Urban Art Blog

Ryan Schude is one of those get-up-and-go-guys who will probably change the world or at least its self perception in some unimaginable or unfathomable way many years from now. A photographer who earned his chops by spending a year and a half working in a rental house just so he could get his hands on [...]

Shauna Richardson has taken yarnbombing one stage further with her series of crocheted animal trophies. Each animal is created to lifelike scale and photographed in situe in the streets of various cities in the gloom of the night. Shauna’s  ‘Crochetdermy’ evolved out of the exploration of the theory that  ‘Anything can be art’. For two years [...]

Hanneke Treffers is an Amsterdam based artist and designer, trained as a photographer but best known for her marvellous mixed media works. Her technique is reminiscent of street art overlaying images from the past and present, hiding social comment behind a veil of faux nostalgia. Her latest exhibition is still on for a few days [...]

  I don’t know why, perhaps because all the subjects were dead, but old photographs used to creep me out as a kid. Black and WTF have definitely brought on a bout of deja vu for me. Freaky people from the past doing unexplainable things is the theme for this unique Tumblr blog. If you [...]

Photographer Francois Robert‘s latest art series entitled  ‘Stop the Violence’ features images comprised from real human bones.

Svetografika is a relatively new photographic technique developed by the Russian photographer and writer team of Igor and Irina under the pseudonym of HoryMa. Svetografika essentially means “to draw light” and from what I gather it involves taking hundreds of photos of the same object or scene in a vast spectrum of exposures before overlaying [...]

We’ve all seen light paintings, light drawings, light graffiti, whatever you want to call them, much of it has been pretty basic up until now – well perhaps besides Picasso who had a go in his day. hat’s how long they’ve been doing the rounds. A few fine examples that recently caught my eye are [...]

Nope… British artist Tony Cragg isn’t a crazed loner who lives his life by the roll of a dice, however he does make some awesome sculptures from them. He recently unveiled a new die covered sculpture at FIAC 2011 in Paris last month . Cragg has produced a range of organic objects featuring dice over [...]

The next time you decide to throw out an old pan or pot, think again and take some inspiration from Christopher Jonassen‘s ‘Devour’ project. Who knows A whole new solar system could be milling around under your bed :D If you like what you see Jonassen’s selling limited edition prints but he’s keeping the price [...]

Tomorrow on the 16th will see the opening of a 6,000 sq ft of Curbs & Stoops Active Space in Bushwisk, Brooklyn. Featured artists like will include Sebastian Vallejo, whose vibrantly palette and playful use of materials investigate Caribbean cliches, and Jonathan Chapline whose black and white renderings of found family photographs cast out the [...]