FEATURED ARTIST: FAITH47

This week's featured artist is Faith47. Freeway Editions has admired her works from all over the globe and today we are speaking a bit more about her and her subjects.
Faith47 is a self-taught artist from Cape Town, South Africa. The artist is best known for her graffiti and street art depicting both people and animals interacting with whimsical environments. Althought she lives and works in Cape Town she often is traveling the world creating art in new places with new people. Faith draws inspiration from questions of life and its curious connections. Faith is humbled...

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ART NEWS: Urban Art Biennale 2015

March 29th will mark the beginning of the third edition of UrbanArt Biennale, an art show hosted every two years at Völklingen Ironworks, a World Cultural Heritage Site located in Saarbrücken, Germany. This art show focuses on the evolution of street art, graffiti, and urban art throughout the world. These genres of art making have come to the forefront of contemporary art culture, slowly but surely making their way into the mainstream of the art world. The UrbanArt Biennale celebrates this aesthetic progression and the artists who have made it possible....

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ART NEWS: Street Art at SXSW 2015

SXSW features street art for the first time! This year the festival community sponsored various art projects at the 28th annual music festival in Austin, Texas. Throughout the festival's history the focus has been on music, film, and technology, which all overlap with the visual arts, but this year was the first time there were scheduled, dedicated art projects throughout the city not just art happenings in the periphery. From interactive light art, tech community arts projects, to the most public of all, street art murals throughout the city's landscape.

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FEATURED ARTWORK: Alex "DEFER" Kizu's Rapture

Happy St. Patrick's Day to all! Today on Freeway Editions we are highlighting the Rapture series of hand painted screen prints by Alex "DEFER" Kizu. These prints are part of the HPM collection and were created by the artist in 2013. Take a look at the full series by following the links below.

Rapture Edition 4 of 8 is part of an original set of hand-painted prints from urban contemporary artist Alex "DEFER" Kizu. Each piece of this limited edition set was individually...

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FEATURED ARTIST: CANTSTOPGOODBOY

This week Freeway Editions is taking a look at the work of  SoCal artist CANTSTOPGOODBOY. This guy has been on a roll making paintings for exhibitions and art fairs as well as collaborating with tons of top brands and musicians. Check out his work and stay tuned for more from this artist.

From the artist's bio:  "Although only 22 years old, CANTSTOPGOODBOY, is quickly making his mark in the emerging world of street art.  A native of Southern California, he was introduced to the world of art at an...

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