BROOKLYN STREET ART LOVES YOU MORE EVERY DAY
Woo hoo! Dip your toe in the ocean and the official beginning of summer in NYC. It’s Memorial Day Weekend and it is hot outside and Coney Island is already crowded and has new works this week from John Ahearn, Nina Chanel Abney, Tristan Eaton and more to come. Also you can hear that ice cream truck jingle in some neighborhoods, a welcome sound that will cause batty-ness in the brain after hearing it the 300th time.
Prospect Park and Central Park and hundreds of smaller parks around the city have barbecues and frisbees and refreshments and naps under trees. There is even the smell of marijuana wafting through the streets again. Also there’s a new Strokes album projected on the wall above Futura’s on Houston (soon to be refreshed), there’s a Ramones exhibit at the Queens Museum, and international artists are showing up to paint at the Bushwick Collective street party next weekend. Until then, let’s go up on the roof – you may see Duke Riley’s LED lit birds over Wallabout Channel at dusk. It all kind of feels like the 1980’s, minus the hair spray.
Here’s our weekly interview with the street, this week featuring Aiko, Jins, John Ahearn, Lapiz, Nether, Nick Walker, Nina Chanel Abney, Pose, TurtleCaps, Saone, Sipros, Stavro, Stikman, Stu, Such and Turtle Caps.
Our top image: Fine artist and muralist Nina Chanel Abney for Coney Art Walls 2016. Coney Island, Brooklyn. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
John Ahearn for Coney Art Walls 2016. Coney Island, Brooklyn. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Pose for Coney Art Walls 2016. Coney Island, Brooklyn. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Aiko. Side A. For Coney Art Walls 2016. Coney Island, Brooklyn. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Aiko Side B. For Coney Art Walls 2016. Coney Island, Brooklyn. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Nick Walker (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Lapiz for KURA Festival. Wittenburg, Germany. May 2016 (photo © Lapiz)
“Sigmar Gabriel (the German Minister for Economic Affairs and Energy) is riding a Leopard 2 tank. The tank is for sale (a little price tag is showing a €) and is painted in the colors of the German Flag (black, red, yellow). Gabriel is holding up a sign that reads ‘Nie wieder Krieg *’ (‘No more war *’). Running away from the tank is a family of refugees.” – Lapiz
Sipros. The Bushwick Collective. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Sipros. The Bushwick Collective. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Such. The Bushwick Collective. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Zaone. The Bushwick Collective. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Zaone. The Bushwick Collective. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Stu. The Bushwick Collective. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Jins. The Bushwick Collective. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Artist Unknown. White people ruined Bushwick. Discuss. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
NETHER from last year. That’s what is all about out here. Survival. Baltimore. (photo © Pat Gavin)
NETHER. Baltimore. (photo © Nether)
“A woman stands in water, half submerged, holding a withering lotus flower as the sky, lit by a rising sun and a setting moon, pans from darkness to light. The lotus in this setting symbolizes strength and courage when getting through life’s hardest obstacles such as addiction. The character is trying to save the lotus, which reflects her beauty and strength, as it is losing its pedals into the darkness. Her half-hidden face is slightly turned towards the light showing that she is turning towards help to revive her inner beauty and spirit. The obscured face speaks to the recovering addict’s battle with shame, anonymity, and pride for overcoming addiction due to public stigma. The 303 stars painted into the sky pay homage to the 303 people that died from overdoses in the last recorded year in Baltimore including a friend of mine.” – Nether
Artist Unknown (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Stikman (photo © Jaime Rojo)
C3 (photo © Jaime Rojo)
TurtleCaps and Stavro.(photo © Jaime Rojo)
Untitled. Brooklyn Botanic Gardens. Brooklyn, NY. May 2016. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
