Make Your Mark: The New Urban Artists

by Tristan Manco

Legendary talent-finder Tristan Manco uncovers the next generation of urban creators In an age when Banksy’s installations are protected by Plexiglas and graffiti artists exhibit in galleries as well as on the street, Make Your Mark explores the work of thirty-five urban artists who use mark-making techniques―drawing, painting, and other methods―to create a diverse array of work.

Ranging from figurative painting, illustration, and comic book drawing to tattoo art, poster design, and mural-making, the work is stylistically original, often incorporating experimental techniques or elements of the handmade. This is the intersection of traditional and “street” sensibilities, from Mexican-born artist Carlos Donjuán’s paintings of masked figures to the atmospheric drawings of Bucharest-based artist Mark Francis Williams, whose work responds to the new shopping malls around his city that offer “a hyper-real, super-beautiful sense of certainty” but conceal an ominous underbelly. Other featured artists include the French illustrator and graffiti artist Bault, the American muralist Zio Ziegler, and the Japanese painter Fuco Ueda.

As in his previous books on street art and other nontraditional genres, author Tristan Manco’s curatorial eye is a valuable guide at the frontier of a new genre. Students, artists, and anyone interested in art will be inspired by the integrity and grit of these unconventional creators on the rise. 350 color illustrations

Genres: Art

256 pages, Paperback

First published March 15, 2016

Reviews

[Ambrose Miles · Rating 5 out of 5]

Brilliant book of great art and artists, read and looked at while listening to symphony’s by Penderecki, which did not come with the book, regretfully.

[Sachi · Rating 5 out of 5]

What a stunning collection of art work from artists that have pushed boundaries, explored what it means to be human and our relationship with nature, each other and history. The book explored various media of art like drawing, paint and built work. I was gobsmacked. I thought thoroughly enjoyed reading this. It’s something I’d definitely recommend.

[Alexandra Wahlroos · Rating 5 out of 5]

A great library of artistic inspiration! This book features up-and-coming illustrators with very different styles.