For his latest intervention, street artist and world traveler, Above, hit Hollywood and gave Los Angeles what it cherishes most: celebrities. He strung up 100 “Movie Star Arrow Mobiles” featuring the faces of famous people, both dead and alive.
ABOVE Builds Bridges In Berlin
After baring it all at a public shower in Copenhagen, street artist ABOVE continues his European tour with a stop to “Bridge the Divide” in Berlin. Using stencils and a spare hand, the traveling artist installed his latest piece at the Berlin Wall: an arm extending a bouquet as a “gesture of unity” between the two sides of the barrier that fell 20 years ago. Video of the tourist trapping installation and giant roller action below. Read more »
ABOVE Bares ‘Naked Truth’ In Copenhagen
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- “The Naked Truth” by ABOVE
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- “The Naked Truth” by ABOVE
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- “The Naked Truth” by ABOVE
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- “The Naked Truth” by ABOVE
Street artist ABOVE is kicking off a new European tour in Copenhagen, where he’s installed his latest work, “The Naked Truth.” With stencils and bathroom hardware the globe-trotting artist turned a piece of fencing into a revealing display. See the video after the jump and the photos above for a peek behind ABOVE’s curtain. Read more »
ABOVE Reflects, Releases New Prints
Street artivist ABOVE, released these new “Union Jack Arrows” prints which feature some locally-inspired work he painted on the streets of London during a 14-country tour of Europe in 2005. “We think this prints image and reflection transforms the already good looking UNION JACK motif transform into something mesmerizing,” he writes of the 7-color hand pulled print, which comes as a 70 print edition in traditional red and blue, as well as a 20 print “special edition” in orange and green.
Street artivist ABOVE does a illustrious job depicting the greed and overall evilness of insurance giant AIG, recipient of the largest chunk of federal corporate welfare ever, in this new “Easter AIG Hunt” piece. As you can see, not only will they squeeze as much money from American tax payers as they can and then dole it out to under performing executives, but they’ll also hoard all the Easter eggs from the kids too. See the video with closeups and supporting commentary after the jump.
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World traveling public painter, ABOVE, released this new “Giving To the Poor Print,” which uses Robin Hood-like imagery from work he did on the streets of Portugal. He was particularly struck by a homeless women that would post up right near an ATM and beg for money as the well to do would take money out. The giclee print is limited to an edition of 250, comes signed/numbered and 100% of all profits will be donated to homeless shelters that don’t force people to read the bible before supply them with soup and bread. Had this been the U.S. edition the guy in the ski mask would be the Treasury Department and the money would be flowing the other way. Click HERE for purchasing info.
ABOVE’s SouthCentral Tour: Part 3
This past year public street painter ABOVE went on a SouthCentral Tour—no not LA. This video clip is part 3 of that mission, which included beautifying Brazil, Argentina, Peru, Columbia, Guatemala. If you haven’t seen parts 1 and 2 click over. Still interested? He’s even got signature arrow styled prints for sale.
Street arrow painting and hanging artist ABOVE is releasing a new set of prints with Italian screen print company STUDIOCROMIE titled the “MOBILE Series.” Above are three of the six being released, all with multi-patterned images and some of the artist’s favorite four letter words: “Real,” “Sexy, “Fuck.” Each of the four color, 13.4 x 19 inch screenprints come signed/numbered by the artist and limited to editions of 100. They’re printed on ‘magnani cotton paper” and selling for $238 a pop or $477 (based on today’s dollar to euro conversions) for the full set of three.
Street artist, ABOVE, has been traveling the world, documenting his various, arrow adorning travels. Here’s a new video from his “South Central Tour,” which included stops in “Rio De Janeiro, Brazil up and all the way thru South and Central America finally finishing in Mexico City, Mexico.” In all, he spent 6 months and visited 11 countries. What are you waiting for? Press play.
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