Here’s our weekly interview with the street, this week featuring Aiko, City Kitty, Clet, Dain, Deekers, JB Rock, KCIN, LUC, Mr. One Teas, Obey, Peros, PX$H6XD, Shepard Fairey, Smells, Specter, Tank Petrol, and Tom Fruin.
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Images Of The Week: 02.23.14
Here’s our weekly interview with the street, this week featuring 1up, Bishop203, Bradley Theodore, Cash4, Deekers, El Sol 25, Hiss Keeley, Kevin Cyr, King Amsterdam, Ludo, Mosco Clandestino, Not Art, ROA, Royce Bannon, Smells, Sweet Toof, Trap Art, and Zimer.
Top Image >> Sweet Toof joins Deekers, 1UP, Roa and Keely on this little wall of horrors. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Sweet Toof and Smells collab on a roof top. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Bradley Theodore gives Anna and Karl a face lift. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Hiss (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Cash4 . Smells (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Clearly this is Not Art (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Trap Art. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
The Padlock Menagerie (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Ludo up close at the show “Fruit of the Doom”. Detail. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
An unusual thing for Ludo – a sculptural reprise of his recurring image “Fruit of the Doom” from his solo show at Jonathan LeVine Gallery. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Ludo “Fruit of the Doom” solo show at Jonathan LeVine Gallery. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
El Sol 25, Bishop 203 and Royce Bannon adorn the facade of 17 Frost Gallery for the “Outdoor Gallery NYC” show. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Kevin Cyr “Right Place, Right Time” solo show at Jonathan LeVine Gallery. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Kevin Cyr “Right Place, Right Time” solo show at Jonathan LeVine Gallery. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
King Amsterdam (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Zimer (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Mosco Clandestino (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Untitled. Central Park, Manhattan. 2013 (photo © Jaime Rojo)
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Images of The Week 09.29.13
Here’s our weekly interview with the street, this week featuring Chris RWK, Chuck Barrett, Cs Navarrate, Damien Mitchell, Deekers, Gilf!, JMR, Katherine Daniels, Kuma, Left, Miishab, NM Salgar, Oculo, RVMP, Sheryo, Skewville, Swil, The Yok, Willow, and Zimer.
Top image > Willow and Swil for the Centrifuge Project. NYC 2013 (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Zimer (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Deekers (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Oculo (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Miishab for Centrifuge Project. NYC 2013 (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Skewville at work for Dumbo Walls Project 2013 (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Skewville for Dumbo Walls Project 2013. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
KUMA (photo © Jaime Rojo)
RVMP (photo © Jaime Rojo)
JMR for Dumbo Walls Project 2103. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
CS Navarrete at work for Centrifuge Project. NYC 2013 (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Katherine Daniels for Dumbo Arts Festival 2013. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Gilf! for Dumbo Walls Project 2013. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Damien Mitchell for Centrifuge Project. NYC 2013 (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Sheryo and The Yok (photo © Jaime Rojo)
LEFT (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Chuck Barrett and NM Salgar for Centrifuge Project. NYC 2013 (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Chris RWK for Dumbo Walls Project 2013 (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Untitled. Brooklyn, NYC (photo © Jaime Rojo)
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Buxtons Bring “Welling Court 2” to Queens, Artists and Scooters in Tow
Street Art in the Community, Creating Community. Again.
John Ahearn (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Ad Hoc Art “brought it” for the second year to Queens and at Welling Court with a collection of Street Artists and local families hanging out and painting the neighborhood. The tireless Alison and Garrison Buxton invited 40 or 50 of their closest friends with aerosol to take part over a two day period to transform the atmosphere in this neighborhood which doesn’t get much attention. The lineup includes artists who are pioneers in the graffiti and Street Art game who create alongside emerging talent. The styles vary, but the sentiments of connectedness and community are consistent throughout.
John Ahearn with his assistant Kevin with his friend and model Karlee, daughter of his good friend Otto. Karlee and Otto posed for the sculpture to the right. John had planned a live casting with Karlee later in the day but we couldn’t stay to witness it. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Leon Reid installing his sculpture (photo © Jaime Rojo)
In this extensive collection of photos BSA gives you artists hard at work and hard at play with a little help from their friends. A traditional community mural format where everyone has their own slab to cover in their own style, Welling Court also engages the kids in the neighborhood, who frequently get to try their hand at painting or otherwise assisting the artists.
Leon Reid (photo © Jaime Rojo)
The day’s proceedings are part plastic art and part performance art as the artists often stop painting to interact with fans, inquisitors, Street Art aficionados and their fellow artists. Its part summer camp and part family reunion with the neighbors getting out the BBQ grill and setting up tables in the street while artists from around the globe are reconnecting and telling long tales and kids on scooters and skateboards weave in and out of the clusters of cans everywhere. With the abundance of homemade food and a variety of music playing at high volume the streets are alive and there’s nothing else you’d want to do on day like this.
Debuting a new secret doorway, Mr. Dan Witz (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Dan Witz (photo © Jaime Rojo)
John Ahearn is a pioneer in the area of public art known for making sculptures with local people posing as models. His technique of live casting requires the model to sit while John creates a cast of them in plaster. As far back as the mid 1970s Mr. Ahearn’s tributes to his neighbors have been seen affixed to many walls throughout the Bronx. Sited as an important part of the development of the Street Art scene Ahearn’s work has also traveled to private collections of prominent and noted art collectors and art institutions.
Brooklyn Street Art spoke with Mr. Ahearn and asked him about participating in this open venue and how he felt doing his live casting in Queens. He responded with excitement about the word “live”.
“You used the word very properly. I feel alive today. I feel alive and I just turned 60 two weeks ago and I feel this is where my roots are. Right in the sidewalk, doing casting, particularly aimed at little children. We are going to do a piece that involves a child. She is a friend of mine from way back and we are expecting to have a crowd of kids here and it is going to be fun,” said Ahearn.
Ezra Li Eismont and Bunnie Reiss bring a fanstastical and folksy humor to this very urban setting. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Hmmmm, wonder who lives here. Ezra Li Eismont and Bunnie Reiss. Detail (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Ezra Li Eismont and Bunnie Reiss (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Deeks and El Celso sing a stunning duet. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
El Kamino and Alice Mizrachi murals in process (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Alice Mizrachi at work (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Always good to get a new view; El Kamino listens to a live critique of his work by local observers. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
El Kamino at work (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Cern at work (photo © Jaime Rojo)
ROA in a tight spot. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Fumero at work (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Fumero at work (photo © Jaime Rojo)
JMR on the left and The Wretched Rapture Crew: Dave Loewenstein, Ashley Jane Laird and Cecilia Ross-Gotta (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Too Fly almost completed mural with Chor Boogie to the right (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Too Fly’s original sketch. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Ani, Too Fly’s friend helping out with a little pink. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Zam at work on a very large roach. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Zam (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Zam’s roach doesn’t make Too Fly too happy. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Chris Stain and Billy Mode mural in process (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Chris Stain and Billy Mode detail shot (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Jesse Jones to the left and Sinned to the right at work (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Joe Iurato at work (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Joe Iurato at work (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Jordan Seiler at work (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Katie Yamasaki and Caleb Neelon (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Lady Pink at work (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Overunder at work (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Pablo Power at work (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Pablo Power at work (photo © Jaime Rojo)
R. Robots and Victor collaborating on a piece on Victor’s house. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
The original inspiration for R.Robots and Victor. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
R. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Ron English (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Royce Bannon and Matt Siren collab in process (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Royce Bannon and Russell King (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Veng RWK mural in process (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Veng RWK (photo © Jaime Rojo)
“Unusual Suspects” at 17 Frost : Art, Friendship and Collaboration
Street Art can be a very singular activity, and if you desire, you can do your own thing without ever hanging with the crew. Royce Bannon has never been interested in the Lone Wolf approach, preferring to work with friends on projects. In fact, as part of the Endless Love Crew, he brought about the big “Work to Do” show in Soho a couple of years ago with a truckload of mostly New York Street Artists, all working collaboratively to pull off one of the most lively freeze-frames of the current scene, without attitude.
Royce Bannon and Dark Clouds (photo © Jaime Rojo)
For “Unusual Suspects”, opening Saturday, the curator and artist invited some of these same artists to this nice open community space in Williamsburg with one important requirement; They all needed to collaborate on a piece with a least one artist in the show.
When asked why he wanted the artists to collaborate he explained that a lot of them work together in many shows but most of them have not painted together on a single piece. In a collaboration you are more cognizant of the working style of the other, and, while not losing your own identity, you are part of a conversation. The resulting work is something entirely different from what either one could have produced solo. The process here involved passing the work back and forth over a period of time with each artist adding his or her contribution. Instructed Royce “Do what you want – just make it look good!”
Chris RWK and Matt Siren (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Most of these names are seen on the street and it is always interesting to see how the work translate to the framed pieces on gallery walls. Included in this offering are a number of individual pieces that span a wide range of styles and one can clearly see these Street Artists going forward in their personal explorations.
“Unusual Suspects”At 17 Frost Gallery in Williamsburg, Brooklyn opens this Saturday, February 26.
Deekers, Celso, Infinity and Stikman (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Keely and Dark Clouds (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Moody and Sno Monster (left) Chris RWK (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Infinity (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Dark Clouds (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Keely (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Matt Siren (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Mutz/Moody (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Nose Go (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Royce Bannon (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Celso, Keely and Mutz collaborate on the scaffolding outside the gallery (photo © Jaime Rojo)
A detail view of the front facade of the gallery (photo © Jaime Rojo)
A detail view of the front facade of the gallery (photo © Jaime Rojo)
To read more details about “Unusual Suspects” click on the link below:
Images Of The Week 11.21.10
Our Weekly interview with the streets, this week featuring; ASVP, Burning Candy, Cake, Castro, Chris Stain, Clown Soldier, Deekers, DsCreet , Ellis G., Fumero, Futura ,Gaia ,Goya ,Hush , Imminent Disaster ,Infinity ,K-Guy , Kirby ,KRSNA ,OverUnder ,QRST ,Quel Beast ,Samson ,Showpaper ,Skewville , Sten & Lex ,Tek33 ,VUDU , and XAM
photo © Jaime Rojo
The block party in Bushwick provided by Factory Fresh Gallery and the app called All City turned out a number of new Brooklyn Street Art pieces on a block long installation, complete with friends, fans, and a taco stand. Included in the offering was this surprise collab with Faile and Bast, auspiciously appearing the morning of the event like a pre-Christmas gift wrapped in razor wire. The news of the piece travelled fast and while Ad Deville couldn’t find his red carpet, he did post a velvet rope to hold back the crowd. That didn’t stop Futura from climbing on top of his car to get the perfect shot.
Futura takes a photo of the Bast and Faile collaboration at the Factory Fresh Block Party (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Bast and Faile detail © Photo © Jaime Rojo
A box of chocolates from many of the newer Street Art confectioners; ASVP, Cake, Overunder, Quel Beast, Clown Soldier, Fumero, Krsna, QRST (Photo © Jaime Rojo)
Detail Photo © Jaime Rojo
Chris Stain busted out a new piece (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Gaia, Samson, Castro Photo © Jaime Rojo
Imminent Disaster, Goya, Ellis G Photo © Jaime Rojo
Burning Candy, Tek33, Dscreet (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Deekers is hanging out on the corner watching the rest of the proceedings (photo © Jaime Rojo)
And here we move to a British invasion of sorts with Geishas and Primates from Hush and K-Guy respectively. XAM has been installing some pretty cool looking bird houses around town equipped with LED lights on their porches that illuminate when the sun sets. Infinity and VUDU’s pieces for the Showpaper box project adds to the conversation on the street with a beaming signal tower atop the box.
K-Guy’s recent “Primates” piece, including this one that appears to be pretty fresh, have been appearing around Brooklyn suddenly. Apparently its meaning is reference to the growing perception of hypocrisy in the Catholic church, particularly as pertains to pedophilia coverups, its position on contraception, gay rights, among other issues.
K-Guy (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Hush (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Hush (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Infinity and Vudu piece for “Community Serviced” (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Infinity detail (photo © Jaime Rojo)
XAM “CSD Dwelling Unit 1.6” (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Close up of the birdhouse by XAM (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Samson, Sten & Lex (photo © Jaime Rojo)
And finally the 800 pound pink gorilla in the group, Samson from Albany, began his audacious cityscape project directly beside his hero/shero Sten & Lex. The neighbor next door liked it so much Samson will be back to continue the piece – which is part of a much grander scale piece on urban decay, development, and renewal that he hopes to stage in the future.
Weekend Roundup: Winds, Swoon, Woodward, Brooklynite, & TrustoCorp Hipster-Feeding
It’s the month of May and this weekend you couldn’t bear to be on the streets of NYC –
Even though we managed to see new stuff INDOORS by Swoon, Matt Siren, Royce Bannon, Michael DeFeo, Stikman, Celso, DarkCloud, LAII, Deekers, M-City, and Dolk – The cold, high winds made street walking quite uninviting and threatened to blow the top off of Swoons’ Konbit shelter installation along the East River while she signed copies of her new book inside Urban Arts Projects.
Along Williamsburgs’ fabled Bedford Ave. yesterday you would have expected hipsters and the college kids who emulate them to be slavishly completing their brunches and slumpingly parading to a stylized dodgeball game at McCarren Park. There they would be chugging from giant styrofoam cups of beer purchased from The Turkey’s Nest and texting friends about their TOTES crazy life.
Instead all that could be found were hearty Polish ladies with corsages pinned on their heavy woolen coats from the Mother’s Day Services at church, a few of the regular lumpy neighborhood drunks slouched and drooping off the park benches, and some miserable young families forced out of their apartments by sheer child-driven insanity.
That’s why this newly discovered sign by TrustoCorp almost seemed like a cheery promise of warm weather, asymmetric haircuts, neckbeards, and hand-rolled cigarettes just around the corner.
Dark Cloud, Goreb, Armer & Deekers “A Hounding Obsession” at Factory Fresh
This November, Factory Fresh brings together four elusive artists who each work seamlessly in between the worlds of graffiti and streetart. These two art forms look identical to the untrained eye but in actuality are more like brawling brothers to those who are part of the movement. Artists Armer, Darkcloud, Goreb and Deeker are a few exceptions. Each of their work ranges on the street one day a large scale mural, another day carefully placed signs or paintings, sometimes even a junk sculpture is installed onto a crowded street. As a result these artists cannot be dismissed by any group of urban artists and have been validated by their acceptance from multiple ranges of critcs.
The Darkcloud image has been a constant staple in the urban art scene since 2003 and can be seen all over the east and west coast. Darkcloud is attributed with having more hand painted stickers up than anyone on the scene today. The meaning being unclear for most, it stems from the concept that angst is always following us. A visual representation of the darkness in our lives we are unable to escape. Darkcloud will be showing a mix of paintings on glass, metal, wood, and more. Also, prints may be available for the first time in his artist career.
Deeker is a rogue, pessimistic bastard who comes out and paints when the weather is at it’s worst. This bottom feeder lurks around the other three, drops hints of doomsday, tells tales of perpetual unemployment and generally depresses everyone. His work will consist of ghastly character paintings and painstakingly fine cut wooden words and botanical elements. The likes of which you can find hidden all around the streets of New York, if you look carefully.
GoreB’s work was first noticed in Dumbo in the summer of 2004 and people discussed his work in tones you might use to talk about a griffin or a chimera, a former math prodigy who’d been corrupted in his teen years by something called hobo freight art, then spiraled into a life of nomadic polymath street-art savanthood and touched down, for a few years, in New York. Goreb currently resides on the West Coast in Santa Cruz and has created new oil paintingsfor the show featuring collages of birds, black and white photos, and fonts with hints of older paintings underneath.
With GoreB and Deeker as mentors and occasional sidekicks, young Armer paints large, uncomfortable faces on both coasts. His streetwork is powered by the painterly and gestural satisfaction he gets from working on a grand scale and from the belief in American graffiti as a way to respect the past while fighting the present. This show gives Armer his first crack at gallery walls. Pared down to a self-retrospective, mixed media work will echo his presence in the street (color combinations he loves; how he processes and releases information) but also will chronicle a day/night in the life.
Images of the Week 08.30.09
Don’t Call it a Comeback
Thursday night it was a true gathering of the tribes –
Old Skool, Art Skool, Graff Crews, Street Art, Hipsters, Hip-Hop, Electro, Blue-haired, Blue themes, Critics, Kids, Collabo’s, Lolitas, Lotharios, Murals, Markers, Canvasses, Cans, Wheatpaste, Stickers, Sculpture, and Script. This might just be what community looks like. Every where you turned, the senses were flooded, and cellphones and electronic gadgetry were revealed for what they lack in the competition for connectedness and D.I.Y. inspiration.
Surpassing many of the street art group shows of the past few years, this one was obviously very organic and full of love, rather than hype.
When Afrika Bambaataa and Soul Sonic Force finally picked up their mikes and Martha Cooper broke off from signing books with Henry Chalfant to expertly weave with her camera, the crowds’ momentum was already in full swing. No one can doubt that this scene, whatever label you care to give it, is on fire right now and the creative spirit is at work in the belly of the people.
Good luck tracking it’s trajectories.
Thanks to the Combine and the talented Jazz Beaulieu for the images below:
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Other shots from the show……
“Work To Do” is at 112 Greene Street in Soho, NYC, and runs through April 16.
More info – Endless Love Crew