Graffiti Street Art found on garage doors and utility boxes in Toronto, Canada. These are photos taken of artwork that is usually done as a defensive measure against graffiti tagging. Artists generally get paid to do this art. Most are hand painted or created with aerosol spray.
The city of Toronto has a program called ‘Outside the Box’ which allows artists to apply to create their work on a Traffic Signal box or even an electrical panel that an internet provider uses like Bell Canada.
Garage door art (usually – found in back alleys) is again a defensive tactic done by home owners who don’t like when they have offensive graffiti ‘tags’ on their garages. When a mural is done on the garage door most of the time time a ‘tagger’ will not tag the mural.
All of the street art photos were taken in the last three years. Again, because its a temporary medium – some of the art that appears may no longer be available for viewing since these photographs were taken.
Aerosol Ice Cream Van Peru143 found at Pride Weekend in downtown Toronto. The colors on this are really amazing. He’s a very talented graffiti artist Artwork ice cream van was painted by @peru143 ! Forgot about this one from…
Hand Painted Fish Utility Box by Claire Correia in the west end of Toronto. She was painting this live with a friend when I got to introduce myself to her Live artwork in West End Toronto The photo on the…
Hand painted picnic table found in Parkdale back in June. The home owner put the Canadian flag on this table and but it on his front lawn like a sculpture Happy Canada Day ! Street Art I’m going to squeeze…
Vivian Rosas Traffic Signal Box at Gladstone on Dundas. Really Striking colors with the rad and black with white. Its a wrap around that looks stunning Beautiful Traffic Signal Utility Box Artwork in the west end People must think I…
Garage door collaboration in the west end with regular aerosol spray partners Birdo and Mr. Tensoe. They have been doing these together for a long time 3D artwork in back alleyway Took a detour yesterday and ended up in…
Tagging on side of garage in the west end. This has a beautiful message on it. Most of the tags that I see in these back alleyways are not as nice as this Graffiti tag “When You Love Someone Let…
Butterfly artwork by Luvsumone again apart of huge project organized by Nick Sweetman who is very much into making artwork to show how insects are important Garage door mural in laneway I’ll wrap up this series with a…
Aerosol artwork by Vizla Bacon for a project organized by Nick Sweetman. This was for a project that had flowers and butterflies to show how they pollinate. Art project on garage doors featuring graffiti spray artists More flowers from…
Dog from Tintin with butterfly on garage door More butterflies from yesterday.. this is by aerosol artist as well.. but its’ not signed.. its on the opposite end of the park of the other one. Artwork By Nick Sweetman…
Separate work collaboration meaning that artists worked by themselves but its apart of a bigger project that was organized by Nick Sweetman a fellow artist Art by @mska on the right and @tuffytats There are a lot of…
This is by @blackburnjeff Jeff Blackburn that is part of a bigger project that was organized by fellow street artist Nick Sweetman all about butterflies Part of a large garage door project There are a lot of garage doors now…
Ice box Utility Box by Random in the east end of the city. Very lifelike. Its near a dance studio on Berkeley street. Very original and interesting to see Speaking of Random art this is by @whoisrandom back in 2014……
Chilean Car with graphics that was parked outside the mural that was being created across the street. This other side has an eagle on it with similar looks Cool car artwork aerosol The lady did the mural that I posted…
Bunny Traffic Signal Box by an artist who has an online store. They sell crafts and sweaters. Which is probably why this bunny is wearing a sweater Utility artwork outside as cafe in west end A Sunday Bunny by @fidoodle…
Fire station tribute hydrant at a fire station downtown. Victor Fraser has painted murals on the sidewalks in front of most of the stations and this is his Cute fire hydrant painted with a dog First off.. So Sorry to…
