Opus Underground

Broken Crow is an ongoing stencil-based large-scale collaborative art experiment between John Grider and Mike Fitzsimmons. After cutting their first large scale stencil in 2005, they quickly realized that it was actually physically impossible to paint large-scale stencils alone, and their working dynamic developed as quickly as the walls materialized before them. Together, they seek to quadruple-handedly paint the largest stencils known to man and womankind.

Through meticulous preparation in their stencils, combined with an aggressive painting style and work ethic, they seek to create a dialog between foresight and spontaneity in the work they produce, while simultaneously reintroducing wild animals back into the urban habitats that we humans live in.

The effects of their efforts live somewhere in the vast gray area between street art and public art, as yet undefined by the art history books and bloggers alike. If they have brightened your city, they are happy to have done so. If you have a wall you'd like them to paint, they'd be happy to know about it.

They live and work in Minneapolis and St Paul Minnesota, but will happily travel wherever they have a wall to paint and a floor to crash on.