Chinese artist/rabblerouser/rebel/autocrat ass burr Ai Wei Wei joined the likes of Terry Richardson, Damien Hirst, Banksy, Takashi Murakami, Dface, Dave Kinsey and our personal favorite, ROA, by releasing his own collection of skateboard decks with the illustrious Sk8room crew. A trio of different boards were designed by Weiwei, who matched three of his better known quotes […]
Clearly the market for art-focused skateboard decks is a rapidly growing one, with seemingly new high end collector’s editions coming out monthly. Just last Friday we showed Hieronymus Bosch’s Garden Of Earthly Delights Skateboard Decks from Boom-Art, who’ve been making limited edition (and somewhat ribald) art decks for a minute. Now a new company is […]
Belgian street artist ROA is famous for his massive and haunting murals featuring native fauna that can be seen around the world. We love his highly detailed yet very personalized style evident in his Dominant Species exhibit in San Francisco this past September, as well as his Boneyards Project in the Arizona Desert which […]
The first time we stumbled across ROA’s pieces in downtown Los Angeles we were floored. In the over-crowded world of street art he still stands apart with a singular technique — both highly detailed and yet very personally stylized. Now ROA’s the latest artist to contribute to The Boneyard Project, drawing two giant birds on […]
If anyone debunks the notion of street art as buildings tagged with incomprehensible spray-paint calligraphy and some sort of stencil-work it’s MTO. The Berlin artist creates large 3-dimensional imagery in which he incorporates the urban landscape he chooses into the movement of his work. His labor intensive procedure breeds paintings which are equally remarkable in […]