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J Walters

I curate visual arts under The Art Junkie banner and I practice my writing on Colder by The Lake.

Interview: Street Artist Troy Lovegates

Known as “Other,” Canadian street artist Troy Lovegates has a free-wheeling style that tramples boundaries. Lovegates has been hopping freights cross country with a paint stick and wanderlust since the late 80s. Whether with straight-up aerosol on the wall or hand painted multi-media, the always experimental and voracious […]

Inappropriately Beautiful: Street Art Exhibition

Well known Canadian street artist Elicser Elliott’s work is on urban spaces from South America to Toronto and a new  exhibition,  Inappropriately Beautiful, just opened at Toronto’s LE Gallery last night.  Elicser’s powerful images have made him a well known phenomenon in the global street art community. More […]

Illustration: Robert Carter

Like many well known Canadian illustrators, Robert Carter sends a lot of  work south of the border, to clients that range from American Airlines to the Harvard Business Review. This image was for a Los Angeles Times piece on the growing number of average American families who end […]