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There’s a Fork in the Road in Pasadena

Pasadena’s Fork in the road is guerilla art installation
by Janette Williams
Pasadena Star News
November 3, 2009

forkintheroad-200Pasadena – Right where Pasadena and St. John avenues divide, there’s a fork in the road.

It’s about 18 feet tall and looks like stainless steel.

The fork’s appearance a few days ago, tines firmly stuck into a little Caltrans-owned median, was a bit of a mystery at first.

“It’s a guerilla installation,” guessed Rochelle Branch, the city’s cultural affairs manager, who oversees the public art program. “I don’t know if it’s through Caltrans, but it is clever.”

Caltrans spokeswoman Maria Raptis, who said Caltrans leases the small plot of land to the city, was equally baffled.

“Sometimes we do put art up. We have context-sensitive art off some freeways,” she said. “But I don’t know about this.”

And David Amronin, co-artistic director of Pasadena’s always edgy NewTown arts group – they describe themselves as “A Persistent Weed in The Garden of Art” – said it wasn’t his group. Continue reading “There’s a Fork in the Road in Pasadena”

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Above and Beyond

Submitted by artist Above who, on a European tour, has been in Madrid, Spain for close to two weeks working on three site specific installation-stencil pieces.

June 23, 2009: This morning I finished making and uploading the video of these street works.

http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=5269925&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1

EARS, TEARS, & FEARS. from ABOVE on Vimeo.

Below are five images with captions that talk briefly about the background and process of each image.

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Guerrilla Street Art

Here are some pick hits from 20 Subversive Works of Urban Guerrilla Street Art, written by Steph on June 14th, 2009 on WebUrbanist:

Street Art That Makes You Look Twice by Mark Jenkins

Ducks made of packing tape, floating in a puddle. A man seemingly putting his head through a concrete wall. The startling contrast of cheerful balloons tied to what looks like a dead body. These are all among the creative urban art installations that come from the mind of street artist Mark Jenkins, who treats public space like one big blank canvas.

Street installations by Mark Jenkins

Jenkins told art critic Brian Sherwin, “There is opposition, and risk, but I think that just shows that street art is the sort of frontier where the leading edge really does have to chew through the ice. And it”s good for people to remember public space is a battleground, with the government, advertisers and artists all mixing and mashing, and even now the strange cross-pollination taking place as street artists sometimes become brands, and brands camouflaging as street art creating complex hybrids or impersonators.”

images: xmarkjenkinsx.com; see more of his work here.

Subtle Yet Subersive Art Interventions by SpY

Spanish artist SpY subtly alters ordinary objects in urban environments, sometimes to make a statement and sometimes just for the fun of it. He describes his work as a “playful reappropriation of urban elements”, replicating them or transforming them in his studio and then installing them in the streets. He seeks to break through the automated monotony of everyday urban life and get people to notice things as if for the first time.

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