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Eder Muniz: Urban Art

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Currently based in New York, Brazilian urban artist Eder Muniz aka “Calangos de Rua” (Street Chameleon) started his career as an artist many years ago when, as a little boy, he was obsessed with drawing all over the walls of his house. He advanced to spray paint in high school and hit the street of Salvador da Bahia, Brazil as a pichador (tagger). His street art shifted when he began to develop his technique (he never went to art school and is completely self-taught) and his style began to incorporate human figures, animals and abstract and surreal images.

Muniz’s street name – Calangos de Rua represents the multiple genres that he incorporates in his own art – painting anything he gets his hands on – from walls to sneakers, tee-shirts to subways, living room walls to classrooms, glass and his latest canvas – rugs and mats. His style incorporates his indigenous Brazilian roots to produce colorful pieces that come alive through a mix of spray paint, water color, acrylic on paper, canvas and glass.

To see more of Eder Muniz’s work, visit EderMuniz.com or check out his photostream on Flickr.

Discovered on: Wooster Collective, Bio from: Myspace

Os Gêmeos: Street Art

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Os Gêmeos (The Twins) are brothers Otávio and Gustavo Pandolfo. Based in São Paulo, Brazil, the pair have been painting graffiti since 1987, and their work has been a main influence on street art in Brazil.

Their subjects range from family portraits, to social and political commentary, and Brazilian folklore. As well, their work often features yellow-skinned characters; “When we dream, everything we dream has yellow tones’, Gustavo Pandolfo explains. ‘This is something of ours, myself and my brother. We use it in our painting. We can’t use another colour. We have to use yellow.”

Aside from walls,  Os Gêmeos also paint canvases, make sculptures, and are both graphic designers and photographers. Their work has been exhibited in galleries and museums around the world including New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Cuba, Europe as well as numerous exhibitions in Sao Paulo and Latin America.

The brothers’ current exhibition Pra quem mora lá, o céu é lá, (For those who live there, the sky is there’) at The Berardo Museum in Lisbon runs through September 19, 2010.

To see more of Os Gêmeos, OsGemeos.com.br.

Sources: Wikipedia, Tate

PHLEGM: Urban Art/Comics

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Phlegm is a a urban/comic artist based in Sheffield, UK. “The name phlegm came from one of the four bodily humours in ancient Greek medicine, blood, yellow bile, black bile and phlegm. Phlegm was believed to be responsible for an apathetic and unemotional temperament.”

His comic, also titled “Phlegm”, contains his pen and ink illustrations, cartoons, and spraypaint work found in the streets. “The work is intricate, often surreal, but most of the time it looks like a mad person has been locked in a room for years with no company but a bottle of Indian ink and a scratchy nib….because that’s precisely what it is.”

Phlegm produces an issue of “Phlegm” every four months or so depending on what other projects he’s working on. The comic started in June 2005 and sells all all over the UK as well as in Germany, California, Australia, Japan, and online.

To see more of Phlegm’s work, PhlegmComics.com.

Herakut: Street/Urban Art

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Today’s images are by the German collective known as Herakut.  Comprised of Hera and Akut, the artists met in 2004 at the Urban Arts Festival in Seville, Spain and have been painting together ever since.

Hera is a classically trained painter who “creates gestural, emotional figures in a freestyle manner using numerous tools  including spray cans, brushes, and her hands.”   Akut is completely self-taught yet is skilled in creating  hyper-realistic images of animals and flesh using only a spray can. “What initially seemed like an unlikely pairing both conceptually and technically has since become one of the foremost collaborations in urban art and an innovative presence in contemporary painting.”

To see more of Herakut, visit Herakut.de or check out hundreds of images from fans on Flickr.

Sources: Coleman Burke

Dante Horoiwa: Indoctrination

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Sao Paulo, Brazil artist Dante Horoiwa recently finished up his first U.S. solo exhibition at Anno Domini Gallery in San Jose, California.

Horoiwa’s paintings depict “the spiritually lost and lonely. Through his work, he is able to cope with his want to hide from the world and his need to be a part of it.”

“What I´m trying to express is some kind of ‘invisible insistence,’ invisible forces that are around us, things that lead us to a blindness and a lack of comprehension. It makes us drown all of our intuition and instinct into the things that makes us feel comfortable enough to forget our own imperfections, anesthetizing our existence, our individuality as a being…the invisible insistence that devours our means to grow.”

The 21 year old artist has quickly gained recognition for his work around the world including Brazil, Australia, the Netherlands and California. In 2009, Horoiwa took part in R.U.A – Reflexo on Urban Art – Lines, Colours and Forms of Brazilian Urban Art – a street art exhibition in Rotterdam, Netherlands.

To see more of Dante Horoiwa, visit  Horoiwa.com.

Best Ever: Street Art

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Best Ever is a collaboration between UK artists Neil Edward and Hadley Newman.  Newman and Edward both have backgrounds in graffiti but now work on walls and canvases, creating their unique art that they describe as “anatomical mathematical realism” or “disturbed painterly realism.”  Inspirations include “the uglier things in life – disease, death, symmetry, the exact size of everything, cycles, maths, science, mental disorders, the fragility of the human body, things too small to see.”

To see more of Best Ever, visit WeAreBestEver.co.uk.  For a great interview check out Ukadapta.

Sources: Artasty, Ukadapta

ROA: Street Art

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Based in Ghent, Belgium, ROA is renowned for his giant black and white animals. ROA started painting abandoned buildings and warehouses in the isolated industrial areas of his hometown. Since then, his work has been seen in New York, London, Berlin, Warsaw, and Paris.

ROA recently had his first solo exhibition at Galerie Intinerrance in February, 2010 and has an upcoming show at Pure Evil Gallery in London starting April 8, 2010.

To see more of ROA’s work, visit check out his photostream on Flickr.

Sources: Brooklyn Street Art

Amose: Illustration

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AmoseThe artist known simply as Amose was born in 1979 and currently lives and works in Lille, France.  Amose studied illustration at the St. Luc Institute in Belgium.

Amose works in various mediums including illustration, traditional painting, spray painting, and screen printing. His work is inspired by artists such as Vitché and Vasko, Schiele, Klimt, Nate Williams, James Gallagher, and others.

Amose shares a studio in Lille with fellow artists Eroné, Sfer, Nada, Spyre who together form the group called the Mercurocrom Collective.

To see more of Amose’s work, visit his photostream on Flickr.  His website, Amose.Free.fr is currently under construction.

Related Books:
The Big Book of Illustration Ideas 2
Juxtapoz Illustration (Juxtapoz)
Illustration Now! Volume 3

Sources: Galerie Issue

Jesse Hazelip: Mixed Media

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American mixed media artist Jesse Hazelip was born in 1977 and raised in the mountain desert town of Cortez, Colorado, amidst  the Navajo and Ute Nation territory. He moved to Santa Barbara, California at the age of 14 where he became involved in the world of graffiti. Hazelip has a Bachelor of Fine Arts  from Art Center College of Design in California and currently lives in Oakland, CA.

Hazelip recently finished up his exhibition, “Sentimental Journey”, at White Walls Gallery in San Francisco. This series  features the human exploration of death and the lessons ignored throughout North American history.

“World War II greatly influenced this series, where buffalo are named after actual 1950s Bomber airplanes and beautiful Herons are rendered half machine gun, half bird. Jesse uses these animals to open a dialogue about the repeating mistakes of American history. Just as our carelessness have forced bison, an American icon, to the brink of extinction; so has war almost destroyed our country. The Heron is also fused with WWII artillery, although its message differs. This greedy bird is solitary from the flock just as Americans are closed off to their own neighbors. By using recognizable images, Hazelip hopes to reach a larger audience by making his work approachable yet thought provoking.”

Hazelip’s work has been exhibited in galleries throughout California.  He also makes a living as a commercial illustrator working with clients such as Converse, Mishka NYC, and National Forest Design.

To see more of Jesse’s work, visit Jessehazelip.com or his blog JesseHazelip.blogspot.com

Sources: Submerge, Fecal Face, White Walls