HIGHRAFF - A Street Artist with a Psychedelic Style

The mix of graffiti, illustration, comic language, psychedelic art and strong color combinations of organic and geometric forms with vectorial patterns is typical for Highraff (1977). This artist, born and raised in São Paulo, takes his inspiration from natural forms like the sun and the moon, stars, plants, animals, cells, atoms and planets, as well as from the spirit world, represented by natural elements like earth, wind, water and fire and sacred ancient art.

For Highraff graffiti is transient, a visual shout in the city; art made to be seen immediately. Painting in public space is a way to bring happiness and reflection to an unknown audience that passes in the streets and unconsciously observes while following its daily routine. His art is as a conversation between visual pollution such as publicity, abandoned or neglected areas and architecture. The absence of nature in big cities such as São Paulo is a sad fact that makes Highraff feel the urge to remind people with his art about the importance of nature in our life.

Highgraff exhibited in several renowned galleries and museums around the world of which in São Paulo, New York and Denver (USA), Milano (Italy) and Austria.

TITI FREAK - A Street Art Style combining Brazilian & Japanese culture

Hamilton Yokota aka Titi Freak was born in 1974. He's a São Paulo native with Japanese ancestry, resulting in a mixture of personal qualities that stem from his combined cultural backgrounds. 

The artist has created illustration work for International ad agencies and several brands including Adidas, Ecko and Nike. He has painted in the streets of cities around the world, and his fine art has been exhibited in galleries throughout Asia, South America and Europe. 

Titi Freak first began writing graffiti in 1995 on the streets of São Paulo, Brazil. His style fuses Eastern and Western cultures, with fashion, pop imagery, illustration, graffiti and comic influences.

CRIN - Graphical & Abstract Street Art

Some astonishing artwork by Crin (born in Italy - 1979), a graffiti & graphic artist  based in Berlin. A infinite weaving of colours which documents the harmony and artistic expression of this very talented street artist. Brilliant colours aggressively applied on walls. 

A spontaneous blend of design, computer graphics and streetart, a perfect mixture of contemporary applied arts in representing the maximum self expression of art.

FAILE - Pioneer in Contemporary Street Art

Faile, the Street Art duo comprised of Patrick McNeil and Patrick Miller (American, b.1975; b.1976) formed their Brooklyn-based multimedia collaborative in 1999. They have conjured a wide array of works over the years, using original iconography and appropriating images from mass media. Faile began covering building exteriors with pioneering techniques in wheatpasting and stenciling, before expanding their repertoire to paintings, collage, prints, and sculpture.

Their works draw inspiration from comic books, pulp fiction novels and even Yellow Pages adverts. There are however a number of concepts which underlie Faile’s gritty pop culture graphics, most notably of these is dualism. “There has always been an attempt to embrace the idea of duality in our work. Love/Hate, Peace/War, Violence/Beauty. This has a distinct place in the world we live and can always be felt as a constant push and pull”. - Miller

DAL EAST - Street Artist from China

Born in China in 1984, DAL East is becoming a prominent figure among the new wave of graffiti art. He studied sculpture at the Institute of Fine Arts and began doing street art in 2004. In 2011 he relocated to Cape Town, marrying South Africa’s first lady of graffiti, Faith 47. We have been following his work since and are blown away by his unique style and the fine detail in his artworks.

Commonly depicting animals in a wire-like style, DAL’s work is complex but simple, beautiful and always intriguing. Using different mediums and spaces to create his works, he is inspired by the material world around him, life’s emotions that are part of it, as well as the spiritual world and infinite space that surrounds us.

CEPT - Street Artist with a Pop-Art Style

The work of UK street-artist Cept always brings a smile to the face. Often appropriating familiar images of superheros and adopting a pop-art style. Some of his painting techniques: spray, paint, collage, sculpture. The majority of his work is inspired more by music than other art.

ZLY - Street Art is a mere Physical Representation

Diego ZELAYA aka ZLY was born in Mexico City in 1990. Moved to Britain to study Fine Art – 2007. Studied at UWIC – 2012.

His Art  practice functions as a personal journey to try to explore and understand the human being. Trying to get rid of signs that give away time and culture, trying to strip bare a human and understand what we are under such social imprints is crucial for him. Art is a mere physical representation of what he is trying to find in humans. All artwork is freehand, no stencils were used in the making.

DAVID FLORES - Stained Glass' Street Art

David Flores was born in Tulare, California. After graduation (Graphic design) he began his career as a commercial artist in the skateboarding industry.

David Flores, a LA-based artist who’s best known for a unique style (mosaic or segmented style) that embellishes another work of art rather than painting over it.
Flores is known for reworking iconography in a new and different way; thus giving the original image a completely postmodern aesthetic.  He layered his colorful renderings over the large scale photographs in such a way that the original piece still kept its essence. The end result was an postmodern mixture of two very different styles.

BRUSK - STREET ART FROM FRANCE

Brusk develops creativity from an early age. With a pencil in his hand, he spends his time scribbling until his encounter with the graffiti and Hip Hop in 1991. A graduate of the Ecole des Beaux – Arts in St. Etienne, his thorough work on the graffiti becomes a completely a typical case for faculty. He craves new techniques and discusses various media (photo, video, computer), thereby pushing its limits and opening up new creative worlds. In control of numerous tools, he can work both with figures and abstraction, realism or graphic clean. Brusk develops its approach on a variety of media, it is often necessary to exhibit his work and invest unusual places. His style developed over the years, combines a calligraphic work in 3D, characters and staging.

ERAS - STREET ART FROM SEATTLE

If you give this guy a spraycan, you will be amazed by his stunning agility! His work reflects a mix of pop and disco influence, with a slight hint of science fiction portraits. He often collaborated with the artist Never and they produced amazing murals together.

ABSTRACT STREET ART BY AUGUSTINE KOFIE

When you first view Augustine Kofie’s artwork you immediately are struck with the skill and intensity of his technique. You can understand his love of process and structure. With strong interest in architecture, form and shape of typography, 1960’s iconography, contemporary music and street culture, Augustine constructs a dialogue in his work that is not always easily revealed. His collages and assemblages are layers upon layers of development. His work is as much unintentional mastery as it is intentional order. The imagery not only leaps out at you, but also draws you into his conversation.

Growing up in Los Angeles and very active in the West Los Angeles Graffiti scene since the mid 1990’s, Kofie’One, as he became to be known, is a skillful and well respected street artist. After viewing one of his paintings and assemblages you may begin to recognize his distinct style in one of his many murals scattered around Los Angeles. Drawing on his craft of lettering he has developed an abstraction that goes beyond the traditional 3 dimensions of our known world into a crafted world that builds on itself. Choices like his color pallet recall a vintage sensibility. He has the innate ability to combine appreciation of the past and his vision of a developed future.

Kofie’s mechanically detailed line-work, organically complex structures and heavy earth-tone palette develop into a multi-layered, architecturally inspired world that is a vintage futuristic realm not subject to gravity. 

2501 - Zebra Style Street Art

The mysterious artist 2501 is an italian artist. He creates some geometric forms with optical illusion. Applying undulating zebra marks all over the place, his style flows nicely from piece to piece, whether he’s doing a huge scene involving horse-riding bandits or understated characters intriguingly placed within the landscape. It seems he’s moving more and more toward a black and white direction this year, and the resulting high levels of contrast produce a nice dynamic between the walls and their surrounding environments.

"EL MAC": Miles MACGREGOR - Amazingly Realistic Street ART

Born in Los Angeles in 1980 to an engineer and an artist, Mac has been creating and studying art independently since childhood. He was inspired at a young age by classic European painters such as Caravaggio, and Vermeer and Art Nouveau symbolists such as Klimt and Mucha.  This was mixed with the more contemporary influences of graffiti and photorealism, as well as as the Chicano & Mexican culture he grew up around.
He began painting with acrylics and painting graffiti in the mid ’90s, when his primary focus became the life-like rendering of human faces and figures.  He has since worked consistently toward developing his unique rendering style, which utilizes repeating contour lines reminiscent of ripples.  Turing patterns and indigenous North American art.  In 1999 he began to paint portraits of his friends and anonymous Mexican Laborers in public spaces throughout the American southwest, both legally and illegally.  He also started painting large technicolor aerosol interpretations of classic paintings by old European masters. This led to being commissioned in 2003 by the Groeninge Museum in Brugge, Belgium to paint his interpretations of classic Flemish Primitive paintings in the museum’s collection. He has since been commissioned to paint murals across the US, as well as in Mexico, Denmark, Sweden, Canada, South Korea, Belgium, Italy, The Netherlands, Puerto Rico, Spain, France, Singapore, Germany, Ireland, the UK, Vietnam and Cuba.

PIXELPANCHO – Street Art Sci-Fi Style

Born in Turin (Italy) in 1984, Pixelpancho was introduced to color and form by his grandfather who painted occasionally. With time, his passion for art and design led him to the Albertina Academy of Fine Arts followed by the Academy of Fine Arts in Valencia, Spain where he obtained his degree. During this time he became familiar with the graffiti and street art scenes. Influenced by this world, he began using spray cans and marker and working on outdoor surfaces which stood out from the classic paper and canvas formula of other students. Traveling between his hometown of Turin and Valencia Pixelpancho took every opportunity to be noticed on the streets, using different mediums such as tiles, wall painting and sticker/poster art. Pretty soon his work was adorning the walls of many European cities. Pixelpancho’s work draws from several diverse influences. Traces of historic painter Joaquin Sorolla, the surrealist Salvador Dali, the political painter group “El Equipo Cronica” to the more modern Ron English, and Takashi Murakami can be seen in his work. Traveling to Paris, Amsterdam, Warsaw, Vienna and many other cties  for graffiti jams and gallery exhibitions has allowed his style to evolve from a simple Robot character to the more complex compositions in his work today.

M-CITY - The Giant Murals' Specialist

Mariusz Waras, also known as M-City, is an artist born in Gdynia, Poland in 1978. Graphic artist, outdoor painter, traveller, amateur architect, he's graduated from the Department of Graphic Art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk where he is currently assistant lecturer in Prof. Jerzy Ostrogórski's painting studio. The author of the m-city project including several hundred murals. His work focuses on urban space. His murals may be seen in the streets of Warsaw, Gdańsk, Berlin, Paris, Budapest, Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Bolzano, London and Prague.

His strength lies in his versatility and understanding of architecture. As always and with his distinct machinery looking aesthetic, M-City's work contains an immense amount of detail, patterns, and strong line work.

SICKBOY - Part of The British Street Art Leaders

A leading artist to emerge from Bristol’s graffiti scene, Sickboy’s humorous work has cemented his place in the upper echelons of the British street art movement.
Sickboy is one of the first UK artists to use a logo in place of a tag, and his red and yellow street logo known as ‘The Temple’ can be seen on walls and wheelie bins worldwide.

Sickboy has built up one of the largest bodies of street art works in UK history and he is tipped by the leading financial press as one of the movement’s most bankable artists. His temples, slogans and audacious stunts – including the caged heart installation dropped outside the Tate Modern in 2008 – have landed him global recognition.

His work has featured in countless graffiti books and documentary films including Banksy’s Oscar-nominated Exit Through the Gift Shop, and in global and national TV, newspapers and magazines including BBC London News, The Financial Times, The Independent, i-D, and many more.

SIDRON - A Street Artist From Athens

Sidron‘s illustrated gas masks on Athenian walls evoke an urban guerilla like ambiance. Along with the Jnor, Kapone and NDA crews, artists like Sidron have been around for a long time. They’ve always been underground. 

The gas mask has been incorporated into the popular iconography as a symbol of danger, war and pollution. As such, it is being used in street art, usually as an image that protests against these condition.