Tag Archive - Street Level

Art I Pass By – The Return

Art I Pass By - The Return

Art I Pass By - The Return

Art I Pass By - The Return

Art I Pass By - The Return
After a brief hiatus, the Art I Pass By series returns for the summer with this beautiful series found at Pender and Cambie.

Lost In Glimmering Shadows

Faile London Nov 2008

Faile London Nov 2008
Romanywg’s photoset of Faile’s Lost in Glimmering Shadows show in London.

Banksy in New Orleans

Banksy in New Orleans

Banksy in New Orleans
On Flickr and over at Wooster.

Art I Pass By – #17

Art I Pass By - #17

Throwup Throwdown

Throwdown

Throwup
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.

Art I Pass By – #16

Art I Pass By 16

Shepard Fairey Supports Barack Obama


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The Tokyo Graffiti Scene

Japanese Street Art

Japanese Street Art
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

Art I Pass By On My Way To Work

Art I Pass By On My Way To Work
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

Art I Pass By On My Way To Work - #14
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