Street Art- Puerto Rico
We were taking pictures of some of the street art here in Santurce, Puerto Rico. There was a kid walking away from a freshly painted piece carrying a backpack full of spray paint, a roller and a bucket of paint. Some older people were walking by and were staring at us because we were taking pictures. I thought this was odd since living in Denver I know if you were even caught carrying spray paint or markers in your car you could be ticketed. Well I thought they passed it, I guess they didn’t. The Puerto Ricans seem a bit more open to street art since and it seems to be over the place here. I am not talking about your typical graffiti either.
Here are some of the pieces I have seen around town
Heavy Detail
A lot of these have so much detail and they are on such busy roads that they must have been contracted to do the job. I mean there is no way (that I know of) you could do something like this in one night, not being seen by anyone.
And this one, the twin towers falling. “God bless America”
Ridiculous
Ha! The infamous glasses. I have seen this pair all over old san juan. Also there is a toaster I have seen all over the place (even Humacao) but forgot to get a picture of it.
The rain cloud.
Cement pack of cigarettes.
Stencils
Wheat Paste (paper stuck on surface)
Check out the detail on this one. Individually made pieces all in collage form.
Standing at about 5 feet tall, if only you could read what it says around the side. Taken on San Sebastian. Looks like the paper has worn off in some spots leaving only the image.
Oh by the way, Tres Palomas is holding a graffiti installation promo thing on February 22. Sponsored by RVCA and the Artists Network Program. If anybody reads this who is in Puerto Rico or will be on that date, you should come check it out. They will be giving away free stuff.
July 2nd, 2008 |
I thought you where down here in Puerto Rico,
I dind’t know you where just passing by,
I can’t send you stickers right now because I’m very low on production
and I don’t have any buget to print more, plus my printer is broken
and will take a little while before I can fix it.
But I will send you some when a make my next production…
better than that,
I’ll let you in; on some project that I have been working on for a while now, maybe you and anyone that you think might be intrested in…
I’m looking for a very few Hardcore! Individuals and street artrtist or potential street artist who might be intrested in becoming an extention
of the work that I do.
In a few weeks I’ll Be Posting something in e-bay of great interest to Potential Entrepreneurs…
and anyone interested in street art…
During the past 10 years I have been working on some very Hardcore kind of work that I recently started to put out as sticker, I also have them in Poster size 17″x 22″ Full Color Posters, I’ll be selling those thru e-bay…
All my work I have prepared as 11″x 17″ (Black & White)
versions of them that I will be making available to the public as “MASTERS” (Laminated) of my work,
giving those people who purchase them the right to reproduce them in any way they can, they can create products with them and sell them, as long as they send me a ($1) donations for every product they sell.
They can reproduced them as 11″x 17″ (B&W) Posters and paste them anywhere they can, boxes, Paper bags, Stickers, anything they can think.
I’ll be making the “Laminated Masters”
left (back) & right (front) versions available for $10 each.
Please check out my web sites,
and let me know if this would be a good idea,
I’m sorry if I used your forum to reach out to
Potential Entrepreneurs…
if you rather discuss this over e-mail and not use
your forum for it,
my e-mail is arjeiemsi@yahoo.com
anyone intrested can contact me giving reference
to .antelope brigade as to the source of this
(IMPORTANT INFO…)
Sorry once again for using your forum for this,
Hope to hear from you to let me know what you think…
if you would be interested… or know of anyone who might
be intrested.
July 2nd, 2008 |
Hey Ar-jei-em-si,
Thanks for all your input. Yeah, I have seen your stickers all over San Juan. Pretty good work. If you have some extras you should send me some and I will post them up out here in Utah. I was really blown away by all of the street art out there in Puerto Rico.
July 2nd, 2008 |
check out my…
http://www.youtube.com/arjeiemsi
and
http://www.arjeiemsi.ning.com
and Let
Me Know What You Think…
July 2nd, 2008 |
Hello,
my name is AR-JEI-EM-SI…
This is the first time I see my work in the internet, so I’m very exited…
“Wheat Paste (paper stuck on surface)”
They are actually stickers, (paper) that foto you took was from my first batch of stickers I put out in early 2007.
Since then I print them in vinyl, All the artwork in them I have been working on them in a very personal level (without showing them to anyone) but since 2007, I have felt ready to share my work with the
world! The images I make are supposed to be Large Fromat Posters, about 4′x 5′ but for now I have only the butget to print them as 17″x 22″ Posters, and I also print them as vinyl stickers, hopefully in the near future I will get a hold of a Large Format Printer (Epson 9800), and then I’ll definetly will make some (Visual Enhancement) noise…
as an Image Terrorist…
Off the pics you posted,
the toster belong to ISMO one of the biggest Street Artist in Puerto Rico,
he has much more character based grffity style.
The one by abs Killers is done by OZ CRU, they have trully a unique style in perspective and realism with all their pieces I have seen.
The one with the very organic colored shapes, the one in
Puerta de Tierra and the one for the Alianza Francesa about Paris,
are done by Sofia Maldonado, she is a very good female street artist from Puerto Rico, that does very beautifull murals with figures of women.
The one underneath my pic is done by Denis Mario Rivera, one of our greatest contemporary artist in Puerto Rico. That particular piece is called Don Pedro Abizu Campos y los Pitirres. It was a concept he started pasting one of his engravings as an “Open Museum” in that building that was abandoned about 20 years ago, the image was made famous by other artesans who kept using photographs of the image with the abandoned building and a zinc plate with the Puerto Rican Flag it had at the upper left of the picture. Denis Mario was a little piss off that all this artesans were making a lot of money with t-shirts and stickers and anything they could do with that image (it has become so iconographic)
that he decided to sue all the artesans that were making money from his artwork, and in an Unprecedented Case, the court ruled in favor of Denis Mario, so now the people who are still using his image have to pay him royalties for everytime they sell an item with that image…
Denis Mario is also responsible for all the Beautifull “Puerto Rico Heineken Jazz Festival” Poster since the begining of the festival.
He is also A Jazz Musician and posibbly the artist with the
biggest ego I have ever met, but apart from that; the creator of inmenslly beautifull pieces of works.
sorry if the comment was too long…
I hope it help!
March 19th, 2008 |
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February 19th, 2008 |
Rad! You guys should add some artwork to the local scene.