Dr. Larka

Dr. Lakra

BA RRIO LOGAN

1660 Logan Ave

Parking lot of Miriello

Grafico (on 17th St)

Dr. Lakra portrays his art to visualize culture and the Hispanic gang culture. He lived in San Francisco tattooing undocumented workers and gang members. The skeleton is suppose to represent a Chicano, with the beard and bandanna. Like the art in around Chicano park the community has a strong mural art to show. Dr. Lakra reassembles what people call low culture into high art, challenging our sense of good taste and respectability.

Stephan Doitschinoff

Stephan oitschinoff

(CA LMA)

Downtown
320 16th St (at J St)

This is work is also known as Calma, it’s a unique image of Jesus Christ. He is presented as beef with different types of meat drawn on it. It shows how his name has been used to by those in power, going against the pure message of the gospel, which was out of love and eternal salvation.
Doitschinoff questions the institutionalization of religion and the abuse that comes out of it. The original intention of salvation are altered by those in power to control society. The red tassel below the eyes are tears of blood that Jesus is crying due to the damage of using his name for power throughout history.

Swoon

Swoon
Downtown, 1327 E St

She is best known for taking pieces of paper and repasting it on walls. The main focus of her art is to portray those who have been forgotten, children, women all around the world. She is currently in Haiti, helping to rebuild the community.

Shepard Fairey (Hillcrest)

Shepard Fairey
HILLCREST

3946 5th Ave

Urban Outfitters parking lot

Shepard is a leader in street art movement, lived in San Diego for several years before moving to Los Angeles. He put the mural in Hillcrest because he knew the community would support the art work. The piece stretches over 100ft in length and portrays many artist classic motifs. The flower patterns and motifs make up certain backgrounds and a peace dove. The main image reads” believe what you are told, not what you see”. His work questions everything to stimulate people to question our leaders and their misdeeds.

Os Gemeos

 

Os Gemeos
Downtown

G St between 2nd and

3rd Aves, south wall of

Horton Plaza parking structure

Taggers go through lengths to get their work up. Don’t believe the hype is a title of a song by public enemy. The song talks about the close relationship of graffiti and hip hop and shared attitude calling for social justice.The yellow figures and bright clothes are based on the characteristics of graffiti. In the town where name lived the graffiti was hardly ever cleaned and the city outlawed billboards making it heaven for graffiti writer. In San Diego, we clean the graffiti making a new surface to tag on. There’s a place called Writer’s Block, where taggers can pay to tag a wall there for a certain period of time.

Invader

Invader 

Downtown

1250 G St (at Park Blvd)

Back of The Art Center

building, west-facing

wall, 2nd story

Invader is best know for the recreation of space game character. This character is made of ceramic tiles to represent the pixels used in making games. This space invader is the largest invader in America. San Diego is the mother ship of over 20 other invades placed around downtown. Plus there is nothing more surprising then running onto an invader.

 

JR

JR

Downtown

Southeast corner

of 5th Ave and C St,

2nd story, above

clothing store

If you look closely it has a image of the artist, JR in the center of the eye. This giant eye was made by pasting strips of paper to the building. JR’s work are narratives explaining a story In his recent work called Women are Heroes: He went around the world recording their survival stories. First JR started with faces and then focused on eyes because they are the windows to the soul and tells the story that words can’t.

Vhils

VhilsDowntown

1202 Kettner Blvd

Front of parking structure

The youngest out of the artist originally wanted to crave a portrait out a brick wall, but couldn’t a wall suitable in San Diego.Vhils tears walls with layers of ads apart to create portraits, sometimes putting the ads up himself. Then places a hand cut stencil over the billboards and tears and cuts away at the billboard. He reveals the cities history based on their cooperate campaigns.

Shepard Fairey

 Shepard Fairey

DOWNTOWN

1202 Kettner Blvd, north

wall of parking structure

Shepard normally used sheets of paper, he developed a new technique based on stencils to create this monk. Painted the back ground then put the stencil over it. The hand cut stencil was 30 ft. tall, which took days to do. Burmese monk, a continuation of the portraits of Aung San Suu Kyi, the Burmese democracy leader who is currently under house arrest.