News — Los Angeles Street Art

Happy July everyone! Freeway Editions is already making plans for the holiday weekend and we're sure you are too! If you happen to be in Long Beach, may we suggest you stopping by to visit some incredible murals?! Our favorite street art loving friends over at POW!WOW! have taken over the beach city and have quite the roster of artists creating public works throughout the community. All of the events took place last week but the art remains! So make sure...

We here at Freeway Editions are especially excited about this summer's exhibition line up. Here in the Los Angeles area there is no shortage of awesome summer events, art exhibitions, and projects. Here is a quick little round-up of stuff going on in the area. Check it out! 

This past weekend was the Summer Art Crawl in the Culver City Arts District. The event marked the opening of several great exhibitions in the area including the opening of Bumblebee's solo...

Freeway Editions has been following closely as Jeffery Deitch slowly unveils his latest street art project in NYC. The former MOCA director has found himself back in New York and supporting the street art scene once more. Coney Island Art Walls is a collaborative effort to bring together a large number of street artists from all over the world to paint walls throughout the amusement park community. This ongoing summer event does not have a proposed end date but is said to continue through September. From the Art Beat blog (NY Times): 

Happy Friday to all! Freeway Editions would like to highlight some recent or upcoming art shows that are happening around the world, all featuring the work of our very own Freeway artists. If you happened to be in any of these places, make sure to check out these shows or openings! 

First up is Gajin Fujita, a local LA artist, who currently has a show up at LA Louver entitled "Warriors, Ghosts, and Ancient Gods of the Pacific". This show opened earlier...

In collaboration with Library Street Art Collective, Shepard Fairey is taking on one of the largest wall murals he has ever produced — 185 feet tall (about 17 or 18 stories high) and 60 feet wide.

Fairey had the overall design mapped out and a few of the background elements in place when he began the official work along with the help of three assistants and a window-washing rig last Saturday. From WWD’s recent article: “I enjoy doing these because you’re working up against a wall, then when you get back to see something that big...