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Reka Paints a New Cubist-Inspired Mural in San Francisco

Berlin-based artist Reka recently visited San Francisco to paint a colorful, Cubist-inspired mural in a quiet part of the SOMA district. With his work from the past year, Reka has increasingly moved away from figuration. Though his new mural has two female characters at its center, he fractured his subject matter into geometric shapes that evolve into design elements. The clean lines and rounded forms evoke an Art Deco aesthetic, which Reka underscores with his retro-inspired color palette.

Photo courtesy of Colin M. Day

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mural, REKA, street art

Handiedan, Project M, street art, urban nation berlin

September 29, 2014

Amsterdam-based collage artist Handiedan recently visited Berlin to add her contribution to Urban Nation's Project M, arguably one of the coolest buildings in the German capital. The arts organization has been inviting artists to create window installations and large-scale murals (see our coverage of Eine's recent piece there) and Handiedan recently made her mark on the multi-story facade with an enormous, wheat-pasted mural. While her typical work consists of smaller-scale, textured collages of vintage pin-up girls with baroque flourishes, she seamlessly adapted this style to a larger format. Check out her piece and stay tuned for more coverage of her upcoming solo show "Vesica Piscis," opening at Seattle's Roq La Rue this Thursday.

The Latest Engrossing Murals of Aryz

Aryz, mural, Public art

December 7, 2016

Spanish artist Aryz has created massive public art across the world over the past few years. His style, a blend of pop art and vibrant surrealism, looms over city streets and waterways in recent stops in China, the Netherlands, and Belgium. The piece "Axis," above, part of the Back to School Project, was created three months ago in Chongqing in southwestern China.

Kent Twitchell Repaints His “Freeway Lady” Mural 41 Years Later

Freeway Lady, Kent Twitchell, Los Angeles, mural, street art

October 14, 2015

12 years after artist Kent Twitchell painted Los Angeles' favorite "Freeway Lady" overlooking the 101 freeway, it was erased by a billboard company. Originally painted in 1974, the mural is a tribute to the artist's grandmother who lived in Hollywood. She is depicted holding a colorful, handmade afghan blanket that she gifted to Twitchell. In Hi-Fructose Vol. 37, we caught up with Twitchell during the piece's restoration, which was recently completed on October 10th.

Jetsonorama’s Photographic Street Art in the Southwestern Desert

Jetsonorama, Painted Desert Project, street art

December 30, 2014

Though Jetsonorama was inspired by graffiti and hip-hop culture in the 1980s, he didn't begin his street art career until he was in his 50s working as a doctor on a Navajo reservation in the Southwestern desert. The artist shoots portraits of people in his community and blows them up to fill the walls of abandoned buildings. In addition to adding his own work to the desert landscape, he curates the Painted Desert Project, an annual festival that invites street artists, many of whom are Native American, to create large-scale outdoor work in the Navajo Nation.

Reka Paints a New Cubist-Inspired Mural in San Francisco

Handiedan’s New Wheat-Pasted Mural for Urban Nation Berlin

The Latest Engrossing Murals of Aryz

Kent Twitchell Repaints His “Freeway Lady” Mural 41 Years Later

Jetsonorama’s Photographic Street Art in the Southwestern Desert

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