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Graeme Kelso Brooks

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Forest for the Trees 2016 Mural Festival took place recently in Portland, Oregon and featured artwork from artists Alex Gardner, Molly Bounds, Maxwell Mcmaster, Adam Friedman, David Rice, Zach Yarrington, Yoshi 47, Nina Chanel Abney, Whole9 and Peach Momoko as well as an installation at Portland International Airport by Jshea.  The festival, which is a non-profit project dedicated to the creation of contemporary public art in Portland, also hosted film viewings and featured live performances and projections from Lucien Shapiro, House of ia and El Popo Sangre.

Continue below to see more photographs from all the action:

Two things that make me really happy-National Parks and silk-screened art prints-are finding themselves coming together in a beautiful print series put out by The National Poster Retrospecticus as part of the 59 Park Print Series, which celebrates the beauty and amazingness of the 59 National Parks that the US is home to.

The series will feature 18″x24″ art prints for each of the 59 National Parks, while some parks will also feature variants prints and/or 24"x32" posters in addition. The series already has put out prints for 11 parks, all of which are truly beautiful prints. Additionally, there’s some really talented artists that are contributing to the 59 Park Series. Artists and designers such as John Vogl, Matt Taylor, Thomas Danthony, DKNG, Daniel Danger, Eric Nyffeler, Justin Santora, Dan McCarthy, Telegramme Paper Co., Two Arms Inc., and Brave the Woods have already contributed to the series, and I’m sure many more excellent artists and designers will also contribute to the series moving forward.

As an added bonus, 5% of revenue generated from the print series will be donated to The National Park Service, and the prints will also be archived by the Library of Congress. Awesome.

Head over to the 59 Parks Shop to pick up a print or some other really cool goodies.

Darek Grabus (born in 1973, Gdynia, Poland) works with photography, painting, ceramics and graphic design. He studied at the Faculty of Graphics of Gdańsk Art Academy and is a graduate of Sopot School of Photography.

The works of Grabus are distant and picture solitude, melancholy, and alienation of inhabitants of big cities. Scenes from the border of waking and sleeping where the persons disappear in urban landscapes match perfectly paintings presenting geometric forms. In his works, one can see inspiration by realism, surrealism, abstraction and even pop art. Influence of American painter Edward Hopper can also be seen.

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