Home Now. All photos via A Love Letter For You, 2010
Steve Powers, the Philadelphian street artist—a.k.a. ESPO—has released a trailer for his upcoming documentary on a 50 mural public art project, A Love Letter For You. Art Observed interviewed the artist in August, when the action took place.
Video and more images after the jump…
Steve Powers- a famed graffiti artist known as ESPO, was born and raised in Philadelphia, and had his first museum solo show in Pennsylvania. In 1994 he moved to New York City. A Fulbright Scholar- Steve Powers painted a project similar to love letter in the streets of Dublin and Belfast, now returning to his hometown to conduct a massive graffiti project carrying the same title. The “Love Letter” is planned to be complete by Labor Day.
A mural from Love Letter Project curated by Steve Powers via Gradient
Related Links:
Steve Powers (Bio) [Deitch Projects]
Love Letter Project [A Love Letter For You]
A Love Letter Project [Design You Trust]
Artists Steven Powers Curated Love Letter Project [Gradient]
Steve Powers Philadelphia Mural Arts Project [Curated]
Steve Powers Love Letters to Philadelphia [The World’s Best Ever]
Love Letter to Philadelphia [The Wall Street Journal]
More text, pictures and interview with Steve Powers after the jump… (more…)
