I feel that the details of large murals can often get lost, and so I impressed to see the work of Xuan Alyfe. The small details (peo­ple, dashed lines, stip­pling) he has depicted pair well with the large, bold shapes. They all seem to work together in its own world, a system. All images via ...

Last week in my posts I explored quite a bit about stroke — fea­tur­ing artists that employed a con­fi­dent and direct stroke that echos through­out their work. Jen­nifer Hen­nesy, a graphic designer and artist has work in the same vein. Her projects, draw­ings, and even type­faces employ a line and shapes that evoke a care­free ...

I really love these beau­ti­ful, large-scale, ges­tural murals painted by Sre­tan Bor. Pro­duced for MUU Dugrave 2011 (in Zagreb, Dugave) the pur­pose of which is to bring art into culturally-neglected areas of the city. I am amused by Sretan’s sub­jects as they mar­vel at things small and dive head-first towards the ground. Their rotund bod­ies and ...

Otecki (pre­vi­ously writ­ten about here) is an artist I keep up with though Flickr. The Pol­ish artist col­lab­o­rates on murals and other street art projects in a pretty awe-inspiring way. Look at the height! And the way that the art engulfs you as you stand before the struc­ture or wall. (All images via Flickr.) Otecki ...

Hey Bal­ti­more­ans! The 8th annual Trans­mod­ern Fes­ti­val started Thurs­day night, and the rest of the fes­ti­val looks to have a bunch of great stuff going on. The Baltimore-born event deliv­ers four days of avant-garde per­for­mance, instal­la­tion, film, and excit­ing multi-disciplinary work. A lot of the fes­ti­val takes place near or in the Cur­rent Gallery and ...

I know that these murals are noth­ing new (but new to me!!), but I recently came across the work of Andreas Rag­nar Kas­apis. His paint­ings, which are painted on both wood and on walls, are beau­ti­fully ren­dered. Color is grad­u­ally lay­ered, as is mark mak­ing, and Andreas is not shy to show us how an ...

Steph Leung dab­bles in many things, includ­ing col­lage, cut outs, and murals. She was schooled in Bal­ti­more and is now based out of Oak­land, and has taken her murals from coast to coast. Steph’s murals are bright bursts of col­ors that often­times inter­act with not only the wall, but the floor and sur­round­ing areas. I love ...

This Fri­day, I will focus on a cou­ple of artists that do street art. Street art is some­thing I really enjoy seek­ing, and love what it brings to a com­mu­nity if done cor­rectly. Michael Yaikel is an artist who paints on both tra­di­tional sur­faces and murals. With both, he uses a sense of plan­ning and ...

The work of Nick Mann encom­passes a lot of my inter­ests at this point in time. Laden with sym­bol­ism, sub­tle mark-making and a vari­ety of tech­niques (to the point of dizzi­ness), Nick’s work is rich, dark, and some­thing I want to spend a lot of time with. The titles of his pieces allude to the reli­gious ...

Barcelona-based artist Zosen works together and by him­self. Pair­ing up with fel­low artist Clau­dia Font, he is one part of Ani­mal Ban­dido, who focuses on cloth­ing that pro­motes per­sonal style and local economy. It’s really easy to get lost in all of the unique projects that Zosen is apart of. While all dif­fer­ent, he has ...