Looking through some recent photographs I took I realized that I have never posted about the LA Freewalls Project, one of the best things going on in this city and the street art community on the whole. The project, started in late 2009 (with an inaugural D*Face mural) by Daniel Lahoda, allows local and visiting street artists to legally put up large-scale murals in the downtown area. The project is a breath of fresh air for LA because the city has a reputation for being unkind to street art and even the artists themselves (note that Revok was jailed!). Centered around a building at East 6th & Mateo streets, in the past two years the project has grown tremendously, expanding to much of the east downtown area and features many world-renowned street artists. The recently-ended show at MOCA (blogged about here), brought a milieu visiting street artists, many of whom contributed to LA Freewalls before leaving...check out the new pieces below:
Swoon
Swoon
Anthony Lister
Ron English, Roa
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