Minneapolis-based yarnbomber HOTTEA was busy in NYC last week. It was great to have him back in town. I only wish that his amazing work on the Williamsburg Bridge had lasted longer. Sadly, I never got to see more than just a few remnants. But there are other works:
Photos by Dani Mozeson
Tags, throw-ups, paste-ups, stickers and a range of characters have all made their way to NYC doors, making them some of the most intriguing canvases in town. Here’s a sampling:
Photos by Lenny Collado, Dani Mozeson and Lois Stavsky
Always amazed by stikman’s endless variations, I love these images — depicting stikman in various time periods — that have recently surfaced in Chelsea.
Here are a few more:
Photos by Dani Mozeson and Lois Stavsky
Back in 1976, Nic 707 founded the Bronx-based crew OTB, and, along with his crew, regularly hit the trains. These days Nic 707 is back on the trains. But his interventions, this time around, are eliciting mostly curiosity and expressions of gratitude form subway riders. I accompanied him last night on his Instafame Phantom Art Project. Here’s a bit of what I witnessed:
Photos by Lois Stavsky
Despite Washington DC’s zero tolerance policy, its public spaces continue to boast a range of “illegal” works from stickers and paste-ups to out-of-the-way graff pieces. On my recent visit, DC’s prolific sticker artist iwillnot gave me a tour of some works – all done, as he explained, “without permission.” Here is a sampling:
Photos by Lois Stavsky
A huge fan of RAE’s folksy, outsider aesthetic, I love the way his characters surface surreptitiously — quite regularly — throughout Lower Manhattan and Brooklyn. Here are a few more:
My favorite wheatpastes rarely lose their beauty. They just continue to evolve until they, sadly, wither away. Here are a few:
Photos by Dani Mozeson, Tara Murray and Lois Stavsky
With their vigorous, brightly-hued fusion of pop imagery, comic art and graffiti elements, Pose and Revok, along with support from other MSK crew members, have fashioned — perhaps — the most dynamic mural to ever grace the famed Bowery and Houston wall. Along with their current exhibit, Uphill Both Ways at the Jonathan LeVine Gallery, their artwork is a testament to graffiti’s ongoing evolution and vitality.
And in their tribute to the legendary Nekst and to the true spirit of graffiti, the two have, also, left their mark on the streets of Bushwick, Brooklyn:
Photos by Dani Mozeson, Tara Murray and Lois Stavsky
RJ had mentioned Woodward Gallery’s new exhibit, “From the Streets Up,” last week, and it is, indeed, wonderful. Opening this evening from 6-8, it features intriguing street art sculptures in different media by a range of artists crossing generations, cultures and sensibilities. Here are a few more images:
Co-curated by Royce Bannon and Cassius Fouler, the exhibit continues through July 31 at 133 Eldridge Street on Manhattan’s Lower East Side.
Photos by Tara Murray and Lois Stavsky
I became an instant fan of Switzerland’s NEVERCREW – consisting of Pablo Togni and Christian Rebecchi – when I discovered their transformation of the exterior of a Swiss school. With roots in graffiti and successful ventures into such other artistic expressions as sculpture, designer toys, photography and videos, the talented duo continues to paint large scale murals that are both beautifully executed and intriguingly provocative.
Here are two close-ups from their recent mural executed at the Stroke Urban Art Fair in Munich:
And an earlier outdoor painting in a pedestrian underpass in Monte Carasso:
Photos courtesy of the artists
