Sneak Peak: MBP Urban Arts Festival

Skaters are pounding ramps together and trading tricks, vendors are setting up tables, gallerists are hanging pieces, and street artists are staking claim to swaths of concrete wall.

JMR has been working 4 days on his installation for the “Tree Grows In Brooklyn” wall, based on the book of the same name.  Night is falling but he’s just had a beer and a veggie burger and is back on the scissor lift with a kleig light blasting the wall. Aside from a car running over some paint cans that Indigo and Mania were going to use, everything is running copasetic. Now if the rain stays away…

Here are some shots of some of the work that will be on display tomorrow:

Mania lays up a stencil layer (photo Steven P. Harrington)

Mania lays up a stencil layer (photo Steven P. Harrington)

JMR laying in the black on his 100 ft long mural (photo Steven P. Harrington)

JMR punctuates in the black on his 100 ft long mural (photo Steven P. Harrington)

ELC Crew already stopped by (Celso, infinity, Royce Bannon...) (photo Steven P. Harrington)

ELC Crew already stopped by (Celso, infinity, Royce Bannon…) (photo Steven P. Harrington)

Billi Kid Obama filmstrip on the wall (photo Steven P. Harrington)

Billi Kid Obama filmstrip on the wall (blurry photo Steven P. Harrington)

Avoid Pi in the Mighty Tanaka gallery (photo Steven P. Harrington)

Avoid Pi in the Mighty Tanaka gallery (photo Steven P. Harrington)

Martha Cooper has some original Printer's Proofs from street life in NYC in the 70's and 80's

Martha Cooper has some original Printer’s Proofs from street life in NYC in the 70’s and 80’s (photo Steven P. Harrington)

The softer side of HELLBENT (photo Steven P. Harrington)

The softer side of HELLBENT (photo Steven P. Harrington)

Skewville in a conduit frame in the gallery (photo Steven P. Harrington)

Skewville in a conduit frame in the gallery (photo Steven P. Harrington)

Remo Camerota has a gallery full installation of brand new poloroid works - including this stormtrooper

Remo Camerota has a gallery full installation of brand new poloroid works – including this stormtrooper (photo Steven P. Harrington)

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