LOCATION : Kensington Market – Around the Park ARTWORK SYNOPSIS : “ANONYMOUS” – Lots of city wide changes have been speculated mostly as negative anticipations since the Mayor was elected few years ago. Whether this is true, is a matter of public opinion but we can hardly dispute the relevance of our truth premise by
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LOCATION : Dundas St W and Dufferin St – Blocks Around Lula Lounge ARTWORK SYNOPSIS : JOE ORTEGA – Splash Murals with a grant from the City of Toronto, completed it’s sixth mural in the BIA. The artwork was contributed by local artist and business owner – Lula Lounge. Stretching a little West and further
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LOCATION : Spadina Av and Queen St W – Area behind The Bombshelter ARTWORK SYNOPSIS : SPUD is a very prolific tag found pretty much most of west Toronto. ArtsyCity noticed its first occurrence during the second half of 2000s along St.Clair W on rooftops of few properties. Then there was a smiley character that
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LOCATION : Spadina Av and Queen St W – Close to The Bombshelter ARTWORK SYNOPSIS : JDILLA is a legendary beatsmith within Hip-Hop community, better yet, a higher caliber and accomplished music producer who is frequently referred to as King Of Beats. He is your favorite producer’s favorite producer — get it? The piece is
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LOCATION : Spadina Av and Queen St W – Close to The Bombshelter ARTWORK SYNOPSIS : FATHOM wearing the Indiana Jones alter ego. Drawing inspiration from the style of each other, It’s hard to say for sure who did most of this piece as it bears a name and a signature from FATHOM and ELICSER
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LOCATION : Bloor St W and Westmoreland Av – Besides El Cafecito ARTWORK SYNOPSIS : SIGHT is among the list of the most experienced local graffiti makers. With 20 years plus of street art activism starting from Victoria, his work is present in most of Toronto’s graffiti laden alley ways. This piece is signed as
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LOCATION : Bloor St W and Ossington Ave – Next to Taoos Dollar Mart ARTWORK SYNOPSIS : BIKING IN DOWNTOWN TORONTO is deadly dangerous. On the tarmac, bikers are thrust into a no-man’s land where they are supposed to obey traffic road rules excluding the rights enjoyed by drivers or pedestrians. Cyclists are constantly competing
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LOCATION : Queen St W and Dovercourt Rd – Behind Industrial Storm ARTWORK SYNOPSIS : CHEECH AND CHONG is a comedic duo with materials associated with the hippie movement and a love for smoking pot. Painted by MOTEL, the original sketch work stayed up for over four months before the creative process took a completion.
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LOCATION : College St and Bathurst St – On The Parking Lot Farside Wall ARTWORK SYNOPSIS : NO-SEE or rather KNOW-SEE is a gypsy type of graffiti artist from Toronto going around the country doing street art. ArtsyCity discovered him working on this piece with a bandana covering the face and had all his backpack
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LOCATION : Bloor St W and Dufferin St – Next to Bloorcourt Veterinary Clinic ARTWORK SYNOPSIS : ARTCHILD is an early generation of graffiti artist from Toronto. Perhaps he is the most prolific local artist by taking into consideration of the walls number which carry his amazing work and signature. With 20 years and counting
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LOCATION : College St and Spadina Ave – Next to Computer Systems Centre store ARTWORK SYNOPSIS : APPLE INC is the most influential company in innovation and revolution of personal computer. With the mercurial Steve Jobs as a major creative force; The 21st century world has watched an array of tech gadget introduction that are
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LOCATION : Dupont St & Lansdowne – The GO train bridge underpass area. ARTWORK SYNOPSIS : JOEL’s mural created a stir in the city of Toronto after the Mayor’s office authorized its erase. Apparently Joel was puzzled with the decision because it’s ironic for the city to pay for a public artwork that would never
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LOCATION : Dupont St & Lansdowne – The GO train bridge underpass area. ARTWORK SYNOPSIS : JOEL RICHARDSON is an Artist/Filmmaker with a twisted story of mural erase. ArtsyCity had a chance to meet with the other collaborator of the mural project while putting some final touches around the meditating man in a suit. He
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LOCATION : Yorkville – Cumberland Area. ARTWORK SYNOPSIS : DEMOCRATIC AWAKENING is a prevalent political state of mind all over across the globe. This piece was placed behind a metal box during the time of Canada’s 2011 elections which resulted with the installation of a new opposition party in the parliament. ArtsyCity renamed it to
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LOCATION : Graffiti Alley – Richmond and Tecumseth St. ARTWORK SYNOPSIS : GIL SCOTT-HERON is an undeniable talent among spoken words listeners. The poet and a recording artist whose syncopated spoken style and mordant critiques of politics, racism and mass media in pieces like “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised” made him a notable voice
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LOCATION : Graffiti Alley – Richmond and Portland St. ARTWORK SYNOPSIS : JR MINT is an aspiring rapster with guerilla marketing instincts that are heavily gravitating around current social media tactics. ArtsyCity have seen sticker graffiti, aerosol paints, load trucks covered with a message to check or download new mixtapes from artist’s websites. If you
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LOCATION : Yonge and Dundas Square – The Eaton Center. ARTWORK SYNOPSIS : CHALKMASTER DAVE is the undisputed chalkitti guru. Scattered numbers of chalk art are higher during the summer season and most of the mysterious sidewalk murals that ArtsyCity was lucky to encounter, could be traced back to Dave. There is a lot of
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LOCATION : Kensington Market. ARTWORK SYNOPSIS : CHALK LADY left her pretty companion character done in purely chalk. ArtsyCity assumes that she has a good number of chalkitti all over Toronto and positive that even CHALKMASTER DAVE will appreciate the femme-talente of the opposite gender. Chalk murals usually have the shortest life span so ArtsyCity
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LOCATION : EVERYWHERE IN TORONTO – Ideal Coffee Kensington Market. ARTWORK SYNOPSIS : GREGORY ALAN ELLIOTT overwhelms Toronto with love tags and down to earth poetry. You  can find the love guy’s love smiles arguably in every corner and on asphalt in the city. ArtysCity still wonders how he manages to be everywhere at the
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LOCATION : Ossington Av and Dundas St W – St Christopher House ARTWORK SYNOPSIS : Aside from having the best soccer team of young new immigrants in Toronto, St. Chris runs a Graffiti Transformation Program for youth and a bunch of other interesting community related activities. They set an example on how newcomers can be
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LOCATION :  Queen St W and Augusta Ave – Behind Leslieville Cheese Market. ARTWORK SYNOPSIS : SMUG put a Tom and Jerry show on the back of popular cheese store next to Java House. He’s been doing graffiti for about 6 years, noting that you don’t have to tag walls everywhere to master the art
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LOCATION : Somewhere around/inside Toronto City Hall. ARTWORK SYNOPSIS : DEADBOY is continuosly reminding all of us that “All great periods of culture have been periods of political decline.” Graffiti Artists in the city went into a tagging spree mode after the office of the Mayor started to enforce the city’s anti-graffiti by-law. ArtsyCity noticed
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LOCATION : Dupont St and Lansdowne – Under the GO train bridge ARTWORK SYNOPSIS : Politically charged graffiti has been increasingly popping out in different pockets of the city. This is a second time the math of people resembling the Conservatives politicians has been placed after the original short lived first attempt. It’s a very
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LOCATION : College St and Bathurst St –  Ace Of Spades Tattoo Shop. ARTWORK SYNOPSIS : POSER is perhaps the most prolific graffiti artist of the summer 2011. His signature character is ubiquitous all over west part of Toronto. The boy  has had a busy season. ArtsyCity managed to chat with him while transforming the
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LOCATION :  Church St and McGill St – On the wall of the parking lot ARTWORK SYNOPSIS : One of the many Jack Layton’s graffiti that sprung across Toronto to pay respect to the charismatic social democratic leader. There are still vibrant spray paints scattered in the city and it’s unfortunate that this particular stencil
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LOCATION : Yonge St and Glenville Ave – Behind the Mc Donald’s ARTWORK SYNOPSIS : This work by Flemingdon Neighbourhood Services was on TV to highlight inspiration behind creation whereby  the youth artists chose to honor fallen Canadian soldiers. The mural has been signed by artists JESSEY, KUNAL, MARIA, SATHEES and two others. ARTWORK STATUS
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LOCATION : Graffiti Alley – Behind Bohemian Gastro Pub. ARTWORK SYNOPSIS : Awesome finishing touch! Notice the added details on the Joker and the completed Queen of Hearts. Hailing from the midtown, NEKTAR has spread out his graffiti work in downtown area and also ArtsyCity managed to spot a hidden gem in Bloor West neighborhood. Follow
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LOCATION : Graffiti Alley – Behind Bohemian Gastro Pub. ARTWORK SYNOPSIS : This is work in progress by NEKTAR. ArtsyCity followed this piece since he started it, He was worried that some other Street Artist will taint his unfinished work and decided to reserve the Queen of Hearts area. A note on code of ethics among
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LOCATION : Susan Tibaldi Parkette. ARTWORK SYNOPSIS : This colorful resting Tucan was painted over Street Art I. The artist decided that the kids who come to play at the park need a fresh type of imagination. One of the crew members noted that he was using very low number of cans to complete the mural.
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LOCATION : Susan Tibaldi Parkette. ARTWORK SYNOPSIS : This piece  originally stood up for almost 8 years until the artist decided to give it a facelift in the mid summer of the year 2010. Waterfalls, komodo dragons and birds to name a few, are the part of little park decoration used to be found on
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