SHINEONSTPETE ☼
Today's post is going to focus on local art and community members. SHINE is an annual art project, intended to illuminate the power of art in public spaces by revitalizing areas, inspiring dialogue and uniting our community—while cultivating new standards of artistic excellence and reflecting St. Petersburg’s creative and vibrant spirit. The murals are BIG and they are BOLD and they literally light up the streets of St Pete. Here's a look at some of my favorite festival entries.
Gray Speed – 2060 1st Ave S
St. Petersburg, FL 33712
Sam Yong
Australia
Sam Yong is an artist and illustrator based in Melbourne, Australia, working across a variety of traditional mediums. A love of nature and solo adventure manifests through his art, where intricate illustrations reflect on complex relationships between living things. Yong has exhibited in Paris, the United States, New Zealand, Melbourne, and is placed in private commissions across the globe.
Website: www.inthewolf.com
Instagram: @saminthewolf
Cemex – 601 24th St South
St. Petersburg, FL 33712
Cryptik
Los Angeles, CA
Cryptik creates from a palette of wonder where science, math, and art intersect. His artist practice is about asking questions, and his intricate works spread across mammoth walls or canvases in stylized depictions of spiritual universality. The Southern Californian hypnotically blends Eastern philosophical mantras with black letter bombing, merging the ancient and sacred in a modern quest for awareness.
Website: www.cryptik.com
Instagram: @cryptk
Rick Noll Properties – 165 13th St North
St. Petersburg, FL. 33705
Axel Void & L.E.O.
Miami, FL
Axel Void (Alejandro Hugo Dorda Mevs) was born in Miami in 1986 to a Haitian mother and a Spanish father. Raised in Spain from age three, he was strongly influenced by classical painting and drawing. Axel studied fine arts in Cádiz, Granada, and Sevilla, and has been immersed in graffiti writing since 1999. He was based in Berlin before moving to Miami in 2013, where he currently resides.
Website: www.axelvoid.com
Instagram: @axelvoid
George F Young – 299 Dr M.L.K. Jr St N
St. Petersburg, FL 33701
Herbert Scott Davis
St. Petersburg, FL
Growing up in historic Ybor City, Herbert Scott Davis developed an early passion for art and culture. A graduate of the Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale and former freelance illustrator, Davis now focuses on fine art, bringing his detailed or abstracted imagery to canvases and walls alike.
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/herbert.davis.75054
Teknia Logistics – 155 17th St S
St. Petersburg, FL 33712
Hueman
Oakland, CA
Artist Allison Tinati, known as Hueman, grew up drawing and painting in Northern California, and received her degree in Design and Media Arts from UCLA in 2008. Hueman’s style reveals colorful mash-ups of the abstract and figurative, the beautiful and grotesque. Tightly refined compositions begin with spontaneous paint drips and sprays, creating motion on two-dimensional surfaces. Her layered works can be seen on public walls and in galleries worldwide.
Website: www.huemannature.com
Central Neurology- 2201 Central Ave
St. Petersburg, Fl. 33713
Joram Roukes
Netherlands
Netherlands-born Joram Roukes is an internationally working fine artist recognized for collage-like assemblages and perspectives on contemporary culture. His playful compositions build narrative and irony through balanced tension and impressionistic images. Roukes is currently represented by Galleri Benoni in Denmark, Thinkspace Gallery in California, and StolenSpace Gallery in London.
Website: www.joramroukes.com
Hideaway Cafe – 1756 Central Ave
St. Petersburg, FL. 33712
Jose Mertz
Miami, FL
An artist and image-maker based in Miami, Jose Mertz pushes an experimental style inspired by ancient civilizations, science fiction, eastern philosophy, and the supernatural. Embracing multimedia platforms, his work ranges from traditional painting and murals, to product design on t-shirts and stickers.
Website: http://www.josemertz.com
FRSTeam – 1701 1st Ave S
St. Petersburg, FL. 33712
Jujmo
Tampa, FL
Tampa-based artist Jujmo brings her affinity for color to life through drawings and paintings of happy, intertwined worlds. Fanciful, cartoonish, and strange creatures collide in her densely patterned compositions on walls, canvases, and even shoes and cars.
Website: www.jujmo.com
Benson Worley Arch. – 276 Dr M.L.K. Jr St N
St. Petersburg, FL. 33705
Stephen Palladino
Los Angeles, CA
New York-born artist Stephen Palladino creates work combining raw, expressive mark making with tight and clean lines. Building upon his childhood obsession with cartoons and graffiti, Palladino creates characters that are slick and gritty, dark and lowbrow, mashed up with hidden layers of popular imagery and dialogue. Commissioned by Lady Gaga, Absolut Vodka, Reebok, and others, Palladino is currently based in Los Angeles and presented his first solo gallery show there in 2015.
Website: www.palladinoart.com
Mayflower Building – 251 10th St N, St. Petersburg, FL 33705
Alex Pardee
Orlando, FL
Alex Pardee is a world-renowned multi-media designer and illustrator who has brought his unique aesthetic to music, film, animation, apparel, comics, and more. A recent San Francisco Bay Area transplant, Alex’ imagination has spawned original and prolific characters as catalogued in his books, Awful/Resilient and Doppelgangers, and exhibited in galleries throughout the US and beyond.
Website: www.alexpardee.com
Instagram: @alexpardee
Classic Architectural – 2063 1st Ave S, St. Petersburg, FL 33712
Angela Delaplane
Tampa, FL
Angela Delaplane is the founder of Delaplane Studios, a Tampa-based creative studio focusing on original paintings and drawings, murals & commissioned artwork. Angela’s mural work can be seen across Florida including Pinewoods Elementary in Estero, Cape Coral Hospital, WestShore Mall in Tampa, and more.
Website: www.delaplanestudios.com
Instagram: @delaplanestudios
Gulfshore Bank – 965 Central Ave, St. Petersburg, FL 33705
Apexer
San Francisco, CA
Apexer is a street artist who utilizes his foundation in graffiti and calligraphy to create colorful and complex pattern work on walls from Las Vegas to New York. Part of the Gestalt Collective that engages in collaborative murals in San Francisco, Apexer is a leader in the Bay Area art scene who has curated several mural projects and been featured in documentaries and publications on the area.
Website: http://theapexer.com/
Instagram: @apexer
Buster’s Antiques – 2536 Central Ave, St. Petersburg, FL 33712
Jade Rivera
Lima, Peru
“Jade” Rivera is a self-taught fine artist and muralist based in Lima, Peru. A prolific and thoughtful painter who often depicts his cultural experiences in his work, Jade has been recognized for his large format murals and small thumbnails across the world including Colombia, Poland, Mexico, and most recently the United Arab Emirates.
Website: http://jadeuno.com/
Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/RIVERAJADE
Instagram: @jade1rivera
FRST by Rodgers – 1720 Central Ave, St. Petersburg, FL 33712
Dasic Fernandez
New York, NY
Born in Chile, Dasic Fernandez was lining the streets of Santiago in graffiti art till eventually moving to New York City, the spiritual home of both street art and hip hop. Celebrated internationally on lists of “Street Artists You Should Know,” Dasic is known for his figurative forms using bold colorways. His murals decorate urban landscapes from Miami to Detroit to New York.
Website: www.dasicfernandez.com
Instagram: @dasicfernandez
Cappa & Cappa Law – 1229 Central Ave, St. Petersburg, FL 33705
NoseGo
Philadelphia, PA
Yi “Nosego” Goodwin is a Philadelphia-based artist with a passion for illustration and media arts. His designs feature an assemblage of patterns, vibrant colors and characters derived from his imagination and his surrounding environment. His art has been featured in galleries across the country with murals across the globe from Germany to Mexico.
Website: www.nosego.com
Instagram: @nosego
