Tag: graffiti
Game Over
by Troy on Aug.20, 2010
Girafa, as seen in the Upper Haight.
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Slowly Turning Madd…
by Troy on Aug.04, 2010
One of the best character-based graffiti pieces I have seen in quite some time, as spotted in the East Bay.
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The Ill Wizard
by Troy on Aug.03, 2010
As seen deep in the East Bay.
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Inner City Pressure
by Troy on Jun.10, 2010
As seen in the Tenderloin district.
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Click Here To Add Title
by Troy on Jun.07, 2010
One of the most common questions I get via Flickr Mail (outside of group invitations) is “Why do you title so many of your graffiti photos “Click Here To Add Title?”
The answer is simple: Although I appreciate and respect the letter forms and colors, I don’t know the name of every graffiti artist in the Bay Area. So I leave the text until another photographer is able to help me ID the artist. To be clear, I am not a graffiti photographer. I’m an outsider, looking in.
That said, 3 of my favorite Bay Area graffiti photographers are Funkandjazz, Everydaydude, and Heart of Oak. These guys are doing it, and doing it well, and if graffiti/photography is your thing, I’d encourage you to visit their photo streams. Their collective dedication is both comprehensive and admirable, to say the least.
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COPE2
by Troy on May.10, 2010
Fernando Carlo (also known as Cope2) is a graffiti artist from the South Bronx, New York. He has been writing graffiti since 1978-79, and has gained international credit for his work. Though he is now known worldwide, he didn’t receive recognition in the mainstream graffiti world until the mid 1990′s.
Cope2 has been one of the main targets of the New York City Vandal Squad due to his high profile status in the graffiti world and has been arrested for vandalism, theft and drug charges. He has served a total of 4 years in prison.
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Moving Canvases
by Troy on Mar.24, 2010
Five moving canvases, as seen in the Bayview district.
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TWIST > TWISTY > TWISTER > TWISTONE
by Troy on Mar.16, 2010
Barry McGee (born 1966 in San Francisco, California) is a painter and graffiti artist. He is also known by monikers such as Ray Fong, Twist and further variations of Twist, such as Twister, Twisty, Twisto.
McGee graduated from El Camino High School in South San Francisco, California. He later graduated from the SFAI in 1991 with a concentration in painting and printmaking.
McGee rose out of the Mission School art movement and graffiti boom in the San Francisco Bay Area during the early nineties. His work draws heavily from a pessimistic view of the urban experience, which he describes as, “urban ills, overstimulations, frustrations, addictions & trying to maintain a level head under the constant bombardment of advertising”.
McGee’s paintings are very iconic, with central figures dominating abstracted backgrounds of drips, patterns and color fields. He has also painted portraits of street characters on their own empty bottles of liquor, painted flattened spray cans picked up at train yards and painted wrecked vehicles for art shows.
McGee has had numerous shows in many kinds of galleries and was also an artist in residence at inner-city McClymonds High School in Oakland, California in the early 1990s.
He was married to the artist Margaret Kilgallen, who died of cancer in 2001. The couple has a daughter named Asha.
The market value of his work rose considerably after 2001 as a result of his being included in several major exhibitions. As a result, much of his San Francisco street art has been scavenged or stolen.
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GIRAFA On The Loose
by Troy on Mar.13, 2010
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I Can See Right Through Your Buff
by Troy on Mar.11, 2010
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