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.
In 1986, Chris Freedom received a call from the art director at Reading Rainbow, a popular show on PBS at the time, asking him to paint six handball courts in one night for a Run DMC video. He like...
For BEYOND THE STREETS on PAPER, we were excited to have 3-massive works from David "Mr StarCity" White, whose infectious spirit and powerful visuals have turned his storytelling into ess...
You may know Houston, Texas raised Jasmine Monsegue from her own DIY fashion work, but you may also know her by the moniker Spacebrat for her airbrush paintings that straddle the line between fanta...
When it comes to the legends of graffiti and the international growth of the movement, Chris "DAZE" Ellis is one of the important and vital names of the scene. When it comes to creating a...
"Freedom struggles happen all the time," Umar Rashid told me one afternoon prior to the opening of BEYOND THE STREETS on PAPER. "The whole world is full of popular misconceptions and...
Through her own sense of narrative, Okubo has always celebrated the "Black body in relation to movement, expression, ideology, and culture," and her works seem to have found a poetic puls...
For years now, Addam Yekutieli, known perhaps more for his monker, Know Hope, has struck a unique balance between political street works and a poetic humanism in his fine art.
"Cowboys are really interesting for a variety of reasons. They started for me when I was a child as the ultimate example of what 'a man' should be, hardened by the elements, able to de...
If there was ever an artist who captures the aesthetic of Los Angeles sports in art it's Gustavo Zermeño Jr. His murals are now iconic with flashes of hyperrealism and airbrush mastery.
There has been a lot of art creating over the past year that speaks to the human condition, our uncertainty, our universal fears and concerns. Japanese-based artist Yusuke Hanai doesn't literal...
