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By Ashley Altus<\/strong><\/p>\n

Before picking up a spray paint can for her aerosol art,\u00a0Gloe One\u00a0 was writing her nickname on random places she might be visiting throughout Chicago. She got into graffiti because she envisioned herself painting outside on walls just like the graffiti crews did in her neighborhood.<\/p>\n

The city has taken down her work many times, not an uncommon fate for graffiti artists. Like many in her craft she uses an artist alias.<\/p>\n

\u201cEven though I knew it was eventually going to be buffed, I was never really ready to accept it,\u201d Gloe said. \u201cI wasn\u2019t able to understand how a brown buff was better than colorful and creative fonts.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gloe said her transition to “legal” graffiti – graffiti done for clients or at\u00a0city-sponsored locations – \u00a0was natural and logical, a move she made\u00a0when her son was born in 2008.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy son is my world and I was not willing to teeter the line,” Gloe said.<\/p>\n

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Chicago is tattooed with art on its streets. Graffiti and street art are mushrooming beyond the days of artists throwing up work at night on rooftops to catch the eyes of commuters two stories above ground on the L.<\/p>\n

But artists tread the fine line of creating street art and graffiti legally and illegally. There is no set trajectory to where graffiti artists start making aerosol creations.<\/p>\n

Miguel \u201cKane One\u201d Aguilar said he has navigated both realms of the medium since he started “tagging” in high school – a term referring to the quick sketch of a name or phrase.\u00a0Painting with permission has allowed him to hone his craftsmanship and win an audience for his\u00a0typographical masterpieces that create the illusion of 3-D.<\/p>\n

\u201cNow when I do public street art, the intentionality and the audience has shifted to a broader community outside of different graffiti writers,\u201d Aguilar said.<\/p>\n

Aguilar still balances the illegal and legal worlds of graffiti. From teaching a course on the history of graffiti at the School of the Art Institute to sparking the interest of youth in this large-scale art medium with his Graffiti Institute, he pays homage to his roots by continuing to tag the city.<\/p>\n

For graffiti veteran B-boy-b, a member of the Artistic Bombing Crew, switching tracks to produce legal graffiti wasn\u2019t as easy.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a tough transition for me,\u201d B-boy-b said.<\/p>\n

B-boy-b said he used to be jaded from getting caught graffiti writing in Logan Square with his East Coast style. While he was reluctant at first to transition from illegal work, he said some emerging talents in this medium don\u2019t struggle with this issue.<\/p>\n

\u201cNowadays kids don\u2019t even worry about transitioning,\u201d B-boy-b said. \u201cThey just start off with permission which is very odd to me. It\u2019s not a correct cycle of graffiti life, and then all of a sudden you\u2019re in a gallery, but you\u2019ve never painted illegally in your life.\u201d<\/p>\n

Oliver Hild, the founder of Maxwell Colette Gallery in East Village, has been blurring the distinctions between street art, fine art and graffiti for the past five years.<\/p>\n

He believes when street art and graffiti expand into the gallery system typically reserved for fine art, it increases visibility and legitimacy in the broader art context.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe street thing is one level of artist careers at this point and the gallery can be another level,\u201d Hild said. \u201cThe two are no longer mutually exclusive.\u201d<\/p>\n

Some artists choose to showcase graffiti-inspired work at galleries to expand their audience reach. And sometimes stepping away from creating illegal installations stems from an internal conflict.<\/p>\n

Chicago artist Anthony Lewellen was initially attracted to graffiti for the adrenaline rush and the notoriety of having his name recognized throughout the city as a teenager. But creating art illegally caught up to him.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt some point I just had a moral conflict with doing illegal work,\u201d Lewellen said. \u201cIt was stressful too. I tried to never ruin anything, but in the end I was still on the wrong side of the law, and that was something I just could not reconcile so I just stopped.\u201d<\/p>\n

Illegal graffiti can become an expensive form of expression as well. In the 2014 Chicago city budget, an amendment was introduced to increase fines and penalties for illegal graffiti. The amendment increased fines from $750 to no less than $1,500 and no more than $2,500 for a graffiti offense, according to a city press release.<\/p>\n

As artists have different reasons why they choose to participate in illegal and legal work, the public\u2019s reception of these art mediums have grown in legitimacy.<\/p>\n

The city provides some opportunities for artists who do large-format street painting. The Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events (DCASE) and alderman\u2019s offices specify sites for outdoor mural art. DCASE recently designated areas along the 606 trail.<\/p>\n

\u201cOn a certain level, the city does not support street art, but is more tolerate of people who are street artists than ever before,\u201d Hild said.<\/p>\n

Even with changing attitudes and broader audiences for this art form, the city\u2019s role is conflicted. Chicago\u2019s ban on the sale of spray paint remains in effect after more than 20 years since its conception.<\/p>\n

Any art in areas not designated by the Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events (DCASE) or\u00a0by aldermen is fair game\u00a0for city\u2019s Graffiti Removal Program, according to Jennifer Martinez, the director of public affairs in the Department of Streets and Sanitation.<\/p>\n

With an average turnaround of 72 hours for 90 percent of graffiti removal requests, not including weekends, graffiti has the potential to go down just as quick as it goes up.<\/p>\n

But graffiti done with permission of the city shapes the views many of us have of this art genre.<\/p>\n

\u201cI believe it is apparent that Chicago is now catching up, and political leaders have concluded that graffiti writers are not necessarily part of the gang culture,\u201d Gloe said.<\/p>\n

Even with changing opinions and artists creating work with permission, Aguilar said this contemporary art genre is just getting over its infancy stage.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s just taken so any generations of graffiti artists being able to value themselves and to think that it is valid,\u201d Aguilar said.<\/p>\n

He believes the ban on spray paint as well as the increase in fines has dwindled down interest and momentum for young people to get involved in graffiti.<\/p>\n

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Oliver Hild of Maxwell Colette Gallery believes the city understands that murals and public art projects are part of a plan to build a visual community. (Ashley Altus\/Medill)<\/figcaption><\/figure>
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Artist B-boy-b said one of his pieces stayed up for 10 years illegally near the Redline’s Thorndale stop. (Ashley Altus\/Medill)<\/figcaption><\/figure>
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Many artists photograph their work after creating it illegally because they know it will eventually be taken down. (Ashley Altus\/Medill)<\/figcaption><\/figure>
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Graffiti on billboards can be still be seen above the L train. (Ashley Altus\/Medill)<\/figcaption><\/figure>
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Chicago artist Gloe One’s art was on display at a gallery show at Chicago Truborn this past month. (Ashley Altus\/Medill)<\/figcaption><\/figure>
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Graffiti artist SentRock created an installation inside Havas Worldwide during Chicago Ideas Week. (Ashley Altus\/Medill)<\/figcaption><\/figure>
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A mural on a city-designated sit on 16th Street in Pilsen.(Ashley Altus\/Medill)<\/figcaption><\/figure>
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Aguilar said he would like to see permission walls around the city that were open for artists to experiment. (Ashley Altus\/Medill)<\/figcaption><\/figure>
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Artists will use any surface they believe their art will fit onto, including air conditioning units. (Ashley Altus\/Medill) <\/figcaption><\/figure>
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The Chicago Arts District has invited graffiti artists to put up work in their showPod exhibits. (Ashley Altus\/Medill)<\/figcaption><\/figure>
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Aguilar\u2019s work at showPod can be seen through December 30. (Ashley Altus\/Medill)<\/figcaption><\/figure>
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Pilsen\u2019s murals on 16th street are designated areas for art on the streets in the city. (Ashley Altus\/Medill)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div><\/div>\n

\u201cThey\u2019ll get excited for maybe the first year that they do it, but then they just kind of fade away,\u201d Aguillar said.<\/p>\n

Aguilar said he used to just try to get his name up as much as possible. He enjoyed pushing the limits of the resistance of putting up work successfully.<\/p>\n

\u201cNow the shift, the focus of newer teenagers is, how I do this art form so I get a gallery show or some sort of commercial contract with a clothing line or these weird oddball opportunities,\u201d Aguilar said. \u201cIt\u2019s really different.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said when commissioned projects and gallery shows entered the world of graffiti, it changed the type of art people put up.<\/p>\n

\u201cCollectively what happens is people don\u2019t push themselves or the art form hard enough because they try to dumb it down rather than push their own boundaries for financial sustainability,\u201d Aguilar said.<\/p>\n

Not participating in illegal art has altered the motives of some artists.<\/p>\n

Lewellen believes the commercial interest is one of the biggest changes to graffiti culture.<\/p>\n

\u201cAre there graffiti artist who have never done illegal work?\u00a0 said Lewellen, \u201cAnd the very odd answer to that questions would be yes.\u201d<\/p>\n

Photo at top: Graffiti artists\u00a0will use any surface, including the air conditioning one artist selected. The mural by another artist is painted on a city-designated site. (Ashley Altus\/Medill)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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