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New street art October-November 2014

As everything is about to grind to a halt, there is still a surprising amount of new works appearing on the streets of Montreal. It must be said that a few artists such as Stela have been particularly active lately. Incidently, only a selection of her new works are presented here. Most of the rest can be seen in the Wall2wallMTL spotlight on her work.

Bien que la saison tire à sa fin, il y a quand même un nombre surprenant de nouvelles oeuvres qui sont apparues dans les rues de Montréal. Il faut dire que certains artistes tels que Stela ont été particulièrement actifs. A ce sujet, seulement une sélection des nouvelles pièces de cette dernière sont présentées ici. Le reste peut être vu en visitant son profil Wall2wallMTL.


Walls

Waxhead (left), Ether (centre) and Turtle Caps (right) in the alley between St-Laurent and Clark.

Waxhead in the alley between St-Laurent and Clark.

Waxhead in the alley between St-Laurent and Clark.

Mural on a Plateau school by Art Du Commun for Muralité.

Gene Pendon on Savoie.

Homsik in the Plateau.

Homsik in the Plateau.

One of two pieces on St-Laurent by Bryan Beyung (see also next).

One of two pieces on St-Laurent by Bryan Beyung (see also above).

Unidentified artist in alley between St-Laurent and Clark.


Wheatpastes

Lovebot wheatpastes in the alley between St-Denis and Drolet.

Lovebot wheatpastes in the alley between St-Denis and Drolet.

Lovebot (left) and Turtle Caps (right) wheatpastes in a Plateau alley.

Turtle Caps wheatpaste in the alley between St-Denis and Drolet.

52Hz (top) and Turtle Caps (bottom) in a Plateau alley.

Futur Lasor Now has unleashed a new lasorbird on our city.

Poster by Kat behind the offices of LNDMRK.

Poster by Kat in the alley between St-Laurent and Clark.

Kat poster in Mile End.

Stela (left) and Swarm (right) on St-Laurent.

Stela (left, right) and Swarm (centre) in a Plateau End alley.

Swarm (top) and Stela (bottom).

Stela paste-up.

Paste-up by Stela.

Mini-poster by Stela.

Stela on doilie.

Stela on doilie.

Stela doilie montage

Red Bandit (top left) and Swarm (top right, bottom) for Decolonizing Street Art.

ROC514 (left) and Sien514 (right) wheatpaste version of a previously seen sticker.

Wheatpaste by an unidentified artist in parking lot on Mont-Royal.


Monochrome bombing and drawings

Cryote in a Plateau End alley.

Cryote (top), Snail from the WC crew (middle) and someone representing the WZRDS GNG (bottom).

Snail from the WC crew.

One more by Snail from the WC crew.

One more by Snail from the WC crew, this one found in the alley between St-Laurent and Clark.

Quickie by Snail from the WC crew. More similar to this have been found.


Other

Wood-up (painted wood cut) by Waxhead and Starkey.

Wood-up (painted wood cut) by Waxhead and Starkey.

More of these clay pieces by Zenka have been found here and there in the Plateau/Mile End. This one tells a story taking place in 2038 (a sticker variation is listed below).

Clay piece by Zenka. This one states “#takeaselfiebaby”.

Clay piece by Zenka, stating “#endroitofficieldebisous”.


Stickers

New sticker by Waxhead clashing old photographs with his crazy world.

Waxhead

Waxhead.

Ether has once again been busy sticker slapping around the Plateau. This sticker and the seven ones below are all new.

Ether

Ether

Ether

Ether

Ether

Ether

Ether

Hand drawn sticker by Grim aka Grimjob69 aka Michael Shantz.

Two more hand drawn stickers by Grim aka Grimjob69 aka Michael Shantz.

Turtle Caps

Turtle Caps

Lovebot

Sticker montage by Futur Lasor Now.

New sticker on a familiar theme by WhatIsAdam.

New sticker on a familiar theme by Futur Lasor Now.

Hand drawn sticker by Stela for Halloween.

Zenka (also see ‘Other’ section above for a clay version of this).

Stickers/small paste-ups by Homsik.

Various stickers by Stela (centre), Homsik (centre right), Naps (top centre), Futur Lasor Now (top left) and other unidentified friends.

Swarm or Zola for Decolonizing Street Art.

New street art and graffiti October 2014

With a bit of delay because I was away on vacation, here are the new works discovered during October 2014.

Avec un peu de retard dû à mes récentes vacances, voici les nouvelles oeuvres découvertes au cours d’octobre 2014.

Painted walls

Omen mural in Ville St-Laurent; photo © Mu.

Waxhead in the alley between St-Laurent and Clark.

ROC514 piece in a Plateau alley.

Five Eight on Savoie.

LS (Eles)

LS (Eles)

LS (Eles)

Hand-drawn pieces

ROC514 has been very busy drawing her iconic bird around the Plateau and Mile-End.

One more by ROC514. More purple pieces similar to this one were also found.

Pasted pieces

Toronto’s Lovebot has been pasting and slapping stickers (see below) around central Montreal. This wheatpaste was found on Clark.

Turtle Caps (left) and Lovebot (right) wheatpastes in the alley between St-Laurent and Clark.

Futur Lasor Now wheatpaste (right) and unidentified artist (left) in alley between St-Laurent and Clark.

Poster by Futur Lasor Now, 2 variations, various locations, usually found individually.

Turtle Caps wheatpaste in a Mile End alley.

New poster by Kat in this Plateau alley.

New poster by Kat in this Mile End alley.

Pasted poster by unidentified artist.

Larger pasted version of a collaboration between ROC514 and Waxhead previously seen in sticker form.

Pasted ROC514 collaboration with 69 aka 6ara9e, also seen as a sticker (see below).

Pasted ROC514 collaboration with Mr Chose aka Easythat3rd aka Easytrois, also seen as a sticker.

Swarm paw paste-ups found in the alley between St-Laurent and Clark.

Paste-up by Swarm.

Stencil by unidentified artist (top) and small paste-ups by Swarm (centre) and Stela (bottom) in the alley between St-Laurent and Clark.

Paste ups by Stela (left) and Swarm (right).

Paste-up by Stela.

Stela paste-up.

Poster by XRAY. Various locations around the St-Laurent x Sherbrooke neighbourhood.

Poster by XRAY. Various locations around the St-Laurent x Sherbrooke neighbourhood.

Bernard street and St-Laurent beneath it were plastered with dozens of these pages of drawings and text asking to “#takebackthecunt”.

More of the above asking to “#takebackthecunt”.

More of the above asking to “#takebackthecunt”.

Stickers

Lovebot. See also Lovebot wheatpastes above.

Lovebot

Lovebot

ROC514

ROC514 collaboration with Mr Chose aka Easythat3rd aka Easytrois. This was also found in larger paste-up (see above).

Collaboration sticker between 69 aka 6ara9e and ROC514. This was also found in larger paste-up (see above).

Il Flatcha

Bezoman

Halloween sticker by Stela.

Monkey King has been busy slapping and tagging around central Montreal.

This unidentified artist has also been busy covering the lower Mile-End with his/her mini-stickers.

More by the above unidentified artist.

More by the above unidentified artist.

Other

Clay piece by Zenka stating “#Letsairguitar” found on wall in alley between St-Laurent and Clark.

New street art and graffiti September-October 2014


Walls (and a few doors)

New Zoltan V mural in the alley between St-Denis and Drolet.

Collaboration between Zoltan V (top) and Hary (bottom) in the alley between St-Denis and Drolet (it’s been a week since I took this photo and since then the bottom part has been graffitied over).

Mural by William Patrick and Adam Sajkowski on Savoie.

Mural by XRAY on Savoie.

Futur Lasor Now (left), FEone (centre) and Turtle Caps (right) under the Ville-Marie expressway.

Big piece by Zdey in central Montreal.

Piece by ROC514 – who’s been really active lately – in the alley between St-Denis and Drolet.

Piece by ROC514 in the alley between St-Laurent and Clark.

Labrona (bottom) and artist who asked to remain anonymous (top), in alley behind St-Denis.

Waxhead in Plateau End.

Cryote representing the Wzrds Gng in a Plateau alley.

Cryote representing the Wzrds Gng in the alley between St-Denis and Drolet.

Jerome Mesnager on wall next to Arsenal (where an expo called Current and featuring some of Montreal’s finest street artists was held in early October).

Piece by an unidentified artist on door in the alley between St-Laurent and Clark.


Wheatpastes

Collaboration between Futur Lasor Now and Turtle Caps in Chinatown back alley.

Another collaboration between Futur Lasor Now and Turtle Caps, this one on St-Joseph (the FLN wheatpaste has also been found by itself in other locations in the neighbourhood).

WhatIsAdam (left) and Stikki Peaches (right), both just back from New York City. Wheatpastes are in Cité du Multimédia (1/3).

WhatIsAdam (left) and Stikki Peaches (right), wheatpastes are in Cité du Multimédia (2/3).

WhatIsAdam (left) and Stikki Peaches (right), wheatpastes are in Cité du Multimédia (3/3).

Makenoize (top) and Tava (bottom; previously seen elsewhere) in Cité du Multimédia.

Tava wheatpaste in Chinatown.

Wheatpaste by Bryan Keith Lanier (various locations).

Wheatpaste by XRAY.

Wheatpaste by XRAY, many locations in lower Plateau / Quartier des Spectacles.

Wheatpaste by Kat in alley between St-Laurent and Clark.

Wheatpaste by Lily Luciole in alley between St-Laurent and Clark.

Wheatpaste by Toronto’s Lovebot on des Pins.

Wheatpaste by Toronto’s Lovebot on in Plateau End alley.

Wheatpaste by an unidentified artist in the McGill Ghetto.

Wheatpaste by Toest(?).


Stencils, graffiti, etc.

Stencils by an unidentified artist on the wall of the Arsenal (where an expo called Current and featuring some of Montreal’s finest street artists was held in early October).

One more stencil by the same unidentified artist as above.

Garbage Beauty are back from Paris and active again in the streets of Montreal.

One more by Garbage Beauty.

Futur Lasor Now beneath Ville-Marie expressway (in front of piece displayed near the top of this page).

ROC514 on in the Plateau.

A number of new diamond mirrors by Le Diamantaire have popped up in the streets of central Montreal over the past few weeks.


Stickers

Collaboration sticker between ROC514 and Waxhead.

Collaboration sticker between ROC514 and Zero Productivity.

Collaboration sticker between ROC514 and Sien514.

Variation on a classic by Futur Lasor Now.

Turtle Caps ahead of Halloween.

This is *not* WhatIsAdam.

Ether has been very busy slapping different stickers around the Plateau and Mile End.

Ether

Ether

Ether

Ether

Mini-sticker by Beck.

Mini-sticker by Beck.

Mini-sticker by Beck.

Hand-drawn sticker by Meat.

Hand-drawn sticker by Meat.

Zdey has been active lately (see also graffiti higher up on this page).

One more sticker by Zdey.

New street art and graffiti September 2014 part 2

September was busy for Montreal’s street artists, so here’s a second post about new pieces that have popped up or that have finally been completed during the last month.

Les artistes street de Montréal ont été assez occupés pendant le mois de septembre, ce qui justifie la publication d’un second article présentant les créations apparues au cours du dernier mois et celles qui ont finalement été achevées après plusieurs mois de travail.


Walls

Mural by Dré, Dodo Osé and Zek for Ashop in Côte-des-Neiges.

Mural by Five Eight in the Plateau.

Mural by Rafael Sottolichio in Petite-Patrie.

Mural by Annie Hamel in the Village.

Mural by Botkin on Savoie (three more murals on Savoie are nearly completed or in progress, stay tuned).

Free5 (left), Waxhead and Turtle Caps in the Plateau.

Stela and Selena Gomez representing the Witch Gang, in the alley between St-Laurent and Clark (bottom left corner is by Swarm for Decolonizing Street Art).

Another piece was done by Stela on the Fairmount end of the same alley between St-Laurent and Clark.

Oram 79 at the Rouen legal graffiti tunnel.

IAmBatman at the Rouen legal graffiti tunnel.

Piece by Snipe from an Art Gang/123Klan prod in the Quartier des Spectacles.

The 123Klan‘s Scien from an Art Gang/123Klan prod in the Quartier des Spectacles.

The 123Klan‘s Klor from an Art Gang/123Klan prod in the Quartier des Spectacles.

Unidentified writer from an Art Gang/123Klan prod in the Quartier des Spectacles.

Greasy Jim piece in the alley between St-Laurent and Clark.

The Mathieu Connery installation on the corner of St-Christophe and Marie-Anne appears to be finished.

Labrona on the door of an abandoned building in Rosemont.

Abstract mural by Matt W Moore in Plateau End.


Wheatpastes, etc

New wheatpastes by Féfine (centre) and Futur Lasor Now (right) were added to an older one by Tava (left). In Mile End.

Futur Lasor Now poster, with older works by Pnda (top left) and Swarm for Decolonizing Street Art (bottom), in alley between St-Laurent and Clark.

Mono Sourcil (left) and Labrona (right) wheatpastes in the Quartier Latin.

Makenoize transformed pipes into urban dragonflies (photo © Makenoize).

One more by Makenoize (photos © Makenoize).

Stencil of Smiley face on board by Makenoize, between older graffiti murals by Grito Raices on the left and La Paria (Astro, Zema, Rage and friends) on the right. In Mile End.

Miss Me wheatpaste in Petite-Patrie.

Miss Me wheatpaste in Petite-Patrie.

Miss Me wheatpaste in Petite-Patrie.

Zola wheatpaste found in Mile End.

Wheatpaste by Albar on the George General d’Auto Reparation.

Poster by Kat in the alley between St-Laurent and Clark.

Paste-up by Stela in this Mile End alley.

National Zombi paste-up in Mile End.

National Zombi paste-up in Griffintown.

National Zombi paste-up in Griffintown.

Wheatpaste by Zu in this Mile End alley.

Wheatpaste by Zu in this Mile End alley.

Paste-upmontage by A in B here and there over central Montreal.

Paste-upmontage by A in B here and there over central Montreal.

Paste-upmontage by A in B here and there over central Montreal.


Stencils and hand drawn pieces

Waxhead in the Plateau.

ROC514 drawing. Also visible is a tag by Down as well as stickers by ROC514 and Robert Robert (commercial).

ROC514 drawing in the alley between St-Laurent and Clark.

Stencilled New Regime tags have popped up all over the walls and sidewalks of the city; colours vary.

Small drawing by an unidentified artist in this Mile End alley.


Stickers

Sticker by Waxhead.

Sticker by Swarm.

New collaboration sticker by ROC514 with Arson.

New collaboration sticker by ROC514 with Ekro.

Stickers by Stela (purple Starchild), Selena Gomez, and friends.

Mini-poster by Il Flatcha.

This unidentified artist has been posting new variations on his/her mini-stickers.

Sticker by Ugly(?).

Sticker by Smegma.

Sticker by an unidentified artist.

New street art and graffiti September 2014


Walls

The first two murals below are part of the revitalization programme of rue Savoie, behind the Bibliothèque Nationale. More murals are in the works on that street, so stay tuned.

Les deux premières murales ci-dessous font partie du plan de revitalisation de la rue Savoie, derrière la Bibliothèque Nationale. D’autres murales sont en cours de production sur cette même rue, j’en parlerai lorsqu’elles seront complétées.

Gene Pendon mural on Savoie. The mural is a tribute to Innu women.

Mural on Savoie by Les Hommes De Lettres.

Mural by Zoltan V and Gives in the St-Denis|Drolet alley between Duluth and Roy.

Mural by En Masse featuring Dan Buller (woman in helmet), Cheryl Voisine (woman with hair), Turtle Caps (middle), Jeremy Shantz (top), Cryote (right) and of course Jason Botkin tying it all together, in an alley in Villeray. This mural, like the next two on this page, was created during the recent street fair titled “A pieds ou à vélo”.

Mural by En Masse featuring Dan Buller and others, in a Villeray alley.

Piece on garage door by MC Baldassari for En Masse, in a Villeray alley. It is found to the right of the mural above.

Mathieu Connery installation on the corner of St-Christophe and Marie-Anne. I was told the installation is not finished, but the artist has not worked on it for about a month.

Tribute mural to Oliver Jones by Dan Buller and Five Eight in Little Burgundy.

The Hsix tribute mural to Lea Roback in the Plateau appears to be finished. For Muralité.

Mural by Benjamin Picard, Mylène Chabrol, Mathias Vouters and Marie Gosselin in the Plateau. For Muralité.

This smaller piece by Emmanuel Laflamme for the 2014 edition of the Under Pressure Festival was completed after the end of the festival.

Lith and Fezat at the Cabot x Gilmore walls in the South-West.

The 123Klan‘s Scien (left) and Klor (right) at the Cabot x Gilmore walls in the South West.

Five Eight piece in St-Henri.

Graffiti mural by Hary in the St-Denis|Drolet alley.


Wheatpastes and small painted/stencilled works

Miss Me has been taking her new ‘girls’ out on the town. This one was found in Mile End.

Miss Me wheatpaste found in the Plateau.

Miss Me wheatpaste found in Mile End.

Miss Me wheatpaste found in Mile End.

Tava‘s Screaming Hearts paste-ups now exist in new colour variations (see below for more).

One more new variation on Tava‘s Screaming Hearts paste-ups.

Wheatpaste by Nova in Mile End.

Labrona (right) and Mono Sourcil (left) wheatpastes in the Quartier des Spectacles.

Labrona (right) and Mono Sourcil (left) wheatpastes in the Quartier des Spectacles.

Painted construction sign found on the corner of St-Denis and Marie-Anne, by an unidentified artist who may be associated with Decolonizing Street Art.

Wheatpaste on wall in the alley behind St-Denis, presumably by the same unidentified artist as above.

Wheatpaste by Pyramid Oracle in Mile End.

Wheatpaste by Swarm for Decolonizing Street Art in the alley between St-Laurent and Clark.

Wheatpaste by Mono Sourcil in the Quartier des Spectacles.

Il Flatcha art on sticker sheet.

Makenoize stencilled in Mile End.

Makenoize pasted in Mile End.


Pétanque à la place d’Youville

The Old Montreal SDC has been setting up place d’Youville for a string of events called ‘Pétanque à la place d’Youville’. In the process they hired Montreal artist Tava to add some colour to the area. He has spray-painted his art on the concrete beams closing off Place d’Youville and on its picnic tables. The image gallery below shows five of the beams and two of the tables. Work was in progress at the time these photos were taken, so more is to come.

La SDC du Vieux-Montreal a réaménagé la place d’Youville pour une suite d’événements intitulée ‘Pétanque à la place d’Youville’. L’artiste montréalais Tava a été engagé pour mettre un peu de vie dans cet espace urbain. Il a peint à la cannette les blocs de béton délimitant la place ainsi que les tables de pique-nique qui s’y trouvent. La gallerie-photo ci-dessous présente cinq blocs de béton et deux tables de pique-nique. D’autres sont à venir, le travail étant en cours d’exécution au moment où ces photos furent prises.


Stickers

One of Tava‘s many new colour variations for his Screaming Hearts (see also paste-ups above).

Sticker by Homsik.

Futur Lasor Now

A new variation on an older design by Futur Lasor Now.

A new variation on an older design by Futur Lasor Now.

A new variation on an older design by Futur Lasor Now.

Mono Sourcil

Mouthful

The western Plateau/lower Mile-End has been plastered lately with variations of this hand drawn sticker by an unidentified artist.

One more variation on the above hand drawn sticker by an unidentified artist.

New street art August-September 2014

Click on any image below to see in full size
Cliquez sur les images ci-dessous pour voir en plein format

Walls

K6A mural by Monk.e and Axe in Hochelaga.

Trackside piece in NDG by Cems for Ashop (#1 of 3, see below).

Trackside piece in NDG by Zek for Ashop (#2 of 3, see above and below).

Trackside piece in NDG by Dodo Osé for Ashop (#3 of 3, see others above).

Mural presumably by the Wzrds Gng in central Montreal.

The Phlegm mural from the 2013 edition of the Under Pressure Festival has been ‘repaired’ (the bottom part was covered in graffiti).


Wheatpastes and paste-ups

Poster by Tava in the McGill ghetto.

Poster by Tava in Griffintown.

Small paste-up by Futur Lasor Now, various locations Plateau/Mile-End.

Wheatpastes by Kat (left) and Swarm (right; not new) on Mont-Royal.

Small paste-up by Il Flatcha.

Small poster by Il Flatcha found in parc Jeanne-Mance.

Madame Gilles poster, various locations.

Madame Gilles poster, various locations, many other variations exist.

Wheatpaste by unidentified artist in central Montreal.

Unidentified artist for Decolonizing Street Art on Clark.

Wheatpaste by You Go Girl, various locations (this one on Coloniale).

Poster by Fasi, found in many variations around the Plateau.

Poster by an unidentified artist, found in many variations around the Plateau.


Stickers

Futur Lasor Now, ‘cereal’ offender.

Collaboration sticker between HoarKor aka HRKR and ROC514.

Collaboration between ROC514 and 69 aka 6ara9e.

ROC514

Collaboration between ROC514 and D-Evil.

Collaboration between ROC514 and Cup O’Joe.

Small paste-up by Homsik

Small paste-up by Homsik

Waxhead sticker.

Small Waxhead paste-up.

IAmBatman

Miss Me has the whole world in her hands.

Stickers by Stela.

Stickers by Stela.

Shifty Cat

Il Flatcha sticker sheet found in Parc Jeanne-Mance.

Il Flatcha sticker sheet found in Parc Jeanne-Mance.

K6A crew.

Unidentified artist.

Not art, pure promo!


Other

Waxhead drawing on Clark.

Stencil by unidentified artist in the alley between St-Laurent and Clark.

Red Ball Project

Here’s a recap of the seven locations for the Montreal installment of Kurt Perschke’s Red Ball Project.

Voici un récapitulatif du volet montréalais du Red Ball Project de l’artiste Kurt Perschke.

Day 1 – 31 August: Biosphère
Photo © Mathieu Dion.

Day 2 – 1 September: Place des Arts (photo 1/2).

Day 2 – 1 September: Place des Arts (photo 2/2).

Day 3 – 2 September: Quartier des spectacles (photo 1/2).

Day 3 – 2 September: Quartier des spectacles (photo 2/2).

Day 4 – 3 September: Monuments Berson, St-Laurent (photo 1/2).

Day 4 – 3 September: Monuments Berson, St-Laurent (photo 2/2).

Day 5 – 4 September: Gare Jean-Talon (photo 1/2).

Day 5 – 4 September: Gare Jean-Talon (photo 2/2).

Day 6 – 5 September: BMO St-Jacques, Old Montréal (photo 1/2).

Day 6 – 5 September: BMO St-Jacques, Old Montréal (photo 2/2).

Day 7 – 6 September: Parc Lafontaine (photo 1/2).

Day 7 – 6 September: Parc Lafontaine (photo 2/2).

Under Pressure Festival 2014

Here’s a gallery featuring all the works produced during the 2014 edition of the Under Pressure Festival. For other editions, see the general Under Pressure Festival page.

Cet article présente les oeuvres produites au cours de l’édition 2014 du Festival Under Pressure. Pour les autres éditions, voir la page générale du Festival Under Pressure.


Under Pressure 2014 logo, art by Miss Me.

Under Pressure 2014 logo, art by Miss Me.


The walls

Five Eight and Earth Crusher.

3 walls of HoarKor aka HRKR.

K6A featuring Fleo, Monk.e, Dodo Osé, Serak, Axe, Dkae and Saer.

Eska (bottom letters), Asyne (middle letters), Sufok aka Ofusk (top letters) and Rouks on figurative material, plus an older Serak above.

Hsix and Esprit (the dancing punk guy is a preserved older tribute to ‘Steeve’ by Quermit and Cheeb).

Featuring Ms Teri (top left) Fonki (other character), Sobe, Warez and perhaps others.

Mace (top left), Maysr (top right), etc.

MSHL (bottom left), Debza (bottom right), Joe, Seaz and Flow (letters at the top).

Ether (top left), Mersh (top right) and Shok (bottom).

Scribe

Featuring Gnius (middle left in red), Peyo/Yope (middle, right of center), Liza (right of Peyo), Skor (top right) amongst many others.

Crazy Apes wall.

Lapin, Maddog and Namer.


180 Ste-Catherine est

General view of the building

Miss Me in the top windows

Miss Me in the top windows

Miss Me in the top windows

Miss Me in the top windows

Miss Me in the top windows

Marc-André Giguère on bottom window.

Gribouilliz on bottom window.

Le Monstr on bottom window.

MSHL on bottom window.

Bonar on bottom window.

Alex Produkt (left), Tyler K Rauman (right) on bottom window.

Debza on bottom window.

Isaac Holland on bottom window.


210 Ste-Catherine est

General view of the building

Jonathan Himsworth / Stadium Art Movement

Emmanuel Laflamme

Emmanuel Laflamme
(this piece was done in early september after the end of the festival)

Mono Sourcil, Labrona, Turtle Caps, Alex Produkt

Turtle Caps, Mono Sourcil, Labrona

Turtle Caps, Mono Sourcil, Labrona

Mono Sourcil, Futur Lasor Now


Unofficial pieces on board walls

Regimental One Ton

Chris Dyer

MC Baldassari

Okies

Le Monstr

M. Abstrakt

Aude Maeva

Bryan Keith Lanier

IAmBatman

Waxhead

Futur Lasor Now

Andy Dass

unidentified artist

IAmBatman

Paulie H

Debza

unidentified artist


Container on rue Boisbriand

Mono Sourcil side.

Pec? side.


Other

additional Miss Me wheatpaste on boarded wall

Cabane à sucre, a secret art gallery

Over the 12 days leading up to August 29, over 40 artists mostly from Montreal got together and created an open-air art gallery on the walls of the interior courtyard of a three-storey building in the lower Plateau, near the Quartier des Spectacles. The secret project was the brainchild of New York City expat Turtle Caps and was inspired by Surplus Candy, a similar project put together at the end of last year by New York City-based pun-loving street artist Hanksy. The Montreal project was actually titled ‘Cabane à sucre’ as a sweet reference to Hanksy’s Surplus Candy.

Turtle Caps found the space a few months ago and knew that something special could be done with it. He expects the building to be torn down in the near future to make way for new condos and wanted to give it a final makeover – a swan song of sorts. The line-up of artists that he managed to get involved are all friends. Most of them are street artists, but a few had never worked outside or on walls before.

Turtle Caps stresses that he did not want this to be a commercial event, with entrance fee and commemorative DVDs. His intention was to counterbalance the growing influence of certain galleries and key players in the Montreal art scene who are increasingly dictating what’s cool and what’s not. Because it is only accessible through private apartments, the Cabane à sucre gallery will remain a private one, never to be made available to the general public. However, in order to give a bit of publicity to his fellow artists who got involved solely for the love of art and creation, without funding of any kind, he agreed to give media and street art enthusiasts such as myself access to the gallery, by appointment, one day only, on August 29, 2014.

Pendant les 12 jours précédant le 29 août dernier, une quarantaine d’artistes montréalais se sont réunis pour créer une gallerie d’art à ciel ouvert sur les murs de la cour intérieure d’un édifice de 3 étages du bas-Plateau, près du quartier des spectacles. Ce projet secret est l’initiative de l’artiste Turtle Caps, originaire de New York mais très actif à Montréal depuis quelques années. La gallerie a été intitulée ‘Cabane à sucre’, un clin d’oeil à Surplus Candy, un projet similaire monté l’année dernière à New York par l’artiste Hanksy.

Turtle Caps a découvert l’espace en question il y a huit mois and a immédiatement vu son potentiel. Il s’attend à ce que l’édifice soit détruit sous peu pour faire place à de nouveaux condos et voulait lui donner son chant du cygne avant l’arrivée des grues de démolition. Les artistes qui ont répondu à son invitation sont tous des amis. La plupart viennent de la scène street, mais quelques uns n’avaient jamais travaillé à l’extérieur ou sur un mur avant de recevoir l’invitation.

Turtle Caps souligne qu’il ne voulait pas faire du projet un événement commercial, avec prix d’entrée et DVD commémoratif. Son intention était de dénoncer ou de contrebalancer l’influence grandissante de certaines galeries et acteurs de la scène d’art montréalaise dictant ce qui est cool et ce qui ne l’est pas. Parce qu’accessible seulement via des logements privés, la gallerie Cabane à sucre est vouée à demeurer privée et ne sera jamais vue du grand public. Ceci étant dit, afin de redonner un peu de visibilité aux artistes qui se sont impliqués seulement par amour de l’art, sans subvention, il a accepté de donner accès aux médias et aux passionnés de street art, sur rendez-vous seulement, le 29 août 2014.

See also / voir aussi:
Cult Montreal’s exclusive story announcing the media day
Frontispice du journal Métro Montréal, 29 août
Cult Montreal’s image gallery

General view / vue générale

View from the top floor

Floors 2 and 3, northern wall

Top floor / étage supérieur

En Masse (left), Laurence Vallières (centre), Il Flatcha (right)

The sun is beaming down on QBNYC aka Turtle Caps as he works on the only unfinished piece of the project

Valerie Bastille and Swarm (wall), Alysha Farling (installation).

Ms Teri

Lina Kretzschmar

Sculptures by Laurence Vallières

Alex Produkt, Citizan (top left paste-up) and installation by Alysha Farling.

Pascale Lamoureux-Miron(?)

52Hz, Citizan (bottom right).

Mirabolle, Okies.

Tava (photo © Tava).

Andy Dass (left) and Waxhead (right).

Second floor / 2ième étage

View of northern wall, 2nd floor:
En Masse, Miss Me, Waxhead, Alysha Farling, M. Abstrakt, Oram 79, IAmBatman, Emmanuel Laflamme, Mastrocola

En Masse

Miss Me

Miss Me, Waxhead, Alysha Farling, all framed by M. Abstrakt

M. Abstrakt, Oram 79, IAmBatman, Emmanuel Laflamme.

Mastrocola (wall) and Alysha Farling (installation).

View of eastern wall, 2nd floor:Chris Dyer, MC Baldassari, Labrona

Chris Dyer

Labrona

Miss Me

Miss Me, Alysha Farling (installation at bottom) and Futur Lasor Now

Bonar (with a bit of Fonki on windows).

Miss Me

Xray

Kevin Ledo

Grazyna Adamska-Jarecka

Lily Luciole

Jonathan Himsworth / Stadium Art Movement

Ground floor / niveau sol

View of western wall, ground floor
Axe (back wall), Oram 79 (front) and Laurence Vallières (left at the back). The Oram 79 frame was actually done during the 2014 edition of Mural Festival.

Laurence Vallières

Ether / Benny Wilding

En Masse

Stela (girls) and Homsik (fuzzy creature).

Jason Botkin (photo © Lisa Sproull, Cult Montreal).

Waxhead (this was done during the 2014 edition of Mural Festival).

IAmBatman (this was done during the 2014 edition of Mural Festival).

HoarKor aka HRKR (part 1/3). Also visible on the left is a frame by Ms Teri which was done during the 2014 edition of Mural Festival.

HoarKor aka HRKR (part 2/3).

HoarKor aka HRKR (part 3/3).

New street art August 2014

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murals and other painted work

Axe‘s mural for Muralité in Mile End mural is finally completed.

Chris Dyer‘s tribute to skateboarder Jay Adams at the Parc Olympique tunnel.

One more little bit by Chris Dyer with the above tribute to Jay Adams at the Parc Olympique tunnel.

Labrona, Caron, Kashink in Little Burgundy (this is from earlier this summer, but I couldn’t photograph it properly until now because of cars parked in front).

Waxhead and Gawd, Duluth west of St-Laurent. Only Waxhead’s part (window and beneath) is new; it replaces earlier work also by him.

Unidentified artist, alley behind St-Denis.

Unidentified artist, alley behind St-Denis.


pasted work

WhatIsAdam, dressed-up garbage can, parc Jeanne-Mance (photo © WhatIsAdam).

WhatIsAdam, dressed-up garbage can, parc Jeanne-Mance (photo © WhatIsAdam).

Unknown artist, printed text on pasted paper on the corner of Marie-Anne and Laval.

Pasted poster by Kat in the Plateau.

Wheatpaste by an unidentified artist in Mile End.

Madame Gilles poster found in the Plateau.

Madame Gilles poster found in the Plateau.

Madame Gilles poster found in the Plateau.

Paste-up by ROC514 with Cup O’Joe and Purplesmoke17 (Sleepy Bunny), various locations.

Paste-up by Sien514, various locations downtown.

Wheatpaste by Rage5 in alley behind St-Denis.

New sticker montage by Futur Lasor Now.

New sticker by Waxhead.

Small paste-up by Waxhead.

Mini wheatpaste by Ohwell.