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“Living Walls: Albany” Begins! Gaia, Nanook and a Rockefeller

September 5, 2011 Artists

Over the next few weeks, New York State’s capital city, Albany, will be the site of a large scale Street Art show with many artists whom you are familiar with and a number of new ones on walls in desolate areas, historic districts, and even a church.

When local artist and visionary Samson Contompasis asked BSA to be partners with Living Walls last winter, we already knew about his reputation as a stalwart proponent of the creative spirit who opens doors for artists of many stripes. If Samson is in love with something, it’s going to happen.

Now “Living Walls: Albany” has grown to encompass not only multiple walls for Street Artists from around the world but the involvement of civic leaders, building owners, arts institutions, historical ombudspeople, electronic and print media, artists, musicians, galleries, a museum, and arts programming for kids and families. That was one sentence.

Gaia and Nanook collaboration (photo © Andrew Franciosa)

For our involvement BSA will help keep you up on all the walls with people we’ve worked with before and new ones too, bringing you regular updates from now until the big weekend of the 16-18th, which will have live art, music, symposia, and a keynote by your buddies here. Today we’d like to introduce two talents on the Albany scene who will be leading the way in our coverage, writer KC Orcutt, and photographer Andrew Franciosa as they were on the scene when Gaia and Nanook first started their new piece.

Gaia and Nanook collaboration (photo © Andrew Franciosa)

Gaia and Nanook in Albany

Words by KC Orcutt, Images by Andrew Franciosa

A new livelihood is radiating around the colossal work of Gaia and Nanook, which debuted the Living Walls: Albany last week. Their vibrant piece adorns the side of a vacant, unroofed building currently aging on N. Pearl and Livingston.

Gaia and Nanook collaboration (photo © Andrew Franciosa)

Ten minutes into my third visit, a handful of neighborhood children flocked in front of the massive brick before me to point out what they liked about the Street Art as two passer-bys curiously paused. The figure of a man pushing a contemporary piece of art (currently housed in the Rockefeller Empire Plaza Concourse) towards the face of Nelson Rockefeller is inexplicably alluring. The collective work is as perplexing as it is simple.

The merging of Albany landmarks in a notion of “pushing forward” is an attentively constructed kick off to the project this fall. One of the energetic neighborhood children, unaware of his metaphorical wisdom, looked at me and said, “I guess it’s a new day.”

Gaia and Nanook collaboration (photo © Andrew Franciosa)

Living Walls : Albany

Participating artists include: Army of One , Broken Crow ,Cake ,Chris Stain ,Clown Soldier ,Deacon Czar , Depoe , Dwell & One Unit , Evereman , Gaia , Gregory Maxwell Dunn II , Hellbent , Jacqueline Brickman , Joe Iurato , Jon Burgerman , Marcus Anderson , Michael DeFeo , Nanook , Over/Under , Papertwins , Radical! , ROA , Scott Michael Ackerman , Skewville , Uneek , Veng , VRNO , White Cocoa , YARK

More Shots from “The Grassy Lot”

August 25, 2011 Artists, Manhattan, NYC, On the Street

More artists stopped by to put up pieces for “The Grassy Lot” show, an impromptu little get-together of 15 artists in a little bit of heaven on the Lower East Side. Jaime Rojo gives us some more shots of the lot.

Read more about the project and opening HERE.

XAM’s Feeder Unit near YOK’s Traveling Man Foot (photo © Jaime Rojo)

QRST installing his piece (photo © Joe Franquinha)

QRST Rat Tea Party (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Joe Franquinha, life long New Yorker, told us how he assisted Street Artist QRST with his decision of subject matter for this installation: “I told QRST – Rats have lived in this lot for years so rats should be represented here. Because we have the best f*cking rats and no one is going to take that away from us.”

QRST Rat Tea Party (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Veng from RWK and Overunder on the back wall (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Veng and Overunder working on their collaboration (photo © Joe Franquinha)

Night shot of Veng and Overunder piece. (photo © Joe Franquinha)

Jake Klotz installing his piece. (photo © Joe Franquinha)

Jake Klotz shares a wall with Gaia and Nanook (photo © Jaime Rojo)

For more information about this event please click on the link below:

http://www.brooklynstreetart.com/theblog/?p=23784

To view images from The Grassy Lot Part I click on the link below:

http://www.brooklynstreetart.com/theblog/?p=23726

Crest Arts in Collaboration with BSA and MaNY Present: The Grassy Lot Show (Manhattan, NY)

August 24, 2011 Artists, Events, Manhattan, NYC, On the Street, Opening

Grassy Lot

We’re proud to announce the “Grassy Lot Show” coming this Thursday presented by Crest Arts at the Timeshare Backyard. It’s been a little whirlwind of activity with 15 artists putting up brand new work on the walls of this oasis on the Lower East Side for you to come visit. With Keith Schwietzer and us helping Crest out here and there, and of course with Franklin doing lawn roomba duties, it is a bit of a community event. All it is missing is you! What are you doing Thursday?

Crest Arts invites you to the TimeShare Backyard for
“The Grassy Lot Show”

Thursday August 25, from 6-8 pm
145 Ludlow Street between Stanton and Rivington

Admission is free.

Take off your shoes and walk in the grass and do a cartwheel while looking at brand new outside work on the walls by Bishop 203, Creepy, Gaia, General Howe, Jake Klotz, Laura Meyers, Nanook, Over Under, QRST, Quel Beast, Shandor Hassan, Travis Simon, Veng, XAM, and Yok.

Check the event out on Facebook

The project is made possible with the help and support of partners Brooklyn Street Art and the MaNY Project.

“Grassy Lot Show” Announcement : This Thursday

August 23, 2011 Artists

Crest Arts invites you to the TimeShare Backyard for
“The Grassy Lot Show”

Thursday August 25, from 6-8 pm
145 Ludlow Street between Stanton and Rivington

Admission is free.

Take off your shoes and walk in the grass and do a cartwheel while looking at brand new outside work on the walls by Bishop 203, Creepy, Gaia, General Howe, Jake Klotz, Laura Meyers, Nanook, Over Under, QRST, Quel Beast, Shandor Hassan, Travis Simon, Veng, XAM, and Yok.

Check the event out on Facebook

The project is made possible with the help and support of partners Brooklyn Street Art and the MaNY Project.

Images of the Week 07.31.11

July 31, 2011 Artists, Brooklyn, NYC, On the Street, Queens

Last Day of July! Just sayin’. Get outside because the streets are calling.

Here’s our weekly interview with the street, this week featuring Alice Mizrachi, Bast, Cern, Chris Stain, Hellbent, Jaz, Joe Iurato, LAZ, LMNOP, OverUnder, ROA, Robots Will Kill (RWK), Skewville, TrustoCorp, and Veng (RWK).

Veng of RWK and Overunder collaborated on this year’s Welling Court 2 with this piece and integrated it on an existing ROA from last year’s Welling Court. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Veng of RWK and Overunder collabo with ROA. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Veng (RWK) and Overunder detail . (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Hellbent sharpening the incisors on his jawbone at Welling Court 2 (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Alice Mizrachi playing with dandelions at Welling Court 2 (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Chris Stain strips the shot back to a basic black, strengthening the effect. Welling Court 2 (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Joe Iurato re-interprets one of his more recent works about his spiritual path at Welling Court 2 (photo © Jaime Rojo)

LMNOP takes it to the street at Welling Court 2 (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Skewville gets up at Welling Court 2 (photo © Jaime Rojo)

To view more images from our original feature on Welling Court 2 click here

A Product of ADAM (photo © Jaime Rojo)

BAST pulls it out of a hat. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

JAZ from Argentina collaboration with Cern. Above is Clear Channel, who has been crushing billboards all over the place. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

TrustoCorp strikes an inspirational guru sort of tone. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Artist Unknown (photo © Jaime Rojo)

GONNA TAKE MY GUITAR
(B. Hodge)
BOBBY HODGE (Rebel 819)

Gonna take my guitar and leave this town
I’m gonna find me a new place to hang around
Baby, I ain’t coming back for a long long spell
This guitar wants to see a new place

Dave Loewenstein & the Wretched Rapture Crew (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Dave Loewenstein & the Wretched Rapture Crew (Photo © Jaime Rojo)

LAZ in Brooklyn. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

LAZ detail. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

LAZ (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Untitled © Jaime Rojo

Street Art Summer Hospitality in NYC – OverUnder, Irgh, N’DA, Veng & Chris (RWK)

July 11, 2011 Artists, Brooklyn, Manhattan, NYC, On the Street

Somebody Brought Moonshine to this Picnic

You get a chance to go out to the park this weekend and sit under a tree or throw a frisbee? It’s not that far to walk really and its good to reacquaint oneself with nature and barking dogs and deviled eggs and other weird salad creations that Aunt Majiminy always forces you to try – even though you didn’t like it the last time she forced you to try it.

Peace Brotherman. Overunder (photo © Jaime Rojo)

But we don’t know what has been in that jug of punch at these little picnics that Overunder, ND’A and Chris and Veng from RWK have been throwing this summer. The characters, the proportions, and the mixing of elements are ever more stretched and eccentric and colorful. These kids are seriously playing with their food – mixing the olives with the jello ambrosia and spreading it on a grilled hamburger and crumbling some ranch potato chips on top.

Just then, a truck booked by. Booker (photo © Jaime Rojo)

A distant Street Art relative from Berlin named IRGH is in town this summer and these Brooklyn based artists have put down the gingham table cloth and a wicker basket of aerosol cans in multiple locations to welcome their cousin and put him to work…painting walls. We’ve been chasing them around town in Brooklyn and Manhattan and here’s the wackiness we found:

Overunder, IRGH, Veng RWK and ND’A (photo © Jaime Rojo)

“I’m so excited to have IRGH visiting and get to paint with him. We developed our painting style in the same direction, but in separate scenes, and different parts of the world and now get to combine forces” ~ Overunder

Is this the beginning of Veng’s Blue Period? Or maybe his Blue and Yellow Period? Veng RWK (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Come on in! The doors and the mind is open! Overunder and IRGH, and maybe a Celso over there in a frame? (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Looks like someone is making a very important decision, with counsel. Overunder, IRGH, Veng RWK and ND’A (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Can you pass me the ball of limbs please? Overunder, IRGH and ND’A (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Overunder, IRGH and ND’A (photo © Jaime Rojo)

A classic silver Kuma is next to Overunder, IRGH and ND’A (photo © Jaime Rojo)

“Don’t mind if I do.”, Overunder, IRGH and ND’A (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Overunder, IRGH and ND’A (photo © Jaime Rojo)

“Can we talk about our relationship? I really would like to know where it’s going.” Overunder, IRGH and ND’A (photo © Jaime Rojo)

IRGH and ND’A stop to smell the flowers (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Uncle Jimmy may have stopped smoking but he’s still hitting the bottle at this family picnic. ND’A and Chris RWK (photo © Jaime Rojo)

ND’A with Chris RWK holding it down. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

The Market Place Gallery in Collaboration with Brooklyn Art Collective and M.a.n.y. Present: “Town And Country” (Manhattan, NY)

June 28, 2011 Artists, Events, Gallery, Manhattan, NYC, Opening

Town and Country

Curated by Jason Patrick Voegele of Republic Worldwide, Samson Contompasis of The Marketplace Gallery, Keith Schweitzer of M.A.N.Y. and Tyler Wriston of The B.A.C.
Hosted by 320 Studios at 320 West 37th Street, 14th Floor
June 28 – June 30, 2011
6 to Midnight with VIP After Party
Concept by Jason Patrick Voegele

Much of what we know and how we learn comes through the study of explicit or subtle comparisons and contrasts. Meaningful opportunities for these comparative studies invite us into a more explicit and intentional approach that can both broaden our understanding of contemporary American art and help us draw connections and distinctions between the studio practices and conceptual intentions of today’s American Artist.

Produced and developed by four of New York State’s premiere curatorial teams, Town & Country presents just such an opportunity.

Much like the rest of the western world, our press, politics, and creative arts thrive on the institutions we have erected to illuminate our differences. We are often reduced to the divisive labels of righteous and heretical, pious and secular, liberal and conservative, formal and conceptual, urban and rural. Dressed up in the costume of duality it appears that we are a bisected people from the fundamentals to our personal tastes. This exhibition challenges those preconceived notions and offers a unique window into the collaborative state of American art. As a people, our founding fathers had faith in the principals of open dialogue, freedom of expression and the multiplicity of our intellectual and creative capacity to bind various philosophies into one singular union. As an exhibition, Town & Country celebrates these great strengths and offers up a chance to draw attention to the ties that bind us as a great creative culture wherever we are from. Through this lens, Town & Country proposes a new vision of American art reinterpreted for a new generation.

On June 28th through June 30th at 320 West 37th Street in New York City, Republic Worldwide, The Marketplace Gallery, Keith Schweitzer (M.A.N.Y.), and The Brooklyn Art Collective invite you to join the discussion and stoke the fires of debate as we present Town & Country: the very best of contemporary American art. Artists include: Scott Michael Ackerman, Doug Auld, Paul Brainard, White Cocoa, Hannah Cole, Annika Conner, Helen Dennis, Eric Diehl, Ira Eduardovna, Tara de la Garza, Charles Koegel, Elizabeth Livingston, Frodo Mikkelsen, OLEK, Sirikul Pattachote, Patrick Porter, Leon Reid IV, Julia Samuels, Tom Sanford, Chris Stain, Veng, Emma Wasielke, and Fedele Spadafora.

Much appreciation to John Stavros from 320 Studios.

Sneak Peek of Hardware Inspired Crest Fest, Opening Today

June 18, 2011 Artists

No you haven’t.

Wayne Heller and Ceder Mannan (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Seen this before.

Joe Franquinha is creating an operetta of hardware-inspired art by 150 artists in his store before your eyes, and even the jaded cannot claim to have experience such a rich, relevant and comedic art show. “Joe, did you see the cat in the middle of the plants?” his mom asks about a sculpture during the last rush of installations that has run late into the wee hours every night this week.

In a Wiliamsburg hardware store opened by Joe’s dad and his uncle in 1962, even the curating of a 200-piece art show is a family affair. A light opera of jazz and syncopated rhythms and even burlesque, as you roll through the aisles the mostly local art sings arias and raps rhymes of the working people from every hook and particle board, dangled from the ceiling, and, in the case of Street Artist Olek, crocheted entirely around a shopping cart and hand truck.

Olek (photo © Jaime Rojo)

For a decade Manny and his young son Joe, now in his late twenties, have thrown open the doors of the store to invite the artistic newcomers in this neighborhood to bring their creativity inside. What may be seen as a sly marketing maneuver to court a changing demographic actually morphed into a celebration of community, and comedy, with little tragedy. Cast on this leveling stage, Joe’s own passion for the arts enables a rare harmonic volley, where new talents never shown in a gallery before are hanging in the same aisle as more established performers with a global audience. As a participant in this real time interactive play, it’s up to you to discover them among the flat latex paint and gardening gloves.

BSA gives our thanks to Joe as a partner in provoking and invoking the creative spirit, and with this little sneak preview, encourages you to hop on the L train to Lorimer today and check it out. Follow the sound of bands and DJs and the smell of food vendors and walk past Jon Burgerman doodling all over a car on the sidewalk and you’ll be at the front door of Brooklyn’s own curious ode to hardware.

Aakash Nihalani (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Bert Shuck (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Erwin Sanchez (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Chris Stain (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Street Artist General Howe has been manufacturing arms to sell on the open market. What you do with them is your business. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Mike Graves creates this horny monk-like flasher installed on the aerosol cage. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Mike Graves (photo © Jaime Rojo)

A hardware tiara by Josh Cote (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Rachel Farmer (photo © Jaime Rojo)

New on the scene Street Artist Radical! gets his hand in the cookie jar. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

A depiction of the historic first space buff by Steve Browning (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Street Artist Veng of RWK has a lot on his head these days (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Street Artist XAM hangs one of his sophisticated birdhouses on a sign in Crest. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Click on the link below for more details about CrestFest and The Crest Hardware Art Show:

http://www.brooklynstreetart.com/theblog/?p=21765

Coney Island’s New Attractions: Ephameron, Veng, Overunder, ND’A and Radical!

June 14, 2011 Artists, Brooklyn, NYC, On the Street

Arts impresario Keith Schweitzer gives famed and storied Coney Island in Brooklyn a boost of carney charm with his newly curated construction wall collection painted by colorful characters Over Under, N’DA, Radical!, Veng, and Ephemeron.

Overunder’s welcoming sign on Bowery St. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

As Coney Island undergoes a slick redevelopment that some worry will zap it’s old world quixotic quirkiness, this motley crew of Street Artists regale the area with a sense of the fantastical unreality that has always permeated this salaciously savory and seedy amusement park.

Radical! (photo © Jaime Rojo)

With thoughts of curvaceous mermaids, scream-inducing rides, fun house mirrors, obnoxious winking barkers, and a hot sweaty kiss behind a tent curtain all swirling through your mind, one can easily appreciate this new free associating imagery that jumps and undulates along oceanic walls.

ND’A (photo © Jaime Rojo)

“Under the Boardwalk” – N’DA makes reference here to lyrics from the song made famous by The Drifters, released in June 1964. Here’s the original for you to listen to as you scroll through the rest of these images from the boardwalk.

Overunder and Veng of Robots Will Kill painted this 211 foot wall on Stillwell Avenue (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Overunder and Veng of RWK. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Overunder and Veng of RWK ‘s 211 foot wall on Stillwell avenue (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Refreshing drinks and reveries of schools of fish swimming through your memories on Surf Avenue. Ephameron. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Images of the Week 06.12.11

June 12, 2011 Artists, Brooklyn, BSA Images Of The Week, California, L.A., Los Angeles, NYC, On the Street, Week in Images

Our weekly interview with the street, this week featuring 130, BAST, Dark Clouds, David Flores, Enzo & Nio, Mare 139, Skewville, Twenty, and Veng.

And this week Skewville was picked as a clue for the “Great Urban Race” a marathon-cum-treasure-hunt dress up in a costume and jog through New York event. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Speaking of Skewville, if you are in Brooklyn next weekend for Northside Open Studios and the Crest Fest 2011 and the Northside Music Festival be sure to see the brand new giant 100 foot Skewville wall unveiling in Williamsburg and come to the afterparty thrown by NOS, Crest and BSA in Greepoint. We’ll be sending out a big announcement about all the street artists involved this year (including some surprises) – so get on our newsletter and we’ll be sure to send you an invite. Great Street Art in Brooklyn!

Well known graffiti artist Mare 139 created this sculpture for El Museo’s Bienal: The (S) Files 2011 at El Museo del Barrio. This window installation is right across the street from MOMA (photo © Jaime Rojo)

This sticker reminds us of Kara Walker work. We are not sure if the MEMO tag was an original part of the work (photo © Jaime Rojo)

A teaming mass of people during the one-day sale at Macy’s? Constituents at Representative Anthony Weiner’s office getting ready to give him a piece of their minds about his Sexting? The crowd getting off the roller coaster at Coney Island? This unknown street artist hand draws dozens of faces on steno pads and then wheat paste them together on walls. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Hey, why the long face? Veng of RWK continues to work on the Vandevoort Place wall in Bushwick. More photos of the work still in progress below (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Guerrilla Galleries and Billi Kid Present: The Art of Basketball (Next Wave) (Newark, NJ)

June 8, 2011 Artists, Events, Fundraising, Gallery, Opening

The Art of Basketball

Raarrrrhhrhrhhrrr! Veng Chomps Through Another Giant Wall (Bushwick)

June 4, 2011 Art Fair, Artists, Brooklyn, Events, Gallery, NYC, On the Street

Street Artist and burly bear Veng came out of hibernation this spring with a roaring hunger for walls and so far he’s foraged plenty of them in BKLN. From the breezy shores of La Isla Conejo to the rusty thickets of Bushwick, the borough of Brooklyn has a few hundred feet more of aerosol paint since this guy poked his head out of the cave during the thaw.

Just this week we found him placidly smacking his choppers and savoring the last taste of lunch while sitting on a sidewalk and surveying the sweeping Veng Vista across the street; almost one entire block length wall that he’s completing this weekend for the big Bushwick Open Studios 2011.

Now in it’s 5th year and produced by the volunteer army Arts in Bushwick, the studios and streets are fair game for visitors and artists of all stripes and abilities. Each year it is entertaining and educational to witness who’s moved on, who’s still hanging on, and who’s just arrived to claim credit for it all. Veng is one of the hangers-on; in fact one of the starter-uppers when it comes to Street Art here.

As we reported yesterday, Factory Fresh Gallery has two entries in this year’s festival, a veritable double bill of Indoor and Outdoor. Inside the gallery is “Surrealism,” perhaps in honor of the British-born Mexican Surrealist Master Leonora Carrington who passed away May 25^th or perhaps to acknowledge Surrealism’s many currents running through pop culture and street culture today.

The Outside portion showcases the “Bushwick Art Park”, FF’s entry to the New Museum’s Festival of Ideas, which proposes to build an art park on this very block of Vandevoort Place where Veng is painting. No stranger to surrealism himself, Veng often depicts his characters in other-worldly portraits with birds as hats and hats as boats and intricately detailed scenes nested within scenes.

These process shots from Thursday show him trampling along on the immense wall and by Friday he told us he’d be done. You’ll need to check this one yourself to verify. While bears can move fast sometimes, they also tend to favor long naps.

Veng (photo © Jaime Rojo). Brick walls make Veng very happy as he loves this pattern and the demarcation of the bricks makes his job a lot easier. He was beaming with joy.

Ah Summer: At the base of Veng’s ladder this dandelion stood sunny and willful amidst the aerosol fumes and drips and the trash (photo © Jaime Rojo)

To learn more about Factory Fresh “Surrealism” Show click below:

http://www.brooklynstreetart.com/theblog/?p=21418

To learn more about “Bushwick Art Park” click below:

http://www.brooklynstreetart.com/theblog/?p=21422

For a complete and detailed listing of all the events taking place at BOS2011 click below:

http://www.brooklynstreetart.com/theblog/?p=21389

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Gaia and Nanook collaboration (photo © Andrew Franciosa)

Gaia and Nanook collaboration (photo © Andrew Franciosa)

Gaia and Nanook in Albany

Gaia and Nanook collaboration (photo © Andrew Franciosa)

Gaia and Nanook collaboration (photo © Andrew Franciosa)

Gaia and Nanook collaboration (photo © Andrew Franciosa)

Gaia and Nanook collaboration (photo © Andrew Franciosa)

Gaia and Nanook collaboration (photo © Andrew Franciosa)

XAM’s Feeder Unit near YOK’s Traveling Man Foot (photo © Jaime Rojo)

XAM’s Feeder Unit near YOK’s Traveling Man Foot (photo © Jaime Rojo)

QRST installing his piece (photo © Joe Franquinha)

QRST Rat Tea Party (photo © Jaime Rojo)

QRST Rat Tea Party (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Veng from RWK and Overunder on the back wall (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Veng from RWK and Overunder on the back wall (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Veng and Overunder working on their collaboration (photo © Joe Franquinha)

Night shot of Veng and Overunder piece. (photo © Joe Franquinha)

Jake Klotz installing his piece. (photo © Joe Franquinha)

Jake Klotz shares a wall with Gaia and Nanook (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Crest Arts invites you to the TimeShare Backyard for “The Grassy Lot Show”

Crest Arts invites you to the TimeShare Backyard for “The Grassy Lot Show”

Veng of RWK and Overunder collaborated on this year’s Welling Court 2 with this piece and integrated it on an existing ROA from last year’s Welling Court. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Veng of RWK and Overunder collabo with ROA. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Veng (RWK) and Overunder detail . (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Hellbent sharpening the incisors on his jawbone at Welling Court 2 (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Alice Mizrachi playing with dandelions at Welling Court 2 (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Chris Stain strips the shot back to a basic black, strengthening the effect. Welling Court 2 (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Joe Iurato re-interprets one of his more recent works about his spiritual path at Welling Court 2 (photo © Jaime Rojo)

LMNOP takes it to the street at Welling Court 2 (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Skewville gets up at Welling Court 2 (photo © Jaime Rojo)

A Product of ADAM (photo © Jaime Rojo)

BAST pulls it out of a hat. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

JAZ from Argentina collaboration with Cern. Above is Clear Channel, who has been crushing billboards all over the place. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

TrustoCorp strikes an inspirational guru sort of tone. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Artist Unknown (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Dave Loewenstein & the Wretched Rapture Crew (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Dave Loewenstein & the Wretched Rapture Crew (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Dave Loewenstein & the Wretched Rapture Crew (Photo © Jaime Rojo)

LAZ in Brooklyn. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

LAZ detail. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

LAZ (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Untitled © Jaime Rojo

Somebody Brought Moonshine to this Picnic

Peace Brotherman. Overunder (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Just then, a truck booked by. Booker (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Overunder, IRGH, Veng RWK and ND’A (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Is this the beginning of Veng’s Blue Period? Or maybe his Blue and Yellow Period? Veng RWK (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Come on in! The doors and the mind is open! Overunder and IRGH, and maybe a Celso over there in a frame? (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Looks like someone is making a very important decision, with counsel. Overunder, IRGH, Veng RWK and ND’A (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Can you pass me the ball of limbs please? Overunder, IRGH and ND’A (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Overunder, IRGH and ND’A (photo © Jaime Rojo)

A classic silver Kuma is next to Overunder, IRGH and ND’A (photo © Jaime Rojo)

“Don’t mind if I do.”, Overunder, IRGH and ND’A (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Overunder, IRGH and ND’A (photo © Jaime Rojo)

“Can we talk about our relationship? I really would like to know where it’s going.” Overunder, IRGH and ND’A (photo © Jaime Rojo)

IRGH and ND’A stop to smell the flowers (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Uncle Jimmy may have stopped smoking but he’s still hitting the bottle at this family picnic. ND’A and Chris RWK (photo © Jaime Rojo)

ND’A with Chris RWK holding it down. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Olek (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Aakash Nihalani (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Bert Shuck (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Erwin Sanchez (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Chris Stain (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Street Artist General Howe has been manufacturing arms to sell on the open market. What you do with them is your business. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Mike Graves creates this horny monk-like flasher installed on the aerosol cage. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Mike Graves (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Mike Graves (photo © Jaime Rojo)

A hardware tiara by Josh Cote (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Rachel Farmer (photo © Jaime Rojo)

New on the scene Street Artist Radical! gets his hand in the cookie jar. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

A depiction of the historic first space buff by Steve Browning (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Street Artist Veng of RWK has a lot on his head these days (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Street Artist XAM hangs one of his sophisticated birdhouses on a sign in Crest. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Overunder’s welcoming sign on Bowery St. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Radical! (photo © Jaime Rojo)

ND’A (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Overunder and Veng of Robots Will Kill painted this 211 foot wall on Stillwell Avenue (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Overunder and Veng of RWK. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Overunder and Veng of RWK ‘s 211 foot wall on Stillwell avenue (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Overunder and Veng of RWK. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Crest Arts invites you to the TimeShare Backyard for
“The Grassy Lot Show”

Crest Arts invites you to the TimeShare Backyard for
“The Grassy Lot Show”