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By TRAV MSK (Los Angeles, USA)
Curated by KWEST (Toronto, ON)

Old City Hall, 83 Cedar Street
August 2019, Up Here 5

Sponsored by Dalron

TRAV MSK is a graffiti and street-art artist from Visalia, California. His visits to Los Angeles as a child and the graffiti culture of the city shaped his artistic aesthetic. Currently, his work reflects the shift in our society from the industrial to the digital era which can be observed in his pieces that mirror the whimsical signage of the '50s and '60s. He pays homage to the craftsmanship of an older generation while embracing current technology to produce his work. Trav has chosen to focus on creating public work around this narrative to give back to the community. 

Trav collages photographs of vintage signs and handcrafted typography then arrange them in various compositions that interact with geometric patterns.  He then overlays digital gestures to represent emotion often to resemble eyes or faces. His work stands somewhere between fine art and graffiti. He is an active member of The Seventh Letter and Mad Society Kings Artist Collective.