I want to share more graffiti art with you. Gama Acosta's wall, which I introduced you to here has grown in size and scope. He has had a nice write up in the paper....really good support in the form of letters to the editor, comments to us in Art in Public Places as well as the call in line the newspaper operates.
People are offering up suggestions of other artists that he should paint....Frida Kalo was one that caught my eye. Unfortunately, his John Lennon portrait was tagged....which he was luckily able to fix pretty easily.
There is other wonderful graffiti in town as well. A local bar put the word out that she was 'giving' the side of her establishment to whomever would like to paint there....
this has turned into an amazing, collaborative work in progress....ever changing. My friend Linda's son is maintaining a site here where he is documenting the various graffiti around town. Linda also found this interesting book, called Graffitecture where;
excerpt from the book....
Photographer and Graffitecture editor Doug Fogelson invited more than 40 prolific Chicago graffiti artists to manipulate over 60 of his photographs. The images depict interiors and exteriors of diverse, high-end spaces such as homes, hotels, office buildings, and stores (as well some of the more traditional places where graffiti occurs). In doing so artists were asked, “What would YOU do here”?
The graffiti artists were given photo's of buildings, interiors, skylines, etc and asked to 'graffiti' on these images. The results are very interesting.
This is worth a look if you are all interested in the graffiti art movement.
Then there is the amazing stencil spray painting and graffiti like artwork that is happening over at Dispatch From LA! as well as Michelle's work here.
One more work from Gama, this seemed a bit out of line with the rest of his work......and I don't know if it's true as I have not read the book yet. If you are a Harry Potter fan and don't want to take a chance that this may ruin anything for you please stop reading now.....we just thought it was kind of funny when we drove by the other day....
Please let me know if you see any interesting graffiti work out there....I'm really loving this stuff!
wow - Steph!
what a post - this stuff is so cool - thanks for sharing these amazing visuals!
as we speak I'm sprayin and playin out back - what fun this spray stuff is...
xox - eb.
Posted by: eb | July 28, 2007 at 03:11 PM
i am loving them too! i swear, i have never, ever in my life seen such amazing graffiti. it is extraordinary. the last time i saw graffiti was in pictures at a collaboritive gallery in a village here called heiligenberg. a woman presented her graffiti photos of on a bay on the coast of france where german bunkers from WWII are rotting of rust but also are adororned with amazing graffiti. i did not buy any of her photographs but i picked up a couple of greeting cards that she was also selling. i will have to email you or post tomorrow the name of the area. still, they are not as amazing as these.
Posted by: elsa | July 28, 2007 at 05:16 PM
come see - you are the here in the middle -
xox - eb.
Posted by: eb | July 28, 2007 at 10:09 PM
i am amazed by agraffiti art
when i see it...
not too much graffiti here in my town
but i love looking at it on trains
and in cities when i travel...
i will notice a certain symbol
executed in a certain color
and then several cities & miles away
i will see the same drawing...
and wonder if it means something,
or if the same person did it,
or
wonder about the story behind the drawing.
i would love to watch a graffiti artist at work in person.
i have only seen it on TV documentaries.
very interesting to me
how the process moves from place to place...
:-)
also,
i can barely spray paint a flower pot
before my thumb/finger gives out...
how do they do that for hours?? how?
Posted by: somepinkflowers | July 29, 2007 at 01:35 PM