Stop, Pop & Roll: Urban Tape Line Art by Aakash Nihalani
Do you see beauty in a cinder block wall, a street crossing or a stop sign? Chances are, you don't even notice them – but Aakash Nihalani would like to help you out with that. The ...
Category: Street Art & Graffiti
From 3D graffiti to light art, these works reflect the cutting edge of contemporary urban street art and design. These graffiti and street artists employee the latest techniques, creative materials, and unusual strategies to challenge the conventional stencil-and-spray-paint approach that most people think of when it comes to public drawing and wall graffiti the world over.
Notes from Chris: Hilarious Experimental Urban Signage Art
Who is Chris and why does he have so many problems? From mysterious eye ailments and prematurely dead pets to overdue library fees, Chris has issues and he wants to talk to you about it, ...
Perspective Puzzle: Anamorphic Art in the Toronto Subway
On their harried way through the Toronto subway, commuters passing through the new Bayview/Sheppard station might glance at what looks like a scribbled mess of black paint on the floor and walls ...
Mark Reigelman’s Playful & Thought-Provoking Urban Art
As colorful as life in the city can be, things aren’t always rosy - especially in gloomy, grimy neighborhoods where everything seems to be hard, cold and monochromatic. But if artist Mark ...
Urban Theater of the Absurd: Bizarre Public Performance Art
All it takes is a crawling woman in a hairy suit, a bunch of jumping men with televisions on their heads or a guy projecting his private parts onto public buildings to turn urban settings into ...
Cellophane City? Plastic Arts Change Urban Landscape
When negative comments are made about public art, they usually revolve around the art being unattractive, too permanent, or a waste of city funds (either for commissioning a sanctioned piece or ...
Fantastic to Freaky: 40 Graffiti Merry Christmas Greetings
Graffiti decorates walls, subways and trains all over our globe. Since the first tags appeared in the 1970s, graffiti has grown in popularity until now it can be a commercialized venture. ...
Urban Camouflage: Liu Bolin, The Invisible Man
In a world of Photoshop and special effects, artistic craft wrought by hand is getting harder to come by. But Liu Bolin doesn’t need any fancy technology to produce the jaw-dropping illusion of ...
Trick of the Eye: 13 Delightfully Deceptive Works of Art
Hyper-realistic paintings and drawings can make us pause and wonder whether they're real, but there's another, even more deceptive, form of super-realistic art that's been in use since ancient ...
The Surreal & Colorful World of Artist Marco Escobedo
Illustrator and graphic designer Marco Escobedo’s work focuses on the surreal and fantastic, using high contrast and richly saturated colors to create scenes and characters that look like they ...
