One such golden ticket was tattooed on the side of an Elysian Fields warehouse belonging to local business-owner Sean Cummings. Pity the poor ghoul, for unauthorized Banksy works have been estimated to be worth millions, with many property owners carving them out of their walls and selling them for as much at auction. Many of these illustrations parodied the former New Orleans anti-graffiti vigilante The Grey Ghost, who subsequently smeared over most of these with his fugly brand of censorship. IG: face of 21st-century (and perhaps all before it) street art, Banksy stealthily stormed the Crescent City during 2008, scattering 14 of his iconic stencils across its still Katrina-ravaged carcass. Recently, Az has channeled his creative energies into creating robotic street-art sculptures, as seen on his Instagram account.
An easily accessible example of his work sits beneath the ATM to the right of the entrance outside of Gasa Gasa on Freret Street. However, the attentive onlooker will notice not only the sharper detail and greater inclusion of color in Az's works, but also the fact that he signs his work as his artistic alter ego. The resemblance is certainly there since both craft their compositions with stencils and share a socio-political sardonicism throughout their portfolios. Regardless, these 10 artists have left a lasting impression on New Orleans's street art scene.įB, IG: first caught the attention of local street art-enthusiasts in 2015, many of whom mistook his work for the second Big Easy appearance of Banksy (more on that later).
Though pieces by bankable artists, such as Banksy, are occasionally captured and domesticated by collectors (as happened here in NOLA), most works are ephemeral, living on through the collective memory of Instagram.Īs such, some of the images featured here may have been scrubbed clean or even painted over with other public art by the time this goes to print. "A small group create, promote, purchase, exhibit and decide the success of art," states street art's still at-large MVP Banksy in his 2006 collection "Banksy: Wall and Peace." "When you go to an art gallery, you are simply a tourist looking at the trophy cabinet of a few millionaires."īecause of its transgressive, feral existence, the lifespan of graffiti is fleeting. Of course, much of it is illegal even many of those who have graduated to galleries and commissioned murals made their bones drawing outside the lines of the law. It is for the people and by the people, uncensored by commercial or political influence and displayed where all can see. Street Art is, without question, the most influential art form of the 21st Century-and understandably so.
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