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Art scavengers to sift Hillcrest

Stashed canvases of Louiegee “Strider” Faustino lead to free publicity

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Artist Louiegee “Strider” Faustino hides his work for you to find. In a scavenger hunt he calls “The Lost Cause,” he has a populist vision of an art that is for everyone, can be seen by anyone, and is available to the urban pedestrian.

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Over the past six months, he has donated eight paintings and gained more followers as he strives to make it as a San Diego artist. In one Facebook post, he tipped off followers with a photograph of several newsstands along University Avenue in which he had tucked a small canvas. His next artistic hide-and-seek will be this Sunday, May 18.

“I make a painting, I drop hints on my Facebook page,” said Faustino. “People are really eager to get them. They find them in a few minutes.”

Like Dalek, a graffiti artist who has inspired him, Strider grew up in a military family that moved throughout the U.S. Having now spent half his life in Southern California, the graffiti, comic-book characterization, and graphic-novel abstraction of the city walls now animate his acrylic paintings.

“I’m not formally educated in art. I’m self-taught,” said Strider. “But art is what I’ve done for 15 years. It’s what I do.”

Moving from solo shows at a downtown Artwalk in Little Italy to hangings in Bourbon Street (the Park Boulevard bar) and Whole Foods, Strider has sporadically produced work since he was 20.

“I work for a living and do art in my free time. Sometimes, I work all day [at a grocery store] and when I get home — where my roommate and I share an art workspace — it’s quiet, no one is a awake, and I finally have time to paint."

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Break of Bunny Dawn

Artist Louiegee “Strider” Faustino hides his work for you to find. In a scavenger hunt he calls “The Lost Cause,” he has a populist vision of an art that is for everyone, can be seen by anyone, and is available to the urban pedestrian.

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Over the past six months, he has donated eight paintings and gained more followers as he strives to make it as a San Diego artist. In one Facebook post, he tipped off followers with a photograph of several newsstands along University Avenue in which he had tucked a small canvas. His next artistic hide-and-seek will be this Sunday, May 18.

“I make a painting, I drop hints on my Facebook page,” said Faustino. “People are really eager to get them. They find them in a few minutes.”

Like Dalek, a graffiti artist who has inspired him, Strider grew up in a military family that moved throughout the U.S. Having now spent half his life in Southern California, the graffiti, comic-book characterization, and graphic-novel abstraction of the city walls now animate his acrylic paintings.

“I’m not formally educated in art. I’m self-taught,” said Strider. “But art is what I’ve done for 15 years. It’s what I do.”

Moving from solo shows at a downtown Artwalk in Little Italy to hangings in Bourbon Street (the Park Boulevard bar) and Whole Foods, Strider has sporadically produced work since he was 20.

“I work for a living and do art in my free time. Sometimes, I work all day [at a grocery store] and when I get home — where my roommate and I share an art workspace — it’s quiet, no one is a awake, and I finally have time to paint."

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