Street Artist Kid Zoom's 'This City Will Eat Me Alive' (VIDEO)

Kid Zoom is an Australian-born street artist living in Brooklyn, whose hyper-realistic portraits of skulls and hands can be seen adorning NYC and LA walls. In December he put together an exhibit downtown showcasing his most impressive work, a lot of which could almost pass for enormous Chuck Close paintings (not the taxidermied brown bear, though). Oh, and Chris Brown showed up to the artist's opening in the Meatpacking District, so.

Brooklyn Street Art visited Kid Zoom's studio recently, and discussed the beautiful darkness at the heart of Zoom's work:

A relatively new kid on this block, Kid Zoom began as a graffiti artist back home seven years ago, eventually mastering a vocabulary of realism with amazing speed and branching out into a mock horror genre of beasts and phantasma in street art that took over walls and even sides of suburban houses. The young buck brings a love of dark film to the game; the human body parts, hands, eyes, skulls and even some of his portraits resemble stills from movies. His Hitchcockian black and white paintings are detailed and precise - with a sudden shard of crimson slicing through them.

Really, we didn't know such detailed work was possible with a spraycan. This video, entitled This City Will Eat Me Alive, is an adrenaline rush through subway mazes and highways and street corners and galleries. Definitely worth a look:

KID ZOOM - This City Will Eat Me Alive from kidzoom on Vimeo.

[Wooster Collective]