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. 

D*FACE - A Street Artist from London

Dean Stockton is better known as D*Face; is a play on the word "deface" which is how many view the art of street artists in general when it shows up on public property. In that sense, Stockton plays directly into the public opinion that street artists 'deface property'. While that may be true street artists such as D*Face also contribute to society even if their actions may be considered legally destructive depending on how they convey their artistic vision on a surface.

JB ROCK - A Figure of Rome's Street Art Scene

JB Rock was born in Rome in 1979. He's graffiti first appeared on Roman streets in the early 90s.  

One of the most important names of Rome's street art scene, his style has evolved over the years, and next to his usual graffiti work he now experiments with different techniques. Whether he's exploring the life of the suburban outskirts or investigating a woman's body, his use of decorative styles and images is outstanding.

ZUMI - STREET ART FROM BUENOS AIRES

Zumi studied fashion design and began painting in the streets of Buenos Aires in 2006 after being introduced to urban artists that inspired her. She is one of the few female artists to take her work into the streets of the city.

Taking inspiration from nature and from her day to day life, Zumi combines idealized versions of flowers, trees and birds in her own unique natural landscapes. Filled with beautiful pastel colors, her graceful murals create oases of beauty amidst the crowded and noisy city streets. Stumbling on one of her pieces delicately draped across a concrete wall brings to mind ideas of peace, purity, and joy.

Zumi’s art is a beautiful example of the power of street art to positively affect urban environments and our interactions with them. She has recently moved to Sao Paolo, where she continues to paint both independent and collaborative works on the streets and in gallery settings.

DREYK The Pirate: A Unique Graffiti Artist from Athens

Dreyk started painting the streets of Athens 13 years ago in his early teens. A few years later, he started forming his ever recognizable sea-themed style. Influenced by his studies in design, amongst other things, he evolved to a more clean cut-thick stroke style as years went by. Why the sea? Well, almost all greeks have a deep love for the sea and travel, and Dreyk is no exception. In his case though, as it usually happens, it all started by accident. Painting his first pirate on a wall many years ago, people started calling him “pirate”, a fact that helped him find his own identity in street art.

Often using only blue and white paint, Dreyk creates a beautiful intersection of greek tradition and contemporary creativity, inviting athenians passing by to his dream world, directly evoking emotions of innocence and restlessness – ultimately stating that life, love, Athens – it’s all beautiful, it’s all simple. These virtues are thriving not only in Dreyk’s graffiti work, but in his work as an illustrator / visual designer as well. Indeed, even though he has managed to become well known from a very early age (working as a graffiti artist for athenian clubs and hotels), he prefers to remain a “pirate” as far as graffiti is concerned. It’s a part of him that will always be his hobby and not his profession – he makes his living working successfully in the publishing field.

GASER aka GASIC PAINTER - Collective

More than ten years of experience in the art of graffiti, illustration and graphic design, writer and artist Gasicpainter offers decorating services and advertising. For each assignment provides exclusive designs and personalized, and are adaptable to all types of support.