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Images of the Week 09.25.11

September 25, 2011 Artists, Brooklyn, NYC, On the Street

Here’s our weekly interview with the streets, this week featuring: XAM, JR, El Sol 25, NohJColey, Mint & Serf, PEZ, Leo Kuelbs, Michael Mut, MTM, DGa, SX2BU, G2R, JOX, ONU.

Street Artist XAM is participating in this year’s DUMBO Art Festival taking place this weekend in the Brooklyn riverfront neighborhood called DUMBO. The annual art festival champions a huge public art element, with installations and projections in the street, in tunnels, on bridges, – and always contains a mix of sanctioned and unsanctioned art that blur the distinct lines of your position as a spectator or participant. With or without an official map to guide your feet, pedestrians can freely explore and stumble upon small thoughtful pieces and huge mind-bending light projections, conceptual mind candy, social commentary, and political screeds. Together with Art In Odd Places and Bring to Light Nuit Blanche NYC 2011 next weekend, it looks like New York is actively courting art in the streets this Fall – not to mention the street theater and artful costumes and signage playing out live in the “Occupy Wall Street”demonstrations. The DUMBO festival will run until today, Sunday September 25.

We’ve been tracking XAM’s work for quite a while now, and for those still not familiar with XAM’s work he custom designs and builds eco friendly birds houses that he calls CSD Dwelling and Feeding Units. He places the custom architecture units on signage high were birds can take shelter, careful not to damage property and yet provide a very stylish resting place. Stay tuned for an upcoming studio visit and interview with XAM. (photo above © Jaime Rojo)

XAM (photo © Jaime Rojo)

XAM paired a Feeding Unit with one of his “Your Ad Here” miniature billboards. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Jaye Moon. Lego Tree House in DUMBO (photo © Jaime Rojo)

French Street Artist and Ted Prize winner JR continues his “Inside Out Project” where ordinary citizens in neighborhoods all around the world submit photographs to the artist which his team then prints and send back for the people to install them themselves. Here is the installation in DUMBO. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

JR Inside Out Project. DUMBO (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Click HERE for our Bronx Inside Out Project.

Leo Kuelbs Collections: “Immersive Surfaces” projections on the Manhattan Bridge Anchorage and Archway. DUMBO (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Michael Mut “Murdered #216” from his 9/11 installations “Still Counting”. DUMBO (photo © Jaime Rojo)

MTM, DG6, SX2BU, G2R, JOX, ONU DUMBO installation. A commentary on the mortgage and financial crisis in the USA, the message is a corollary to those of marches going on just across the river in Lower Manhattan. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

MTM, DG6, SX2BU, G2R, JOX, ONU DUMBO installation. A commentary on the mortgage and financial crisis in the USA. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

MTM, DG6, SX2BU, G2R, JOX, ONU DUMBO installation. Jeez, these emoticon fellas sure look happy. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

MTM, DG6, SX2BU, G2R, JOX, ONU DUMBO installation. A commentary on the mortgage and financial crisis in the USA. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Mint and Serf Love You. DUMBO installation. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

NohJColey in Williamsburg. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Swemz. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

El Sol 25 in Williamsburg. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Untitled. Brooklyn Bridge. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Click on the link below for a complete sechedule of events and locations for the DUMBO Arts Festival:

http://dumboartsfestival.com/

Click on the link below for more information regarding “Still Counting”:

http://www.stillcounting.net/

Bring To Light: Nuit Blanche New York 2011 (Brooklyn, NY)

September 21, 2011 Art Fair, Artists, Brooklyn, Events, NYC, On the Street, Opening

Nuit Blanche New York 2011

Nuit Blanche NY 2010 (photo © Jaime Rojo)

OCTOBER 1ST, 2011, NEW YORK CITY

6:00 pm to Midnight.

Bring to Light is a free nighttime public festival of art in New York City that takes place simultaneously with “nuit blanche” events in cities around the world. Inviting emerging and established artists to make site-specific installations of light, sound, performance and projection art, the event creates an immersive spectacle for thousands of visitors to re-imagine public space and civic life. Bring to Light will transform streets, parks and the industrial waterfront of Greenpoint, Brooklyn set against dramatic views of the Manhattan skyline.

Nuit Blanche (French for “white night” or “all-nighter”) is a global network of locally-organized nighttime contemporary art events. Originating in Paris in 2001, the nuit blanche concept now involves millions of people in cities around the world.

Directions

By Water:

The East River Ferry runs regular service to the India Street Pier in Greenpoint from Manhattan, Queens and several locations in Brooklyn. Join our mailing list or check back here to learn about ferry service on the night of the event.

By Train:

G Train to Greenpoint Ave. Walk (2min) down Greenpoint Ave. to the site. L Train to Bedford Ave. Walk (15min) to water then North on Kent which becomes Franklin to reach festival site

By Bicycle:

Bicycle parking will be available at Franklin St. and Milton St.

By Taxi/Car Service:

Please drop at Greenpoint Ave and Franklin St. From there, it is a one block walk to the site.

http://www.bringtolightnyc.org/

Mighty Tanaka Gallery Presents: “Contemporary Abstractions” A Group Art Show (Brooklyn, NY)

September 19, 2011 Artists, Brooklyn, Events, Gallery, NYC, Opening

Mighty Tanaka Gallery

After a summer of transition, we are is back at it once again!

Mighty Tanaka has been in a state of transition for the past couple months as we have been preparing to move the gallery into a new location in Dumbo. Since we are still in the moving process, our next show will be hosted by powerHouse Arena!

Coinciding with the Dumbo Arts Festival, we are pleased to bring you Contemporary Abstractions, featuring the artwork of Adam Void, Drew Tyndell, Greg Henderson, JMR, Julia Colavita & Lauren Comito. Hosted by powerHouse Arena, the show runs from Friday, September 23rd – October 5th.

Contemporary Abstractions Opening Reception:

Friday, September 23rd

6pm – 9pm

Colors, dimension, flow and definition are all words that can describe our latest show at Mighty Tanaka entitled Contemporary Abstractions, featuring the artwork of: Adam Void, Drew Tyndell, Greg Henderson, JMR, Julia Colavita & Lauren Comito. Hosted by powerHouse Arena, in DUMBO, Brooklyn, this art show exhibits the work of six emerging artists who represent different directions and juxtaposing interpretations of Abstract art. Contemporary Abstractions is a cross section of styles that highlight the range and breath of this established art form and aims to emphasize a variety of techniques and approaches that can be associated with the movement.

From found material sculptures and geometric design to painted canvas and tailored collages, Contemporary Abstractions features an array of complimentary talent that is pushing the bounds of an art form. The artist’s work strives to continue the legacy established by their predecessors and to create a solid foundation for future generations to grow upon.

Location:

powerHouse Arena

37 Main St

Brooklyn, NY 11201

(F Train to York St)

Dan Witz WTC 9/11 Shrines

September 11, 2011 Artists, Brooklyn, Events, Features, Manhattan, NYC, On the Street

To mark the 10th Anniversary of the events that took place in NYC on September 11, 2001 we asked Street Artist Dan Witz to share with us his images of a series of shrines that he installed in New York during the summer of 2002. It seems appropriate that Street Art paid tribute and facilitated the public mourning and remembrance of those we lost; All manner of artists took to the streets at that time – and it never really stopped. We are thankful for the time and the effort of the many talents, mostly anonymous, who claimed the streets as their own and who buoyed us during those days. And we are thankful to Dan for sharing with us his work here.

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Dan Witz talks about his “WTC Shrines” –

“Starting at Ground Zero, following sight lines of the World Trade Center drawn in a star pattern on my map, I installed about 40 of these on the bases of light poles. At the time I was thinking a lot about art objects’ possible usefulness in the real world. For me paintings have often functioned as secular shrines—as visual instigators to reverie.

The week before September 11th I was up in the Bronx at a housing project photographing the shrine neighbors left at the doorstep of a murdered 9 year old girl (balloons, flowers, stuffed animals, family photos). I wasn’t sure what I wanted to do exactly, it was just my way of sketching. Then the planes hit and the city parks filled with thousands of candles and flowers and other offerings. Again, I went to take photographs, not knowing what I actually wanted, just on an instinct. At the time I used a large format camera, the old style with the hood and long bellows. Every time I put the hood on and focused the ground glass, I got an unmistakably eerie feeling from all those candles—it was bizarre and chilling, and definitely paranormal. I’ll never forget it”

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Dan Witz. Thompson Street, NYC (photo © Dan Witz)

Dan Witz. Brooklyn Bridge, Brooklyn. (photo © Dan Witz)

Dan Witz. 23rd Street and 6th Ave. NYC (photo © Dan Witz)

from a publicly posted poem entitled

Don’t Look for Me Anymore
(Alicia Vasquez)

don’t look for me anymore
it’s late and you are tired
your feet ache standing atop the ruins of our twins
day after day searching for a trace of me
your eyes are burning red
your hands cut bleeding sifting through rock
and your back crooked from endless hours of labor…

it’s my turn, I’m worried about you
watching as you sift through the ruins of what was
day after day in the soot and the rain
I ache in knowing you suffer my death

rest in knowing that my blood lies in the cracks and crevices
of these great lands I loved so much…

don’t look for me anymore
hold my children as I would
hold my brothers and sisters for me
since I can’t bring them up with the same
love you gave me
and I’ll rest assured
you’re watching my children

don’t look for me anymore
go home and rest…

Signed A. Vasquez, found on 9/14/01 on the “Wailing Wall” at Grand Central Station

Dan Witz. Battery Park, NYC (photo © Dan Witz)

Dan Witz. Financial District, NYC (photo © Dan Witz)

Dan Witz. Williamsburg, Brooklyn. (photo © Dan Witz)

Dan Witz. Weehawken, NJ (photo © Dan Witz)

Dan Witz. Water Street, NYC (photo © Dan Witz)

Dan Witz. Fulton and Broadway, NYC (photo © Dan Witz)

Dan Witz. Grand Street, NYC (photo © Dan Witz)

Dan Witz. Greenwich Ave. NYC (photo © Dan Witz)

Dan Witz. Ground Zero, NYC (photo © Dan Witz)

Dan Witz. Jersey City, NJ (photo © Dan Witz)

Dan Witz. SOHO, NYC (photo © Dan Witz)

Martha Cooper and Remembering 9/11

September 6, 2011 Artists, Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, NYC, On the Street, Queens

This week many New Yorkers are thinking about where they were on 9/11/2001 when the planes hit the World Trade Center Towers and what the city felt like in the days, weeks, and months that followed. There are many questions that never were answered, and there are many consequences that are still to unveil. An incredibly diverse city in so many ways, our unity was automatic and sincere. We already knew each other and we knew we all had been hurt and we were all changed by those events. While others looked at it as an American attack, New Yorkers felt a wound to the place we had made together, our beloved dirty beautiful hard and scrappy city. Today it is painful to go back and contemplate those days and wonder what happened, why, and at what cost.

Martha Cooper: Remembering 9/11. De La Vega. (photo © Martha Cooper)

World renowned graffiti and Street Art photographer Martha Cooper had been documenting New York as a journalist and ethnographer for a quarter century when the streets of the city were flooded by raw sentiments and visual communications expressed with marker, pencil, paint, – whatever was at hand – in the days that followed 9/11. Those incredibly personal desperate acts of expression were gazed upon and reflected on by neighbors and strangers as we attempted in vain to explain the world to one another. To remember a little of what it was like, she shares with us her photographs from those days.

“9/11 happened to all of us. It was a collective experience that defined the outset of the uneasy, globally interdependent twenty-first century. Nowhere, however, were the raw terror and tragic consequences of 9/11 felt more personally than the metropolitan region of New York City, for which the Twin Towers had functioned as a conspicuous compass setting, hub of work and recreation, and symbol of America’s economic might,” Martha Cooper writes in “Remembering 9/11”

(photo © Martha Cooper)

A memorial wall by members of Tats Cru. (photo © Martha Cooper)

The symbolism in personal depictions like these often said more than thousands of words ever could. (photo © Martha Cooper)

“There are no prescribed rituals for mourning thousands of people. We invented them as we went along,” Martha Cooper

(photo © Martha Cooper)

Art work in Union Square (photo © Martha Cooper)

Memorial Wall for WTC victims by Lower East Side artist, Chico Garcia; Avenue A (photo © Martha Cooper)

(photo © Martha Cooper)

This wall in Queens, NY was painted by Lady Pink, Smith, Ernie and friends. (photo © Martha Cooper)

Martha Cooper is a featured panelist at today’s panel discussion in Brooklyn called “Return Remember: Ephemeral Memorials in the Legacy of September 11” At Power House Arena. 37 Main Street Dumbo. 6-8 PM.

Martha Cooper will be signing copies of a new slim volume of images “Remembering 9/11” following the panel discussion. For more information about this event please click on the link below:

http://www.brooklynstreetart.com/theblog/?p=23995

Images of the Week 09.04.11

September 4, 2011 Artists, Brooklyn, Manhattan, NYC, On the Street

Here’s our weekly interview with the streets, this week featuring Dal East, Dust Love, El Sol 25, Faith 47, Knitta Please!, Le Concept, UFO, and Wing.

El Sol 25 (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Knitta Please! “Plan Ahead” (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Artist Unknown (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Faith 47, Dal…East (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Wing (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Le Concept (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Artist Unknown (photo © Jaime Rojo)

UFO (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Dust Love (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Untitled photo © Jaime Rojo

Return, Remember: Ephemeral Memorials In the Legacy of September 11 at Power House Arena With Martha Cooper and more (Brooklyn, NY)

August 31, 2011 Brooklyn, Events, NYC

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Pandemic Gallery Presents: “Heat Beaten” A Group Show (Brooklyn, NY)

August 31, 2011 Artists, Brooklyn, Events, Gallery, NYC, Opening

Heat Beaten
Well it’s been hot… DAMN HOT! The heat has beaten us yet again. But the summer is about to start winding down into fall, and to the eventual cold grip of winter. So in celebration… or acceptance… of this annual de-swelter we are hosting a multimedia group show with 9 great artists hailing from New York and Philadelphia. With work ranging from painting, printmaking, sculpture and installation, as well as murals painted directly on the gallery walls. The show will be a great farewell to the hot summer and a welcome mat for the cool autumn season.

Please join us for:

“Heat Beaten”
A summer’s end art show
Saturday, Sept. 10th
opening 7-11pm

Featuring:
Abby Goodman
Buildmore
El Hase
Ellis G
John Skibo
KA
Noah Sparkes
Sofia Maldonado
W. Thomas Porter

PANDEMIC gallery
37 Broadway btwn Kent and Wythe
Brooklyn, NY 11211
www.pandemicgallery.com

Gallery hours:
Tues.-Fri. 11-6pm
Sat. & Sun. 12-7pm
closed Monday

or by appointment

L train to Bedford ave, J train to Marcy ave, or Q59 bus to Broadway/Wythe

LUDO in NY, Chicago, and LA with More of “Nature’s Revenge”

August 29, 2011 Artists, Brooklyn, California, Chicago, L.A., Los Angeles, NYC, On the Street, Venice Beach

Parisian Street Artist LUDO brought “Nature’s Revenge” to the US this month and his eye-popping surreal wheat-pasted creations are now on walls in New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles. By combining weaponry with insects and plants into hybrids, LUDO is using this ongoing series to draw attention to how we are messing with nature in ways we never have in an unquestioning way and at our own peril. From biotech to nanotech to robotics to remote controlled drones, the face of war is sold with branding and a sizzling “wow” factor, accompanied by vague assurances that these developments are necessary to protect us good guys from the bad ones. From the perspective of this ongoing “Nature’s Revenge” series, our romance with all things shiny and futuristic is quickly morphing out of our control and it’s likely to come back and bite us, or worse.

Using a reliably greyscale, white, and acid green palette, LUDO’s high-tech hybrids are alternately frightening and amusing, and even super cool. While a Freddy Kruger facemask is obviously symbolic, it’s pairing with a mechanical daisy is unnerving. The wheat paste of a tarantular top-loaded missile delivery device is laughable until you see the video of unstoppable multi-limbed all terrain “big dog” robots being developed to do the same thing. Even the bunch of grape skulls seems sort of blunt until you think of what we’re now learning about irradiation, pesticides, and genetically modified foods. Taken as a whole LUDO’s work is one of the more message-driven on the street today and is another example of the new narrative-driven story telling we continue to witness in Street Art. Luckily, it’s also visually compelling.

A LUDO discovered in Brooklyn with a bit of his other “Co-Branding” campaign, which pairs disturbing imagery with a friendly logo to assuage discomfort. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

A LUDO piece currently on view in a gallery setting: The group show “Street Art Saved my Life: 39 New York Stories”on view at C.A.V.E. Gallery in Venice Beach, Los Angeles, is curated by Steven P. Harrington and Jaime Rojo and produced with ThinkSpace (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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In LA Ludo installed work with Daniel Lahoda for LA FreeWalls, C.A.V.E. Gallery, and with curation by BSA. Special thanks to Daniel for his total support, hospitality, and vision.In Chicago special thanks to Nick and Seth from Pawn Works Gallery and to Brock for making this happen and for providing the wheels and the good company.

Images of the Week 08.28.11

August 28, 2011 Artists, Brooklyn, California, L.A., Los Angeles, Manhattan, NYC, On the Street

Our weekly interview with the street, this week featuring Bast, Chris Uphues, Cyrcle, Dain, Enzo & Nio, Ja Ja, LMNOP, Shepard Fairey, Skewville, Swampy, and Willow.

Carlos Gonzalez shares with you this huge floral skull from the Cyrcle opening this week in Los Angeles (photo © Carlos Gonzalez)

Artist Unknown. A tribute to the much maligned and misunderstood urban dwellers. We love pigeons here at BSA. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Images of the Week 08.07.11

August 7, 2011 Artists, Bronx, Brooklyn, NYC, On the Street

Our weekly interview with the street, this week featuring Billy Mode, Cash4, Cassius Fouler, Chris Stain, Creepy, Godson, JR, LMNOP, PonyBoy, QRST, Rambo, Voke, and Xavior.

We start this week with a brand new nearly block-long installation in Bushwick, Brooklyn by Street Artists Chris Stain, Billy Mode, and Voke called “In The Dream”. The guys really stretched themselves physically and creatively, coxing out a more subtle and layered treatment of their subjects and symbols . It creates a dream-like feeling frankly.

French street artist and TED Prize winner JR visited New York recently to help turn the Bronx “Inside Out”. As most of our readers are already aware, JR used his prize money to encourage communities all over the world to take part in the conversations on the streets and to let the creative spirit flow. In The Bronx section of New York City a group of dedicated individuals took the artist’s call in earnest and invited members of the community to participate by taking the photographs, posing for the photographs and wheat pasting them in the Hunts Point Section of The Bronx. JR was there for one day to lend a hand after he had finished his large installations in Manhattan. To learn more about the “Inside Out Project” and for more images of this Bronx installation click here (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Fumero Presents: “In Your Face” At 17 Frost Gallery (Brooklyn, NY)

August 4, 2011 Artists, Brooklyn, Events, Gallery, NYC, Opening

FUMERO
ARTIST RECEPTION/Opening:SATURDAY 8/13: 7-10pm. Fumero’s Iconic faces, TSLogo art, T-shirts, prints & more. Special presentation of “The “Table Series” paintings, landscapes and the original “Grandpa”. Serving wine and hors d’oeuvres. Open and Free to the public. AFTER PARTY & music by ONDA SKILLET 10pm-2am. Come CELEBRATE the “art” of having a GOOD-NRG time. Show/exhibit will run for 4 weeks until 9-10-11. This event is an ART AFTER DARK -FUMERO funded- PRODUCTION.

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XAM (photo © Jaime Rojo)

XAM (photo © Jaime Rojo)

XAM (photo © Jaime Rojo)

XAM (photo © Jaime Rojo)

XAM (photo © Jaime Rojo)

XAM (photo © Jaime Rojo)

XAM paired a Feeding Unit with one of his “Your Ad Here” miniature billboards. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Jaye Moon. Lego Tree House in DUMBO (photo © Jaime Rojo)

JR Inside Out Project. DUMBO (photo © Jaime Rojo)

JR Inside Out Project. DUMBO (photo © Jaime Rojo)

JR Inside Out Project. DUMBO (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Leo Kuelbs Collections: “Immersive Surfaces” projections on the Manhattan Bridge Anchorage and Archway. DUMBO (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Michael Mut “Murdered #216” from his 9/11 installations “Still Counting”. DUMBO (photo © Jaime Rojo)

MTM, DG6, SX2BU, G2R, JOX, ONU DUMBO installation. A commentary on the mortgage and financial crisis in the USA, the message is a corollary to those of marches going on just across the river in Lower Manhattan. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

MTM, DG6, SX2BU, G2R, JOX, ONU DUMBO installation. A commentary on the mortgage and financial crisis in the USA. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

MTM, DG6, SX2BU, G2R, JOX, ONU DUMBO installation. Jeez, these emoticon fellas sure look happy. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

MTM, DG6, SX2BU, G2R, JOX, ONU DUMBO installation. A commentary on the mortgage and financial crisis in the USA. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Mint and Serf Love You. DUMBO installation. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

NohJColey in Williamsburg. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

NohJColey in Williamsburg. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

NohJColey in Williamsburg. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Swemz. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

El Sol 25 in Williamsburg. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Untitled. Brooklyn Bridge. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Nuit Blanche NY 2010 (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Directions

By Water:

By Train:

By Bicycle:

By Taxi/Car Service:

Dan Witz. Thompson Street, NYC (photo © Dan Witz)

Dan Witz. Brooklyn Bridge, Brooklyn. (photo © Dan Witz)

Dan Witz. 23rd Street and 6th Ave. NYC (photo © Dan Witz)

Dan Witz. Battery Park, NYC (photo © Dan Witz)

Dan Witz. Financial District, NYC (photo © Dan Witz)

Dan Witz. Williamsburg, Brooklyn. (photo © Dan Witz)

Dan Witz. Weehawken, NJ (photo © Dan Witz)

Dan Witz. Water Street, NYC (photo © Dan Witz)

Dan Witz. Fulton and Broadway, NYC (photo © Dan Witz)

Dan Witz. Grand Street, NYC (photo © Dan Witz)

Dan Witz. Greenwich Ave. NYC (photo © Dan Witz)

Dan Witz. Ground Zero, NYC (photo © Dan Witz)

Dan Witz. Jersey City, NJ (photo © Dan Witz)

Dan Witz. SOHO, NYC (photo © Dan Witz)

Martha Cooper: Remembering 9/11. De La Vega. (photo © Martha Cooper)

(photo © Martha Cooper)

A memorial wall by members of Tats Cru. (photo © Martha Cooper)

The symbolism in personal depictions like these often said more than thousands of words ever could. (photo © Martha Cooper)

(photo © Martha Cooper)

Art work in Union Square (photo © Martha Cooper)

Memorial Wall for WTC victims by Lower East Side artist, Chico Garcia; Avenue A (photo © Martha Cooper)

(photo © Martha Cooper)

(photo © Martha Cooper)

This wall in Queens, NY was painted by Lady Pink, Smith, Ernie and friends. (photo © Martha Cooper)

El Sol 25 (photo © Jaime Rojo)

El Sol 25 (photo © Jaime Rojo)

El Sol 25 (photo © Jaime Rojo)

El Sol 25 (photo © Jaime Rojo)

El Sol 25 (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Knitta Please! “Plan Ahead” (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Artist Unknown (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Faith 47, Dal…East (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Faith 47, Dal…East (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Faith 47, Dal…East (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Wing (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Le Concept (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Artist Unknown (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Artist Unknown (photo © Jaime Rojo)

UFO (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Dust Love (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Untitled photo © Jaime Rojo

LUDO in Chicago (photo © Jaime Rojo)

LUDO in Chicago (photo © Jaime Rojo)

LUDO in Chicago (photo © Jaime Rojo)

LUDO in Chicago (photo © Jaime Rojo)

LUDO in Chicago (photo © Jaime Rojo)

LUDO in Chicago (photo © Jaime Rojo)

LUDO in Chicago (photo © Jaime Rojo)

LUDO in Chicago (photo © Jaime Rojo)

LUDO applies his custom-mixed acidic green goo in Chicago (photo © Jaime Rojo)