Street installations are a growing trend within the "street art

Street art

Street art is any art developed in public spaces — that is, "in the streets" — though the term usually refers to unsanctioned art, as opposed to government sponsored initiatives...

" movement. Whereas conventional street art/graffiti is done on surfaces/walls "street installations" use 3-D objects/space to enhance/interact/interfere with the urban environment . Like graffiti, it is non-permission based and once the object/sculpture is installed it is left there by the artist. Street Installations are sometimes designed to be taken/moved by the public as part of interactive and ongoing "life" of the art work. Unlike graffiti, street installations are generally designed in such a way that no damage is done to the property or location in which the installation is placed.

Artists

Artists who are exploring or who have explored this field include:

• above
  Above (artist)
  ABOVE has been creating public art since 1995. Above is an international street artist who keeps his identity concealed. Above is known for his multi-layer/full color social and political stencils, spinning wooden "arrow mobile" installations, and large mural "word play" paintings. Above started...
  
  
• Revs
• Mark Jenkins
  Mark Jenkins
  Mark Jenkins is an American artist most widely known for the street installations he creates using box sealing tape. In addition to creating art, he also teaches his sculpture techniques through workshops in cities he visits...
  
  
• Leon Reid IV
  Leon Reid IV
  Leon Reid IV, also known as VERBS also known as Darius Jones, is an American artist widely credited as being among the pioneers of 21st century street art...
  
  
• Brad Downey
  Brad Downey
  Brad Downey is an American artist. He uses film, sculpture, painting and drawing to reflect on concepts about the Establishment versus the audience. Downey currently lives in Berlin.-Biography:...
  
  
• Banksy
  Banksy
  Banksy is a pseudonymous England-based graffiti artist, political activist, film director, and painter.His satirical street art and subversive epigrams combine irreverent dark humour with graffiti done in a distinctive stencilling technique...
  
  
• Mark Divo
  Mark Divo
  Mark Divo is a Luxembourgeois conceptual artist and curator who organises large scale interactive art projects incorporating the work of a number of well-known underground artists. His own work involves performance, photography, installation, often using found material.-Career:Between 1988 and...
  
  
• El Celso
  El Celso
  El Celso is a post-graffiti artist working on and off the streets of the United States. He was born in Newark, New Jersey and is currently active in the New York City area.-Career:...
  
  
• Graffiti Research Lab
  Graffiti Research Lab
  Graffiti Research Lab, founded by Evan Roth and James Powderly during their fellowships at the Eyebeam OpenLab, is an art group dedicated to outfitting graffiti writers, artists and protesters with open source technologies for urban communication. The members of the group experiment in a lab and in...
  
  
• Invader (artist)
  Invader (artist)
  Invader is a French urban artist who pastes up characters from and inspired by the Space Invaders game, made up of small coloured square mosaic tiles that form a space invader character murel...
  
  
• Lennie Lee
  Lennie Lee
  Lennie Lee is a South African conceptual artist who lives and works in London.-Life and career:Lennie Lee is a British artist born in Johannesburg, South Africa. He moved to the UK in 1960. He was educated at Dulwich college in London before winning a scholarship to study philosophy at Christ...
  
  
• Mark McGowan
  Mark McGowan
  Mark McGowan is a UK-based performance artist currently working at the Camberwell College of Arts, who has entered the news a number of times for his unconventional approach to public protest and demonstration...
  
  
• Nsumi
  Nsumi
  Nsumi or Nsumi Collective, is a contemporary art collective based in New York City.Members of Nsumi claim that the group spawns art collectives and experimental groups through a gift economy consulting project, workshops, art exhibitions and performances, zines, academic research, and public...
  
  
• Patrick Moya 
• Will St Leger
  Will St Leger
  -Career:St Leger's stencils are humorous and sometimes surreal fusion of icons, events and images from popular culture. Previously a graphic designer and former Greenpeace activist-Art Intervention:...
  
  
• WAZA,China

See also

• Art intervention
  Art intervention
  Art intervention is an interaction with a previously existing artwork, audience or venue/space. It has the auspice of conceptual art and is commonly a form of performance art. It is associated with the Viennese Actionists, the Dada movement and Neo-Dadaists...
  
  
• Culture jamming
  Culture jamming
  Culture jamming, coined in 1984, denotes a tactic used by many anti-consumerist social movements to disrupt or subvert mainstream cultural institutions, including corporate advertising. Guerrilla semiotics and night discourse are sometimes used synonymously with the term culture jamming.Culture...
  
  
• Graffiti
  Graffiti
  Graffiti is the name for images or lettering scratched, scrawled, painted or marked in any manner on property....
  
  
• Installation art
  Installation art
  Installation art describes an artistic genre of three-dimensional works that are often site-specific and designed to transform the perception of a space. Generally, the term is applied to interior spaces, whereas exterior interventions are often called Land art; however, the boundaries between...
  
  
• Roundabout dog
  Roundabout dog
  A roundabout dog is a form of street installation, that began occurring in the autumn of 2006, and continued for the rest of the year with sporadic occurrences since then. The phenomenon consists of anonymous people placing homemade dog sculptures, typically made of wood in roundabouts...
  
  
• Street art
  Street art
  Street art is any art developed in public spaces — that is, "in the streets" — though the term usually refers to unsanctioned art, as opposed to government sponsored initiatives...
  
  
• Salon des Tree
  Salon des Tree
  Salon des Tree was a series of three renegade art exhibits that took place in 1995 and 1996 in New York City's Central Park. The events were organized by artists Austin Ackles and Mary Jones, and were held in the heavily wooded rambles section of the park without permits or approval from park...
  
  

External links

• Banksy
  Banksy
  Banksy is a pseudonymous England-based graffiti artist, political activist, film director, and painter.His satirical street art and subversive epigrams combine irreverent dark humour with graffiti done in a distinctive stencilling technique...
  
   "Artist's cold call cuts off phone" (BBC) http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4887660.stm
• Darius Jones (Leon Reid) on Australian Public Radio http://www.woostercollective.com/images2/podcasts/DariusJonesMixdown.mp3
• Mark Jenkins
  Mark Jenkins
  Mark Jenkins is an American artist most widely known for the street installations he creates using box sealing tape. In addition to creating art, he also teaches his sculpture techniques through workshops in cities he visits...
  
   Interview with The Morning News
  The Morning News (online magazine)
  The Morning News is a U.S.-based daily online magazine founded in 1999 by Rosecrans Baldwin and Andrew Womack. It began as an email newsletter and in the fall of 2000 evolved into a news-oriented weblog with a New York focus...
  
   http://www.themorningnews.org/archives/galleries/let_no_man_scare_you.php
• Skewville New York City duo known for their urban/architectural installations
• Wooster Collective
  Wooster Collective
  Wooster Collective is a website founded in 2003 that showcases street art from around the world. It is dedicated to showcasing and celebrating ephemeral art placed on streets in cities around the world. Updated by Marc and Sara Schiller, the site also offers podcasting with music and interviews...
  
  's sub-category for street installations http://www.woostercollective.com/3d/
• New York Times article about the 2006 street art show at 11 Spring in New York's SoHo, which includes references to various installation artists