06/22/2022
Street Artist/Designer
JULIAN C. PIÑA
Growing up in the heart of Los Angeles (10 minutes away from Downtown LA), I’ve always been drawn to artistic styles of graffiti and public street art. My Latino/Chicano culture has inspired me to create my own language with the variations styles and images, I paint or design. Other influences on my art come from my interest of cartoons, comic books, and cinematic films. I am visually attracted to high end brand designs/patterns for example; Virgil Abloh work with Louis Vuitton, Nike, and his own (Founder) OFF-White street wear. I redesign and re- introduce visual textures and patterns into my works. By making custom stencils and by adding layers of paint to create textures.
My mission is to explore the relationships of humanity and boundaries as experienced in my every day commute. The nature set to disrupt the viewers daily routine in the shape of repurposing the inanimate object that is the traffic cone as we see it in our daily life’s. This series is set to provoke a second look as to what we would consider to be an obstacle and changing the meaning of it by drawing viewers in across the installation. For instance I will get on top of a billboard then paint a traffic cone sky blue matching the sky with cut out visors shapes as clouds glue back on. The pieces are meant to be seen out in the open and to draw in a viewer instead of making them avoid then traffic cones.
As the artist notes, “The cones are a reflection of the Los Angeles culture. How we go through our daily lives trying to avoid each other and the cones are a representation of individuals who know themselves and are not afraid to show who they are.
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