After putting up an enormous mural in Hillcrest (check Carly Ealey’s beautiful photos for Sezio here), Shepard Fairey and his crew were back at it, this time in the South Park neighborhood of San Diego. They have the underpainting and some stenciling out of the way, and we’re excited to see the progress in the coming days.
With MCASD commissioned works popping up all over town (officially or otherwise), it’s been like a street art Disneyland in San Diego over the past several weeks. Undoubtedly, the carpet-bombing from Space Invader, Barry McGee mural, Os Gemeos’ human step ladder, and the large-scale OBEY GIANT murals underway are creating tons of excitement leading up to the Viva La Revolucion exhibition opening this Saturday.
But the hype is a little uncomfortable, and immediately stirs up the dialogue that came out of the brilliant (mock or doc- umentary ?) Exit Through The Giftshop. But the excitement is also simply a good reminder that art should be a part of everyday life.
We also can’t help being stoked to live 4 blocks away from an in-process OBEY mural.
More updates from the field soon…
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It’s pretty exciting, but I understand your apprehension. Now if the meat store that was supposed to go into that building would just show up.
Those textile sausages looked so damn real! I wonder who did that installation??
Shit, the South Park mural is on the street I live on, less than 2 blocks away. Unreal. I usually think of San Diego as a cultural void in comparison to many cities. But thanks to Shepard and MCASD that looks to be turning around. Will be interesting to see how much resistance there is to street art after the hype dies down.