Portfolios Archive

Adidas Volleyball x Merlot

Adidas Volleyball x Merlot (Chicago)

Chicago Street Art mural design for Adidas event. Our partner AS&K Agency, tasked us to design a mural/backdrop to use during the 2018 Windy City Qualifier. The mural was placed opposite of a mirror and used as a selfie station for the volleyball teams as they sat on a bench in front of the artwork.

Acting as consultants, we were able to connect the client with the right street artist- Merlot. Her work was abstract enough to be viewed in reverse and still be just as impactful. Colors from the Chicago flag were incorporated into her piece.

Make sure to check out more of our projects and see what we’ve been up to!

Project Inquiries:
Email: info@muralartist.co
Phone: 310-853-8877

Fusion 92 Mural – Chicago Office

Fusion 92 Office – Merlot

Award winning agency Fusion 92 turned to MAC to curate street art for their new office space mural in Chicago. To begin the process, we discussed the main goal of the mural and who they were looking to reach. Once we determined the murals purpose as an inspirational piece for their employees, we connected with the talented local artist Merlot. Her use of abstract letter forms in a collage style was a perfect match for the project.

The end result was a typographic exploration overlaying traditional graffiti letters on top of the artist’s signature abstract pattern work. The color palette for the “Be Curious” piece was pulled from the company branding guide while giving the artist some creative freedom to incorporate complimentary colors to add some depth and bring it to life.

Project Inquiries:
Email: info@muralartist.co
Phone: 310-853-8877

Expedia Group – Live Art

Expedia Group – Live Artwork Seattle

We partnered with Amp Agency to provide an element of live street art. The re-branding activation for Expedia Group in their Bellevue, WA headquarters. For this piece, the client was looking for a piece that complimented their existing branding with elements of travel while still feeling light and airy. We worked with the duo They Drift who had the perfect existing aesthetic for this piece!

In addition to the live street art, we fabricated a custom 24×8 ft. wall with returns and the artists worked on some of the initial fill with spray paint in their studio prior to the event. The wall was then transported to the company headquarters and the artists completed the piece with traditional brush & acrylic paint.

If you are in the Bellevue, WA area, the piece will be on display in the client’s lobby for about a year so go check it out if you have a chance.

Make sure to check out more of our projects and see what we’ve been up to!

Project Inquiries:
Email: info@muralartist.co
Phone: 310-853-8877

Fabrication Services

Klughaus offers a full range of fabrication services in New York and Los Angeles. Over the years, we have built all kinds of interesting displays and custom canvases for events. We provide a one-stop shop for build outs that can be embellished with hand painted artwork. Check out some of the past fabrication projects that we have worked on. We want to help make your concepts and visions come to life. Let’s build!

Fabrication Inquiries:
Email: info@klughaus.net
Phone: 646-801-6024

Twin Marquis LES – New York

Twin Marquis – LES

Twin Marquis was first founded in 1989 at the 39 Canal St. location in the Lower East Side/Chinatown with the mission of making fresher noodles & wrappers. This location is still used as the distribution hub of Twin Marquis products for NYC’s Asian food lovers and delivering the freshest products made with pride.

About 2 years ago, our in house Graffiti USA team helped paint some signage at their Bushwick factory. Twin Marquis was happy with the work and came back to us looking for a solution to give their original location a facelift. We wanted to take this opportunity and give back to our artists by provide a rotating canvas for muralists with graffiti roots to showcase their artwork. With their permission, we were able to give artists creative freedom to use this highly trafficked location as a featured artist canvas.

First up on this wall, is our friend the talented Glossblack. Look out for future murals here as we will be aiming to rotate this wall out 2 times a year with some fresh artwork & talent!

Project Inquiries:
Email: info@muralartist.co
Phone: 310-853-8877

Taka Sudo

Born and raised in Tokyo, now residing in BC Canada. Taking influences from those totally different environment to create the unique style of artworks. Scattered abstract elements composed of neon color, neutral color, newsprint and photo collage etc assemble into organic shapes, to find out strong true energy among real and unreal. Those scattered various elements in abstraction are the representation of our environment, existence, daily life, current affairs, information, and each person’s passion, energy etc. Through the adventure between reality and abstraction, you may be able to find your own dynamo to start bright day with beautiful people.

Please note that featured artist portfolios may not always represent the full range of their artistic ability. If you would like to see additional examples of past commission work by an artist not shown above, please do not hesitate to contact us.

Ari De La Mora

Vancouver based artist Ari De La Mora is a self taught figurative painter born and raised in Mexico. Ari holds a degree in Advertising with a specialization in Creative Visualization by the University Of The Communications in Mexico City. After moving to Canada she started to participate with the Vancouver Art Gallery as a Tour Liaison and an art workshop facilitator for families. Passionate about culture, social anthropology and spaces that promote the connections between Canada, Mexico and the rest of the world, Ari has worked with the Museum Of Anthropology, the City of Vancouver, the Granville Island Cultural Society, University of British Columbia and The General Consulate of Mexico in Vancouver, providing art workshops, seminars and talks mainly about the meaning and history of her culture such as “the day of the dead”. Fusing undisguised brushstrokes with oils, resins and mixed media rendered in a bright palette, her paintings and murals are provocative and convey a narrative much deeper than the mere appearance of the subject. Ari’s works have been exhibited in group and solo exhibition in Canada, USA and Mexico. She continuously travels back to her motherland to attend workshops with more experienced teachers and to study different ancient art techniques as well as the manipulation of diverse materials, as learning is a process that never ends.

Gus Cutty

Growing up in the mid nineties graffiti scene of Nashville Tennessee, Gus Cutty began writing his name on walls at a young age. After several brushes with the law he began to focus his talents on more intricate productions and portrait work. He continued to build his network while living in San Francisco, learning from established graffiti legends before moving to Asheville North Carolina where he now resides and supports himself off of commercial mural work and more personal canvas pieces. Riding the line between pop and realism, Gus’s portraits have been commissioned for Outside Lands and Bumbershoot music festivals and allowed him to travel the country. He is also a founder of Burners and BBQ graffiti and mural festival in Asheville.

Nick Napoletano

Nick Napoletano is a painter, muralist, and designer known for hyperrealist works brimming with allegory and symbolism. The rich color and idealized figures in his compositions are stylistically in line with Mannerism and High Renaissance. After earning his BFA at the University of Hartford, Napoletano studied under renowned egg tempera painter Fred Wessel, an experience that refined his modern take on allegorical realism. He uses the human figure as “a vehicle to explore and document various facets of the human condition as they relate to both the individual and the universal whole.” Community growth and dialogue are a main component of Napoletano’s agenda; his installations are meant to function as a mirror, identifying a truth about the community, while paving the way for positive change. Nick has expanded his work into the field of Virtual/Augmented Reality. He developed a unique method of making his two-dimensional images come to life, one that does not require observers to use an external viewing device. His next projects will incorporate this VR/AR method in a manner that engages and connects often disparate groups within the community. Private collectors and public institutions have commissioned Napoletano; his work can be found in galleries and museums internationally, including the collections of Amway and the New Britain Museum of American Art. Nick recently exhibited at Jerald Melberg Gallery and the Mint Museum and is currently installing a series of exterior murals in the city of Charlotte, North Carolina.

Helena Martin

Helena Martin has been painting with aerosol for six years and brushes since childhood. Based in Austin, TX, her murals can be seen throughout Texas, as well as Arizona, Michigan and Florida. Martin has always been intrigued by other human beings and her recent return to portraiture reflects this passion. Animals and plants also featured prominently in her work as a nod to nature and our place in it. Small figures, or spirit people, often inhabit her paintings as way to play with scale and suggest the existence of another world.