This Former TV Writer Is Blazing A New Trail As A Street Artist
Steven Paul Judd Steven Paul Judd is blazing a new trail for Native American artists. After working as a TV writer in Los Angeles, he set out on a path to make art that he couldn’t find anywhere else....
View ArticleThis Artist Finds Connection And Warmth In Cold Concrete
Faith47 I meet FAITH XLVII on one of those perfect LA afternoons, the sort that make it impossible to imagine living anywhere else. The sun shines gently in a cloudless, blue sky over the tiny coffee...
View ArticleThis Creative Collective Is Building Community Through Street Art
David Pemberton for Uproxx For old school residents of the Bay Area, the concept of “street art” is synonymous with vandalism. It’s a reminder of those gritty, pre-tech boom days; an act of self...
View ArticleTackling Racism, Misogyny, And Harassment Through Street Art
Tatyana Fazlalizadeh On an afternoon, a couple of weeks ago, a friend and I were walking down the sidewalk, when a man rode by us on a bicycle and yelled out that he liked my hair. I smiled, politely,...
View ArticleA Visual Tour Of The World’s Best Street Art
Instagram/UPROXX The best street art makes you pause. You’re walking down the street — a coffee in one hand, your cell in the other — and then BAM: you’re hit with an array of shapes and colors so...
View ArticleOne Of Banksy’s Friends May Have Confirmed His Identity As The Musician Who...
Getty Image For years, people have been speculating as to the real identity of Banksy, the infamous yet highly mysterious street artist. Many believe him to be a man named Robin Gunningham who once...
View ArticleThis Chalk Artist Transforms Concrete Into A Whimsical Fantasy World
David Zinn “I have usually, at all times, one piece of chalk in my pocket, and one piece of charcoal behind my ear,” David Zinn says. “And that’s all that I need to make a piece of art.” The...
View ArticleMeet The Graffiti Artist Behind Some Of The World’s Most Iconic Murals
Victor Ash/Uproxx Victor Ash is old school. He came up on the mean streets of Paris as a graffiti writer in the early 1980s. Ash tagged any wall, alley, building, or street he could find. He refined...
View ArticleThis Graffiti Artist Is Flipping The Script With Clay And Mirrors
MrToll Once in blue moon, someone comes along and changes the whole game up. In this case, that someone is a graffiti artist named Jamie Toll, or MRToll if you’re on the streets of LA or New York. An...
View ArticleThe Provocative Street Artist Mixes Pop Culture With Trolling
Lushsux You’ve probably seen Lush Sux’s artwork all over the internet. The mysterious artist has made a huge name for himself in the past year by painting pop culture-infused murals, with just the...
View ArticleThis Street Artist Found His Voice In The Midst Of Personal Turmoil
Fin DAC Resurrection of Angels- Los Angeles There’s a certain degree of obsession that’s intertwined with being a great artist. An intense devotion to the craft that manifests itself in various ways....
View ArticleThis Young Street Artist Is Changing The Game One Mural At A Time
As a boy, Ivan Preciado was so excited about street art that he never hesitated to get into a little mischief for the sake of his passion. He’d just couldn’t resist the lure of expressing himself...
View ArticleLet This Street Artist’s Murals Inspire You To Live Your Dreams
Ivan Preciado has been spraying paint on walls most of his life. He’s bold with his colors and his can strokes. That boldness has led to a life as a legit street artist, with his murals sought after...
View ArticleMeet Paper Frank, A Colorblind Street Artist With A Truly Unique Creative Vision
There are a lot of street artists working right now, but there’s only one Paper Frank. The internationally admired painter and tattoo artist has signature steez that utilizes large, simple shapes, and...
View ArticleCheck Out The Stunning Pieces From Europe’s Largest Street Art Festival
Getty Image This weekend, the streets (and walls and pretty much every other available surface) of Bristol, England were taken over by some of the greatest street artists in the world. Upfest is...
View ArticleHere’s Some Street Art Of Muhammad Ali Knocking Out Street Fighter’s Ryu
According to the great, in-depth research that I do before writing any post, the Rue Saint-Denis is a really old street in Paris, France and it’s full of hookers. With that said, I will now accept my...
View ArticlePasha P183 — The ‘Russian Banksy’— Is Dead At 29
I have to admit, I had no idea that a Russian version of Banksy existed (though I’m hardly surprised) but he did. He was known popularly as “Pasha P183,” and now he’s dead at 29, sadly. Reports the...
View ArticleHanksy Tagged Stephen Colbert’s Studio, So Colbert Took A Stab At Unmasking Him
There are many reasons that Hanksy is our favorite street artist. And now here’s another: after Colbert openly pleaded for Banksy — who’s currently in New York doing his thing — to tag the building...
View ArticleBanksy Built A Sphinx In Queens And Some Idiots Claimed Ownership And Took It
Street art icon Banksy’s New York City “Better Out Than In” residency continued this morning with the discovery of a miniature version of the Sphinx that he made out of crushed cinder blocks. The...
View ArticleIs This CCTV Footage The First Real Look At Banksy Or Is This Just Another...
Via Bansky Banksy has been back in the news lately with some new artwork popping up in and around Bristol and with it clues to the possible identity of the mysterious street artist. Or hell, maybe it’s...
View ArticleThe Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Knock Off Banksy In Their New Posters
Paramount Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is coming in August, much to both the trepidation and anticipation of everybody who grew up with the terrible cartoon. And, in classic Turtles style, Paramount is...
View ArticleSee Public Art Made Not Boring In HBO’s New Documentary, ‘Bansky in New York’
Getty Image There are essentially three things that every New Yorker talks about: how terrible the city is, how miserable it makes us feel, and the small pile of chicken bones each of us wakes up to...
View ArticleThis Street Artist’s Tribute To Stuart Scott Is As Cool As The Other Side Of...
Little closer shot of the #StuartScott wall we did today @espn @KNegandhiESPN @richeisen @HueyMack @Noah_M_Baby pic.twitter.com/79RrEH8nlN — Jonas Never (@never1959) January 8, 2015 Just as the late...
View ArticleMeet The Guy Who Hides Real Legend Of Zelda Treasure Chests Around Austin
Kotaku Austin-based artist “EZ” taught himself to paint by creating Zelda fan art. He decided to start building Hyrulean treasure chests to stash around the city, filled with goodies of his own making,...
View ArticleBanksy Furthers His Legend By Allegedly Giving A Helpful Kid This $30,000...
Getty Image Here’s a pretty surreal story if you are a fan of the enigmatic street artist Banksy. A boy by the name of Ben Azarya is traveling on a train in Cumbria in the United Kingdom when he sees a...
View ArticleEven Fat Albert Is Speaking Out Against Bill Cosby’s Alleged Crimes
Getty Image By now, it seems granted that each week will bring about a new victim and accusation against Bill Cosby, and the court of public opinion is in session with everyone from Jay Leno to Larry...
View ArticleA Street Artist Is Putting Up ‘No Kardashian Parking’ Signs Around Los Angeles
Plastic Jesus/Facebook The Kardashian girls — Kim, Kendall, Khloé, Kourtney, Kylie, Bashful and Doc — are once again back in the headlines, but this time for reasons not associated directly with their...
View ArticleStreet Art Collective Boa Mistura Takes Us On A Trip Around The World
In many ways, Spanish street-art collective Boa Mistura is the Anti-Banksy. Whereas part of Banksy’s appeal is found in his mystique, the Boa Mistura crew is out in the open, creating artwork with...
View ArticleA Wild New Ronda Rousey Mural Has Appeared In Venice Beach
Ronda Rousey has shown up in some pretty impressive wall murals in the past. But this newest piece of Rousey art commissioned by the UFC in her hometown of Venice Beach really does the Rowdy one...
View ArticleThis Leonardo DiCaprio Street Art Puts A Cherry On Top Of His Oscar Win
You did it, Leo! You nabbed the Oscar and can do with it what you please! No one can kinkshame you for what you and the P*ssy Posse (or is it The Wolf Pack?) want to do with that statuette. Not only...
View ArticleWatch How This Street Artist Is Changing The Conversation Around Homelessness
It’s hard not to get emotional when Skid Robot is on the street, doing his thing. He elevates awareness around homelessness by creating street art that calls attention to things people otherwise...
View ArticlePow! Wow! — The Festival That Uses Street Art To Transform Communities
People have always painted on walls. From the first cave drawings to the taggers bombing graffiti on New York City street signs and subway windows in the ’60s — humans like to tell their stories in...
View ArticleStreet Artists Making A Name For Themselves On Instagram
There are few things more divisive and subjective as art — experience, lifestyle, and frame of mind all have an impact on how we consume and interpret it. On the streets, art becomes a fair bit more...
View ArticleOne Street Artist’s Battle Against The Gentrification Identity Crisis
Uproxx Austin, Texas, has been one of the country’s favored outposts for artists, ramblers, and vagabonds for a long time. Like Portland, people talk about the city with reverence, fantasizing about...
View ArticleUsing Art And Design To Shift How We Perceive Our Neighborhoods
Last month we shared the story of of Pow! Wow! — Long Beach, Calif.’s street art festival. We’ve also highlighted the work of traveling art collective Boa Mistura and other engaged artists hoping to...
View ArticleHow A Sticker With A Positive Message Grew Into A Global Street Art Movement
You Are Beautiful At the outset of this series, The Mad Ones, we planned to talk to people about travel. People who were going places, doing big things, and changing, if nothing else, their own...
View ArticleLooking Back At A Magical Moment In Street Art History
WK Interact In these troubled times, street art is more vital than ever. We rely on muralists and taggers to give voice to the issues of the common people, and to share their ideas in ways that feel...
View ArticleThis Street Artist Is Changing The Landscapes Of Cities With His Massive Murals
Gaia The artist Gaia doesn’t just design pieces for museums or galleries. He makes the art of the people. Art that will have a place in the daily lives of commuters gazing out of train windows, or...
View ArticleThis Street Artist Captures The Innocent Moments Of Childhood
Bumblebeelovesyou Star street artist Bumblebeelovesyou doesn’t make art to shock or horrify you. He doesn’t want to make you cringe. Instead, he looks to make people happy and create a sense of...
View ArticleCreating Powerful Art Through Conversations With Death Row Inmates
Addam Yekutieli Addam Yekutieli (AKA Know Hope) works to create discussion amongst people who wouldn’t normally be able to have an objective conversation together. By stripping down language and ideas...
View ArticleAn Avant-garde Street Artist Shares How The Election Has Turned Him Into An...
Gabriel (Specter) Reese No matter who you voted for on November, 8th, it would be hard to deny that the results of the election have been controversial and deeply emotional for many Americans. It’s...
View ArticleThis Artist’s Work Will Make You Question How We Relate To Technology
Ludo Ludo’s street art pieces are easy to recognize. The prolific artist uses black, white, and fluorescent green to make his work stand out against the city scape. His themes of nature and technology...
View ArticleThis Street Artist Creates Art Through Destruction
Vhils - Photo Credit: Joao Moreira The artist, Vhils (aka Alexandre Farto), is known for his incredible, tactile murals carved literally into the walls of buildings. And we just can’t get enough of...
View ArticleMeet The Street Artist Who’s Planning A School For Urban Youth
Dasic Fernandez Street art has the ability to take all the “normal” of an everyday urban landscape and transform it into something extraordinarily beautiful. And because any surface can be a canvas,...
View ArticleThis Street Artist Quit His Day Job To Share Words Of Inspiration With Fellow...
Wrdsmth Photo: @Benzofosho The anonymous street artist, Wrdsmith — a transplant from the Midwest following his dream in L.A. — jokingly calls himself a cliché. A few years ago, he was working in...
View ArticleThis Street Artist Turned A Church Into A Skate Park, Now He’s Tackling Trump
Okuda San Miguel Street artist Okuda San Miguel, knew that the Spanish church was special the minute he saw it. And from that first moment, it became his passion project. He just had to do something...
View ArticleHow A Global Art Project Connects People Through Their Insecurities
Candy Chang On the side of an abandoned building in New Orleans, there was once a giant chalkboard. It was stenciled with a simple fill-in-the-blank sentence that’s been completed hundreds if not...
View ArticleThis Artist Defies The Ordinary By Taking His Sculptures To The Streets
Juan Angel Chavez POINTS TO BLOSSOM Chicago-based artist, Juan Angel Chavez, is anything but conventional. Whether he’s deconstructing traffic cones or creating art that also functions as a mini skate...
View ArticleHow Instagram’s Favorite Artist Uses Her Work To Spread Positivity
Kelsey Montague The chances that you have seen Kelsey Montague’s work are pretty high, even if you aren’t an avid follower of street art. The gifted pen and ink virtuoso’s interactive public art is on...
View ArticleHow A Legendary Graffiti Writer Turned Her Tag Into A Street Wear Icon
The first time I remember seeing or knowing Claw Money — aka Claudia Gold — was at Stretch Armstrong and Bobbito’s famous shows at Columbia University. It was all hip hop guys… and her. To be honest,...
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