Pittsburgh based muralists, artists, and curators • Do What We Love
Shane Pilster is an artist, muralist, curator, graphic designer and web developer. Bridging his expertise in graffiti and urban arts with community involvement, he prides himself in also being an educator, advocate, mentor and well-rounded creative individual.
👉👉👉 Here are some broad detail shots from the Waterfront mural (Steel Valley: Past to Present) - again, thank you to everyone at @waterfrontpgh (Emily, Mike, Mark, and crew!) for everything and a great experience. Also included are some action shots of @goodboygems in action
One of my favorite projects so far; amazing clients and their team, great engagement with the community, and everything just went super smoothly. Thank you all involved! @goodboygems mostly did the left and I mostly did the right, but we added bits and things to each side. Thank you @waterfrontpgh for everythinggggg!
Come out this Friday at 11a for a ribbon cutting of this mural; painted on Barnes & Noble in the Waterfront. Here’s a blurb about the whole thing:
This lively and colorful 156’x20’ mural is much more than its scale and excitement. Painted by Shane Pilster and Max Gonzales, this mural holds many references to Homesteads present and past. From the energetic colors and stars coming from Betty Davis, to the explosive pouring of steel; this scene depicts our communities history as an industry town and a music and technology hub. As Homestead continues to grow and change, it will always hold praise and value to its origins. Artists Max and Shane also hold this historical knowledge close to heart as part of Rivers of Steel’s Graffiti Arts Program at the Carrie Furnaces. Both have also taught in schools, run workshops and painted many murals with our community prior to this project. Max and Shane wanted to let us know how valuable of an experience this was for them, as over the 3 weeks of painting, they got the chance to meet and talk to many community members and friends and family of those people’s portraits they were painting. As two artists who love to adapt their imagery on the fly, they even took on some community suggestions and imagery during their process. We hope to see even more color and celebration in our community and our artists are more than willing to make that happen.
It is always an honor to be able to contribute to these projects for @centraloutreach - thank you @goodboygems for including me (Max did all the faces and added to the flag backgrounds I did, @everyonehateschu on all the hand painted text).
Incredible weekend with some of the pioneers of style writing @mike_171 and @henry__161 - @goodboygems and I did a couple workshops with them and collaborated on pieces of their names in some funky styles.
Couldn’t have done it without @ashleyhodderart @bruce_caitlin @hcuap @riversofsteelarts - major thank you to all and thank you to PITT for hosting a workshop and the viewing of their documentary “Wall Writers,” (@rogergastman) which I highly recommend watching to get a glimpse of where the culture started.
Looking forward to working with them further and seeing their books come out in the future about their stories.
Another one for @unionbrothersbrewing - more photos of all the projects we did in there to come. @goodboygems on the right side (and out of frame on another wall). Love Union Brothers!
It’s always a good time painting with friends. Thank you @briangonnellaisboring for putting in so much work to make the event happen, great seeing @sasha_primo and plan to get more painting with him while he’s in town, @goodboygems on the hood ornament, and many other homies down at @spiritpgh - check them out on Sept 9th for the unveiling of the new wall painted by several artists next week at Summer Recess
Here’s one me and @outafterdark did a while ago for @neighborhoodnorth ‘s museum of play. Definitely the most prep and demo we’ve done for a mural, but it was absolutely worth it YAY! . . . .
Twas a pretty cool past week Thank you to everyone involved Me and @outafterdark got to paint these collaborative pieces with @mike_171 and @henry__161 , two of the original NYC style writers 🎨 Thank you to @bruce_caitlin @emmawithglasses @ashleyhodderart @hcuap @riversofsteelarts for making all of this happen and we look forward to more collaborations in the future
HEY! Come through to @spiritpgh today from 12-6pm! We’ll be live painting a van 🚐 and there will be art vendors and all kinds of fun stuff 🐥 ALSO September 9th is summer recess and you’ll get to see the awesome murals from this years Spirit Walls from @briangonnellaisboring COME SUPPORT LOCAL ARTISTS . . . .
I know this one is kinda confusing to look at, but I wasn’t able to get a photo of the whole thing side by side at the same time. Here’s 4 canvases I painted for a wedding/wedding gift. The process photos might make more sense 👨🏻🍳 . . . .
Here’s a piece I made a little while ago that is now in the possession of a mega good nice friend. The first photo is by the LEGEND @sneary_ This is part of a series that I’ve been meaning to start for a while “Simulated Mischief™️” . . . .
