reflection. Massive walls are painted with what looks like an infinite amount of mysterious faces staring out at the world,...
Posted in: Featured Post, Interviews
By Alexis | February 28, 2012 at 6:05 am | No comments
The Known Gallery was packed to capacity last weekend for the opening of the show “Excavated Encounters,” which featured new works by ZES and RETNA, members of the legendary MSK graffiti crew, and frontrunners of what is being called the “contemporary graffiti...
Posted in: ART
By Alexis | February 14, 2012 at 4:25 pm | No comments
MAN BEAST and THEFL are reminding everybody on the streets of Silverlake to “STAY TRILL” with their recent mural piece. I caught up with them as they were completing the wall, which was created by framing the text with hundreds of small stencils.
The stencil...
Posted in: ART, ILL City Streets
By Alexis | February 9, 2012 at 4:27 pm | No comments
The new book, West Coast Hip Hop, A History in Pictures, documents Mike Miller’s work in the 1990's with artists like 2Pac, Cypress Hill, Snoop Dogg and Easy-E. To support the release, Known Gallery displayed 43 never before seen images and kicked off opening night with...
Posted in: Featured Post, PHOTOGRAPHY, Recaps
By Alexis | January 30, 2012 at 1:16 am | No comments
Walking into the Buckwild Gallery, you immediately encounter the four stunning collaborations of graffiti artists EVOL (7th Letter) and TEAL (Fame City). Large-scale portraits of wide-eyed female bombshells masterfully executed with spray paint by EVOL are framed by...
Posted in: ART, Featured Post
By Alexis | January 22, 2012 at 1:49 am | No comments
We caught up with Sahra Vang as she was finishing a large scale woolly mammoth piece at The Love Shack in Venice. Or should we say WU-lly mammoth, as the furry blue Ice Age creature was iced up with a Wu-Tang chain. She worked with layers of blue hues to create a fuzzy...
Posted in: The Process