The Next Generation: Amara Por Dios
After sizing up the past street art scene from SAMO to Jenny Holzer, we now look towards the future with Part 3 of our series and present some of the streets artists you may want to keep an eye out for.
Amara Por Dios, a Stockholm-born, London-based artist of Chilean-heritage, creates wildly colorful paintings and murals comprised of patterns and characters that draw heavily from indigenous art of the Americas, but with her own unique twist. She specifically cites the “tribal art left behind by the Aztec and Incan peoples,” as inspiration. Amazingly, when drawing some of her artwork, she does so with both hands at once.
For the past few years, Amara has been living in London, one of the street art capitals of the world, and in a relatively short amount of time, worked up the skill to be invited to the iconic Village Underground, which is the London equivalent of getting asked to paint the Houston-Bowery Wall in NYC, only their space is way fucking cooler. Not only do they have wall space to hit, but also tube trains on the roof that artist regularly paint.
As for her name, she credits her mother. “Every time I would do something bad my mum screamed ‘Oh! Amara Por Dios,’” explained the artist in an interview, “and that’s like ‘Oh My God, what are you doing? She still says it now but in a positive way.”
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