This week we take you to the scene of a brand new eye-opening JR installation in Manhattan – Seen from the outside and inside.

Street Artist JR continues to plaster parts of New York City with over-sized black and white portraits of Native Americans from North Dakota for his Inside Out Project. The images were taking by photographers in North Dakota and sent to the IOP to be printed and installed in Manhattan.

JR “Inside Out Project” First day installation on 10th Avenue. View from the High Line Park. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

This newest installation took place this week over two days on four window panels in an empty retail space of a corner building in Chelsea. On the first day JR was on site lending a hand to the half dozen interns who came to help and to learn how to wheat paste in this cool little spot across from the High Line Park on 10 Ave and 19th Street.

A second installation went up on the windows on the 19th Street side of the building, providing a second pair of eyes to surveil the area.  The wind was gusting like a mad mother-in-law and the cold was almost bitter –  but that didn’t put a dent in the enthusiasm of the team made up of Natalie, Paola, Moira, Will, Nina, Nastasia, Rosie, Austin, Hillary, Gina and Rhiannon; Each have interned at either JR’s studio or with the Inside Out Project.  It was cool to see teamwork and good spirits intact promptly at 9:00 am as they set to unroll panels, fight the wind and slap up gallons of gooey wheat paste on the windows. Marc, from JR’s New York Studio was there to give a quick lesson wheat pasting and to oversee the installation.

JR “Inside Out Project” First day installation on 10th Avenue. Street level view. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

JR’s “Inside Out Project” second day begins on the window panels on 19th Street. Here is the mock up in hand. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

JR “Inside Out Project”  (photo © Jaime Rojo)

JR “Inside Out Project”  (photo © Jaime Rojo)

JR “Inside Out Project”  (photo © Jaime Rojo)

JR “Inside Out Project”  (photo © Jaime Rojo)

JR “Inside Out Project”  (photo © Jaime Rojo)

JR “Inside Out Project”  (photo © Jaime Rojo)

JR “Inside Out Project”  (photo © Jaime Rojo)

JR “Inside Out Project”. Process shot taking from inside the space. We gained access while a construction crew was pouring a cement floor getting the space ready for a retail tenant to move in. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

JR “Inside Out Project”. Process shot taking from inside the space. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

JR “Inside Out Project”  (photo © Jaime Rojo)

JR “Inside Out Project”  (photo © Jaime Rojo)

JR “Inside Out Project”  (photo © Jaime Rojo)

JR “Inside Out Project” tools of the trade. This wheat paste is said to be imported from France. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

JR “Inside Out Project”  (photo © Jaime Rojo)

JR “Inside Out Project”: Rosie was shooting with film for documentation. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Getting a look inside of the windows on 1oth Ave.  (photo © Jaime Rojo)

JR “Inside Out Project” An inside view of the windows on 1oth Ave.  (photo © Jaime Rojo)

JR “Inside Out Project”. Installation completed. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

JR “Inside Out Project” Inside view of the windows on 19th Street. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

JR “Inside Out Project”. Inside view of the corner window panels on 19th Street and 10th Ave. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

JR “Inside Out Project”. Same corner outside view. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

JR “Inside Out Project”  (photo © Jaime Rojo)

JR “Inside Out Project”  (photo © Jaime Rojo)

JR “Inside Out Project” An overview from the High Line Park. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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