American Hotel, Corner of Traction Ave and S Hewitt St

Downtown Los Angeles in the Arts District along Traction Ave has lots of walls covered with cool pieces. This one at The American Hotel on the corner of Traction and South Hewitt includes work by DETHKILLS, Shepard Fairey, Old Chola & Lupe, Prime, Riseone, JTS, and many others.

DETHKILLS

Bench by RISEONE

Layers of Posters

Obey, Peace Bomber

Bench by RISEONE

Here’s another wall in this area on the corner of Traction Ave and 3rd Street.

Wall at the corner of Traction and 3rd

Layers of Posters including Ride To Live and PAZ

Posters including uglarbook.com

Layers of Posters making this doorway cool to walk through

On the other side of this corner is another cool wall covered with posters.

JTS, Arte Crea Vida, and Others

JTS, Free Speech, Post Mad Bills, GLK, and others

Warehouse on the corner of Traction Ave and Rose St.

Warehouse with Mona Lisa with Mustache on Traction and Rose.

Mona with a Mustache

Here’s a stencil of Che Guevara back up the street on South Hewitt, just off of Traction Ave.

Che Guevara Stencil on South Hewitt St

I love this little dumpster painted by Prime.

Mini Dumpster by Prime

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Parking lot at Gates and 1st St

More great photos from the Arts District downtown, featuring a parking lot between 1st and 2nd St.

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Parking lot at Gates and 2nd

More photos from the Arts District downtown, featuring a huge parking lot between 1st and 2nd St.

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Corner of Gates St and 2nd St

Hitting a museum or a gallery is cool, but heading downtown to the Arts District and checking out the explosion of art on the walls is a unique and amazing experience. The area spans between temple and seventh street north south, and alameda and the LA river east west. I spent a few hours down there today and definitely plan on taking more shots in the future. Check ‘em out…

Gates St and 2nd St

The Lost Cartoon Angel

Gates St and 2nd Street

Detail of Helicoptor

Revel on Gates St

Revel on Gates St (detail)

Bates Risk on Gates St

Gates St and 2nd St

Mad Society Kings Skull

Mad Society Kings Banner

Gates St and 2nd St

MSK

Gates St and 2nd St

GKAE and others

TDK Crew and others

CBS and others

2nd St and Gates St

Midzt

UTI CBS and others

RISK

Risk

2nd St and S Vignes St

2nd St and S Vignes St

2nd St and S Vignes St

2nd St and S Vignes St

Check out more photos from this area in Part 2 and Part 3.

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