The Dusk of H Street
Commissioned by Smith Commons. The interior of the chest is an Albert Bierstadt landscape painting of Yosemite referencing American manifest destiny and western expansion. The virgin terrain is contrasted with an old vacant building on H street which is a historically divested neighborhood is currently undergoing a massive transition.
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more by Gaia.
artist: Gaia
location: 1245, H Street, NE, Washington DC
Gaia's
show at Irvine Contemporary just opened - and Gaia hit the streets to announce his arrival. There are more complicated pieces (including his 'Grandfather' and bird figures), but I find this piece,
'Cease' is really striking - particularly on a boarded-up church.
You can see more of his street work
here, and the show runs until July 24 -
details here.
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more by Gaia.
artist: Gaia
location: Washington DC
Recently ‘White Mike’ has put up posters of great white sharks around Los Angeles & Washington DC to publicise the dwindling great white shark population:
The sad reality is this: “The global great white population has shrunk 70 percent in the past 50 years.”
artist: White Mike
location: Los Angeles & Washington DC
note: recently Mark Hoppus was on hunt to discover the story behind white mike
note 2: White Mike turned out to be quite controversial - check out some of the other posts on him
