News — Mixed Media

Freeway Editions has written about the work of Rimi Yang before but only specifically about her prints and small works. Although a talented print artist who straddles borders in contemporary art, Yang’s work is primarily done on canvas therefore today we focus on her talents as an oil painter.

Rimi Yang is a Korean artist who was born and raised in Osaka, Japan. Yang moved to L.A. in the early 90’s to attend school and study art and since has been living and working in Los Angeles ever since.
Yang is known...

Freeway Editions is starting 2015 off by featuring the work of Charlie Anderson. An emerging artist with an exciting new twist on pop art, Anderson creates detailed paintings by layering text, images, and appropriated forms to produce a new style of painting.

Charlie Anderson is a contemporary urban inspired painter. He graduated from Edinburgh College of Art in 2009 and since has been developing his unique style of pop-art painting. He employs imagery from magazines, flyers, advertising and political campaigns to create collage styled paintings that make commentary on our throwaway society. By layering images and deconstructing text and forms, Anderson highlights...

Freeway Editions has been talking about Rero's upcoming 2015 show in LA for sometime now. We finally had the chance to sit down and speak with the artist in November. His visit to Los Angeles was all about production and preparation for exhibition in the new year, however amongst this chaos Rero was kind enough to talk to us!  We were excited to speak about his artistic background and to hear about his new series of work. Here is what Rero had to say! 

Tell us a bit about your background. Where did you grow up? How did you start making art?

I...

Zevs (born 1977) is an anonymous French street artist, best known for his trademark "liquidation" technique. He was an early and influential graffiti artist and active as a tagger in Paris in the 1990s. He is named after a regional train, Zeus, that almost ran him over one day he was down in the metro. Working with other French artists in the second half of the 1990s like Andre and Invader, Zevs has been among the prominent figures who pioneered the French street art scene. 

The end of the 90’s he was known for his philosphical drawings of “Electric...

To round out this week Freeway Editions wanted to speak about Smash137’s new solo exhibition entitled “New Color”. The show is on exhibit at Galerie Neuheisel in Germany until January 21st. The title “Neue Fabre” or “New Color” comes from a story of childhood nostalgia, Adrian Falkner AKA Smash137, recalls trying to mix colors and make “a new color” with his brother as a child. And from this childhood curiosity stemmed a graffiti artist career on the streets of Basel, Switzerland. Despite his graffiti roots since 2008 Smash137 has taken his urban...