With the 87th Academy Awards ceremony taking place today (February 22, 2015) in Hollywood, Urban Bomb Works Friend (and previous guest of our weekly Twitter series “Sunday with Jesus”) PLASTIC JESUS dropped another viral Street Art installation to celebrate (Hollywood Style). For those of you not familiar with this artist the press has titled the “Banksy of LA”, we are sharing the biography posted on his website . The site features lots of photos of his hilarious, yet thought provoking works.
Plastic Jesus is a Los Angeles based street artist that specializes in bold stencil and installation work, inspired by world news events, society, the urban environment, culture and politics. His work combines humor, irony, criticism and unique opinion to create art that engages on many levels.
The Huffington Post listed two works by Plastic Jesus in the end of year round up of “The Best of Los Angeles Street art 2012”.
In early 2013, his pieces “No more heroes” featuring disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong connected to an IV drip caught the world’s attention and was featured by many media organizations including CNN, the BBC, The Daily Mail, Huffington post and LA Weekly. Many other pieces have gone viral on the internet and news media including his August 2013 “Best Buys Useless Plastic Box 1.2″.
His 2014 piece “Hollywood’s best kept secret” showing a 6 foot gold Oscars statue injecting with heroin brought controversy and focus to the hidden use of hard drugs in Hollywood and was featured on TMZ, Entertainment Tonight and ABC News.
Influential street art blog “Melrose & Fairfax” described Plastic Jesus as “The Banksy of LA”.
Plastic Jesus is not about revolution, he is not a complete anarchist but would like to see some changes around the place. His work is more about shining a small light into some of those dark corners of society then standing back and watching reactions and opinions.
Plastic Jesus tries to work as ethically as possible and minimize harm to the environment.
Source: http://www.plasticjesus.net/about/
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