Spray-paint on distressed brick & cement.

Abandoned train factory in East Boston, Massachusetts.

Winter/ December 2010

Photo Credit: HeatherMcgrath

Another shot on my Flickr

Other Photos on Flickr from my Massachusetts trip 

Triangulations of a factory in dispair

Rustoleum [American] spray-paint on distressed 

brick in Steam furnace of an abandoned factory.

Gloucester, Massachusetts

USA

Winter/ December 2010

**Flickr set of observations/ documentations here

True Blue American Circulations

Imported spray-paint

on tile in abandoned factory.

Gloucester, Massachusetts

USA

Winter/ December 2010

**Flickr set of observations/ documentations here

Definetly the cleanest one to date.

Freestyle

Spray paint & Acrylic on Brick

Echo Park, Calif.

2008

My good friend Heather McGrath was in town from Boston for a few short days. While I was working on a lil project in a secret Echo Park location, Heather captured this shot of a freestyle in the rear of the space. A quick legal with 1 can of Sabotaz paint and a lil dirty grey water leftover from the job. Her eye for light and framing is very much on point. Here is more of her beautifully captured moments.

A foggy, January 2nd. 11pm.

Solo mission/ Frustration release/ Still hung over.

2 Tacos de Pastor from the taco truck as a reward for the evenings debauchery.

Atlantis is at the bottom of Echo Park Lake.

Foggy night. 1am. Deconstruction of an old Financial Center. Unearthed virgin cement walls. No security guards. 1 hour. House paint, acrylic and ink blend. 2 scrap cans. Parking lot illumination. Very quiet evening. Accompanied and guided by a beautiful soul.

2007. House paint & Ink. This is the second abandoned building that photographer Heather McGrath & I explored together. Located in North East LA, the formr Van De Kamp bakery has been abandoned by the city for a number of years. Up until recently construction has been taking place. The space will eventually become a School. 

No. 33/ Berkeley Bowl in Oakland, CA [2007]

House paint & Acrylic.

I have been scoping this wall since i started visiting Oakland towards the end of 07.  It’s on the boarder of Berkeley & Oakland and it was constantly tagged on, so there were Graffiti removal blocks in that burnt red tone. I matched the red tone and thinned out the color with grey’s & creams. I actually didn’t know who to speak with the get the wall ‘legitimately’ so i just took it upon myself to rock it. I was about an 1.5 hours into it when the management of the local health food store came across the street to ask me how i could just go and paint it without asking. they liked it, but perplexed by my blatant lack of authority. I proceeded to let them know i was doing a public service by creating a painting that will prevent the continued act of malicious vandalism to their property. They firmly felt that it would still get painted over. It’s been about about 8 months and it hasn’t been touched.

Oakland, Ca [2007]

Spray paint & House paint. Abandoned building.

 This spot was around the corner from a local watering hole. Perfect of that post last call relief. I was surprised a lot of the sickest walls were still virgin. The space used to be a Silkscreen & Sign Factory.

No. 31/ Downtown LA Bridge [2006]  

House paint/Acrylic blend. Sunday, 5 am. Fathers Day. 

The true beauty of this piece is that the light grey colored blocks were painted by the either the city or a graffiti removal vigilante, similar to “The unconscious art of Graffiti removal’. I just came in and outlined the light blocks.

Photographer Heather McGrath accompanied me this morning to shoot the interiors of abandoned structures in downtown. This was the morning stretch & warm up for me.

No. 29/ Fairfax district [2004]

 House paint on wood panel, weekday afternoon.

Some of the best construction wood walls I have ever tapped. This was a 2 day hit. First day was the light green, second was the outline. It rode for a month or so.

No. 28/ Beverly Blvd. [2004]

Housepaint on wood panel, weekday afternoon.

I literally drove over to this spot and rocked it after painting No. 27 on La Brea. I could hear the construction workers still inside.

No. 27/ La Brea, North Miracle Mile [2004]

 House paint on wood panel, weekday afternoon.

It was like the construction gods were raining down on north Miracle Mile that month. This one was simple and light. Right about the time I  I finished up this one Steve Grody caught me and snapped a photo that ended up as a 2 page spread in his book Graffit LA.

No. 26/ Silver Lake Via Hyperion [2003]

 House Paint, weekday afternoon.

This was completed immediately after #25. It’s the back of the Nursery and looked beautiful, especially this day. The area was so virgin and untouched. I normally wouldn’t paint over old typography signage, but I wanted to leave something fitting. It lasted about 4 months and is now a Trader Joes parking lot.

No. 25/ Silver Lake Via Hyperion [2004]

 Housepaint on wood panel, weekday afternoon.

Originally I wasn’t trying to outlive this one, but some crab decided to wright inside the colors I laid out. I came back during 4pm traffic to outline and drip-out this one. The space was the old Hyperion Nursery and now is a good ol’ Trader Joes parking lot.

No. 23/ Linda Lea Theater, DTLA [2004]

 Housepaint & Spraypaint on wood, weekend afternoon.

There was an art walk as well as a small show at the Enshalla Gallery in Downtown Los Angles. Across the street was this abandoned Japanese theater once called the Linda Lea. I had been wanting this doorway for as long as I could remember. Lasted a month. 

No. 22/ Beverly Blvd. [2004]

Housepaint on Abandoned Storefront, weekday afternoon.

This one was the first time I was partially sweated by anyone for painting one of these. The owner of the property’s sister saw me painting it & called him. He actually came through thinking he was going to have to crunch me up, but after a short talk he let me rock the lil addition to the side. He wasn’t mad, especially after i inquired about the history of the property as well as the sick tiles above, which i took the color plays from.

No. 20/ Beverly Blvd y Martell [2003]

 Housepaint & Acrylic on wood panel, weekday morning.

I always was fond of this one. One reason, it was across the street from my old studio. And second, it just flowed nicely on that corner. It lasted for almost 2 months. The contractors even drilled it back up unevenly and crooked and it still rocked. I screwed up & didn’t take a picture of that interaction. The store became an upscale boutique.

No. 18/ Fairfax Blvd. [2003].

Housepaint on wood panel, early weekday morning.

This building suffered a small fire one evening & was located in the heart of an Orthodox Jewish Community. The corporate movie poster crew that pastes these panels beat me to this spot. The morning I went to paint, it was still a touch damp with paste.

Melrose Blvd. East of La Brea 2003

Latex house paint & spray paint on wood construction panels.

weekday afternoon/ daytime illegal. 

This was my first block style pieces on Melrose and it stayed up for almost 2 months. There was a great patchwork of wood panels I was drawn to and there weren’t that many advertisements littering the grain. Green was a color I always had on deck & felt this was fitting and comforting for the environment. Frankly, this is one of my favorite pieces from the series and was just about everyones favorite as well based on the feedback.

No. 15 [2003]

House paint and Spray paint on wood.

The Modernica store off of Beverly Blvd in the North Miracle Mile district carries modern furniture as well as artwork and industrial style lighting. The store was still in business, a bitt different as most of my previous wood panel murals were on spaces in mid transition or abandoned. I kinda had to ask for permission on this one since space was still in operation. They were very supportive of the project and the piece ran for a week… couldn’t say where it went after that.

2002

House paint & domestic spray paint on stucco

Early weekday afternoon

Back alley of a building for lease off La Brea. I was drawn to this wall because of the purple buff paint that someone used to cover some existing graffiti. that same buff ultimately became a part of my wall mural. I had not gotten permission to paint this piece and I was kind of sweating this one. The neighborhood was primarily ran by Orthodox Jews & they’re kind of hard cats to read. All in all it stayed for almost 4 months without a problem.

2001

House paint & domestic spray paint on plaster

Weekday afternoon

This was a street side wall to a Spanish apartment’s garage. A local neighborhood mural had adorned the wall perviously, but had been vandalized repeatedly. This style derived after the mural I completed for the Charizmatik store. It all revolved around the idea of movement, flow & layers. There is a ‘K’ in the center, which was intended, but the rest was a complete freestyle. Took about 2 hours & lasted a number of years.