Posts Tagged ‘City Kitty’

As you might know, every once in a while I walk down Graffiti Alley to see if there is anything new that might be of interest.  This blog post is a result of last week’s walk….

below: Orange hair with attitude – “You don’t look smart because you have a beard!” by NYC based City Kitty. In the upper right corner all the way from the UK, a D7606 old style telephone featuring David Bowie… call a friend.

graffiti on a wall, pasteup of man with three eyes and a lot of orange hair and facial hair. Also a paste up by D76060 of a blue old fashioned rotary phone with an image of musician David Bowie in the center.

below: Havana to Toronto and of course, 2 + 2 always = 5.

two images side by side on a wall in graffiti alley

below: A diverse group of faces

below: Many more faces but mostly a frowny face man.  Every time I look at this picture I think of Poilievre but that opinion might get me into trouble!

stickers, graffiti, on a pole, a painting of a scowling frowning man on the wall beside the pole

below: Purple with green wings and a golden halo – horus and tuffytats (aka Trevor Goodwin) be dreaming again?

tuffytats painting on a wall in graffiti alley, female figure in purple with wings and a halo

below: “Tell them louder”

below: Yarn squares crocheted and attached to a pole with Urban Ninja Squadron’s T-bonez looking on.

yarn squares, knit and or crocheted, and attached to a utility pole in alley, a large urban ninja squadron paste up is beside it

below: No Dumping stickers

black and yellow city street sign saying no dumping,with many graffiti stickers on it

below: Playing on his knees.  That’s quite the instrument.  Cuba on his shoulder.

below: And a similar man with curly hair and beard, but this time in pink.

pink portrait of a man with curly hair, curly beard, and a mustache, his eyes are closed

below: A blue legless and armless robot along with a conehead type creature with a big mouth, both at 733.

below: FPmonkey – a young woman with long purple hair tied up with green flowers.   A single red tear drop on her cheek.

below: Uber5000’s marine life is still a colourful fixture in the alley.

below: Nearby, his Toronto/Canada themed mural has not lasted as well.  A couple of yellow birdies are still visible.

defaced uber5000 mural, with tags and graffiti over it, some yellow birdies still visible

below: Spiderman and the Spiderverse – some of the mural remains untouched but much of it has been tagged over

part of a mural about spiderman and the spiderverse but some of it has been tagged over

below: En masse has a number of pieces in the area including three metal boxes on the sidewalk – this is part of one of those boxes.  Almost all of their work is in black and white.

part of a black and white desiden by en masse on a  metal box on the sidewalk

below: The tears of a clown when there’s no one around….

part of a mural, a clown with large white collar, white hat with red hearts on it, and a lot of white face make up is crying big tears, flower in his hat, big red mouth,

below: She’s green.

below: Tiny finds on a blue wall.  Princess Lays Chicken (Princess Laya Chicken?)

below: remnants of Black Lives Matter, and a new purple flower on the door.

below: A scrawny cat scribbled on yellow paint.  In case it is difficult to see, the sticker (or paste up) on the pole is an old television set with text near the bottom that says, “HAHA”.  Interpret it as you wish (as usual).

below: Rubbish in the lane (maybe just a spring clean up needed? … not that the alley is usually clean LOL)

 

graffiti in Kensington

There are two very different pairs can be seen on opposites sides of an old window on St. Andrew Street.

graffiti on a blackened window of an empty store in kensington, three pieces of graffiti on it, including a df606 david bowie in the center of an old rotary phone

below: On one side,  City Kitty is asking,  “Canada, Why is everyone so nice?” while sitting beside a D7606 David Bowie in the center of a rotary phone.  Is he waiting for a call?  Can you hear me Major Tom?

NYC based artist City Kitty cat reading a book about Canada and saying Canada why are you so nice beside a second pasteup of a rotary phone with David Bowie's face in the middle of it

below: On the other side two men, white on black, by Adeyemi Adegbesan (Yung Yemi), masked? or blinded?  in chains? or in armour?

black and white street art by Adeyemi Adegbesan of two Black males with elaborate jewellery and chains joining them, also a collar that looks like a metal jaguar or tiger roaring,

below: Close up of a kitty of a not so gentle nature.

black and white street art by Adeyemi Adegbesan of two Black males with elaborate jewellery and chains joining them, also a collar that looks like a metal jaguar or tiger roaring,

I first posted pictures of the pasteups and posters at Charlotte and Adelaide back in September shortly after they first appeared.  I walked past them the other day.  There are a few that I forgot the first time and a few that are new.   Being street art, they have been subject to the sufferance and whims of others –  some comments are added, marks are made.

These are the photos that I took recently:

paper pasteups at Charlotte and Adelaide, large poster for las mujeres vampiros, a woman in a red dress holding a pig

words written over paper pasteups

paper pasteups, a grouping of ten or eleven photos including two large mouths, a woman with blond hair, a woman with blue hair, and others

jumbleface collage photos pasteups over white tag which covered previous paste ups

street art paper poster pasteups, photograph, also abstract faces

wall of paper poster pasteups, with a jumbleface foto collage of eyes

paper pasteups, large, one with woman in pink blouse and pink flowers tied into her hair. the other is a very abstract face in blues and reds and yellows

metal pole with graffiti stickers on them

stickers on metal pole, sketchrat, urban ninja squadron,

posters on a wall, urban ninja squadron, visual noise, and others

sticker soup life with red one eyed daisies, paper poster pasteups

two orange figures on a wall in front of other posters and written graffiti

blue and white city of toronto notice of development sign, on which someone has put a sticker with Mr. Monopoly and the words I have seen the future and I can't afford it

Covering the exterior walls of a small empty building on the corner of Charlotte and Adelaide West is a collection of images.  This project, Paste Platz, is the work of Jeremy Lynch.  He asked some instagram users (artists, graffiti artists, photographers, etc ) if they wanted to contribute images.  He then printed pictures the pictures and created the scene you see below.   I haven’t tried to identify which pieces were provided by which artist; instead, I have made a list of the contributors at the bottom of this post along with a link to their instagram pages.  If you have been following this blog, you will recognize some of the street art.  But a lot of it should be new!

paste platz, wheatpaste papers on a wall

paste platz, wheatpaste papers on a wall

paste platz, wheatpaste papers on a wall, photo of town of Hope BC sign that says Experience hope, with words As a person with mental illness, I find this ironic

paste platz, wheatpaste papers on a wall

paste platz, wheatpaste papers on a wall, monkeys with cans

paste platz, wheatpaste papers on a wall, monkeys with cans, jumbleface with blue eyes and blob face

paste platz, wheatpaste papers on a wall, woman with large buns of hair at ears, with pink roses there too, also colourful abstract faces

paste platz, wheatpaste papers on a wall

paste platz, wheatpaste papers on a wall, with blue and white city of Toronto development notice sign, black graffiti says luxury ghettoes

paste platz, wheatpaste papers on a wall, City Kitty design in skull

paste platz, wheatpaste papers on a wall, three large pictures in black and white of women

paste platz, wheatpaste papers on a wall

paste platz, wheatpaste papers on a wall, 2 steel poles in front covered with stickers, wall behind with large paper posters pasted on

old colour poster of a woman holding a little pig running away from a policeman who has left his car behind, text added that says I sent you that beautiful meme but you never replied (man is talking)

paste platz, wheatpaste papers on a wall, stickers on a beam in front of larger posters

visual noise and urban ninja squadron, paste platz, wheatpaste papers on a wall

peace and humpiness R I P in memory of shock G

Full disclosure – some of my pictures from my recent “Little Red Trike” series were included. I brought it with me for a little photoshoot.

llittle red trike in front of a series of photos that feature the trike, paste platz in downtown Toronto, a large paste up display

red trike at paste platz, wheatpaste papers on a wall, with words Don't let me fade away

red trike in front paste platz, wheatpaste papers on a wall

This site was revisited, and more photos taken, late in November: paste platz revisited

Contributors

Alan Williamson

Alina Chirila

Anna

Anne Milne (aka Colouring Book)

Baska

Bill_L47

Bruho

City Kitty

crkshnk

Eric Hoyles

Garth Dyke

Jeremy Lynch

Kendall

La Vie Sauvage

Luciano Costa

Merlin Boissonneault

Rako Duarte

rudy

sketchrat

tsmoke

Urban Ninja Squadron

and my instagram page too