For more of EL MAC (Miles MacGregor)’s work, check out his website and Instagram.
This work is located on the side of Cobra Arcade Bar in Tucson
Apr 042021
Mar 282021
This mural was created as part of 20x21EUG’s project. For more of Kiran Maharjan’s (also known aka h11235) check out his Instagram.
Mar 222021
For more of Justin Alsedek’s work check out his website.
If you are looking for more information about the arts in Ocala/Marion County, check out Marion County Alliance and their gallery Brick City Center for the Arts.
Mar 102021
I stumbled upon this work while walking around in Brooklyn, NYC. It was created by artist Brian Block and is part of his project “based on late writings of Californian writer F.C. Wott”.
The biography of Wott from Block’s website–
Wott was born in Santa Monica and lived as a resident of Elysium Fields commune in Topanga Canyon in Los Angeles from the late 1960s until its closure the early 2000s. He was an occasional prose and poetry writer, with his musings appearing in various zine style tracts that circulated among the west coast commune culture of the 60s and 70s.
Confirmed further details of Wott’s life are few at this time, but it has been established that he served as part-time adjunct professor at Santa Monica Community College for many years in the 70’s and 80’s, teaching classes in Anthropology and Poetry.
Curiously, after years of writing only occasionally, his late years see Wott throwing himself headlong into his writing – intensely penning hundreds of lines of notes in seclusion at his modest beach hut at the nudist colony. These varied widely in length, coherence, and completion when they were found at his desk at his death in 2013. These writings would eventually became known as “The Notes”.
“The Notes” were first circulated informally among friends, gradually acquiring a small, eclectic readership amid creative circles in and around Los Angeles. One set of loose photocopied pages eventually captured the attention of UCLA Art Historian Emeritus Rene Glete, who introduced Brian Block to the writings. Glete also went on to establish the scholarly framework for the study of Wott’s work: gathering and archiving all of Wott’s papers (such as they were) in cooperation with his estate, and setting up the framework for the Nachlass. It is worth noting that these are somewhat unchartered waters, academically researching the work of an “outsider” writer, for unlike the well established conventions of “outsider artist” and “outsider art”no such consensus has been forged in historical circles around such terms for writers.
In deciding to make a group of artworks based on the texts, Block was drawn to their “eccentricity, and the fractured, iterative thinking” they depict, obtaining permission from the estate to make work from the Notes.
Block is pasting up more work around town so check out the walls when you pass.
Feb 182021
Photo on the right (check out the link to the project for the complete image) by Kiana Hayeri @kianahayeri
Photo on left by Antonio Pellicano (@antoniopellicanonews) / Work on the right by Shaun Myles (@smylus)
Photo on the left by Rubén Salgado Escudero @rubensalgadoescudero /Work on the right by Lady JDay (@ladyjday)
Murals in Douglas, Arizona, part of Artists Against an #Infodemic, a collaboration between Dysturb, CatchLight, The Everyday Projects and artists around the world to encourage people to follow WHO guidelines. Click on the images to read the smaller print.
Feb 152021
For more of Sentrock’s work, check out his Instagram
Feb 142021
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Jan 102021
Two of the seven iterations of “The Picture of Donald J. Trump”, the 2019 evolving mural collaboration between INDECLINE and Eric Skotnes.
The video below shows the process from start until finish.
For more of art collective INDECLINE’s work check out their website and Instagram.
Check out more of Eric Skotnes work here and here
Dec 112020
Kota Ezawa’s Once Upon A Time in the West, 2017, for Murals of La Jolla, in San Diego. Murals of La Jolla is a project started in 2010 by The Athenaeum and the La Jolla Community Foundation. It commissions artists to create work to be displayed on buildings around La Jolla. A map of current work can be found here.
From the Murals of La Jolla website–
Kota Ezawa’s mural, Once Upon a Time in the West, pays homage to La Jolla’s landmark contribution to science and architecture. The mural image overlays a stylized portrait of architect Louis Kahn in profile onto a perspectival view of the Salk Institute’s courtyard and the Pacific Ocean beyond. The Salk Institute, located in La Jolla, has been a hub for groundbreaking scientific research since its inception by Jonas Salk in 1960. Kahn was handpicked by Salk to design a flexible laboratory space that would be conducive to the constantly evolving needs of science. Ezawa portrays Kahn deep in thought as the modern, bold architecture of the Salk is depicted behind him. The use of contrasting opaque and transparent forms seamlessly blends Kahn with his creation, suggesting the endless possibilities of science and art.
Kota Ezawa uses graphic stylization reminiscent of Pop Art to create bold, flattened imagery rich with subtle, critical commentary. Ezawa was born in 1969 in Cologne, Germany. He attended the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf in the early 1990s. He later went on to receive a BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute and an MFA from Stanford University. He is an associate professor in film and fine art at the California College of the Arts in Oakland. Ezawa is known for his labor-intensive, stylized computer animations that re-contextualize history to highlight the biased lens through which pop-culture media is consumed. He seeks to reduce information to its most basic elements to question validity and truth of news and media. He also uses slide projection, light box images, and collage to explore similar themes.