After a brief hiatus, the Art I Pass By series returns for the summer with this beautiful series found at Pender and Cambie.
Tag Archive - Street Level
Art I Pass By – The Return
Lost In Glimmering Shadows
Romanywg’s photoset of Faile’s Lost in Glimmering Shadows show in London.
Throwup Throwdown
This past Saturday evening, local street artists Jerm9ine and Andrew01 engaged in a battle of words and pasteups outside of the Gallery Gachet at 88 E Cordova. I wasn’t able to attend (have i mentioned the chaos engine that is my life these days?) but made it down on Sunday afternoon to survey the aftermath. Brilliant and engaging, more performance poetry than graffiti, it is exciting to see things like this happening in our fair city. Documentation of the event by jerm9ine, cameraman and shallom can be found here.
Also be sure to catch the current exhibition at the Gachet, Internal Guidance Systems: Contemporary Outsiders that includes artists from UK, Sweden, France, Australia, USA and Canada. Until March 29th.
Shepard Fairey Supports Barack Obama
via coudal.com
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The Tokyo Graffiti Scene
For some time now, I have been on the lookout for examples of Japanese street art. The uncanny means by which Japan adapts Western culture, reprocesses it and then spins it out as something altogether hyperreal, combined with the ever-prevalent superflat movement suggested that there must exist something extraordinary in the darker corners of the Tokyo streets.
So it was great to read PingMag’s recent piece on The Ghetto, a former love hotel in Shin-Okubo that has been converted into a skater shop/graffiti space. The article also provided links to flickr groups on Tokyo Street Art and throughout Japan. But I found what I was truly looking for in the calligraphy of designer/artist USUGROW which is an incredible hybrid of not just Western and Japanese scripts but also Arabic influences. Kakkoii desu yo!
Art I Pass By On My Way To Work: The Binge
I am fairly convinced at this point that the best places to find art in this city are on the walls of the abandoned laundromat at the corner of Main Street and 14th and the equally vacant warehouse at Quebec St. and 2nd (with a few scattered treasures to be found in between).
Art I Pass By On My Way To Work – #14
Found in the alley between East 1st and East 2nd, just off Scotia, Vancouver BC.
