We made it over to Brooklyn’s Mighty Tanaka last week to check out its first exhibit of the new year: Lost & Found.  Featuring the artwork of Adam Void, Curtis Readel, Alice Mizrachi, ELLE and John Breiner, the exhibit features an intriguing array of work in diverse media created largely from found objects. Here are a few images:

Adam Void, Baltimore Sunset, found objects on wood panel

Curtis Readel, Towering Stud, shredded US currency collage

Alice Mizrachi, close-up of Luna, huge installation of acrylic on found wood & metal panels

ELLE, Raven Got Your Tongue, acrylic w/oil paint & wheat paste on found table

John Breiner, Brubreck vs Brubeck, acrylic ink and etching on found book cover

The exhibit continues through February 5 at Mighty Tanaka’s new space @ 111 Front Street in Brooklyn’s DUMBO district.

Photos by Tara Murray & Lois Stavsky

We recently came upon some unusual paste-ups in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. A surreal mix of natural elements and characters, they are eerily enchanting.  It turns out they are the work of Chilean artist Macay, who has been getting her work out on the streets of London for a while now. Here’s a sampling:

Photos by Tara Murray

Back to Bushwick, we discovered new work by OverUnder, Aiko and Bast.  We revisited, too, one of our favorite Roa walls.

OverUnder, photo by Lois Stavsky

Bast and Aiko, photo by Lois Stavsky

Aiko close-up, photo by Tara Murray

Roa, photo by Lois Stavsky

Photos by Tara Murray and Lois Stavsky

We don’t get to the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn often enough . But we did today, and the rooftops and graffiti walls will definitely have us coming back for more:

Swampy (& company)

Rubin 415

Photos by Lois Stavsky

Those graffiti murals in Bushwick are among the most vibrant anywhere. They also attest to graffiti’s continual evolution. And while so many “street artists” who grace our walls with wonderfully provocative images often retire from the streets, most of the writers keep on doing their thing in the public sphere. Here are a few images we saw this morning:

Rubin 415, photo by Lois Stavsky

Never, photo by Lois Stavsky

Preta, photo by Lois Stavsky

Artist to be identified, photo by Damien Kelly

Photos by Lois Stavsky and Damien Kelly

For the past few months I’ve been marveling at ND’A’s and OverUnder’s pieces that have been surfacing regularly in Bushwick and Williamsburg. I’m less familiar with Labrona’s work, though I loved what I saw of his in Carmichael Gallery’s “Re-Creation 2” at the Ogilvy Chocolate Factory last year.  Williamsburg’s Pandemic Gallery is currently featuring the work of all three artists.  The exhibit, PAPERBOYS, continues through Sunday, December 11^th and is definitely worth checking out if you are anywhere in the NYC vicinity. Here are a few of our favorite images:

OverUnder, photo by Lois Stavsky

OverUnder, photo by Lois Stavsky

Labrona, photo by Tara Murray

Labrona, photo by Tara Murray

ND'A, photo by Damien Kelly

ND'A and OverUnder, photo by Lois Stavsky

Photos by Lois Stavsky, Damien Kelly and Tara Murray

Ranging from first-rate graffiti to folksy installations, the walls in Bushwick, Brooklyn are among the most intriguing anywhere. Here’s a sampling of what we saw today:

Dain

Dos and Dasic Fernandez

Ewok

Never -- whom we caught in action last week

Rae

Two of Brooklyn’s most prolific muralists, Never and Cern, were captured at work this past week. We are looking forward to seeing the final pieces, but here’s a glimpse of the works in progress:

Never in Bushwick, photo by Lois Stavsky

Cern in Williamsburg, photo by Dani Mozeson

Photos by Lois Stavsky and Dani Mozeson

REVS maintains quite a presence in DUMBO, Brooklyn these days. Here are a few images:

Photos by Lois Stavsky & Dani Mozeson

Tristan Eaton

How & Nosm close-up

How & Nosm

Photos by Lois Stavsky