Discover the Stunning Street Art of VHILS in L.A.
Alexandre Farto (aka Vhils) has a unique street style that doesn't employ spray paint or wheat paste, but rather the actual walls and their history. The artist is best known for his relief portraits, carved into layers of plaster and brick all over the world. Using acid etch, bleach, pneumatic drills, and other improvised tools to reveal a wall’s layers, he crafts realist portraits of people that peer from sides of buildings. Los Angeles is home to seven of those personalities, with three beautiful new works celebrating the opening of his first solo gallery show, Annihilation at Over the Influence in the Arts District, on view now through April 1, 2018.
Visit the gallery to see his stunning sculptures and paper works, then create your own tour of the larger than life street pieces with the following guide.
Over the Influence
833 E. 3rd St, Los Angeles 90013
310.921.5933
1200 N Alvarado St. - Echo Park
VHILS + RETNA collaboration in Echo Park, February 2018 | Photo courtesy of the artist
1215 Bates Ave. - Mack Sennett Studios, Silver Lake
VHILS + OBEY collaboration, American Dreamers, February 2018 | Photo by Jonathan Furlong
1745 E 7th St. - Arts District
February 2018 | Photo by José Pando Lucas
837 N. Spring St. - Chinatown
November 2014 | Photo courtesy of the artist
759 N. Spring St. - Chinatown
November 2014 | Photo courtesy of the artist
1103 Abbot Kinney Blvd - Venice Beach
July 2011| Photo courtesy of the artist
636 S. Spring St. - Downtown L.A.
Vhils + JR collaboration, June 2010 | Photo courtesy of the artist
