Roadsworth: Urban Art & Street Interventions

Urban Art News | As you maybe noticed, I had no time to write during Christmas, but fortunately it’s over now. However, I collected the top urban art news I noticed in the last days, so I’m able to give you an detailed overview about what happened on the streets around the world while we had some more or less contemplative evenings with friends and family. And here we go… ...

Street art belongs on the road - The Canadian urban artist Roadsworth takes this literally. He paints directly on the streets and uses thereby pre-existing things like road markings. Since about 2001, he reinterprets various elements of the urban landscape with his original street art. His unique style of his interventional painting, makes him popular around the globe. Peter Gibson (Montreal, Canada) otherwise known as “Roadsworth”, looks to street lanes, crosswalks, and traffic markers as the inspiration for his painterly interventions. In what he refers to as “Pedestrian Street Art”, Gibson employs humble materials of stencils and spray paint to turn the street into his canvas. The resulting work re-fashions the all too familiar signage of streets and sidewalks, creating a whimsical new twist on civilian wayfinding. (press release) ...