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Jetsonorama’s Photographic Street Art in the Southwestern Desert

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.

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.

Collaboration with Debra Yeppa-Pappan

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Jetsonorama, Painted Desert Project, street art

horsepower, mural, Nychos, sao paolo, street art

June 4, 2014

A biographical fact Nychos often mentions in interviews is that he grew up in a family of traditional Austrian hunters. This explains the artist's lack of squeamishness: He seems to relish inventing characters and then slicing them open for his viewers to see. While it may be extreme for some, his grotesque display of cartoon violence speaks to the image-saturated, short attention spans of millennials who grew up on a steady diet of Ren and Stimpy and Ninja Turtles. Hot off the heels of his solo show at Fifty24SF in San Francisco, the artist recently traveled to Sao Paolo paint a new mural dubbed "Horsepower." The title is a nod to Nychos's energetic aesthetic and notoriously high-speed painting process. See progress photos of the new piece after the jump.

Jorge Rodriguez-Gerada Creates New Murals From a Bird’s Eye View

jorge rodriguez-gerada, mural, street art, Terrestrial Series

April 10, 2015

While it's tempting to call what Jorge Rodriguez-Gerada does "street art," his Terrestrial Series isn't experienced in quite the same way as a mural. He recently unveiled two gigantic pieces — one in San Antonio, Texas and one in Paris — that can only be comprehended fully from a bird's eye view. Viewers on the ground have a unique access point of being able to walk through the portraits, which form a cohesive whole only from above.

Studio Visit: Meggs Explores Our Relationship to Nature in New Works

Figurative Art, Meggs, street art, urban art, Ying Yang

September 29, 2015

Originally hailing from Australia, now based in Los Angeles, David "Meggs" Hooke creates explosive figurative works and murals using bright colors and raw textures. For his upcoming solo at Beyond Eden Art Fair in Los Angeles, Meggs looked beyond his usual comic book and mythological influences and turned to his natural environment. Titled "Paving Paradise", his exhibit looks at the duality of our relationship between nature and that which is man-made. "It questions our effect on the planet's rapidly diminishing natural resources, and where our values lie as living beings on this planet," he told Hi-Fructose in a recent studio visit.

Jeff Huntington Paints Layered Portraits with Superimposed Images

buddha, jeff huntington, Portraiture, sergei einstein, street art

July 9, 2015

Annapolis based multimedia artist Jeff Huntington make connections between seemingly opposing images using patterns and emotion. It was his father, the subject of his painting series "Plaques and Tangles" (2010), who first introduced him to oil painting at the age of eight. That particular series was a turning point in the artist's career, when multiple perspectives began creeping into his works. Since then, Huntington has made increasingly layered portrayals of the human condition.

Jetsonorama’s Photographic Street Art in the Southwestern Desert

Nychos’s New Mural in Sao Paolo, “Horsepower”

Jorge Rodriguez-Gerada Creates New Murals From a Bird’s Eye View

Studio Visit: Meggs Explores Our Relationship to Nature in New Works

Jeff Huntington Paints Layered Portraits with Superimposed Images

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