News — Urban Art

It is Friday and that means Freeway Editions ends the week with our Artist of the Week! Today we are taking a look at more work by anonymous street artist Zevs. 

From his bio: 

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

After surpassing last year's predicted attendance by more than 10,000 people, this year's Printed Matter's LA is going to be quite the event. Opening the same night as Art Los Angeles Contemporary, the Printed Matter’s LA Art Book Fair will bring together artists’ books, art catalogs, monographs, periodicals, and zines from all over the world presented by various publishers and booksellers. This event is truly a unique experience to be a part of the merging of literature, art, and publishing. 

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"Printed Matter presents the third annual LA Art Book Fair, from January 30 through February 1, 2015, at...

Freeway Editions is focusing on the work of JonOne today. We added this West Side Stories series to our online art gallery a few months ago and thought we should give these artworks a bit more attention. Therefore this series of hand-painted screen prints are our product of the week! These hand- painted pieces were made in our studio in Los Angeles, in June 2014 while JonOne was in residence for his West Side Stories exhibition.
JonOne individually painted each piece of this limited edition set before and after 2 silkscreen...

This week Freeway Editions is presenting Kai Aspire as our artist of the week. We have not talked much about Kai recently and he is one of our favorite local artists so here is a bit more about this artist’s background and his work.

“Kai is originally from Los Angeles and now lives and works between Paris and LA. Having this kind of cultural cross over has really informed his artwork. Kai aka Kai Apsire takes Andy Warhol’s ideas of pop art to the next level. Warhol’s Factory and all...

As mentioned in previous blogs, RERO is in Los Angeles preparing for his second solo exhibition in the US. While here in the states the artist has created several new prints for Freeway Editions. We are excited to have new material from this progressive wordsmith! Take a look at this new series of prints entitled "Untitled (I Will Tell You Mine...)". Let us know what you think! 

Stay tuned for more new work by RERO! 

Untitled (I...