The Artists

Above  |  July 2010
Street Gallery installation
artist’s website
ABOVE (born 1981) has been creating public art since 1995. Above is an international contemporary street artist who keeps his identity concealed and is known for his multi-layer/full color social and political stencils, spinning wooden “arrow mobile” installations, and large mural “word play” paintings.  He started traditional graffiti of tagging freight trains in California in 1995.  At the age of 19, he moved to Paris, where he started painting his trademark arrow (pointing above) all around the city. Since then, Above has been traveling consistently around the world doing many large self-financed “tours” with each tour exploring a new medium or style of artworks.  Above has installed his street artworks in over 60 cities in more 45 different countries around the world.

Faust  |  March & April 2011
Street Gallery installations
artist’s website
Faust is a visual artist living in New York City. His work is a response to the perpetually changing image of the city drawing on influences from graffiti and art history.  His work was featured in the Le Tag exhibition at the Grand Palais in Paris and adorned the facade of White Box Gallery in the Lower Eastside. He previously collaborated with the Graffiti Research Lab projecting his tag in the Museum of Modern Art as part of the Design and the Elastic Mind exhibit in 2008.

Faust’s work was published recently in Definition: The Art and Design of Hip Hop by Cey Adams (Harper Collins), photographer Martha Cooper’s book Going Postal (Mark Batty; read an article in the Village Voice about the book), and Graffiti New York by Eric Felisbret (Abrams).

More Faust documentation:
Photostream of Faust and partner-in-crime Sure
A range of Faust installations
Video of Faust’s handstyle
Variety of Faust stickers in a street art popup shop and in a special delivery.