Click here to see his Instagram with links to maps and updates on events and murals as things happen this weekend.Īccording to organizers, all of the artists working in Everett this weekend are donating their time and paying their own expenses to be here. Hyper and his GAK crew of artists have been responsible for creating or facilitating all but two aerosol murals in Everett and he’s been the driving force and founder of this year’s Going All City Northwest event. In 2021 we had a chance to talk with “Hyper” who along with two other artists, “Spawk” and “Faust” painted Rise Everett on the side of the Screen Printing Northwest building in the 2500 block of Colby. It’s part of a national effort and happens in Washington State every other year.Įverett previously hosted dozens of artists in 2020 at an event called Northwest Grill and Chill that featured artists from around the west coast. The event is known as Going All City and this is the Northwest Edition for 2022. Keeping that state of mind is what helped me bring graffiti into the art I’m making right now.“Hyper” in front of “Rise Everett” on Saturday November 13th 2021.One Hundred fifty artists from around the United States and Mexico including some of the top graffiti artists in the country are painting thirty murals, creating and teaching art and battling one another with skill and style all weekend in Everett, Washington. My work is about passion, never about the money. What I’m most proud of is my transitioning into the art world without betraying what I am with graffiti. Are there particular artworks you’re most proud of? I was doing a lot of traveling and started tattooing in weird spots, like bookstores and underground galleries and posting my work online. I called the style “Ignorant,” to convey the folk art element of what I was doing, tattooing simple lines. I started practicing on myself, without any training, tattooing my most famous designs. From 2000 to 2005, I experimented with different ways to make graffiti, including tattooing. I had always taken photos of graffiti and in a way that helped me open my mind as to how I could evolve my art. Graffiti is a controversial art form, how did you manage to thrive?Īt some point when growing up, I realized I needed to do something more artistic, so I started teaching myself about different mediums. For me, graffiti is like a tree with different branches and street art is one of them. The Museum of Graffiti in Miami is very interesting in how they educate people about graffiti on its own, and not as street art. Street art is public art and it can be several things. Graffiti is the writing of your name in illegal spaces. What’s the difference between graffiti and street art? Graffiti is going against everything and being everywhere. I always had this need within me to express myself and graffiti has a strong element of freedom to it, you really can do whatever you want. I became fascinated with the different lines and curves of the graffiti tags on trains. I was fourteen and hung out there often with my friends. How did you become interested in graffiti?Īt the end of ‘80s, I lived with my father and his apartment was located near a train station in the suburbs of Paris. We caught up with him during Miami Art Basel 2021, during which he painted murals and presented “ Defaced” at Miami’s Museum of Graffiti, an exhibition of new pieces on canvas and historic works from his days as a train painter in Paris. For the past five years, Fuzi has lived between his hometown of Paris and Los Angeles.
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