#joerael

[amosartstudio]

I really enjoy watching artist create. This is muralist Joerael working on a piece about friendship. I'll post the finished work once it's done. . . . #Joerael #joeraelart #mural #art #friendship #amosartvideos #amosart #amosartphotos #amosartstudio (at Eagle Rock, Los Angeles)

[isaaclgealer]

The maze .. Mural by @joerael_gangthewolf on 2nd St and McKinley in Phoenix. .. #phoenix #arizona #mural #graffiti #streetart #graff #spotthetag #rooseveltrow #phxart #joerael #gangthewolf (at FilmBar Phoenix)

[greekstreetart-dates]

ALEX SIMOPOULOS - BOUNDARY DRAWING COLLABORATIVE EXHIBIT

SFAI Greece Fulbright Fellow, Alex Simopoulos presents a week-long participatory installation at SFAI. Boundary Drawing is an ever-evolving installation and a participatory, experimental, mural design studio.

This exhibit features works by local multidisciplinary artists Nani Chacon, Joerael Numina, Ehren Kee Natay, Lynnette Haozous, and Alas de Agua Art Collective and invites the public to respond to surfaces of tension, to question monuments, and to imagine new narratives through creative proposals. Visitors may sketch proposals for their own murals or monuments around Santa Fe and throughout the region. These responses will be included in the exhibition and documented for the creation of an online, open-source database.

Alex Simopoulos Collaborative Exhibit Opening Thursday, April 18 / 5:30PM Exhibit April 18 — 24 / 12-5PM Santa Fe Art Institute

[adwireko]

Blog #3 assigned: 1/14/2019

This part of the mural painted by Joerael Elliott really caught my attention because it has a lot going on. Like the are a lot of hidden images in just this one part like with the eyeballs. There are a couple of eyeballs in there but you won’t really see it unless you actually searched for it which makes it even more intriguing and that is why I love this part of the mural. Not only because of the beauty of the design and its colors but also because of the hidden images. 

[stonephillips97us-blog]

Mercer Village Mural

The picture above is a painting of Martin Delany, that is part of the mural in Mercer Village. He was famous for being one of the few people in the medical field to stay in Pittsburgh to treat people with cholera. He was also famous for becoming the first African American field grade officer in the United States Army. 

This is my favorite part of the mural because of Martin Delany’s story. He showed incredible selflessness and showed his devotion to medicine when he treated several patients affected by cholera. I also think it is amazing that this act helped him become the first African American officer in the US Army. Martin Delany is a huge influence in American history and is a great example of someone who overcame some of the struggles in African American culture.

This mural was painted by Joerael Elliot.

[tanjabarnes]

“Dissolving Demarcation” by  Joerael Elliott (with Jesse Perry) - Phoenix, Arizona

[krisiunicornio]

This LA yoga studio teamed up with an artist-activist to try and out-scale the proposed US-Mexico border wall.

Jessica Rosen grew up photographing graffiti in 1990s Detroit. These days, as the owner of One Down Dog yoga studios in Los Angeles, she was eager to bring a reminder of the artwork that inspired her youth into the community she was cultivating in LA. “I wanted the space to feel like a place you’d want to hang out in and connect and talk—not like, I come here and I leave,” says the 37-year-old yoga teacher. “In Detroit, there were beautiful murals everywhere, so bringing that into my studios makes it feel like home.”

Rosen’s former yoga student (and teacher at One Down Dog), muralist Joerael Numina, has spent most of his life living in border states—from Texas to California to New Mexico. In 2016, he launched Mobilize Walls, a mural project that he calls “a petition of scale,” intended to counter the divisiveness and dehumanizing rhetoric that comes with the Trump administration and its pursuit of an expanded border wall. Numina has embarked on creating a network of murals across the country, largely influenced by his yoga practice, that today spans about 10 miles, including the 16 he’s created at Rosen’s three One Down Dog outposts. He hopes other artists and activists will join him in spreading a message of unity and equanimity through art by donating their own mural or wall to the cause.

See also How to Talk About Tough Stuff in Your Yoga Classes

“Yoga is a spiritual practice meaning union,” says Numina. “The border wall is divisive and centralized and toxic to the environment and the national budget. Mobilize Walls is transformational and inclusive. It creates dialogue and cultivates empathy and compassion. That’s what art does: It connects people—especially in a public space.”

See also In Focus: Creative Yogis where Asana + Art Collide

GET INVOLVED

Donate A Wall Got a blank space you’d like to see transformed for a good cause? Send an email to Numina at mobilizewalls@gmail.com and include the location and square footage.

Gift Supplies Numina accepts paint and financial donations at the email address at left. Reach out if you’d like to lend a hand.

Make a Mural Artists and graffiti writers are encouraged to independently contribute to the collective. If you create something (“mobilize your own wall”), email Numina with a photo of your completed project, the size of the piece, and your name or moniker—and he’ll count it toward the goal.

To learn more about the cause, visit mobilizewalls.com.

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This LA yoga studio teamed up with an artist-activist to try and out-scale the proposed US-Mexico border wall.

Jessica Rosen grew up photographing graffiti in 1990s Detroit. These days, as the owner of One Down Dog yoga studios in Los Angeles, she was eager to bring a reminder of the artwork that inspired her youth into the community she was cultivating in LA. “I wanted the space to feel like a place you’d want to hang out in and connect and talk—not like, I come here and I leave,” says the 37-year-old yoga teacher. “In Detroit, there were beautiful murals everywhere, so bringing that into my studios makes it feel like home.”

Rosen’s former yoga student (and teacher at One Down Dog), muralist Joerael Numina, has spent most of his life living in border states—from Texas to California to New Mexico. In 2016, he launched Mobilize Walls, a mural project that he calls “a petition of scale,” intended to counter the divisiveness and dehumanizing rhetoric that comes with the Trump administration and its pursuit of an expanded border wall. Numina has embarked on creating a network of murals across the country, largely influenced by his yoga practice, that today spans about 10 miles, including the 16 he’s created at Rosen’s three One Down Dog outposts. He hopes other artists and activists will join him in spreading a message of unity and equanimity through art by donating their own mural or wall to the cause.

See also How to Talk About Tough Stuff in Your Yoga Classes

“Yoga is a spiritual practice meaning union,” says Numina. “The border wall is divisive and centralized and toxic to the environment and the national budget. Mobilize Walls is transformational and inclusive. It creates dialogue and cultivates empathy and compassion. That’s what art does: It connects people—especially in a public space.”

See also In Focus: Creative Yogis where Asana + Art Collide

GET INVOLVED

Donate A Wall Got a blank space you’d like to see transformed for a good cause? Send an email to Numina at mobilizewalls@gmail.com and include the location and square footage.

Gift Supplies Numina accepts paint and financial donations at the email address at left. Reach out if you’d like to lend a hand.

Make a Mural Artists and graffiti writers are encouraged to independently contribute to the collective. If you create something (“mobilize your own wall”), email Numina with a photo of your completed project, the size of the piece, and your name or moniker—and he’ll count it toward the goal.

To learn more about the cause, visit mobilizewalls.com.

[amyddaniels]

Noble Art: Spreading the Message of Love

This LA yoga studio teamed up with an artist-activist to try and out-scale the proposed US-Mexico border wall.

Jessica Rosen grew up photographing graffiti in 1990s Detroit. These days, as the owner of One Down Dog yoga studios in Los Angeles, she was eager to bring a reminder of the artwork that inspired her youth into the community she was cultivating in LA. “I wanted the space to feel like a place you’d want to hang out in and connect and talk—not like, I come here and I leave,” says the 37-year-old yoga teacher. “In Detroit, there were beautiful murals everywhere, so bringing that into my studios makes it feel like home.”

Rosen’s former yoga student (and teacher at One Down Dog), muralist Joerael Numina, has spent most of his life living in border states—from Texas to California to New Mexico. In 2016, he launched Mobilize Walls, a mural project that he calls “a petition of scale,” intended to counter the divisiveness and dehumanizing rhetoric that comes with the Trump administration and its pursuit of an expanded border wall. Numina has embarked on creating a network of murals across the country, largely influenced by his yoga practice, that today spans about 10 miles, including the 16 he’s created at Rosen’s three One Down Dog outposts. He hopes other artists and activists will join him in spreading a message of unity and equanimity through art by donating their own mural or wall to the cause.

See also How to Talk About Tough Stuff in Your Yoga Classes

“Yoga is a spiritual practice meaning union,” says Numina. “The border wall is divisive and centralized and toxic to the environment and the national budget. Mobilize Walls is transformational and inclusive. It creates dialogue and cultivates empathy and compassion. That’s what art does: It connects people—especially in a public space.”

See also In Focus: Creative Yogis where Asana + Art Collide

GET INVOLVED

Donate A Wall Got a blank space you’d like to see transformed for a good cause? Send an email to Numina at mobilizewalls@gmail.com and include the location and square footage.

Gift Supplies Numina accepts paint and financial donations at the email address at left. Reach out if you’d like to lend a hand.

Make a Mural Artists and graffiti writers are encouraged to independently contribute to the collective. If you create something (“mobilize your own wall”), email Numina with a photo of your completed project, the size of the piece, and your name or moniker—and he’ll count it toward the goal.

To learn more about the cause, visit mobilizewalls.com.

[scenesplitterworld-blog]

Humility's Edge

"There is a point where everyone is going to want anti-corporate art. It will of course be exponentially expensive at that point. The new "new" is right in front of your nose. It won't look good in your house now but in 12 months time it will look good anywhere. Hit hard. Hit soon. Move first don't follow.” -Lusky

Friday November 3rd marked the opening of curator/coordinator Rod Lambert’s “Cred Street Art” exhibition and boy howdy did he miss the fucking mark.  First off, in no way is this geared to be a smear piece to Mr. Lambert or the work of any of the artists who are being showcased in this arrogant misrepresentation of what street art is really about, so feel free to proceed with your guard down if you wish and if you happen to be one of the artists who partook in this fallacy and are reading this, I know deep down that your integrity as a street artist was questioned by your conscience at some point.  If not, that’s fine too.  Unfortunately you’re not an endangered species.

Anytime I hear, read, or plan to visit an art exhibition anywhere in Santa Fe my pretenses are always the same; just another stuffy, gratuitous charade put on for the notoriously bourgeois art community.  More often than not these assumptions of mine are correct.  This air tight and sterile climate actually gave birth to Meow Wolf, the very antithesis of what so many of us lamented regarding the elitist’s stranglehold on our state's capital and what we’re led to believe is "New Mexico True" in this region’s creative realm.  Rod Lambert tapped fifteen artists to partake in this exhibition and out of that bunch I only have four notable mentions to list; Reyes Padilla, Jared Antonio-Justo Trujillo, Joerael Elliott, and Michael “Metal” Wieclaw.  The actual works, heft of the pieces, and price tags attached met my personal standards as well as the standards of my gallery jaunt companion Everett Kelley.  We’re reasonable men and are both unabashed fanatics for what street art stands for and should truly be about; accessible art for the people by the people. This doesn’t necessarily mean FREE.  Understanding and self-awareness as to what the spirit of this exhibition was meant to highlight was clearly lost on Mr. Lambert and the rest of his roster.  The bottom line was what ultimately drove these artists.  The “I want my cut” attitude is a fair one to have in a capitalist society and I will never condemn a creative person or entity for trying to attain profit, influence, and growth for the goods or services they provide.  However, there exists counter measures to unbridled greed in the art world and street art is meant to be just that.  Humility is an edge in this day in age and not all of us have it.

For good or ill, this exhibition will be running until November 25th.

-Bloom

[scenefromthesidewalk]

November 9, 2016

FILM BAR

Joerael Elliott

Born in San Angelo Texas in 1980 Joerael Elliott describes himself as a narrative artist with a focus on creating figurative works. His figures weave “current and historical content pertaining to social justice, to Earth’s environment, and that of the sacred,”  and the works range from small mixed media drawings and paintings to large murals. Joerael is also a yoga practitioner/teacher which is reflected in his creation of works “that cultivate a contemplative space of liberty through symbolism and the creative unconscious.” On 2nd Street in downtown Phoenix, this 2015 wall was painted for Film Bar—a unique concept combining beer and wine bar with small movie theater. Since opening in 2011 the bar not only enjoyed neighborhood support but extensive local media acclaim. @joerael.art @thefilmbarphx @scenesfromthesidewalk 

[joerael-art-blog]

#handstyle #handstyles #thisisjustthebeginning #graffiti #blackbook #joerael #djshadow @mtncolors @montana_colors #mnt94

[joeraelelliott]

Just in case you may be interested I started a feed just exclusively for my art @joerael.art . The feed will include full images and parts of images. Feel free to follow just to see art only. #joerael #joeraelart #image

[joeraelelliott]

Made a quick stop through LA to pick up our belongings it's official OFFICIAL that we will be living in Santa Fe NM! While LA I painted a quick mural for @bluecollarworkingdog 🙏🏽⚡️ thanks for the work and all the work you gave me! LA we will miss you but not your traffic😁 and we will be back plenty to visit! - - - #mural #Joerael #joeraelart #scale #bluecollarworkingdog #belgianmalinois #large #la #lamurals #echopark #exhoparkmurals

[joeraelelliott]

Tiny strokes on paper. Experiments working.. _ _ #joerael #joeraelart #painting @joerael.art

[joeraelelliott]

#fbf way flashback Friday to the year 2001 in Pittsburgh PA. Location the #corkfactory 13th floor. Here I'm laying down my BNOK character while my Club Kid friend Onderland gets down and my @kotchychad vids on his Hi8. These were usual occurrences back then for my group of friends pre 911 in abandoned buildings creating pre-street art. We used to make performances, installations and murals in places like these for the hell of it without much documentation. This is a rare photo of me and my PGH friends. I still have vivid dreams of this place and those inspiring times. So many of my early murals are buried under layers of paint and construction in what are now lofts. This 📷 was taken by my friend Angela Fischer ! #pittsburghgraffiti #clubkid #kotchy #bnok #joerael #streetart #graffiti #abandonfactory #abandonedbuilding #joereal #kotchy #friends #abandonedpittsburgh