From Chicano Park to Liberty Station, San Diego Makes Mark As Street Art Hotspot
Artist Hugo Crosthwaite paints a white bird enveloping the people in the drawing in a Liberty Station mural. Photo by Chris Stone
Street art – from the spontaneous murals celebrating Kobe Bryant’s life to those mourning the loss of George Floyd’s – has become a touchstone after big events.
So much so that an online gallery delved into social media data to find the hot spots for street art across the nation – and yep, San Diego makes the cut.
New York, not surprisingly, is the trendsetter. The city far outpaces the runners-up, Chicago and Portland.
San Francisco follows, while San Diego and Austin round out the Top 5 in a tie.
Stopped by Chicano Park yesterday to see the rad street art again. I love that these are maintained and refreshed and there’s always something new to see. pic.twitter.com/N42DxE5k0l — Tami Sigmund (@cuppy) August 7, 2021
Washington D.C., Boston and Los Angeles also made the list.
Analyzing hashtags such as #streetart, #urbanart and #graffitiart, search terms like “mural” and “spray paint” and engagement data, the gallery, Singulart.com, found that over the past year, street art related topics have seen a huge increase in popularity – 170%.
Some such artists – Banksy for instance – inspire rampant speculation when new pieces pop up.
“In recent years, street art has become much more accepted and appreciated as an art form, compared to when it first emerged in the 1970s and is often a huge form of expression for many,” said Marion Sailhen, the gallery’s head curator. “Artists such as Banksy, Vhils, and Kobra have really paved the way for the urban art movement and it’s great to see how they’ve inspired some of the artists on Singulart.”
In San Diego, the gallery cites the granddaddy of local murals, Chicano Park. They name newer hubs such as Liberty Station and the Sea Walls Project too.
The Padres jumped aboard the trend this spring, marking the accomplishments of Fernando Tatis Jr., Manny Machado and Joe Musgrove with murals in Ocean Beach, Chula Vista and El Cajon. Soon to be added? Reportedly, Yu Darvish, on Convoy Street.
And Singulart’s not the only one taking notice. Local murals and outdoor art have become a tourist draw. The region’s main tourism site even maintains a feature – the “10 Sweet Spots for San Diego Street Art.”
Artists in the time of Coronavirus, an ongoing virtual exhibition, Part 53
Artists in the time of Coronavirus, an ongoing virtual exhibition, Part 53
We proudly present part 53 of our open call, non-juried, online exhibition entitled “Artists in the time of Coronavirus!” A huge thank you to our 300+ participants! The deadline to submit has passed and we thank everyone who participated in the series. But we’re not done posting! We have a backlog of submissions and will be presenting another 3 or so episodes of the series before we’re done. So stay tuned for more!
Our fifty-third post of the series, Artists in the Time of Coronavirus includes Jennifer Baker, Edna Santiago, Theodore Harris, Ruslan Khais, Valerie Hird, and Carol Cole! Thank you for sharing with us and the Philly art community!
We have gotten over 300 submissions, and we are so grateful to all participants. The time has now passed to submit (submissions closed July 29, 2020 at 11:59 PM), but there will be more posts coming! Stay safe and stay positive, and come back in the days to come for more “Artists in the Time of Coronavirus.” We have a wonderful community and are so proud of being able to share everyone’s art.
Jennifer Baker
These images are from the series of quick sketches I have been doing over the past few months. On March 16, I was called to my parents’ house in a small town north of New York City. My father was on his way to the hospital. A week later he died of complications of Covid-19. Unlike many, I was allowed to stay with him so he was not alone. I think I was the last visitor allowed in the hospital. I was then quarantined at my parents’ house, caring for my elderly mother who ended up getting sick as well. I also got sick, as did our live-in caregiver. As soon as I was well enough, I began doing small quick drawings with the materials I had at hand, some cheap printer paper and a set of Crayola colored pencils. I started drawing in the back yard, a drawing of my childhood playhouse that has seen better days. I moved on to another backyard drawing of the playhouse and my fathers abandoned garden. On a rainy day I did a kitchen still life, and have continued to do sketches in and around my parents’ house – the same house I grew up in a long time ago. —Jennifer Baker
Edna Santiago
We all see ourselves challenged by the exact same thing. This is not what we are used to.
“You don’t understand what I’m going through! “, Doesn’t apply anymore.
No escape possible except for how your mind deals with the whole situation.
And the world ignores our cry and continues to turn, and the birds sing and the fish swim, and the grass grows, where things haven’t been seen for awhile. Maybe I will grow too. EdnaSantiagoArtist on Instagram
Http://www.ednasantiago.com
Theodore Harris
In a PAFA zoom talk titled The Visuality of Covering with the artist Humaira Abid and myself, hosted PAFA curators Jodi Throckmorton and Brittany Webb I gave some back round on Vetoed Dreams. More from this series and others works here. In 2017 I published a book on the Thesentür: Conscientious Objector to Formalism series
Ruslan Khais
These two paintings were created during Corona virus Quarantine by my alter ego Graffiti Pop.
Graffiti pop will use spray paint and incorporate words in a painting on canvas.
Graffiti Pop will borrow and take influence from any source and will not feel guilty about it.
Graffiti Pop incorporates innovative techniques and takes maximum pleasure from the process of painting without torching himself with questions such as Is it good? or Is it bad? The paintings started as abstractions, almost amorphous shapes of the human head in a crown. Large blobs of bright acrylic smeared with a palette knife.
After a while, I started to realize, images of anonymous heads do not possess enough gravitas and could not support the canvas of that size. I reworked paintings with oil and acrylic. Facial features appeared ,words filled the background. the associations line
Corona virus – crown- king – king crown – corona king Ruslan Khais Websites
https://www.saatchiart.com/ruslan_khais
https://www.ruslankhaisart.com/
https://www.singulart.com/en/artist/ruslan-khais-3841
Valerie Hird
BOXED IN is a response to confinement. It’s terrible to realize how badly – as a white American woman in her late 60’s – I’ve failed the moral ideal I was brought up to believe in. To know that right now any attempts to redress are restricted to the reductive world of social media. The central space is my present, a stage set that replaces personality with performance. I feel captive to the out-sized impact our movies and social media have on our perceptions of each other The basement represents a career spent in countries where I’m no longer allowed to work and travel. The attic is filled with the literary fictions from my youth that formed my idealism and biased the way I engaged with other cultures and points of view. It casts cell-like shadows across my central space. Confinement has clarified for me that the three spaces are bound together and inseparable. Do we ever travel very far from where we started? Is learned experience an illusion? BOXED IN is the final stage set used in my What DID Happen to Alice? video that will premiere this September on my website and Instagram @valeriehird. Excerpts and stills from the animation can be found on Facebook and Instagram #Don’tAskAliceVideo and Vimeo
Carol Cole
Grande destaque do BBB 21, Juliette é retratada em obra de reconhecido artista plástico
O artista plástico brasileiro Richard Brandão, reconhecido mundialmente por seu trabalho abstrato, pintou a imagem de Juliette Freire, sister do BBB 21 e um dos nomes mais comentados do entretenimento na atualidade. A obra, no caso, foi feita exclusivamente para presenteá-la numa oportunidade, disse Brandão ao Observatório da TV.
“Seguindo a minha tendência de uma pop arte fragmentada, me inspirei em uma fotografia no perfil dela para fazer este desenho, que pertence à série ‘Retratos Minimalistas’, onde minúsculos dot´s são organizados para compor a imagem“, contou ele sobre o trabalho que utilizou a técnica nanquim sobre papel, no tamanho A4.
Continua depois da publicidade Carregando… Não foi possível carregar anúncio
O desenho foi feito em apenas 2 dias, e sobre a escolha da favorita ao prêmio de $1,5 milhão, Richard Brandão diz: “A escolha da Juliette foi fácil pra mim: ela conquistou meu coração com sua simplicidade, simpatia e autenticidade. Sou fã do programa e torcedor da sister“, disse ele.
Mais de Richard Brandão!
Em 2020, sua obra: ‘Retrato de um Novo Normal’ foi eleita a mais importante do ano, segundo a galeria francesa Singulart (Paris). Nascido em Montes Claros, Minas Gerais, Brandão começou a pintar em 1992, aos 12 anos.
“Totalmente autodidata, não sigo regras, sigo meus instintos com base em minhas experiências e percepções. Com o meu trabalho procuro uma aproximação com o amante da arte, provocando questionamentos com a utilização de cores solidas e de elementos geométricos para apoiar esta visão sensorial.“
Com a influência do POP ART, sua identidade é quase sempre a fragmentada, como se fossem mosaicos figurativos ou abstratos. Personalidades como Madonna, Marilyn Monroe, Juliana Paes e Anitta já foram retratados em seu trabalho. “O que mais me interessa são as interações interpessoais e a busca de respostas sobre a existência humana“, disse Richard, que tem obras espalhas em vários países.
Juliette, uma sister bem engajada!
Recentemente uma confeitaria em Fortaleza, no Ceará, resolveu surfar na onda do desentendimento entre Juliette Freire e Fiuk do BBB 21, por causa de um bolo feito por ele. Vanessa, proprietária da Cumbe Confeitaria e admiradora da participante, junto com seu confeiteiro, tiveram a ideia de criar um bolo em homenagem à sister, batizado de “bolo vulcão”. Em poucos minutos o anúncio do bolo da Juliette, que custa R$34,90, fez com que os números de encomendas aumentassem.