Brooklyn

Wheatpasted Photography “One Year Before the Oil Spill”

April 7, 2011 Artists, Brooklyn, California, NYC, On the Street, San Francisco

Photographer Michael M. Koehler Talks About Shrimpers on a Brooklyn Street

The devastation produced by the BP oil disaster continues to affect the animals and people who live on the southern coast of the US and during an overcast day yesterday in Brooklyn a black and white memory of life as it was before the spill appeared on the street. Over top of a pretty battered Shepard Fairey installation from spring of last year a photograph by Michael M Koehler called “One Year Before the Oil Spill” was installed. The piece is from a series he did about life for people impacted by the polluted environment entitled Along Bayou Road.

Michael M Koehler “A Year Before the Oil Spill” (Photo © Jaime Rojo)

Talking to a passerby, Mr. Koehler explained that after the largest oil spill in US history, citizens who live along the gulf coast are afraid to eat the shrimp caught in the Gulf of Mexico. In the image he captures the vibrancy of sea life, culture, and commerce with gulls flying over while the nets of “shrimpers” harvest the waters to support their families and the local economy. These days, Mr. Koehler says that stores and restaurants are importing shrimp because nobody wants to buy the local production.

Michael M Koehler “A Year Before the Oil Spill” (Photo © Jaime Rojo)

The north Brooklyn neighborhood of Williamsburg was once a bustling port town in the 1800s and Koehler chose this spot for his piece because he feels it has a certain kinship with the seafacing communities down south. In fact if you had been on these same streets in say, 1827, you would have seen daily industry related to cargo ships, shipbuilding (the Brooklyn Navy Yard is just next door to the West), sugar refineries, iron works, and brewing. With this wheat pasted series, Koehler draws attention to the plight of a life and industry imperiled.

Michael M Koehler “A Year Before the Oil Spill” (Photo © Jaime Rojo)

Michael M Koehler “A Year Before the Oil Spill” Detail (Photo © Jaime Rojo)

Michael M Koehler “A Year Before the Oil Spill” (Photo © Jaime Rojo)

Michael M Koehler. A shrimper portrait from his Along Bayou Road series. (Photo © Jaime Rojo)

Now it’s time to put on an old vinyl 45 and listen to Jerry Jackson singing about “Shrimp Boats” and get a 1950s taste of a celebrated part of culture and cuisine.

Brooklynite Gallery Presents: Elik “Snake Bite” (Brooklyn, NY)

April 5, 2011 Artists, Brooklyn, Events, Gallery, NYC, Opening

Elik

ELIK ‘Snub-Nose’ Prints now available in our Shop/Extras Section.

ELIK “SNAKE BITE” May 7th, 7-10pmBrooklynite Gallery

Musical Guest: DJ KOOL HERC
Brooklynite Gallery is located at 334 Malcolm X Blvd., Brooklyn, New York 11233.
Phone 347-405-5976 • BrooklyniteGallery.com
During exhibitions, we are open Thursday thru Saturday from 1-6pm or by appointment.
We are located 2 blocks from the A or C subway to Utica Ave. stop.

Elbow Toe New Piece: A Bee in the Bonnet, A Geranium in the Cranium

April 4, 2011 Artists, Brooklyn, NYC, On the Street

“I suppose you have heard of Mr. Coward’s pranks. He has, as the Scotch call it, a Bee in his Bonnet.” ~the Reverend Philip Doddridge’s Letters, 1790

Buzzing with pranks of his own, Street Artist Elbow Toe’s first street piece in New York since last summer appeared as a 14′ x 6′ hand colored wheat paste. According to online accounts Mr. Toe informs us it’s title is “Say I’m The Only Bee In Your Bonnet”. Stung by the mystery of the piece, the title has our minds swelling with possible explanations about what it could mean. Ah well, the onward march of spring continues in our midst.

Elbow Toe (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Images of the Week 04.03.11

April 3, 2011 Artists, Brooklyn, Manhattan, NYC, On the Street

In the spring a young man’s fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love.
~Alfred Lord Tennyson

The streets are coming alive with sculpture-like objects this spring – repurposed household items and brand new houses for the avian set are suddenly popping up like yellow and purple crocuses on the toxic banks of the Gowanus Canal. Also you’ll notice a bit more nudity these days, some frankly frank, as spring and a young man’s/woman’s fancy are abloom.

Here is our weekly interview with the street: this week featuring Fly Kid, Haculla, L.O.L. Von Shan, Obey, Rae, Rambo, RTTP, Sabio, Shepard Fairey, Stikman, Tristan Eaton, and XAM.

This sculpture, in SOHO by RAE is a perfect example of the ongoing D.I.Y. movement that adds to the conversation on the streets. (Photo © Jaime Rojo)

RAE. The thrills of photographing Street Art can be similar to those of a treasure hunt. When I have the opportunity to witness the public being engaged with the art in the street the thrill turns into poetry. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Guuurl, he is so fly! Fly Kid From Brooklyn (Photo © Jaime Rojo)

This billboard on the BQE has had a long run and it could be landmarked. Alternately, it could be a fine ad for Taco Bell fake meat products. Sabio. Obey. Rambo (Photo © Jaime Rojo)

XAM’s bird houses seem to stay up for about a minute and a half – before they get damaged or removed; Possibly because they are obstructing traffic messages, dunno. They come with a satellite dish on top, presumably for in-home viewing of Animal Planet specials on the mini plasma. “CSD DWELLING UNIT 1.6” (photo © Jaime Rojo)

XAM “CSD DWELLING UNIT 3.0” (photo © Jaime Rojo)

XAM “CSD FEEDING UNIT 1.0” (photo © Jaime Rojo)

XAM “CSD DWELLING UNIT 1.6” (photo © Jaime Rojo)

An instant Mash Up/Collage/Collab with a Supreme poster of Lady Gaga – or is that Madonna? (photo © Jaime Rojo)

L.O.L. Von Shan is rather straight backward about the subject. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

This whole low-rider jeans thing has gotten out of hand. RTTP. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Haculla balances graff and street art, horror and humor. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Looks like RAE has a handle on the street sculpture matter. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Stikman internalizes Natalie Portman’s character (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Tristan Eaton “Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse” completed mural (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Click on the link below to see process shots of the mural:

http://www.brooklynstreetart.com/theblog/?p=19625

Jaime Rojo. Untitled (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Nicholas D’Auria Invites You To His Show at Brooklyn College (Brooklyn,NY)

April 3, 2011 Artists, Brooklyn, Events, Gallery, NYC, Opening

Nicholas D’Auria

Fun Friday 04.01.11

April 1, 2011 Artists, Brooklyn, Events, Gallery, Manhattan, NYC, On the Street, Opening, Philadelphia

1. Birdsong ZINE Benefit
2. Nomade on LA Freewalls
3. 10th Anniversary of Robots Will Kill in Philadelphia Tonight
4. PANTHEON Opens in Manhattan on the Street Tomorrow
5. EL Celso Closing Party Saturday at Pandemic
6. Spring is Just Around the Corner! Time For Wedding Planning!
7. GAIA Does Giant Martha Cooper Tribute in Chicago
8. BSA Was in the Newspaper Yesterday
9. Happy April Fools! Insane German Synth Pop “Razor Scooter” Video

10. Banksy Revealed as Nude USC guy having sex on the roof

Birdsong ZINE Benefit – Support Your Local ZINE – Tonight at Brooklyn Fireproof

The Birdsong Zine birthday party and benefit — celebrating 3 years of the Brooklyn artist small collective that produces birdsong among other zines, celebrate with a print show and sweet live music.

–art: featuring limited edition $20 prints by a group of artists who have contributed to, or who have been interviewed by, birdsong over the past three years: Blanco, Cara Fulmor, Cat Glennon, Elizabeth Hirsch, J. Morrison, Julia Norton, Joey Parlett, Danielle Rosa, Will Varner, and Michelle Yu

–bands: Sweet Tooth Nelson + Jess Paps, Baby Alpaca, Hunter, Little Victory

When: Friday, April 1st. Doors at 8pm, bands start at 9pm

Where: Brooklyn Fire Proof,119 Ingraham St @ Porter Ave, Brooklyn (Morgan L)

Why: $$$ goes to offset some of the cost of producing birdsong #15, a Brooklyn-based full color bi-annual lit/art/interview zine.

Flier: http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5094/5500993586_760caca9fc_b.jpg

Nomade on LA Freewalls

Haven’t seen these fellers in action before, now, have ye? Bunch of black blobs on their faces though. Did you see the pictures of the final installation here a couple of days ago?

10th Anniversary of Robots Will Kill in Philadelphia Tonight

And if you find yourself in Philly today and want to have a good time and experience great art and excellent company head over to the Vicent Michael Gallery where RWK Art Collective is celebrating their 10th Anniversary of art making

At the Robots Will Kill show will be this piece “Winter Flower” by Veng RWK

PANTHEON Opens in Manhattan on the Street Tomorrow

Curators Daniel Feral and Joyce Manalo invite you to go window shopping this Saturday April 2 to view and buy the art on display on the windows of the old Donnell Library across from MOMA for their exhibition PANTHEON: A History of art from the streets of New York City. See some detail pics from the show here:

907 Crew. Detail. “907 Was an Inside Joke” (Photo © Jaime Rojo)

PANTHEON:
A history of art from the streets of New York City
Windows exhibition runs April 2-17, 2011
On view 24 hours a day

EXHIBITION LOCATION
chashama at the Donnell
20 West 53rd Street, b/w 5th & 6th Avenue
New York, NY 10019 (across from MoMA)

Image Credit: GRAFFITI & STREET ART diagram by Daniel Feral is a 75th Anniversary celebration of Alfred H. Barr’s CUBISM & ABSTRACT ART diagram.

EL Celso Closing Party Saturday at Pandemic

Pandemic will be hosting a closing party for their El Celso show tomorrow night (1/2) from 7-11pm

It’s your last chance to dance like a maniac in their exclusive…El Celso Mini Discoteca.

Pandemic
37 Broadway (between Wythe and Kent)

Brooklyn, NY 11211
(917) 727-3466

pandemicgallery@gmail.com

Spring is Just Around the Corner! Time For Wedding Planning!

Fools rush in …. where angels fear to tread. Enjoy some of these inspiring Photoshopped delights from romantic Russia and your friends at Sad And Useless

GAIA Does Giant Martha Cooper Tribute in Chicago

Pawn Works and Maxwell Colette Gallery recently hosted New York Street Artist GAIA in Chicago for his “Resplendent Semblance” show and helped him find some walls, like this one in an image from the Pawn Works site, which doesn’t mention that the original image is a photograph from Martha Cooper. Ms. Cooper’s Remix show prep begins in earnest today as she touches down in LA to start installing the her photos and the 50+ original works by graffiti and street artists who have reinterpreted them.

Image of GAIA piece courtesy and copyright of Pawn Works

From our piece with Chris Stain, Billy Mode, and Ms. Cooper a couple of weeks ago:

Brooklyn Street Art: Oh yeah! Gaia is doing that one for this show!
Chris Stain: He is? Cool, that’s cool.
Brooklyn Street Art: Well he loves doing birds, and feathers, and animals.
Chris Stain: Well Gaia’s a bird brain, that kid, so it makes sense.

BSA Was in the Newspaper Yesterday

Yes we geeked out to see Brooklyn Street Art in the AM New York newspaper yesterday morning! Plus we were all over the fact that NohJColey and El Sol 25, two of the newest talents on the street got some props. Oh yeah, and that guy Shepard.

See it in the online version here.

Happy April Fools! Here’s An Insane German Synth Pop “Razor Scooter” Video

Pandemic Gallery Presents: Leon Reid IV: A Decade of Public Art (Brooklyn, NY)

March 29, 2011 Artists, Brooklyn, Events, Gallery, NYC, On the Street, Opening

Leon Reid IV

Leon Reid IV (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Leon Reid IV: A Decade Of Public Art

Photography, sculpture and drawings exhibiting the span of Leon Reid IV’s public artwork, 2000- present.

On Display:
Sat. April 16 – Sun. May 8, 2011

Opening Reception
Sat. April 16, 2011 7-11pm

‘A Decade Of Public Art’ is Leon Reid IV’s first New York City solo exhibition and features a new public sculpture viewable outside Pandemic Gallery. The show reveals a vast range of unpublished material associated with his well known public artworks. Sketches, maquettes and video footage flesh out works such as “True Yank” the controversial Abraham Lincoln intervention; “Free As A Bird,” a sculpture installed on a prison guard tower; and “The Kiss,” the cherished London installation for which he is most known. Reid provides a glimpse into his plans for future public works, including his monumental “A Spider Lurks In Brooklyn” project, which recently received Fiscal Sponsorship from New York Foundation For The Arts (NYFA).

Listed as one of the “60 Innovators Shaping Our Creative Future” by Thames & Hudson, Leon Reid IV has been on the edge of public art for over 15 years. He grew up as a traditional graffiti writer (a.k.a VERBS) and quickly developed a knack for unconventional practices such as painting street signs and installing them during daylight disguised as a construction worker. His most famous work of this period is “Verbs St – Oh Yes I Did” a cleverly manipulated subway sign installed in Canal Street station, NYC. His experiments in graffiti lead him to move beyond the genre and pursue site-specific installations under the pen-name Darius Jones. The New York Times featured an article on “It’s All Right”, a subtle contortion of a One-Way sign and a Phone sign creating the illusion that the two are in love. Reid is one of the few artists responsible for introducing sculpture into the language of street-art, his techniques of installation combined with his humorous and romantic themes have made a sizable impact on urban artists of his generation.

Reid’s current work remains sculptural, highly contextualized and is often installed on existing architecture. In Norway, “The Great Recession” features a giant Kilroy-Was-Here styled sculpture hanging over the ledge of a local bank, apparently holding on to his last dollar. In Brazil, “Bring The House Down” depicts a life-sized human figure made of chain, attempting to uproot the building pillar of a cultural institution. Reid’s latest works add striking visual elements to existing structures, the result of which he considers a true collaboration with the structure’s architect.

At present and through out his career, Leon Reid IV has designed his work to communicate directly with the public at large. He considers every site -be it domestic or international- an opportunity to create work that is meaningful and accessible to the community where it exists.

Leon Reid IV’s work has been exhibited worldwide and featured in publications/media such as: Time Magazine, The New York Times, PBS, BBC, Radio National Australia, Good Magazine, Creative Review, Recharge and The Wooster Collective among others. He co-authored a novel based on his experience in graffiti and street-art “The Adventures Of Darius and Downey” as told to Ed Zipco” Thames & Hudson 2008. Reid holds a B.F.A. from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY, and an M.A. from Central Saint Martins School Of Art and Design in London. He lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.

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

Creepy Gets Way Up in NYC

March 28, 2011 Artists, Brooklyn, Features, Interview, NYC, On the Street, Street Talker Interview

The Australian Street Artist Does a New Wall in Brooklyn (Video)

He calls it narrative-driven character-based folk art, and Street Artist Kyle Hughes-Odgers AKA Creepy has been taking his skinny armed and legged people to walls around the world since he started doing work on the street in 2005. Not uncommon for artists who work on the street, Creepy didn’t initially have any idea how to get his stuff into a gallery so his real audience began when he started hitting walls. Now New Yorkers are getting a chance to see the tightly droll and clean Creepy aesthetic.

Creepy (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Comfortable with tiny canvasses and massive walls installations, the startlingly sane Creepy had a pretty banner year in 2010 with his first solo show at Turner Galleries in his home town of Perth, including over 100 pieces on wood and 8 large works on canvas. He also painted for weeks on a commission for Murdock University’s art collection; a 7 piece project of large panels totalling 150 ft in length (45 meters) when finished. As the year ended he had some fun in Sydney with the Lo-Fi Collective on a show called “Microcosm” with Beastman, Max Berry, and Phibs.

Creepy (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Now he’s in New York for a visit to really get the rhythm of the street, meet cool peeps and hit up walls (and a van) while doing some sight seeing with his lady. Brooklyn Street Art had the opportunity to watch Creepy work with cans last week on a new piece in the BK that speaks of his signature brand of whimsy, and his affinity for textural patterns, symbols, and shapes. Peculiar and blithe, his illustrated characters go solo or hang out in pairs usually, contemplating ennui or maybe heavier thoughts, but somehow you can’t feel too dark looking at the playful juxtapositions and color palettes.

Creepy (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Brooklyn Street Art: Kind of cold up on the roof, no? Were you expecting it to be so cold?
Creepy: Freezing! I couldn’t bend my fingers at the end of the day.

Brooklyn Street Art: What is the inspiration for this piece?
Creepy: Currently my new works are based on ideas of burden, memory and nostalgia. I was trying to show a sinking feeling of lost time or of being somewhere else in your head apart from the immediate reality. I’m thinking of great moments of the past that you could never replicate – that kind of thing.

Creepy (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Brooklyn Street Art: Your sense of color, proportion, and geometry are excellent. Would you describe your style as being illustrative?
Creepy: I’m not sure – color and balance are really important to me. I came from a drawing background but I would rather paint these days. A lot of illustrators seem like painters to me. I don’t know what the different rules are that make you an illustrator or a painter.

Creepy (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Brooklyn Street Art: You like using patterns, and you sometimes you go back replace the pattern on part of the piece with something new. What are you evoking with the mix of shapes and colors?
Creepy: I like the idea that many smaller details (patterns) in life exist individually but make up a much larger picture or story, and each tiny detail is just as important as the next. They need each other to make up the bigger idea – like a city or a personality. Sometimes I replace the pattern while painting if I feel like the color balance is not quite right.

Brooklyn Street Art: We’ve seen a lot of monsters and women in your figurative pieces. Are they favorite topics?
Creepy: I just try to tell stories in my work from ideas and events I have experienced in life. Sometimes those stories need creatures, women and men.

Creepy (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Brooklyn Street Art: Thematically, where do you draw your inspiration?
Creepy: From dreams, memory and the harsh and humorous everyday.

Brooklyn Street Art: How has your visit to New York been? Have you seen any interesting art?
Creepy: It’s been such a great trip and really interesting. Scope/Volta/Armory week was on when I first arrived and I got tickets to those events (thanks to you guys!) which was a rocket launch into the NYC art world. I have seen a lot of inspiring works in galleries and on the street. My friend Sean Morris was in NYC for his show at Bold Hype in Chelsea, so it was great to be able to go to his exhibition as well.

Creepy (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Brooklyn Street Art: You have done tiny little 2 inch square pieces and massive building size mural installations. What size do you prefer to work in?
Creepy: I like working on all scales. It’s nice to get outside and paint massive works and then switch it up and head into the studio and do a small painting with tiny brushes.

Brooklyn Street Art:What are you going to try to do before you leave?
Creepy: Hopefully a couple more paints. I went to a Knicks game the other night so that pretty much made my year – even though they lost.

Creepy (photo © Jaime Rojo)

With a special thanks to Kara Peacock for her time lapse of the installation.

Images of the Week 03.27.11

March 27, 2011 Artists, Brooklyn, Manhattan, NYC, On the Street

Birdwatching in Central Park is one of the most popular naturalist activities, and Street Art watching is a favorite naturalist activity of cultural soothsayers here at BSA. You never know what kind of plummage or pattern you are going to see as you round the corner of an abandoned lot or rusted doorway. As the geological, political, and economic seasons shift, different birds can be seen in the urban brush – reappearing familiar ones, and new previously unseen. Like an avid birdwatcher, sometimes you can find the name in your guidebook, other times you just note the markings and hope for future clues.

Here is our weekly interview with the street, this week featuring Arms, Jaque Fragua, Marisak, a new kind of Obey, Shin Shin, XAM, and Yatika.

We start with a black and white photo of man wheat pasted next to black graff on a white wall or was it the other way around?In either case the resulting dynamic made it look like the installation was intentional and the stark monochromism and subject matter play off one another. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

In memory of Elizabeth Taylor 1932 – 2011

Overunder & No Touching Ground : Lending a Hand to Japan

March 26, 2011 Artists, Brooklyn, Features, NYC, On the Street

Amazing new work has been appearing around New York by Street Artist Overunder for about a year and a half. An illustrator, painter, and text writer – the styles are quite varied and intermixed and the themes are often symbolic, fantastic, and blurred. One recent piece, a large scale realistic collaboration with a street artist named No Touching Ground, is a memo-pad tattooed arm with a short list to accomplish, finished with a cluster of rollup gates. While the wall was permissioned, the rain was not and it complicated matters for the two artists. In fact, weather is always a component in the work of the street.

When describing the new piece, Overunder explains how one must plan for a works degradation when it is created for the street:

“So pre-production consisted of picking out bits and pieces from my sketchbook followed by an impromptu photo shoot of my arm and tattoo. But the real genesis of the piece was admitting it’s faults. Like saying no matter how good the work is it’s still going to chip, still going to tear, and rip, and fade. It’s going to do everything that we’ve become accustomed to when choosing to work outdoors. So the spin was how can we use deterioration to our benefit?

“Helping Hand’ is our hypothesis to what I would call a “slow” painting. Painting, as I’ve always understood, is based on getting to that point when you say, “it’s done, it’s a masterpiece.” The slow painting anticipates elements of change and works subtractively. So when it starts it’s finished, and then you create layers on top to allow that finale to be postponed.

It was a list of things to do that I wrote on my real hand and then sprayed on this larger-than-life hand. I added a new note on the list: DONATE TO RED CROSS JAPAN. I then left one note undone: PAY RENT. I hoped this subtle prioritizing would get people to question how much they really could help.”

“Lastly I worked on the gates and the names. The longer I’m in NY, the more I’ve become infatuated with roll-up gates and use them in my work, either for imagery or as canvas. The gates are stacked against one another like they are in the city but further abstracted. I then took names of writers; Optimist, Cope, Heart, Give, Host – to be read by writers or non-writers to get two different yet similar perspectives. “

Following are images of other pieces recently done by Overunder and ND’A.

Fun Friday 03.25.11

March 25, 2011 Artists, Brooklyn, Chicago, Events, Fundraising, Gallery, NYC, Opening

GAIA in Chicago Tonight

If you blow into Chicago this weekend check out New York Street Artist GAIA’s solo show at Maxwell Colette Gallery, “Resplendent Semblance”

To read more details about the show, time and location click on the link below:

http://www.brooklynstreetart.com/theblog/?p=19595

Celebrate the Rockin Life of Liz Taylor

London Police and David Choe at Eatern District Tomorrow

VIDEO Show at Eastern District in Bushwick Saturday

And if you are in New York this Saturday head over to Eastern District for an Art and Video installation featuring original works by David Choe, The London Police, Franki Chan, Cherly Dunn, Gluekit, Matt Goldman, Cody Hudson & Jared Eberhardt, Mackie Osborne, Souther Salazar, and SSUR

Eastern District

Pop Plus Punk Sunday with Exit Art show at Littlefield in GOWANUS

This Sunday head over to Brooklyn’s Gowanus section for Exit Art’s Pop Art Explosion. A fun group show and punk music featuring works by Street Artists Tip Toe and Pork among others.

Littlefield NY

Click on the link below to learn more details, time and location of the show;

http://www.brooklynstreetart.com/theblog/?p=19565

Street Artist Tristan Eaton Goes Biblical

March 24, 2011 Artists, Brooklyn, NYC, On the Street

Inspired by the Book Of Revelation’s story of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, Brooklyn based Street Artist Tristan Eaton has been laboring with bloody hatchet in one hand and eye-smiting aerosol can in the other for the past three weeks to complete his latest street mural, a heroic tribute to the end of the world. Biblically based work doesn’t hit Brooklyn too much but Tristans’ trysted twist on fantastical End Times titillation might make you think of the interior of a cathedral or of flying buttresses and pointed arches in a revelatory way.

Comic books and science fiction, particularly the work of Brooklyn native artist and master fantasy creator, Frank Frazetta, are heavy influences on Eaton, who has spent hours pouring over Fazetta’s copious and heroically buffed warrior–goddesses and Keltic conquerors embattled with monsters and space aliens on album covers, book covers, movie posters, and in graphic novels.

By delving into the mythical worlds of Mr. Frazetta, Tristan found that the already fantastic centerpiece story from the last book in the Bible need not be literally interpreted in his mural. Using the palette established by his neighbors How & Nosm, Eaton uses red, white, black and pale horses to symbolize Conquest, War, Famine and Death, giving the main roles of ushering apocalypse to the ladies instead of the typical males. While there is still work to be done in this grand undertaking, it is evident from Eaton that hot women on horseback will be the harbingers of the Last Judgment. Repent while there still is time.

Mural updates and much gnashing of teeth to follow.

Tristan Eaton (photo © Jaime Rojo) Tristan’s piece is next to How and Nosm’s piece created for Contra Projects during Armory Week.

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Photographer Michael M. Koehler Talks About Shrimpers on a Brooklyn Street

Michael M Koehler “A Year Before the Oil Spill” (Photo © Jaime Rojo)

Michael M Koehler “A Year Before the Oil Spill” (Photo © Jaime Rojo)

Michael M Koehler “A Year Before the Oil Spill” (Photo © Jaime Rojo)

Michael M Koehler “A Year Before the Oil Spill” (Photo © Jaime Rojo)

Michael M Koehler “A Year Before the Oil Spill” Detail (Photo © Jaime Rojo)

Michael M Koehler “A Year Before the Oil Spill” (Photo © Jaime Rojo)

Michael M Koehler. A shrimper portrait from his Along Bayou Road series. (Photo © Jaime Rojo)

Elbow Toe (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Elbow Toe (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Elbow Toe (photo © Jaime Rojo)

This sculpture, in SOHO by RAE is a perfect example of the ongoing D.I.Y. movement that adds to the conversation on the streets. (Photo © Jaime Rojo)

RAE. The thrills of photographing Street Art can be similar to those of a treasure hunt. When I have the opportunity to witness the public being engaged with the art in the street the thrill turns into poetry. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Guuurl, he is so fly! Fly Kid From Brooklyn (Photo © Jaime Rojo)

This billboard on the BQE has had a long run and it could be landmarked. Alternately, it could be a fine ad for Taco Bell fake meat products. Sabio. Obey. Rambo (Photo © Jaime Rojo)

XAM “CSD DWELLING UNIT 3.0” (photo © Jaime Rojo)

XAM “CSD FEEDING UNIT 1.0” (photo © Jaime Rojo)

XAM “CSD DWELLING UNIT 1.6” (photo © Jaime Rojo)

An instant Mash Up/Collage/Collab with a Supreme poster of Lady Gaga – or is that Madonna? (photo © Jaime Rojo)

L.O.L. Von Shan is rather straight backward about the subject. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

This whole low-rider jeans thing has gotten out of hand. RTTP. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Haculla balances graff and street art, horror and humor. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Looks like RAE has a handle on the street sculpture matter. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Stikman internalizes Natalie Portman’s character (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Tristan Eaton “Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse” completed mural (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Jaime Rojo. Untitled (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Birdsong ZINE Benefit – Support Your Local ZINE – Tonight at Brooklyn Fireproof

Nomade on LA Freewalls

10th Anniversary of Robots Will Kill in Philadelphia Tonight

At the Robots Will Kill show will be this piece “Winter Flower” by Veng RWK

PANTHEON Opens in Manhattan on the Street Tomorrow

907 Crew. Detail. “907 Was an Inside Joke” (Photo © Jaime Rojo)

Image Credit: GRAFFITI & STREET ART diagram by Daniel Feral is a 75th Anniversary celebration of Alfred H. Barr’s CUBISM & ABSTRACT ART diagram.

EL Celso Closing Party Saturday at Pandemic

Spring is Just Around the Corner! Time For Wedding Planning!

GAIA Does Giant Martha Cooper Tribute in Chicago

Image of GAIA piece courtesy and copyright of Pawn Works

BSA Was in the Newspaper Yesterday

Happy April Fools! Here’s An Insane German Synth Pop “Razor Scooter” Video

Leon Reid IV (photo © Jaime Rojo)

The Australian Street Artist Does a New Wall in Brooklyn (Video)

Creepy (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Creepy (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Creepy (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Creepy (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Creepy (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Creepy (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Creepy (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Creepy (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Creepy (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Creepy (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Creepy (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Creepy (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Creepy (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Creepy (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Marisak (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Arms (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Arms (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Arms (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Shin Shin (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Shin Shin. Detail (photo © Jaime Rojo)

XAM ‘CSD FEEDING UNIT 1.0’ (photo © Jaime Rojo)

XAM (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Name. Game. Fame. Obey (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Irony. Obey (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Too many conflicting and contradicting messages. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Yatika Fragua Spring mural. Detail (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Yatika Fragua. Detail (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Jaime Rojo. Untitled (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Overunder and No Touching Ground (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Overunder and No Touching Ground (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Overunder and No Touching Ground (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Overunder and ND’A (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Overunder and ND’A (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Overunder and ND’A (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Overunder next to an old Miss 17 throw up (photo © Jaime Rojo)

GAIA in Chicago Tonight

(photo courtesy © of the gallery)

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Gaia at work on “Resplendent Semblance” (photos courtesy © of the gallery)