Urban Art Association

There is quite a list of artists who had move from tags and lettering to bigger works. I will post some examples here.

If there is one mexican urban artist you could have heard of, it is Saner, he is one of the most known artists we currently have. He had been around since 2006 (more less), and until today he had been able to have solo exhibition in the US, Mexico, France, and you can find his murals in Germany, US, Mexico, France, Marruecos and some other countries.
This Mural is called "Union del pueblo" ...something like Union of the people


From this other artists I will add some description later on:

Smithe
The mural is "Ella" it could be translated as Her
Everytime I see any of his works it is like watching some japanese cyberpunk anime. Its work is always full of smooth colors that together create a definite shape. A common element that is persistent with his work (not present on this particular mural) is the disassembling of the character. Also all his murals are faces...or things that seem like faces


Curiot
The mural is Quetzen-tul, there is no translation because it is a name
All his works are related to a world of mystical creatures he call curiotlis. His works had allowed him to have several solo exhibitions around the world.


Seher
The Flight of the Stingray.
There is one word that can describe his work, dynamism. His work is always full of color and movement.


L3Sup3rD3mon
"Brujeria" Witchcraft
You can recognize his geometric style everywhere and if you thought that Curiot had alucinations with weird creatures, this guy is far over that. His works are always full of meaings and intricate designs.


News
As far as I know this one has no name
She has been paining for more than ten years and had participated in exhibitions like Meeting Styles, Aglomerado, Constructoys, DIY Wars, Homogrosso, and many others.

I will leave here an article about Smithe that I just found, from Creators Magazine

creators.vice.com/en_us/article/this-mexican-street-artist-mixes-science-fiction-and-psychedelia

Complementing that article about Smithe, I want to show you a little bit of his work evolution. As everyone else, Smithe went through experimentation until he was able to master his technique and find what would make it unique.

That allowed him from random, still interesting drawings, like this one


To the first seeds of what would define his artwork:


From there it was just a matter of practice, each time adding more elements of that psychedelic ciberpunk art:




He also participated and mixed his work with several other artists, national and international. Here we have an example with Okuda:


Through all his career Smithe had created his own brand and store, Tony Delfino, where he now sells clothes with the art of several other artists, he learned to tattoo, and hand been able to take his artwork over seas like this mural in Marrakech:


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Smithe's art evolution had gone through big lengths. In my opinion he is a great artist who had been able to master his work.
I will finish with some pics of his latests silkscreen, one is a zoom that shows the level of detail printed.

Well, in fact he lives in London and has never made an exposition in Mexico, the nearest he had been was in Los Angeles USA in 2015.

I will keep an eye for his work in the galleries, but not sure i will ever find something from him here.

I was out for a little bit. But I had the chance to visit Cozumel and took some photos of the walls there. There were works from some international artists like Tristan Eaton (It took me a bit to recognize his work, it is a little bit different from what he normally does)








There were not much sticker art, but I found a couple.

I found this ranking of Latin American Urban artists by All City Canvas, I think it is word watching.
The only one that has some mention here are Os Gemeos, probably thanks to their collaboration with Banksy...I don't know.

So yesterday I had the opportunity to attend to an exhibition curated by Chuleria about a collective called Carga Máxima.
These guys are from Peru, but because I'm in general writing of the scene in México I decided to post a little bit of them here.

You can find more about them here: Facebook page

They specialize in calligraphy which even if it is not my style it catches my attention because I have heard of Eine, but I had never heard of Carga Máxima, the only difference was the marketing done by each one.

Well I will leave some pictures and I will try to upload a video. Everything they do is handmade no silkscreen print or anything, from my point of view this has a merit of their own.

Well this will be my second try to do this Saner evolution, last time an error in the forum trashed all my post, but this time I have a copy in word, so lets see.

Saner started working on street art as, I guess, everyone else; as a side personal project while keeping an office job. This little by little grew until it became his life.

2006
During this time, it was mostly commercial posters and art toys, together with some experimentation in the walls.





2007
One of the first murals, in collaboration with Seher. His style as you can see was still evolving and not yet defined, this is the few examples where the masks are not primordial.


2008
His work on walls increased, perfecting his style with each work





2009
The POW exhibition, which I think was incredible.
He also kept working outside on random surfaces.





2010
According to him, this was the moment when he feels that everything took meaning with his first solo exhibition “108 Minutos de Vida”. From that exhibition only this video remain. Watch it and you will understand why.


2011 - 2015
I can say the rest is history, Saner keep working, creating incredible pieces, participating in more exhibitions.










2016
Exhibition in Lyon


He is mostly working for inside walls now, but still from time to time he does an outside wall.


2017
His latest print which sadly I was not able to acquire, it sold in 10 minutes  but well I am watching for another one.



Let me know your thoughts. What do you think so far

Well today I will post about something important that I don't see much discussion.
Where to frame your art pieces.

Well in Mexico we have this dude Antonio Chirino. I recommend you to look for him in Instagram and facebook so you can really appreciate all he does.

He specializes in custom framing, and helps you decide how to better frame your piece so it syncs with the painting. Ill leave some examples. And in the very end, I will tell you I would trust this guy with any art piece I would like to frame.


















Now you may have liked or disliked some or all the frames, but I would trust anything to Antonio because he has an impressive portfolio of works, he had framed a Siqueiros, a Lichtenstein, a Botero, a Picaso, a Miró, and those are only a few of the ones I know.

Today I found this photo on Instagram, from several years ago.
Curiot finishing (I think it was the first) silkscreen in Studio 75 Grados.

I have to talk about this studio in the future, the had done great things, and everything is still handmade!!!

Hi, just a quieck update today because I am at the office.
I found out that an urban art in Mexico called "Los Metzican" is selling a super cool silkscreen, golden ink over black with transparent barnish.




Los Metzican Store

Here are some works I've found around the city too. One by Seher One, a Saner and an unknown.

If anyone has any Smithe prints for sale, let me know

Thanks man, yeh I've seen the 1xrun prints - but prefer his more traditional older style. I'll get in touch Toba gallery though, that might be a good starting point! Thanks!