Street art snapshots
Mumbai’s Jehangir Art Gallery pavement came alive this week with local watercolor artists turning the space into an open-air studio (x.com). And a new urban mural by Jef Graffik circulated widely on social platforms, underlining how street artists keep dominating local creative feeds (x.com).
Local watercolourists staged a pavement display outside Jehangir this week that included watercolours, abstract pieces and caricatures — the report also noted experimental miniatures painted on leaves and rice grains. (hindi.news18.com) That display sits within the long-running Kala Ghoda Pavement Gallery tradition: artists first began exhibiting on the Jehangir footpath in the 1980s and the Plaza Artists’ Association gave the pavement-show a formal structure in the 1990s. (punnaka.com) Jehangir Art Gallery itself was inaugurated on January 21, 1952, and is located at 161B Mahatma Gandhi Road in Kala Ghoda, the cultural precinct that anchors the pavement gallery. (mumbaitourism.travel) Jef Graffik — often credited simply as Jef and active in Brittany — is profiled by art databases as a French street artist (born c.1976) known for large-scale, frontal portraits of young women that confront the viewer. (artblr.com) Local press and street‑art catalogues record Jef’s recent interventions around Redon and Saint‑Nicolas‑de‑Redon, with public murals documented across 2019–2023 and covered by regional outlets and photo-archives. (ouest-france.fr) Photographs of both the Kala Ghoda pavement shows and Jef’s wall portraits are routinely uploaded to social platforms and aggregated by databases such as Street Art Cities, explaining how images from Mumbai and Jef’s new mural spread through online creative feeds. (punnaka.com)
