Wednesday, July 27, 2011

New Print by Self Help Graphics







Self Help Graphics is a nationally recognized community arts center with more than 40years of history in East LA.
They have been doing print making, art workshops and many other community based projects since 1970.
I was fortunate enough to fly out to LA recently and have a new print made by SHG's lead printer Joe Alpuche.
SHG has done print work for many artists including El Mac, Shepard Fairey, Mear One, Vyal, Defer K2STN, and Douglas Miles X Apache Skateboards just to name a few.





Special thank you everyone at Self Help Graphics


Edition of 88
Signed and numbered
For more information email: breezephx@gmail.com

Thursday, July 14, 2011

Book:Phoenix Canvas


There are many people in the valley who have an appreciation for public art. Im finding out lately that there are quite a few people who genuinely like and appreciate graffiti on the streets as well. There seems to be a fascination and even an obsession with documenting new and current works including graffiti art, community mural art, etc. and not just by the artists themselves or local authorities(in illegal graffiti cases).


Local gallery owner Weston Henry, recently opened up a funky boutique style gallery just off of roosevelt row called Cade Gallery.
Weston is also a photographer, and as he puts it, "A trip back from Albuquerque motivated me to start shooting" and now Weston has documented and published portions of Phoenix's local public wall art, mural and graffiti movements in this new book titled "Phoenix Canvas".








(Left-Lalo and Myself/ Right-El Mac and Kofie)


It features some of the most recognizable local works of outdoor art, painted by some of Phoenix's finest Artists, Muralists and Graffiti Writers such as El Mac, Sinek, Pablo Luna, El Moises, Dose, Rank, Kel along with crews TAF, CON,EMT and more . It even shows the progression of Lalo and I's mural behind Jobot(formerly HoodRide) and the Lost Leaf, where at some point some dickless fuck wrote over a small part of the mural, which Lalo fixed later by changing the Jesus face to Arizona's most notorious village idiots, Jan Brewer and Joe Arpaio.

Big thanks to Weston for publishing the 5th street alley mural. If you notice in the background of Lalo's cover piece, you can see of small piece of the Skate Bowl at Desert West Skate Park before we painted the entire bowl back in April.

Installation July 2011

A new installation added inside the downstairs of Barsmith in downtown Phoenix.

Im pretty happy with the way it came out. I think it would make for a good backdrop for a body art photo shoot.
Any takers?