December 29th, 2012 | By Lindsey

Shoreditch, London

The Street Museum of Art (SMoA) is a public art project that started in New York City, challenging people’s perceptions of street art. They adopt the guerilla tactics of street artists and curate exhibitions of found art, labelling them as if they were in a formal gallery.

In December SMoA hit the streets of Shoreditch and “curated” an exhibition, Beyond Banksy adding “This is Art” labels to found work by C215, Christiaan Nagel, Eine, Mobstr, Pablo Delgado, Phlegm, Roa, Run, Skewville, Space Invader, Stik, and Swoon. Check out the video below to see them at work.

But SMoA goes further than that. Blank, self-adhesive labels are available to the public on their website — ready to be filled out with a personal description and posted around the city on art works of your choice. Add your label, take a photo of the exhibit and submit to SMoA’s website. All photos submitted of found works of art with their labels will then be added to SMoA’s collection, documenting the progress of this project. Join them!

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December 29th, 2012 | By Caroline Caldwell

The Street Museum of Art has launched its second venture in “guerilla curating” in London’s artsy district of Shoreditch. Like their first exhibition, it’s basically a self-guided street art tour with museum-like wall labels. The exhibition’s title, “Beyond Banksy: Not another gift shop“, is likely a tongue and cheek reference to the commercial attention that street art has received in London these past few years, with Banksy at the forefront of the movement.  In all fairness, Banksy has become enough of a household name that he and Exit Through the Gift Shop are frequently my reference points when speaking about street art to people outside this niche community. For that, I am thankful that I get to SMoA advises that the name is not meant to undermine the work of the beloved stencil artist, rather it is to encourage those who have Banksy as their token understanding of street art to the diversity of the other talented artists on the streets. This exhibition highlights works by artists such as C215, Christiaan Nagel, Eine, Mobstr, Pablo Delgado, Phlegm, Roa, Run, Skewville, Space Invader, Stik and Swoon.

The map of the exhibited works are available here and the hours are… well, unlimited.

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Brooklyn-based street artist Swoon has been wheat pasting her prints and paper cutouts in public since 1999. Delicate and ephemeral, the materials she uses allow for her work to continuously evolve through various stages of decay.  Intricate detailing that is used to build up the narratives within her work adds a sense of femininity and delicacy amongst the imposing architecture of an urban environment.

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This London-based street artist captures a story of basic human emotion through the simplicity and universality found in childhood stick figures. With nothing more than a few gestural lines, Stik is able to convey movement and feeling through the body language of these figures.  His seemingly timeless and androgynous characters allow themselves to be relatable to any individual who passes by — cutting across boundaries of age, race, class and gender.

Links:

http://www.stik.org.uk

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Using tiny square tiles as the makeup for his urban mosaics, Space Invader’s pixelated characters can be found discretely lurking in cities around the world. Little may be known about the identity of this French artist himself, however, his repeated use of similar motifs inspired by this 1980’s arcade game enable him to become immediately recognizable to anyone who has encountered his work before.

Links:

http://www.space-invaders.com

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The twin brothers that make up this street art collaboration, Skewville, began leaving behind their sneaker cutouts around 1999. Silhouettes of the shoes seen dangling from the wires reference the urban upbringing from which the two grew up in New York City. While some may associate these markers with gang or drug territory, for others, they are a nostalgic reminder of mischievous adolescent memories.

Links:

http://www.skewville.org

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Run’s illustrative street art gives a face to the city’s architecture. These large-scale murals have become a signature motif for the artist, making his work easily recognizable. However, just like the people inhabiting this city, each character is unique and conveying their own personalities.

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The quickness felt in Roa’s build up of black and white lines has become a signature style within this Belgian street artist’s work. Depicting either the living creature or an animal’s skeletal remains, his work explores life, death and man’s devastating impact on the planet’s wildlife. These creatures can be found in cities throughout the world, playfully lurking amongst the architecture and urban environment that is all very unnatural for them.

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Phlegm’s grey scale paintings are constructed through a build up of entangled narratives, allowing the layers to come together in the fictional stories of his iconic, hooded characters. Bringing a sense of folk art to urban environment, Phlegm’s work reveals itself to the public in stages as new details and subsequent stories can be found living deep within his work.

Links:

http://phlegmcomics.com 

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Pablo Delgado’s miniature wheat pastes can be found depicting a range of personalities — from a congregation of streetwalkers on the corner to a hippopotamus dressed in red ribbon. By focusing on the minute details rather than pasting large-scale images that would become immediately obvious, the artist enables his work to reveal itself to pedestrians in a very impromptu way. Not more than a few inches tall, these images can be found living in their own world at the city’s feet.

Links:

http://www.pablodelgadomc.com

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