Happy Sunday ya’ll! April is the cruelest month, true. Magnolias today, snowstorm tomorrow.
Great to see the Spanish Pejac here in New York after years of writing about his work elsewhere. It has an extra special quality that plays with perception and that people respond to – especially when he paints blossoming trees at the exact time they are blossoming in our parks, back yards and front stoops. At the other end of the spectrum, the deliberately monstrous and unhinged west coast Neck Face was back for a couple cameos to add some jarring electricity to an increasingly homogenized and candy-covered NYC.
Here’s our weekly interview with the streets, this week featuring Cogitaro, Kusek, Libre, Lister, Manyoly, Neck Face, Pejac, Praxis VGZ, Skewville, and Stickman.
Top Image: Pejac. Detail. The L.I.S.A. Project NYC. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Pejac. Detail. The L.I.S.A. Project NYC. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Pejac. Detail. The L.I.S.A. Project NYC. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Pejac. The L.I.S.A. Project NYC. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Skewville (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Neck Face is BETTER THAN THE BEST… (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Praxis VGZ (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Libre (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Cogitaro (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Manyoly (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Unidentified artist…but YES can always say a prayer for pizza… (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Lister (photo © Jaime Rojo)
We can’t figure out the signature on this wall…we posted a different wall by the same artist, also in China Town a couple of Images Of The Week ago. Still no idea what the artist’s name. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Stickman (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Water Is Life (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Kusek (photo © Jaime Rojo)
A faux store front by Smart Crew. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
NYC Subway busker. Manhattan. April 2018. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
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