Category: CALIFORNIA

VENICE (BEACH,) CALIFORNIA STREET ART: MUHAMMAD ALI by AFRIKA 47

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AFRIKA 47 | Johannesburg, South Africa

“Ralph Ziman was born in Johannesburg, South Africa in 1963. Ralph has directed over 400 videos for artists as diverse as Ozzy Osbourne, Toni Braxton, Rod Stewart, Michael Jackson, Shania Twain and Rick James, winning numerous MTV awards. His work in film includes over 6 features as a writer/director/producer including Hearts and Minds, the first independent South African feature film to be completed after apartheid. This premiered at the Berlin and Montreal International Film Festivals, and Jerusalema (Gangster’s Paradise in the US & UK), released to critical and box office acclaim and South Africa’s official entry to the 2008 Academy Award Foreign Language section. His public art includes five murals in Venice and a forthcoming one privately commissioned in Santa Monica. Ralph lives in Los Angeles with his wife and three children. He maintains a studio in Venice Beach and is focusing on his art practice and a planned documentary component to the Ghosts series.” https://treasongallery.com/afrika47/

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25mar18. Venice, California

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA (KOREATOWN) STREET ART: PORTRAITS by JOSEPH LEE

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“Joseph Lee is a self-taught artist who studies faces and the emotions that inhabit them.  Lee focuses on the parallel between external reality and internal process by manipulating everyday faces and objects through segmented brush strokes, color choice, and volume, converging them into a complete and balanced whole.
He is currently based in Los angeles.” http://www.josephleeart.com/bio-2/

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Both portraits are located in Koreatown. Los Angeles, CA. 26mar18.

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA STREET ART: BIG WALL

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24mar18. Los Angeles, CA

LOS ANGELES STREET ART: CHEESEBURGERS & FRIES !

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24mar18. Downtown Los Angeles, CA.

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA STREET ART: GENIE by CRESPO

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24mar18. Los Angeles, CA.

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA STREET ART: DECONSTRUCTED & DIGITIZED WOLF by NYCHOS & DXTR THE WEIRD

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24mar18. Los Angeles, CA (downtown)

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA: “MARCH FOR OUR LIVES” 2018

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About 60,000 people came out to march for stricter gun laws (amongst other fascist aspects of this regime) today on the streets of downtown Los Angeles. 

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24mar18. Los Angeles, CA

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA: MIXED DOMESTICITY

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Shepard Fairey. Koreatown.

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“The Art of Living Foundation is an international NGO, focused on various dimensions such as social transformation, child eduction, women and youth empowerment and world peace through yoga meditation, Sudarshan Kriya and other spiritual philosophies.” ~                             948 W. Adams Blvd.

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Take me to CHURCH.
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In January 2018, “Federal immigration agents descended on 7-Eleven stores in Los Angeles’ Koreatown and across the U.S. Wednesday in what officials described as the largest operation against an employer under Donald Trump’s presidency.” ~ Hence, the posters offering help to potential detainees.

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FACT: “There’s been a 16% increase in homelessness over the last two years
In the Greater Los Angeles area (not counting Pasadena, Glendale, or Long Beach) since 2013, there has been a 16 percent increase in the number of homeless men, women, and children. 41,174 people are now homeless in Los Angeles, compared to 35,524 two years ago. That’s an increase of 5,650 people.” https://www.pacificcouncil.org/newsroom/7-facts-you-need-know-about-homelessness-la

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Angelenos believe in utilizing every bit of space in their trucks.
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Meet the “Oranges,” a lovely orange family in the heart of LA.
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You’ve Got Mail
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Ride your bike to get some bread. 

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“The Felix character was borrowed from the popular 1920s cartoon “Felix the Cat” by pioneering L.A. automobile dealer Winslow Felix, who opened Felix Chevrolet in 1921 at 12th Street and Grand Avenue. Felix was a friend of filmmaker Pat Sullivan, whose animation studio created the mischievous feline character.”
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A skater lost his shoes.

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Koreatown
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It’s a “DONUTS WORLD.”

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18 & 20, 2018. Los Angeles ~ Expo Park, Koreatown.

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA STREET ART: ‘THE CORN, THE ROOT, AND THE HEART OF UNITY’ by LAPIZTOLA

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20mar18. Los Angeles, CA

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA STREET ART: OWL 🦉 by KIPTOE

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18march18. Los Angeles, CA.