Tijuana Urban Art

Few & Far hit the streets of Tijuana
Tijuana Urban Art

Few & Far hit the streets of Tijuana

In April, the artist collective Few & Far finished their Ironlak road trip with a stop in Tijuana where they painted an amazing mural on the wall of my house in Colonia Lindavista.  Lea Bruno has now released the official tour video–check it out! Few & Far X Ironlak Road […]

Friday night in Pasaje Rodriguez
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Friday night in Pasaje Rodriguez

  Scenes from Friday night, May 4 in Pasaje Rodriguez, an art & culture space in downtown Tijuana. Pasaje Rodriguez, entrances on Av. Revolución & Av. Constitución, between 3rd and 4th streets Zona Centro, Tijuana, B.C.

Historic Pasaje Rodriguez
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Historic Pasaje Rodriguez

Tucked away inside a callejon off Avenida Revolución, Pasaje Rodriguez is easy to miss. But slow down and look, and you will see that local artists have brought this this space to life. I first visited Pasaje Rodriguez late one night last January.  My friend James was planning an event […]

Few and Far
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Few and Far

Damn! Just wait until you see the amazing work these women painted on my wall!!!  The graffiti collective Few and Far Women.com finished up their west coast tour yesterday at my house in Colonia Lindavista, Tijuana. The ten artists painted for one week making stops in Sacramento, San Francisco, Los […]

Spel’s Historias de Flores
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Spel’s Historias de Flores

Last year, HEM crew member Spel Uno moved to Guadalajara to keep his job at the graphic design company he was working for. Quickly he realized that long commutes and demanding work days left him little time for his creative work. And so, he quit his job and turned to […]

Art that provokes
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Art that provokes

Writing to Oskar Pollak in 1904, Franz Kafka noted that a good book should provoke. It should hurt, it should strike us like a disaster. “A book is like an ax that breaks the frozen sea within us, wrote Kafka. “I think we ought to read only the kind of […]

Going downtown, Tijuana style
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Going downtown, Tijuana style

The first thing I noticed about Tijuana when I moved here was how cool all the kids look. Punk kids with orange-dyed hair, torn up jackets & jeans, black Ramones t-shirts, piercings. Girls in animal print dresses and black leather boots. Yet, while punk and hardcore and emo and metal are […]

Local urban artist El Norteño wins state award
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Local urban artist El Norteño wins state award

This past week, on Monday, Dec 12, local Tijuana urban artist Alonso Delgadillo, who paints under the name of El Norteño, was awarded the Premio Estatal de la Juventud de Baja California 2011, giving an official stamp of approval to the life’s work and trajectory of this local artist whose most […]

C’est la Saison du Vin by urban artist Alfredo Gutierrez
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C’est la Saison du Vin by urban artist Alfredo Gutierrez

In August, I was privileged to join Alfredo Libre Gutierrez in Ensenada to document a mural project at CEARTE, Ensenada Center for the Arts. Gutierrez was commissioned by the ICBC (Instituto Cultural de Baja California, Ensenada) to paint a mural.  It was refreshing, he told me, to get an open commission and have control over […]

Hip Hop Kids in Ensenada
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Hip Hop Kids in Ensenada

A few weeks ago, I went to Ensenada with Libre & Shente & Eddy of HEM crew to shoot some photos of their mural project.  Ensenada was having its annual Fiesta Callejera in the Plaza de las Artes in CEARTE, the Centro Estatal de las Artes Ensenada. On Thursday afternoon, […]