News — Street Art

The holidays are here and Freeway Editions has hand selected a special collection of unique prints to give to the art lovers in your life! We have built lasting relationships with some of the most prominent international contemporary artists and from these relationships come collaborations to create exclusive pieces. Our artists make screen prints and hand-painted pieces in our Los Angeles studio and then work with our printers through every step of the printmaking process. Each artist handles the print through all levels of production, from designing, stencil making, actual printing and to finally hand-painting details, signing and numbering. This...

In October Freeway Editions wrote about urban contemporary artist Rero and his simplistic yet powerful approach to merging text and imagery. This month Rero has been here in Los Angeles working in our studios on both new hand painted screen prints for the HPM series as well as new artworks for his upcoming solo exhibition in 2015. 

"For this new project, Rero decided to focus his theme on the social and urban partitioning found in our societies and more specifically around the concept of the GATED COMMUNITY. This project will take...

In conjunction with our Bumblebee Loves You interview we would like to also highlight his work on FreeWay Editions. Bumblebee first found his artistic voice on the walls of abandoned buildings in the Los Angeles suburb of Downey. His art often speaks to a specific public with subjects of innocence, coming of age, and transition. These themes are combined with a color palette of yellow and black to create an iconic and evocative style.
The work of Bumblebee has merged the ideas of stenciled street...

Alexandre Farto aka Vhils was born in Portugal in 1987. He was raised in Portugal, during a period that was deeply affected by the revolution. As a youth he witnessed the destruction and results of violence on the walls of the city and recognized how that affected an environment.

One of Vhils most popular forms of media is his relief portrait. He creates portraits, which are chiseled into plaster and brick walls globally. He also utilizes dissected advertisements and excavating walls. In addition to these non-traditional forms of media he also works in collage, wheat paste, wood, metal, installations, and...

A few weeks ago FreeWay Editions had the opportunity to go and hang out with street artist BumblebeeLovesYou in his LA studio. We took a tour of his place and sat down to watch him work and chat about his life, art, and latest projects. Here is what he had to say:

Tell us a bit about your background. How did you get into street art?

 “I am from Downey, CA. In between LA and Long Beach. I started making art beecause there was always a lack of...