February 11, 2010
The first round of StreetSmARTS applications yielded over 70 applicants from a variety of artistic backgrounds. The oversight committee narrowed the pool down to the local artists listed below. Each of the selected artists brings a unique style to the program and their work will help revitalize our city with inspiring new works of art.
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Chris M. Barragan uses the universal language of art to both express himself and to reach his community. Art has always inspired him through positive thought, and so his work focuses on providing that same inspiration for his viewers. He continues to challenge himself artistically by delving into many different art processes including color pencil, [...]
Nico Berry’s cultural perspective is shaped by his encounters with hip-hop, skateboarding, and urban youth culture while growing up on the South Side of Chicago. Over the years he has also become interested in exploring the role of culture, community, class, and religion, especially in the context of urban life. Aesthetically, Nico’s prolific experience in graphic design is extremely evident. Lettering, patterns, and the appropriation of pop and religious symbolism dominate his work. The media he works with include spray-paint, collage, sculptural elements, and acrylic paints as well as digital designing.
Blake, aka Satyr1, is a Bay Area native with a BFA in illustration and an illustrious background with graffiti murals. His distinctively polished graffiti-style murals can be seen all over San Francisco and the East Bay and can be recognized by their engaging narratives and site-specific references.
Jonathan Brumfield activates his community via his public artworks and the skills he teaches to local youth. Graffiti art has provided Jonathan with a vehicle to promote social change, cultural education, and community empowerment, and Jonathan seeks to instill that same agency in others. He sees his visual art skills as a tool for liberation and a means of giving a voice to the voiceless.
Kristine Brandt is a fine art illustrator who works with oils, pastels, graphite and digital illustration. She recently traveled to Florence, Italy where she received classical art training. She participated in UCSF’s Winter 2010 Serenity Show.
Marcial Cabada, Jr., aka “Machy,” was born to migrant farm workers in Yuma, Arizona. Machy has been painting and drawing a mix of urban hip hop graffiti art since elementary school. His influences include his father who was an artist as well and popular Chicano iconography, including religious images, Day of the Dead art, hot rods and cars.
As an artist Max Ehrman, aka Eon75, has been painting for over thirteen years, creating graffiti murals throughout Europe and North American. Currently, Eon75 has presented Canvas work in four different countries and has personally organized three art shows in Naples, Florida with the Journeyman Gallery.
Like many artists, Bryana Fleming is a product of her surroundings. Growing up in a household that place a high value on art, Bryana was encouraged to follow her creative passions. She credits her mother and father for directing her towards a life as an artist and for giving her first drawing lessons. She attended the California College of Arts and Crafts and graduated with high honors and was the in-store artist at Trader Joe’s in Emeryville from 2002 to 2005.
Fresh Paint, a San Francisco Mural painting crew aims to defy assumptions of what is possible with a spray can. The group is comprised of and collaborates with some of the best aerosol painters from the Bay Area and beyond, creating innovative murals in San Francisco. Concepts vary in aesthetic tone from photorealistic to illustrative, [...]
When creating public works that must by definition meet the standards of others, Vera Gordeev-Lowdermilk possesses the unique ability to trust her strong artistic intuition. It is this dedication to her own purity of vision that gives her murals their rich accessibility and beauty. Her paintings use ordinary wall space as windows into to fantastic [...]
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