You Are Beautiful’s Essential Guide to Chicago

“Chicago’s buff is strong. They like to keep their streets
clean (or at least brown &  patchy). We’re showcasing a few that continue to
produce work in the harsh climate of weather and buff.

/>Some really incredible work has come out of the collaboration of href="http://chrissilva.com/">Chris
Silva, Juan Chavez, and href="http://genovesestudios.com/">Mike Genovese

/>Juan Chavez has also done some great sculpture collage pieces.

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Cody Hudson of
Struggle Inc  recently co-curated the
newest Select Magazine
which featured over 20 fold-out large scale posters by various artists.
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sighn’s dedications
always seem to stop you in your tracks.

href="http://www.woostercollective.com/2003_09_07_newsarchive.html#1063154734161
23701">CRAP Art, Create Random Acts of Public Art has been gracing the
streets with some interesting work.

href="http://post-chicago.com/rldocu2.html">Rena Leinberger wrapped
lightposts, fire-hydrants, bike racks, and the like with tube socks as a part of
Post Chicago, who has some interesting
poster campaigns under its umbrella.

href="http://you-are-beautiful.com/">We’re having a bit of a turf war with a
cup fence in the warehouse district: someone changed it to read ‘you are bad’
but did a silly job at it. It has been restored. Curious to see what happens
next…”