The latest happenings from BEYOND THE STREETS and our family of artists, including events, exhibition openings, stories and articles from the worlds of graffiti and street art.
If you were to be called a "green thumb," chances are you have spent some time in a garden. Watching things grow, nurturing, tending to, patient, and caring.
Painting hellfire and horny Messiahs, the tattoo, lowrider and graffiti artist known as Mister Cartoon transmutes the lead bullets of Chicano L.A. into gold, in an alchemy fueled by cholo church e...
Swoon has been an artist of empathy perhaps even before contemporary really stood face-to-face about what empathy in art looks like. She's an iconic force in storytelling, both about her own li...
Ian Reid was born and raised in Brooklyn, NY. He is a photojournalist, filmmaker, visual artist and creative producer that began his earliest works while immersed in the world of skateboarding. His...
Umar Rashid's universe is immersive. And that universe expands and contracts with each show, narratives that reimagine time and space in a way that is rare for a contemporary artist.
Of all the great legacies in the career of South African-born FAITH XLVII, whether in street art or installation works, is that she was always a bold outlier as more and more international attentio...
It's incredible the amount of detail and pressure of layering that Pat Phillips puts into a piece of paper. It's almost as if eras and decades of influences and subconscious thoughts on eac...
At its simplest, history painting in graffiti might mean rewriting someone’s name on the same wall where it once stood before the wall was repainted. Each “generation” of graffiti writers was ofte...
The way that Jon Key paints his characters, intertwined, embracing and with a sense of love, there is an immediate connection. Whether you see yourself or friends in these works...
When I think of Todd James' artwork, I think of the quintessential American artist. There are so many entry points, pop-cultural winks, sub-culture nods, a heritage of graffiti and cartoon, TV ...
When we first became introduced to MADSAKI's work, he was gaining critical and cultural attention with his Wannabie’s series, crude, graffiti-like interpretations of classic and famed artworks ...
Even as one of the most renowned graffiti artists in NYC, in one of the most renowned graffiti crews in IRAK, there was something both raw and tender about Kunle Martins.
