SILVERSTREETZ CREATES, GALACTICA. HUGE WALL MURAL IN GARDENA, CA.

 16-Year-Old Visual Artist Unveils Another Mind Melting, Color Saturated Wall.

Gardena, California, April 5, 2022 - In today’s post Covid reality Sterling Molldrem aka SilverStreetz has weathered virtual high school Zoom classes, isolation, doubt, lack of motivation, and every emotion in between.  Channeling that emotion and energy, Sterling has brought to life his latest mural located at 115 W. VictoriaStreet, Gardena, Ca. 90248.  Measuring 22’ x 18’ it captures the gods who come for a population remaining complacent and stagnant.  Constantly plagued by creative blocks and doubt, SilverStreetz struggled, like so many others, with the emotional aftermath wreaked by Covid.  This mural brings to life his struggle to stay actively creative, push through walls of doubt, and resist the lazy comfort of creating the same ideas and technique on loop.  This electrically colorful, hyperactive landscape is SilverStreetz reaffirming to himself there is no substitute for hard work and tireless dedication to one’s craft.

 

SilverStreetz created this mural, for the first time, with no playlist or music.  Choosing instead to summon his own energy and states of conscious needed to achieve every detailed aspect.  “While music is an awesome expression of an artist’s soul, I felt it was really only giving me dopamine hits and ego heavy bursts of energy.  The music was driving my choices and creating my energy.  This isn’t how I want to create.  I’m the only one to generate my energy and drive my decisions.  If it takes music to do that, then it’s not my soul in its purist form shaping my art”, remarks the 16-year-old visual artist.

 

About SilverStreetz – Primarily self-taught since 2005, SilverStreetz is a visual artist currently attending Los Angeles County Highschool for the Arts (LACHSA).  He works with mediums ranging from oils, acrylics, spray paints, charcoal, and digital.  His works range in size from post-it notes to commercial building walls.

Rituals Fest 2021 X SilverStreetz

October 30, 2021 marked the first annual music festival dubbed Rituals Fest produced by Cutie’s LA, Queer Asian Social Club, Polartropica and Jamie Issuh Productions.  Numerous musicians and artists descended upon San Gabriel Valley to honor and celebrate Queer BIPOC community along with friends and allies identifying otherwise.

Polartropica reached out to SilverStreetz with an opportunity to share his visual artwork with all of the festival go-ers.  In response, Sterling Molldrem brought two complete oversized wood panels, Ganesh and Garuda X Rangda, to provide additional eye candy to a stage already dripping in dreamy decor.  Silverstreetz live oil painted a 96" x 64" wood panel in front of everyone in attendance as the sun set and coheadliners Tolliver and Polartropica took to the stage.

The all-ages festival also featured a community self-defense class led by ALYSSA SAN AGUSTIN of BOX FOR CHANGE LA, and a vibrant market of local artisans and vendors. Delicious, soulful Vietnamese and Korean meals served by SESAME DINETTE and CHEF DEBBIE LEE, alongside uniquely delectable Chinese and Peruvian desserts served by CHIFA.

"Electric Tormentor" SilvertStreetz Spray Paint Gardena Wall Mural 22' x 18'

Still in the midst of  February 2021 Covid weirdness, SilverStreetz managed to create his largest wall mural to date.  Measuring approximately 22’ wide x 18’ high, the piece is signature SilverStreetz.  Created entirely with spray paint and saturated in color, he calls it Electric Tormentor. 

Pulling from his fascination with all kinds of tribal headwear from across the globe, intergalactic dream sequences, alien life forms, cosmic entities, and racing thoughts of a 15 year old at 2AM, SilverStreetz brought the images behind his eyes to the exterior wall of a screen print and embroidery factory out in Gardena, Ca.  

The playlist for this piece consisted of Metallica, Guns N Roses, Motley Crew, some other glam rock bands, DJ Quick, Too Short, Easy-E, and DJ Frane.

The mural is located at a screen printing and embroidery shop that goes by a few names.  SCOPEINC, SPOT, or PrintOnTees.  115 W. Victoria Street, Gardena, Ca. 90248.

SECRET WALLS ACADEMY x SILVERSTREETZ

Secret Walls Academy is an art program for the youth aimed at inspiring the next generation of visual artists.  The program is just one of many facets encompassed by Secret Walls.  Headquartered in Venice, Ca., Secret Walls Academy provides hands-on workshops lead by professional Secret Walls certified artists from its extensive creative network.

During the summer months, Secret Walls Academy hosts a week long visual arts camp for children ages 10-17.  The kids are split into groups and assigned a Secret Walls certified artist as the lead instructor. These artists are accomplished, working professionals and influential in their own right with regard to their specific fields of focus.  Among the instructors this time around were lillipore, geoffgouveia, goopmassta, paperfrank, and ninapalomba.

In addition to the talented instructors, the students are also treated to guest artists throughout the week.  Effectively broadening out the young students' perspective on what it means to be an artist.  Throughout the week young artists cover basic illustration, character building, visual story telling, and how to think like a muralist.  The week culminates with an art battle involving all of the students from each different team going head to head for 20 minutes a round.  This year's art battle would be the first ever to be held virtually and live streamed due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

Led by Geoff Gouveia, SilverStreetz was able to advance to the final 20 minute round where he managed to reign supreme and bask in the glow of the coveted Secret Walls belt.

SteelCraft X SilverStreetz

SteelCraft is an outdoor food venue constructed with shipping containers and housing 7 delicious drink-and-meal-churning vendors.  Foodies and other hungry citizens can choose from Smog City Brewing Company, Tajima Ramen, Waffle Love, DeSano Pizza, Pig Pen Delicacy, Steelhead Coffee, and Rainbow Juices.

The property is not only doggo friendly but also artist friendly and features a seasonal-rotating wall mural.  In early May, SilverStreetz was kindly invited by the SteelCraft team to throw up a wall mural to ring in Summer 2019.

Working in the evenings, Sterling Molldrem would get home from middle school, finish his homework, jump in the van and roll out to SteelCraft.  Working a few hours a night, he live painted the mural and completed the piece on 5/18/2019 with a signing get together slated around summer solstice.  The work measures 7' wide x 6' high and utilizes Golden Acrylics.  It provides the backdrop for all of SteelCraft's live music and other interactive events throughout the year.

To say SilverStreetz enjoyed himself painting on the property would be an understatement.  The SteelCraft team is comprised of a super friendly and generous bunch.  Super big thanks to DeSano Pizza for hooking up the pies.  While live painting, the patrons coming through were positive, friendly, and showed nothing but love and respect.  Thank you so, so much for providing the opportunity, space, and trust in a 13 year old, up and coming visual artist based out of LA.

Both SilverStreetz and SteelCraft are making waves.  Do not fall asleep on these two brands and keep them firmly on your radar.

Jordan Airforce 1 x SilverStreetz

These new Jordan Airforce 1 x SilverStreetz kicks draw from Sterling Molldrem's vibrant and colorful mashup of logos, brand names, movies, and graphics to deliver new articulations of sport style, hype beast, hip hop paraphernalia, and other various street culture.

These custom hand painted basketball shoes are just one of the latest design creations SilverStreetz has released for his fashion footwear collection.  Incorporating Angelus paints and Nike Airforce 1’s as a canvas, Sterling Molldrem has once again demonstrated why he is one of LA’s youngest and most interesting artists to watch.

Available for purchase at www.slvrstrtz.com