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Wooster On Spring
Wooster Collective is a website founded in 2003 that showcases street art from around the world. ''The'' ''New York Times'' called it "a leading street-art blog." It features ephemeral art placed on streets in cities around the world. The site also offers podcasting with music and interviews featuring street artists. The name Wooster comes from Wooster Street, located in the SoHo neighborhood of New York City. The website's archive starts in January 2003, and the category list is over 100 items long. Categories include entries as "Cardboard" art and "Guerrilla gardening", as well as locations with a street art presence such as Tokyo, Dublin and Milwaukee. It also contains interviews of street artists, with reviews of artists' new work or of recent gallery exhibits. 11 Spring Street Project Wooster Collective was involved in gaining recognition for street art in its own neighborhood. In 2006,the website collaborated with Caroline Cummings and Bill Elias, members of a developme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Website
A website (also written as a web site) is any web page whose content is identified by a common domain name and is published on at least one web server. Websites are typically dedicated to a particular topic or purpose, such as news, education, commerce, entertainment, or social media. Hyperlinking between web pages guides the navigation of the site, which often starts with a home page. The most-visited sites are Google, YouTube, and Facebook. All publicly-accessible websites collectively constitute the World Wide Web. There are also private websites that can only be accessed on a private network, such as a company's internal website for its employees. Users can access websites on a range of devices, including desktops, laptops, tablets, and smartphones. The app used on these devices is called a web browser. Background The World Wide Web (WWW) was created in 1989 by the British CERN computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee. On 30 April 1993, CERN announced that the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shepard Fairey
Frank Shepard Fairey (born February 15, 1970) is an American contemporary artist, activist and founder of OBEY Clothing who emerged from the skateboarding scene. In 1989, he designed the " Andre the Giant Has a Posse" (...OBEY...) sticker campaign while attending the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). Fairey designed the Barack Obama "Hope" poster for the 2008 U.S. presidential election. The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, has described him as one of the best known and most influential street artists. His work is included in the collections at The Smithsonian; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Museum of Modern Art in New York City; the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego; the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C.; the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond; and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. His style has been described as a "bold iconic style that is based on styling and idealizing images." Early life Shepard Fairey was born an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Construction
Construction are processes involved in delivering buildings, infrastructure, industrial facilities, and associated activities through to the end of their life. It typically starts with planning, financing, and design that continues until the asset is built and ready for use. Construction also covers repairs and maintenance work, any works to expand, extend and improve the asset, and its eventual demolition, dismantling or wikt:decommission, decommissioning. The construction industry contributes significantly to many countries' gross domestic products (Gross domestic product, GDP). Global expenditure on construction activities was about $4 trillion in 2012. In 2022, expenditure on the construction industry exceeded $11 trillion a year, equivalent to about 13 percent of global Gross domestic product, GDP. This spending was forecasted to rise to around $14.8 trillion in 2030. The construction industry promotes economic development and brings many non-monetary benefits to many cou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matthew Hoffman (artist)
Matthew Hoffman (born July 25, 1979) is an American public artist and designer based in Chicago. He is known for You Are Beautiful, an art project that ranges from stickers to large-scale public sculptures. Early life Matthew Hoffman was born in Rockford, Ohio. In 2001, he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in graphic design from Ball State University. Career You Are Beautiful Hoffman refers to himself as the "custodian" of the You Are Beautiful Project, which began in 2002 as a street art sticker campaign with 100 stickers he distributed to friends, who placed them in public spaces around the world. "The original idea behind the project was just to create a simple, positive, affirming message – just to say 'you are beautiful, you're perfect as you are.' Like, everything's OK," Hoffman said in an interview for OWN's ''Super Soul Sunday'' television series. "I wanted to create the perfect positive message that you could share with everyone," he said in an interview. Init ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Graffiti Research Lab
Graffiti Research Lab is an art project founded by Evan Roth and James Powderly and run from Eyebeam OpenLab, a non-profit technology and art center where the two are fellows. The two experiment with LEDs, magnets, and conductive paint to augment street art and post instructions on their website. They pioneered "no mess" graffiti using LEDs. References External links * {{Authority control American artist groups and collectives Graffiti in the United States American websites ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Don Leicht
Don Leicht (October 12, 1946 – January 22, 2021) was a visual artist who worked as a painter and sculptor in the Bronx, New York City for over forty years. Leicht had one person exhibitions in New York, Sweden and (Germany) and was an early figure in the New York City downtown scene in the 1970s, and in the subsequent Street Art and Graffiti movements. Fashion Moda Fashion Moda is most often associated with graffiti art and its acceptance into the art world through such figures as John Fekner, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Jenny Holzer, and Keith Haring. In 1981, Leicht participated in Fashion Moda's annual ''South Bronx'' exhibition, and the following year in ''From The Monkey To The Monitor'' an installation by Fekner, Leicht and Fred Baca which included a live performance by Phoebe Legere. Charlotte Street In August 1980, John Fekner and Don Leicht worked together on an outdoor project located at the site of the People's Convention held at Charlotte Street in the South Bronx ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Fekner
John Fekner (born 1950) is an American artist known for his spray painted environmental and conceptual outdoor works. Fekner's has created paintings, cast paper reliefs, video, music recordings and performance works, sculpture, photography and computer-generated work. Fekner has addressed issues involving concepts of perception and transformation, as well as specific environmental and sociological concerns such as urban decay, greed, chemical pollutants, mass media and Native American Indians. The street art and stencil graffiti pionier Fekner is one of the first artists who painted uncommissioned works in public space that were of huge size. Before people talked about street art Fekner labeled himself "environmental conceptual artist". Early life Fekner began writing poetry as a young teenager, and his first outdoor graffiti in 1968 were the words ''Itchycoo Park'' painted at Gorman Park 85th Street Park in Jackson Heights, Queens. Along with his accomplices on the park hou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lady Pink
Lady Pink, born Sandra Fabara (born 1964), is an Ecuadorian-born American graffiti and mural artist, active in New York City. Early life Fabara was born in Ambato, Ecuador in 1964, and moved to the Astoria neighborhood of Queens, New York when she was seven years old. She grew up wanting to be an architect like her father. She started her graffiti writing career in 1979 following the loss of a boyfriend. She exercised her grief by tagging her boyfriend's name across New York City. Lady Pink studied at the Manhattan High School of Art and Design, where she was introduced to graffiti. During her senior year of school, she began to start exhibiting her work while balancing her personal life. Name origin Lady Pink was first given her name “Pink” by Seen TC5. The name was chosen for aesthetics because the name Pink is feminine and because she wanted other writers to know that she was a girl. Lady Pink also said that the letters appealed to her; the way the "L" kicked out a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
D*Face
Dean Stockton, better known by his alias D*Face, is an English multimedia street artist who uses spray paint, stickers, posters, and stencils. D*Face grew up in London and had a childhood interest in graffiti in drawing. He credits this to Henry Chalfant's coverage of subway graffiti in New York City in ''Spraycan'' and ''Subway Art'', later as a teenager skateboarding and in particular ''Thrasher'' magazine's coverage of skateboard deck graphics led his interest in stickers and the DIY mentality associated with skate and punk fanzines. He attended an illustration and design course and worked as a freelance illustrator/designer whilst honing his street work. Influences included Shepard Fairey's " Obey Giant" art campaign, Jim Philips, hip hop, punk music, and popular animated cartoons. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Above (artist)
Tavar Zawacki (b. 1981, California) is a Polish, Portuguese - American abstract artist and internationally recognized visual artist based in Berlin, Germany. From 1996 to 2016, he created work under the pseudonym ABOVE, famous for the "ABOVE arrow" symbol, representing the empowering message to “Rise Above.” Throughout his travels over the last two decades, Tavar has painted murals and created public art in more than 45 countries across 100 cities on six continents. His experiences living in seven countries and proficiency in four languages have significantly shaped his creative expression and diverse range of his visual language within different mediums. Since 2010, Tavar has exhibited solo works globally, with shows in New York City, London, San Francisco, Berlin, Milan, Zürich, Melbourne, Paris, and Miami. His diverse artistic practice includes two-dimensional hard-edge minimalist paintings and three-dimensional sculptural pieces. Regardless of the medium, Tavar's st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dan Witz
Dan Witz (born 1957) is a Brooklyn, New York City, NY based street artist and realist painter. He grew up in Chicago, IL, and graduated in 1981 from Cooper Union, on New York City's Lower East Side. Witz, consistently active since the late 1970s, is one of the pioneers of the street art movement. Dan Witz's paintings have been shown in galleries throughout the US and Europe. In June 2010 a monograph, "Dan Witz. In Plain View. 30 Years of Artworks Illegal and Otherwise", was published by Ginkgo press. Career Dan Witz received a National Endowment of the Arts grant, in 1983, and fellowships from the New York Foundation of the Arts, in 1992 and 2000 In 1983 Dan Witz's first book, "The Birds of Manhattan" was published by Skinny Books. His second book, In Plain View, was released in June 2010, by Gingko Press. In September 2010, Gingko Press will release "Hummingbirds, 2011". The work of Dan Witz has appeared in ''Juxtapoz'', ''Time (magazine), Time'', ''Arts Magazine'', ''New Yor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
