The Long Beach Museum of Art in Southern California, USA, recently launched a very special street art exhibition - the museum invited more than a dozen contemporary artists at the same time and gave them complete freedom and a white wall in the museum to create mural.
The exhibition at the Long Beach Art Museum at the end of June is called "Vitality and Verve: Transforming the Urban Landscape". It does not limit the artists creative themes at all. In this exhibition, you can see graffiti, canvas paintings, and mixed media all at once. The application of various wonderful works with different styles.
Created by Esao Andrews, a huge, beautiful but broken butterfly rests quietly on a leaf, depressed but gorgeous.
Aaron Horkeys works are fantastic creatures composed of various animal parts, and his delicate depictions are stunning.
The creation of Alex Yanes is a colorful cartoon-style three-dimensional installation art, with various animals hidden in seemingly grids of squares.
The work of Andrew Schoultz, in addition to the unstable and tense walls painted in a style, also prepared three chairs.
The creations of Audrey Kawasaki have a quiet and beautiful style, and the ghosts and ghosts about to move in the background are reminiscent of Japanese Ukiyo-e paintings.
The works created by Brendan Monroe have wonderful lines that make the wall seem to be twisting.
Cryptiks creations are gorgeous and regular patterns, and the golden paint is still shining. Such complicated patterns are also painted on the walls one by one by the artist.
David ‘Meggs’ Hooke cleverly combines the contrast between color realistic style and black and white cartoon style to create an interesting work.
Jeff Soto’s works make extensive use of circular elements, and its three-dimensional design makes people feel like a scary monster with a big mouth is approaching.
NoseGos creations are beautiful works full of dreamy atmosphere, depicting beautiful waterfalls and lakes, while creatures with fox-like faces are looking into the distance.
The walls created by SABER are covered with writingNames - the names of 534 people who were killed by the police in 2015 until the artists creation day.
Greg ‘Craola’ Simkins’ works may appear to be three-dimensional, but in fact they are completely flat murals painted one by one.
Low Bross work seems to depict a fountain, but if you look closely, you will find that two animals are arguing with each other, and the reason for the dispute seems to be over the earth in the center.
The mural created by James Bullough is a scattered female image, but this is not printed out and then cut and pasted, but painted directly on the wall.
The exhibition "Vitality" presented by the Long Beach Museum of Artand Verve: Transforming the Urban Landscape" will be on display until September 27, 2015. When the exhibition ends, these walls that have been ingeniously designed by the artist will be painted back to their original white walls. Although it is a pity that these works cannot be preserved permanently, the artists were aware of this when accepting the invitation and believed that the short-term nature of the exhibition just reflected the characteristics of street art.
