LOL, I was thinking Eine the other day


Buy em back....... quick

Great artist and has meaning to the work, but theres just not enough of it available to create a market.

i put in Dave the Chimp, great art and most imoprtant a great dude i just bought two works from him. he is in the game for a long long time. he was the founder of the finders keepers in london

I don't own any Pose or D'Face prints, but those are the two that in my opinion are the most valid choices, they are consistent in their style and unique enough in their imagery to stand out, but they'd need some serious PR work with a good story to get "out there".

When you look at artists like Hirst, Banksy, Invader and Kaws, they all have their own unique recognisable style and have had smart PR, my family, my friends, my co-workers know who these artists are, that's why they command such high prices, because regular people want to own them - but can't.

When people come to my house, they think my Blek piece is a Banksy... and that's why Blek (or any other stencil artist working in that lane) will never command the same prices as banksy, not saying he won't be out of reach over time, but Banksy will just be even more out of reach, that's why an Omega Seamaster will never cost as much as a Rolex Submariner :-D

And in my opinion Blek has just had terrible PR, being they guy that "fathered" Banksys style isn't exactly a very appealing storyline, most people don't care who Kool Herc is... even though "The Get Down" on Netflix might change that, maybe Blek just needs his own Netflix series... if Banksy doesn't beat him to it, hahaha.

Shepard Fairy aka. OBEY is more of a "brand" and I suspect he makes a TON of money that way. I've been wearing Obey clothing for a decade and almost everyone I know have a poster or something from him, as the output is huge. Over time I think his OG's and some of his prints will definetely rise beyond reach, but I think it'll be a steady incline and that it will always be in his favor to have some entry level work available to sell the brand forward to younger generations, my 12 year old is beginning to dig up all of my wifeys old OBEY t-shirts out of the closet, because the older kids at her school are telling her that OBEY is "swag", hahaha - in other words, he's a made man.

A couple of years ago I would definetely have said DRAN, JR and Takashi Murakami, but not so much now, mostly because of the relatively high entry level pricing at a time where owning art is a "thing".

Generally I just think this whole "limited print" thing is really a gift and a curse, on the one hand art is becoming more readily available, and a lot of artists are finding viable income, on the other hand, people are WAY over-hyping artists in hopes of making a quick turn-around as prints are being flipped at a 100% markup almost instantly, and then re-flipped at a 100% markup, and then... rinse and repeat... but in that way they are smothering the natural exposure of artists that never reach beyond the closed art circles, they aren't acknowledging that it's the "regular" folks that define the prices, not the other way around. You end up with a bunch of artists, that are out of reach for most, before they even know they want it, so the prices stagnate and you end up with a bunch of people that have semi-invested in prints that where already over-priced when they bought them.

Jay-Z has always been a huge success in my world, but it wasn't untill my mother mentioned him in a conversation, that I knew that he'd really made it... Last year I was in Paris with my kids, the 12 year old pointed to an Invader piece on the wall and said; "hey, that's Invader" and took a picture for snapchat.. 'nuff said... If you really want to know who will "blow up", you have to look outwards not inwards.

Still surprised that C215 prices haven't risen that much on my side.

I think more will fall by the wayside and the history books will refer to just a handfull. Banksy, Kaws, Shepard Fairey. Possibly Invader and OS Gemeos and a couple more. Best to sell the rest, it will be worth nothing in ten years

These two have blown up haven't they? It's wicked hard to snap one of their pieces on release these days. Obviously resale isn't at invader price yet though

What about obey? He's blown up, no? For someone who releases a print to coincide with each meal of the day his resale prices are still fairly high (dependent on piece of course)

Rone in Australia is starting to blow up. I tried to buy a piece today and the set of 25, at $1500 each, sold out within 8 minutes.

Lefauves is blowing up - not urban though

Needed to ditch Laz!

BAST, Pose

Nobokov The time is coming though...

Paragraph written in street art history already.

Keith Haring, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Banksy, KAWS & Shepard Fairey

Paragraph surely to be written at some point

Barry McGee, OS Gemeos, Futura, Jose Parla, Faile, Invader, BAST, Miss Van, Faile, Phil Frost, ESPO, Todd James, EINE, Blek Le Rat, Swoon and the list goes on (hopefully)

This is spot on -

Except that the OP's thread is about those who didn't blow up that should have - the ones that looked like they'd lead the parade but instead the parade has passed them by.  

Not about who might blow up and should.

Eine had his moment, will remain a slightly more than bit player when the history is written.  I thought with his Brooklynite Gallery and the Bodega Show that RAE had a moment, but that seems to have passed.

I guess you could use the argument of artists being one trick ponies for a few popular urban artists at the moment. For example Invader, Stik, Eine, Pure Evil, Nick Walker... I see works by these artists in particular and although I have an interest I don't ever think to myself 'wow they've really pushed the boat out with this one'.

I see artists like Faile having a higher profile in the future because I see them move in different directions, try new ideas, and keep evolving creatively which is a sign to me of somebody not simply riding on the wave of past success and releasing random letters or words, celebrities with drippy eyes, or urban landscapes covered in paint splats.