Opening Saturday night at Spoke Art NYC is Meet Me At Delancey / Essex, featuring a diverse range of works by over 20 artists living and working in the greater NYC area. Curated by Jennifer Rizzo, Meet Me At Delancey / Essex is a celebration of community that brings together both emerging and established artists working in a variety of styles and genres, including many who have been active on our streets. The image above, Mars Bar RIP, was fashioned by the wonderfully talented Logan Hicks. Several more follow:
Ian Ferguson aka Hydeon, Busy Train Over the Bridge
Dennis McNett, Thunder Being
Aaron Li-Hill, The Last Flight
Swoon, Subway Windows
Among the other artists — whose works have also surfaced in public spaces — featured in this handsome exhibit are: Olek, Beau Stanton, Buff Monster and Ellis Gallagher. Meet Me At Delancey / Essex, where street, lowbrow, pop surrealism and new contemporary genres meet at Spoke Art NYC, opens with a reception this Saturday from 6-8 pm and continues through March 25th at 210 Rivington Street on the Lower East Side
Photos courtesy Spoke Art NYC
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Scrupulously researched and splendidly presented, From the Streets: An Exhibition of Urban Art at ArtsWestchester is the perfect homage to the graffiti culture and the modern street art movement it spurred. Curated by Marc Leader of 212 ARTS and Melissa McCaig-Welles of Curator 19.90, it presents murals, paintings, photography, sculpture and installations from graffiti writers who first made their mark on our subways to contemporary multi-disciplinary artists. Picture above is by the legendary TKid 170. Here are several more images I captured while visiting the landmark exhibit.
The wonderfully prolific Wane COD
Legendary NYC artists Chris Ellis aka Daze and Carlos Mare aka Mare 139
BG 183, close-up from huge mural by the Mural Kings, Tats Cru
Damon Johnson, close-up
Chilean muralist Dasic Fernandez
Multidisciplinary artist Li-Hill, “Time Marches On”
Among the many special events in association with From the Streets: An Exhibition of Urban Art is the upcoming July 14 screening of Saving Banksy, the story of one art collector’s attempts to save a Banksy painting from destruction and the auction block. ArtsWestchester is located at 31 Mamaroneck Ave, a short walk from the White Plains Metro North station. The exhibit ends Sunday, July 15 at ArtsWestchester. It would be great if it could then travel, as it deserves a wide audience.
Photos by Lois Stavsky
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This is the thirteenth in a series of occasional posts featuring the diverse range of trucks and vans that strike our streets.
Jerkface, another view
Wane
Col Wallnuts
Bishop 203
CashRFC
Li-Hill
Photos: 1, 2, 6 & 7 Dani Reyes Mozeson; 3 Fred Miteff aka Nic707 and 4 & 5 Lois Stavsky
A mythological dragon fashioned by the wonderfully talented Aaron Li-Hill surfaced earlier this month in Chinatown’s East Broadway mall. With its movement of wood and paint, it represents the journey of the migrants who have come to NYC in search of the American Dream, along with the movement of the “capital and goods dictated by the demands of global economic markets.”
A metaphor for the struggles and successes of immigration, the piece was initially inspired by the 1993 Golden Venture incident that exposed a large human trafficking ring that brought migrants from the Fujian province — the main ethnic group within the East Broadway Mall — to America.
“My own background, being half Chinese and half Austrian, speaks to such struggle and success, “ explains Li-Hill, “I would not have the life I do now if it was not for the hardships faced by my grandparents in leaving their home country”
The dragon, a Chinese symbol of abundance and prosperity, aptly represents the American dream, which remains elusive to so many.
You can visit the installation at the East Broadway Mall, 88 East Broadway, Stall 149, in Manhattan’s Chinatown. And you can find out more about this site-specific installation directly from Li-Hill in the video by Hardpin here:
Photos: 1, 2 & 4 courtesy of the artist; 3 Dani Reyes Mozeson
