On the Street

Street Artist ROA and a Dead Squirrel for Living Walls : Albany

September 16, 2011 Albany, Artists, Events, new york, On the Street

Words by KC Orcutt

Photos by MC3 and Andrew Franciosa

Within moments of ROA’s arrival on site to his designated building for “Living Walls : Albany,” he spotted a recently departed squirrel, took it as a sign and it became quite clear what he was going to do next.

The squirrel population in Albany is (somewhat) jokingly of a “different” breed – they are as tough as they are territorial, while still somehow managing a natural presence and a non-intrusive interactivity with passer-bys. Squirrels are everywhere in Albany, making it a more-than-fitting subject for ROA’s large-scale contribution to the Living Walls project.

ROA (photo © MC3)

Cosmically or maybe even comically enough, as ROA was working up in the lift adding detail to the animal laying on its back, a man associated with the building’s owner shared an anecdote of how a couple years back a pesky squirrel’s nest almost resulted in the same building burning down, with firefighters called to the scene and all.

During ROA’s time creating the piece, people stopped by to inquire more about the wall and what was going on, with many lingering on the “why a squirrel” question.

ROA (photo © Andrew Franciosa)

“People are bored with simple messages,” said ROA “they want something deeper.”

With the inspiration of the piece still laying off to the side, ROA entertained the public’s curiosities with a grin saying, “Its for you to figure out if it’s dead or alive and the meaning behind it. It’s a very simple message – just a squirrel on it’s back,” as another onlooker proudly repeated his take on ROA’s work in succession, “that symbolizes something!”

ROA (photo © Andrew Franciosa)

No animals were harmed during the making of this mural. (photo © Andrew Franciosa)

ROA (photo © Andrew Franciosa)

Clown Soldier, Wing, Shin Shin, NohJColey, N’DA at “Living Walls : Albany”

September 15, 2011 Albany, Artists, Events, Features, new york, On the Street

A Special Report

Words by KC Orcutt

Photos by Bob Anderson

With Marketplace Gallery transformed into what is best classified as a sleep away art camp — complete with scattered sleeping arrangements, wheat pastes hung up on the gallery walls ready to greet the outside world, in progress portraits of some of the participating artists by White Cocoa and a healthy buzz of street art-fueled conversations late into the night — the past couple of days and nights have blurred together leading up to the debut of the Living Walls project in Albany, officially launching this weekend.

Clown Soldier (photo © Bob Anderson)

Away from the hustle and creation taking place both in the street, at the gallery and St. Joseph’s church, a conductor of sorts sits under a bridge in Rensselaer at the Art Park, overlooking Albany. The piece, as created by Clown Soldier, puts a figure in command of the happenings of the city from a detached control station. One can’t help but picture the happenings in Albany in relation to the Living Walls as beneath the futuristic bubble Clown Soldier created. The tag line that organically manifested surrounding the Living Walls in Albany — “This Is Happening In Your City” — is setting in.

Clown Soldier (photo © Bob Anderson)

Kitty corner to the Clown Soldier piece is another Living Wall where Shin Shin and Wing collaborated under the massive support of the bridge in Rensselaer. The pair got to work using a bright palate environmentally fitting for the open industrial space, creating a natural and whimsical balance on the surface of the bridge’s support.

Wing and Shin Shin Collaboration (photo © Bob Anderson)

Wing and Shin Shin collaboration (photo © Bob Anderson)

NohJColey, Depoe and N’DA also got down in Rensselaer, working over the course of several days on large-scale pieces, bordering existing (and aging) public murals, while also bouncing in between St. Joe’s church, where Living Walls installations are coming into form from a multitude of artists, local and beyond.

N’DA (photo © Bob Anderson)

NohJColey and N’DA work in progress (photo © Bob Anderson)

N’DA and NohJColey lend a hand to Shin Shin with the installation of one of her Golden Trees at St. Joe’s Church (photo © Bob Anderson)

N’DA and NohJColey (photo © Bob Anderson)

N’DA (photo © Bob Anderson)

NUART 2011 Presents: TOU SCENE & Stavanger City Streets (Stavanger, Norway)

September 14, 2011 Artists, Events, Gallery, Norway, Nuart, On the Street, Opening, Stavanger

NUART 2011

NUART FESTIVAL 2011: PROGRAM

TOU SCENE OCT 1 – NOV 1

OPENING OCT 1, 19.00

DAN WITZ (US), DAVID CHOE & DVS1 (US), VHILS (PO), HERBERT BAGLIONE (BR), DOLK (NO), LUCY McCLAUCHLAN (UK), HERAKUT (DE), TELLAS (IT), ESCIF (ES), HYURO (ES), PHLEGM (UK)

12 Artists from 9 countries tackle over ½ kilometre of wall space at one of the worlds leading contemporary urban art exhibitions. In addition, we present our most extensive support program yet.

Join us for an up close and personal series of artist presentations, panel debates with leading professionals, artist workshops and lectures.

Nuart in association with SF Kino are also proud to have secured two exclusive must see European Premiere’s of the years greatest street art documentaries. Lights, Camera Pichação and Vigilante, Vigilante:

EXCLUSIVE EUROPEAN FILM PREMIERES

Lights, Camera Pichação (100mins BR)

A ground breaking documentary about the often misunderstood street culture of Rio de Janeiro’s “PICHAÇÃO. told in their own words. It asks of us an important question, what came first, the clean white wall… or artistic expression? Who got in the way of who ?

http://www.luzcamerapichacao.com.br/

Sf Kino Fri 23.09 and Sat 24.09, 16:00 Tickets 60kr

Vigilante, Vigilante (86mins US)

A new breed of crime-fighter now stalks the urban landscape. Two filmmakers go undercover to expose anti-graffiti vigilantes who stop at nothing to rid their neighbourhoods and cities of street art, stickers, tags, and posters.

http://www.vigilantefilm.com/

Sf Kino: Fri 30.09. Sat 1.10 and Sun 02.10, 16:00 Tickets 60kr

WORKSHOPS, TALKS AND PANEL DEBATE – FREE

Escif & Hyuro: Workshop at Kunstskolen i Rogaland, Sat Oct 1st 12:00-15:00*

Dan Witz: Workshop for kids with at Tou Scene, Sat Oct 1st 12:00-15:00**

Artist talks: Tellas (ES), Thur 22.09, 18:00 Herbert Baglione (BR), Fri 23.09, 18:00 KiR

Street Art lecture: Carlo McCormick (US) – Thur 29.09, 18:00 Tou Scene

Panel Debate with Artists, Carlo McCormick and Juxtapoz (US) Fri 30.09, 18:00 Martinique

*The workshop has 10 free places. To attend send your name and phone number to marte@numusic.no

**This is a sticker workshop for kids. The workshop will be in English.

For more information visit our website www.nuart.no or contact

www.facebook.com/nuartfestival

www.twitter.com/nuart11

http://www.flickr.com/photos/nuart

Cake at Living Walls: Albany

September 14, 2011 Albany, Artists, Events, Features, new york, On the Street

Street Artist Cake brought her hand painted people to Albany yesterday, with these portraits of a “wondrous traveler”named Saige. A fine artist who makes one of a kind wheate-pasted pieces as a means of therapy and tribute, Cake has a unique style that is at once melodic and medical, enabling the viewer to have x-ray vision. Recently Cake has been introducing metallic, as in these two new pieces using silver leaf.

Learn more about Cake and see Jaime Rojo’s photos of her work in our recent interview with her on Juxtapoz.

Knock knock, Cake is at the door. (photo © Cake)

Cake (photo © Cake)

Living Walls Albany: The City Speaks (Albany, NY)

September 13, 2011 Albany, Artists, Events, new york, On the Street, Opening

Living Walls Albany

About

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About

Living Walls: Albany is a project designed to raise awareness about the use of public space. It is about exploring options that a smaller city like ours has and giving the people here a chance to interact with public space as they never have before. Through a series of lectures, performances, and the involvement of some of the world’s great mural artists, we are looking to provide and education into public art. The Living Walls project is intent on creating an open dialogue between the people and city.

The Living Walls conference was started in Atlanta GA. Along with changing the urban landscape, the Living Walls conference set out to highlight a number of problems facing the city. Living Walls did not just showcase art, but also built a platform for much-needed dialogue in the city. The success of the event was so great that Living Walls is returning this year to take place in Atlanta, Ga and Albany, NY.

Dates For 2011

September 16th – 18th

Venues for Living Walls: Albany

St. Joe’s– 38 Ten Broeck
The Marketplace Gallery– 40 Broadway
Grand Street Community Arts– 68 Grand St
“Arrival and Departure” Performance Art venue-99 Pine St.

Contact

For more information please feel free to contact us by email: livingwallsalbany@gmail.com

or visit our site at:

http://livingwallsalbany.com/

Aussies Run Wild in San Francisco

September 13, 2011 Artists, California, On the Street, San Francisco

New Images from the “Young, Free and Wild” Show

They are a friendly group, these Street Artists from Australia, all gathered and spread out on walls organized with 941 Geary Gallery and White Walls in San Francisco, a sort of summer camp for escaped ex-pats. Aside from a bit of jet lag here and there, the energy is high and the artists have been banging out brand new work for the show, with the walls on the street whenever possible.

The installation inside the 941 Geary Gallery in San Fran. (photo © Andrius Lipya)

Among the group are names from the scenes in Melbourne and elsewhere – selected for their contribution to the Street Art story over the last few years, including Anthony Lister, Kid Zoom, Dabs & Myla, Dmote, New2, Ben Frost, Meggs, Ha-Ha, Reka, Rone, Sofles And Vexta. Of course, many of these same cats represent straight out of BK too, but it’s nice to see the countrymen/women get together for an Aussie wall blastacular.

Anthony Lister at work in the SF September sunshine. (photo © Andrius Lipya)

Anthony Lister. (photo © Andrius Lipya)

Going for a finer mist, Mr. Lister. (photo © Andrius Lipya)

Kid Zoom. (photo © Andrius Lipya)

Ha Ha. (photo © Andrius Lipya)

Ha Ha reprises one of his best known pieces. (photo © Andrius Lipya)

Ha Ha. (photo © Andrius Lipya)

The installation underway inside the 941 Geary Gallery in San Francisco. (photo © Andrius Lipya)

Ben Frost, New2 (photo © Andrius Lipya)

Meggs prepping a stencil. (photo © Andrius Lipya)

Meggs. (photo © Andrius Lipya)

Dmote. (photo © Andrius Lipya)

Rone. (photo © Andrius Lipya)

Myla of Dabs & Myla. (photo © Andrius Lipya)

Oh, fine, and Y’Self? (photo © Andrius Lipya)

“Young and Free: Contemporary Australian Street Artists” is currently on view at the 941 Geary Gallery in San Francisco. For more information on this show click on the link below:

http://www.youngandfreeart.com/

Young & Free
Through October 22nd, 2011
941 Geary
San Francisco, California

Special thanks to Andrius Lipya for sharing with BSA these exclusive photos, and to talented writer and organizer Luke McKinnon for being such a pal.

ROA in Los Angeles and Chicago

September 12, 2011 Artists, California, Chicago, Features, L.A., Los Angeles, On the Street

When Street Artist ROA hits your town with his aerosoled animal world, large swatches of walls, even blocks, become alive and are instant gathering places for new and old fans alike. The one man monochrome machine from Belgium depicts a curious mix of overlooked animals, sometimes in states of death and decay by way of commenting on human’s impact on the natural world.

ROA in Chicago (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Whether in rural Mexico or urban New York, his work is reliably riveting and a favorite for neighbors and Internet surfers alike. After catching the eye of LA MOCA this spring, his last minute addition to the “Art in the Streets” exhibit brought the collection up to the minute and cemented his place in the graff and Street Art continuum. BSA captured these images of ROA’s work this year on the streets of Los Angeles and Chicago this summer and we’re looking forward to his next stop at “Living Walls: Albany”.

ROA in Chicago (photo © Jaime Rojo)

ROA in Los Angeles (photo © Jaime Rojo)

ROA’s work in Chicago was done in collaboration with Pawn Works Gallery. Thank you to Nick and Brocke for their hospitality.

ROA’s work in Los Angeles was produced with Daniel Lahoda for LA Freewalls Project in The Arts District of downtown LA. Thank you to Daniel for his passion and his time with BSA. We wish Daniel a speedy recovery from a recent accident.

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)

Brent Houzenga Remixes Remains In Chicago

September 7, 2011 Artists, Chicago, Gallery, On the Street

The Victorian era has been gently affecting the instrumentation and arrangement of art bands and the fashions of shabby chic sections of Bohemia since the steam punks started wearing dog-eared top hats and ruffles in the late 1990s and the ripples of this romance continues to gather into vaporous clouds in these early 10’s.

Street Artist Brent Houzenga fell under a deep sepia spell when he stumbled across a box of vintage 1890s photographs in the trash and for the last couple of years he’s been scheming on how to bring these anonymous individuals back to life on the street. Billing himself as “The Hybrid Pioneer” a.k.a “The Original Prairie Pirate”, the spritely Houzenga hails from Des Moines, Iowa, and is transfixed by these faces and fashions, re-imagining these earlier travelers in a context they never saw, and in the process he creates a bridge between centuries.

Photographer and BSA contributor Brock Brake trailed Brent recently and shares these images with BSA readers.

“Remixed Remains”, a current solo show at Pawn Works Gallery in Chicago by Brent Houzenga, features new works from this box of old photographs.

“We are really hyped on this guys work though he has not been very exposed within the street art world – as he is in Des Moines and sort of an outsider artist,” says Nick Marzullo of Pawn Works Gallery. Houzenga, however, could not be too much of an outsider, as he has some work in the collection of The Museum of Fine Art in Des Moines and Indianapolis, notes Marzullo, but his “installation is finally finished and the space is like nothing we’ve seen before.”

For details on “Remized Remains” click on the link below:

http://www.brooklynstreetart.com/theblog/?p=24069

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.

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”

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

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.

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.

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ROA (photo © MC3)

ROA (photo © Andrew Franciosa)

ROA (photo © Andrew Franciosa)

No animals were harmed during the making of this mural. (photo © Andrew Franciosa)

ROA (photo © Andrew Franciosa)

ROA (photo © Andrew Franciosa)

A Special Report

Clown Soldier (photo © Bob Anderson)

Clown Soldier (photo © Bob Anderson)

Wing and Shin Shin Collaboration (photo © Bob Anderson)

Wing and Shin Shin collaboration (photo © Bob Anderson)

Wing and Shin Shin collaboration (photo © Bob Anderson)

Wing and Shin Shin collaboration (photo © Bob Anderson)

N’DA (photo © Bob Anderson)

NohJColey and N’DA work in progress (photo © Bob Anderson)

N’DA and NohJColey lend a hand to Shin Shin with the installation of one of her Golden Trees at St. Joe’s Church (photo © Bob Anderson)

N’DA and NohJColey (photo © Bob Anderson)

N’DA (photo © Bob Anderson)

Knock knock, Cake is at the door. (photo © Cake)

Cake (photo © Cake)

Cake (photo © Cake)

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New Images from the “Young, Free and Wild” Show

The installation inside the 941 Geary Gallery in San Fran. (photo © Andrius Lipya)

Anthony Lister at work in the SF September sunshine. (photo © Andrius Lipya)

Anthony Lister. (photo © Andrius Lipya)

Going for a finer mist, Mr. Lister. (photo © Andrius Lipya)

Kid Zoom. (photo © Andrius Lipya)

Ha Ha. (photo © Andrius Lipya)

Ha Ha reprises one of his best known pieces. (photo © Andrius Lipya)

Ha Ha. (photo © Andrius Lipya)

The installation underway inside the 941 Geary Gallery in San Francisco. (photo © Andrius Lipya)

Ben Frost, New2 (photo © Andrius Lipya)

Meggs prepping a stencil. (photo © Andrius Lipya)

Meggs. (photo © Andrius Lipya)

Dmote. (photo © Andrius Lipya)

Rone. (photo © Andrius Lipya)

Rone. (photo © Andrius Lipya)

Myla of Dabs & Myla. (photo © Andrius Lipya)

Oh, fine, and Y’Self? (photo © Andrius Lipya)

ROA in Chicago (photo © Jaime Rojo)

ROA in Chicago (photo © Jaime Rojo)

ROA in Chicago (photo © Jaime Rojo)

ROA in Chicago (photo © Jaime Rojo)

ROA in Los Angeles (photo © Jaime Rojo)

ROA in Los Angeles (photo © Jaime Rojo)

ROA in Los Angeles (photo © Jaime Rojo)

ROA in Los Angeles (photo © Jaime Rojo)

ROA in Los Angeles (photo © Jaime Rojo)

ROA in Los Angeles (photo © Jaime Rojo)

ROA in Los Angeles (photo © Jaime Rojo)

ROA in Los Angeles (photo © Jaime Rojo)

ROA in Los Angeles (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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)

Brent Houzenga (photo © Brock Brake)

Brent Houzenga (photo © Brock Brake)

Brent Houzenga (photo © Brock Brake)

Brent Houzenga (photo © Brock Brake)

Pieces hung in a tight salon configuration on the street. Brent Houzenga (photo © Brock Brake)

Brent Houzenga (photo © Brock Brake)

Brent Houzenga (photo © Brock Brake)

Brent Houzenga (photo © Brock Brake)

Brent Houzenga (photo © Brock Brake)

Brent Houzenga (photo © Brock Brake)

Brent Houzenga (photo © Brock Brake)

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

(photo © Martha Cooper)