Birdo street art on the side wall of Amato Pizza,
corner of Borden and College Streets.
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birdo on Borden
Posted: March 25, 2015 in graffiti and street artTags: birdo, birds, graffiti, mural, street art, stylized, Toronto
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alley bunnies
Posted: March 23, 2015 in graffiti and street artTags: 416, abm crew, abmcrew, bunnies, city, downtown, graffiti, Graffiti Alley, graffiti animals, photography, photos, poser, Queen St. West, rabbits, stairs, street art, tags, tdot, Toronto, urban, urban art, walls
Back to Graffiti Alley for the first time this spring… well, for the first time since the snow melted since I’m not sure you can call it spring yet!
Here are a few poser and abm crew bunnies that I saw.
eyes in the alley
Posted: March 23, 2015 in graffiti and street artTags: @jchiale, abstract, alley, city, doors, downtown, eyes, faces, garages, graffiti, Graffiti Alley, Jimmy Chiale, Jon Todd, knuts, lane, mouth, Niagara St., slaps, stickers, street art, stylized, teeth, urban, walls
I went back to Graffiti Alley the other day.
When I was just east of Niagara Street I noticed these eyes looking at me.
A small blue Stickman sneaks into the photo too!
Three faces painted on a garage door by Jon Todd.
by Jimmy Chiale
…and a mouth too!
Links for more information
animals and birdo birds in Roncey
Posted: March 18, 2015 in graffiti and street art, locationsTags: alley, baboon, beach, birdo, birds, cabana, destination mammal cabana, dogs, faces, giraffe, hot day, lane, mammals, man, murals, ostrich, Queen St. West, rhino, rhinocerous, Roncesvalles, ske1, spudbomb, sticker, street art, summer, sunglasses, tiger, Toronto, turtle, uber5000, umbrella, urban art, woman, women, zebra
On Queen St. West, just before it meets Roncesvalles Ave., is the Corona Restaurant and Nightclub. Along the wall of this building are a number of pieces of street art. Only a small section is visible from the street.
If you follow the alley that runs behind Queen St., you will find more street art alongside the same building.
The back part is a mural entitled ‘Destination Mammal Cabana’ by Birdo, Spudbomb and SKE1. It was painted in 2012.
On the north wall of the same building…..
If you look closely at the above picture, on the right hand side metal pole supporting the landing, is a sticker. Below, that sticker up close.
Looking west along the alley towards Roncesvalles Ave.
but if you walk slightly west, away from Roncesvalles, you will encounter two more pieces by Birdo. The ‘Dreamer’ is on the same building as the Destination Mammal Cabana that is pictured above.
Regent Park hoardings
Posted: March 13, 2015 in graffiti and street art, locations, public artTags: animals, boy, colorful, colours, community, construction site, diversity, Elicser, faces, graffiti, hands, hawk, heads, hoardings, men, mural, painting, Patch Project, people, public art, Regent Park, renewal, St. David St., street art, stylized, take flight, Toronto, women
Located at the northwest corner of Regent Park Blvd and St. David St.,
(which is south of Dundas East and east of Sackville)
painted on the wood hoardings around a construction site.
This wall was painted as part of The Patch Project
PATCH = “Public Art Through Construction Hoarding”
Unfortunately, one photo that is missing is one of the section of the wall that is a large section that says “Conquer Adversity with Diversity”, the title of this work.
More information on The Patch Project
Broadcast Lane
Posted: March 8, 2015 in graffiti and street art, locationsTags: 509 dance, alley, cabbagetown, defaced, faces, garage doors, garages, graffiti, knobs, lane, murals, music, musician, parliament street, snow, street art, tags, tree, winter
Graffiti in a Cabbagetown lane.
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Behind 509 Dance, Canadian Contemporary Dance Theatre on Parliament Street.
Chinatown mural
Posted: February 27, 2015 in graffiti and street art, locationsTags: Aaron Li-Hill, Alexa Hatanaka, alley, bike, child, Chinatown, Chinatown BIA, Chinese, city, downtown, Dundas St. West, lane, man, mural, people, street art, Toronto
Chinatown Mural
2011 by Alexa Hatanaka and Aaron Li-Hill
Commissioned by the Chinatown BIA & located in an alley near Dundas & Spadina.
The mural is based on scenes from everyday life in Toronto’s Chinatown.
article 13
Posted: February 18, 2015 in graffiti and street art, history, locationsTags: aito, alley, Art Alley Mural Project, article 13, Dionne Brand, freedom, freedom of movement, islington, mural, poem, poetry, public art, street art, Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Urban Canvas
Amnesty International Toronto Organization is a group that works in the to raise public awareness of human rights issues. One of the projects that it supports is Urban Canvas. Thirty murals were planned, each based on one of the thirty articles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
The Art Alley Mural Project produced by Arts Etobicoke in 2010 was designed by Susan Rowe Harrison and painted by William Lazos. It incorporates a poem by Dionne Brand, Toronto’s Poet Laureate in 2010 that is based on Article 13. This article states: “Everyone has the right to freedom of movement and residence within the borders of each state.”
The mural is on the wall of 4893A Dundas St. West, alongside a narrow pedestrian walkway.
See also a previous post on two of Urban Canvas project murals at Parma Court
Also, a mural celebrating education, article 26.
anti graffiti
Posted: February 12, 2015 in graffiti and street artTags: destruction, graffiti, lame, painting over, pointless, street art, tags, ugly, vandalism
There will probably always be some controversy surrounding graffiti and and street art. Some people like it and some don’t. There is street art with a lot of artistic merit. There are a number of drab grey places in the city that are improved by adding street art.
Graffiti is temporary by nature. Time and weather affect it. Sometimes it evolves over time as others add stickers or comments. This is a strength and a weakness. All it takes is a marker or a can of spray paint to make your mark on a wall, a doorway, or any surface you want for that matter. Unfortunately, there are people who destroy rather than create.
There are many examples of the juvenile nature of some taggers so these are just a few.
Stupid and clueless. The mural on Croft street commemorating the Fire of 1904 has also been tagged over.
Great comment. Written on a black and white tag that was painted on top of a street art picture
The City of Toronto has a Graffiti Management Plan.
They try to encourage Graffiti Art while getting rid of Graffiti Vandalism.
Where the West Toronto Railpath meets Dundas West. The graffiti and street art that were here were painted over with grey paint, probably by the city.
Bathhouse raids mural
Posted: February 12, 2015 in graffiti and street art, history, locationsTags: 1981, arrests, bathhouse raids, Church St., firetruck, history, LGBT, mosaic, murals, painting, police car, public art, street art, tiles, Toronto
The Bathhouse Raids by Christiano De Araujo is a mural on Church Street just south of Carlton.
Completed in the fall of 2013, it was the largest of the Church St. Mural Project pieces commissioned for WorldPride 2014.
The following photos were taken with a very wide angle lens
because of the size of the mural and because there are always cars parked in front of it.
On the 5th of February, 1981, Toronto police raided four bathhouses in what was known as ‘Operation Soap’.
Around 300 men were arrested. Most charges connected to the incident were eventually dropped or discharged, although some bathhouse owners were fined.
The event marked a major turning point in the history of the LGBT community in Canada.
The raids led to protests – the night after the raids, 3,000 people marched on 52 Division police headquarters and on Queen’s Park, smashing car windows and setting fires. That spring the city held its first Pride Parade.
as I walk Toronto 