Close-up of Zero Cents in Bushwick, Brooklyn

Zero Cents‘ distinctly disfigured – often disturbing — characters have been part of Israel’s visual landscape for years. It was quite a thrill to see his work this past week in Bushwick, Brooklyn.

Zero Cents with Know Hope in Haifa, Israel, fall, 2010

Photos of Zero Cents in Bushwick by Tara Murray; photo with Know Hope in Haifa by Lois Stavsky

Phetus and Vers

While so much of the graffiti and street art in Brooklyn has moved to Bushwick, there are still a number of vibrant walls to be found in North Williamsburg. We came upon this wall in progress yesterday:

Hef — at work — and KA

Hef close-up

Cern at work

Photos by Sara Mozeson & Lois Stavsky

In this 90+ degree weather, Felix Mashkov and Vadim Gerasimenko of Concrete Jungle have been at work these past few days in Bushwick, Brooklyn creating a starkly stylish winter wonderland. Though they are returning to their hometown of Vladivostok tomorrow, they promise to return this year. Here are some images captured yesterday:

Photos by Tara Murray

We don’t visit Bedford-Stuyvesant as often as we should, as its walls are among the most interesting – and least documented – around town.  But we did get over there earlier this week, where we discovered new work by RAE and Gaia and found a huge mural — overlooking a community garden — by Lelo, a street artist from Rio de Janeiro.

Close-up of huge mural by RAE

We love the way RAE has integrated the tree into his most recent public piece

Huge Gaia paste-up

Gaia goes green

Lelo

Lelo close-up

Photos by Tara Murray & Lois Stavsky

Bishop203

We returned to Bushwick yesterday to find the streets teeming with even more intriguing characters and creatures.

Never & Flying Fortress

OverUnder

Cassius Fouler

Willow Art

Jellyfish

Photos by Tara Murray and Lois Stavsky

Hef

Weird and wondrous characters continue to make their way onto the streets of Bushwick. Here are a few I came upon today:

Never

Nychos

The Yok

Photos by Lois Stavsky

One of our favorite walls in Williamsburg is the one fashioned by Tristan Eaton on Fillmore Street off Roebling. For the past few days, he’s been back on Roebling bringing his stylish visual rhythms once more to NYC before leaving for the West Coast. Lenny Collado – my fellow street art and graffiti aficionado – has been busily documenting the work in progress:

And here’s a close-up of Eaton’s riveting rendition of Mickey Mouse spray-painted onto a board that will surface soon in Brooklyn:

Photos by Lenny Collado

ND'A

Some of  our favorite NYC artists have been busy.  We came upon these cool new walls in Bushwick yesterday.

QRST

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From playful paste-ups to stylish graffiti murals, new pieces are surfacing daily in Brooklyn’s Bushwick. Here’s a sampling:

Keely

Radical and ND'A

Owns & Ewok

Shank aka Demote

Sen2

 Photos by Tara Murray

Jesus Saves -- whose tag is just about everywhere in NYC

We made it over to Pandemic Gallery’s current exhibit ALL TALK! earlier in the week and loved the way it presented the works of some of our favorite artists whose work surface regularly in the public sphere. We also loved the incredible mix of aesthetic sensibilities. Here’s a sampling:

NohJColey

Gabriel Specter

Aakash Nihalani

The exhibit continues through March 11th @ 37 Broadway (between Wythe and Kent) in Brooklyn.

Photos by Lois Stavsky & Tara Murray