As featured earlier this year in the New York Times, Nic 707’s Instafame Phantom Art movement continues to bring dozens of artists — from Old School writers to contemporary painters — back into NYC subway trains. Here are a few recently-captured images:
The legendary Skeme of Style Wars fame
The legendary Taki 183
Kingbee — with fragment of Michael Cuomo on left
Photos by Lois Stavsky
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This is the eighth in a series of occasional posts featuring images of children that have surfaced on NYC public spaces:
Nick Walker in the South Bronx
Izolag in Hunts Point
Chain for JMZ Walls in Bushwick
Lorenzo Masnah on the Lower East Side
Miss 163 in Hunts Point
Australian artist Adnate at the Bushwick Collective, close-up
Icy and Sot on the Lower East Side, close-up
Shiro in Bushwick
Note: Entre La Guardia y El Dorado, featuring works by Lorenzo Masnah (featured above) and Alex Seel, will open this evening at 6pm at XY Atelier Gallery, 81 Hester Street on the corner of Orchard. It will remain on view until August 30.
Photo credits: 1 Tara Murray; 2, 3, 5, 6 & 8 Lois Stavsky; 4 courtesy of the artist 7 Dani Reyes Mozeson
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Earlier this month, the LoMan Art Festival brought not only live art by a wonderfully diverse range of artists to Downtown Manhattan, but also a series of workshops, performances and events. And even though the festival has officially ended, mammoth murals continue to surface on our streets. Here are a few scenes from it all:
Another close-up from Buff Monster‘s huge mural
Beau Stanton at work on mammoth mural on East Third Street
French artist Ludo in the East Village
Dain and Montreal-based artist Stikki Peaches
JCorp at the Social Sticker Club‘s installation inside the Mulberry Street lot during the festival
Ron English with assistance from Solus standing to his right
JPO and B.D. White, one of many collaborations spotted along Mulberry Street
Leon Reid, alongside murals by Team Crash — John Matos, Ananda Nahu and Izolag — and Team BIO — Bio, Nicer and Binho — for the Secret Walls Illustration Battle
Keep posted to the StreetArtNYC Facebook page for more images of the works that have surfaced and continue to do so in Downtown Manhattan through the efforts of the LISA Project.
Photo credits: 1, 3, 5, 6 & 9 Dani Reyes Mozeson; 2 & 4 Tara Murray; 7 Rey Rosa Photography / The LoMan Art Festival and 8 Lois Stavsky
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While in Baltimore earlier this month, I stumbled upon an intriguing medley of murals just a few steps from Station North. I soon discovered that they were sponsored by Section 1, an ambitious urban art project aimed at transforming an adjacent abandoned 3.5-acre site into a huge urban art park with over 70,000 square feet of paintable surfaces. Here are a few more murals I sighted that day, some of which are certain to have been repainted in this open-air revolving canvas.
Baltimore native Nether
New Orleans native Adam Estes
Baltimore-based Adam Stab
Baltimore-based Colombian tattoo artists Kike Castillo and Jesse Kuzniarsk
Note: The first image pictured is a collaborative mural by Werc, Rubin and Billy Mode
Photos by Lois Stavsky
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Opening tomorrow at 23 Meadow Street in East Williamsburg, the three-day All City Art Expo 2015 is an exuberant celebration of NYC’s outdoor art culture. We stopped by yesterday and had the opportunity to speak to Evan Tobias of Cluster Wall who, along with Kevin Michael, curated the exhibit.
This is quite an eclectic collection of art here! What is the concept behind the All City Art Expo?
It is a celebration of all outdoor art. We wanted to showcase a range of artwork — by sticker artists, graffiti writers, street artists and muralists — all in one setting.
And it looks great! How did you find such an ideal setting?
We began looking at spaces awhile back. And Mona Liza Furniture — a huge arena with ample outdoor space — offered to host us.
It couldn’t be more perfect! When did you begin working on this All City Art Expo?
I met Kevin Michael many months ago. We began working together on this project back in the winter.
There are so many artists here representing so many different styles, concepts and genres. How did you choose which ones to include?
When Kevin and I came up with this concept, we wrote up a wish list that included a range of artists from Old School graff guys to ones whose works have surfaced recently on our streets.
What was your greatest challenge in organizing this event?
Handling the logistics behind working with over 100 artists!
What can visitors expect — besides a chance to see and purchase such an extensive selection of artworks?
The Sticker Social Club will join us and visitors will have a chance to “slap and share.” There will be a Black Book Jam on Sunday with many Old School writers in attendance. On both Saturday and Sunday a Groundswell artist will lead mural workshops. And there will be music all weekend by DJ Pumpkin, food by Arrogant Swine, along with drinks, vendors and raffles.
Can you tell us something about your relationship with Groundswell?
We have asked each artist to donate a canvas — an All City Compact Canvas — that will be sold for $150.00. Proceeds will be donated to Groundswell to support the wonderfully transformative projects the organization brings to our communities in its work with youth.
Good luck! It’s all so impressive, and it looks like it will be so much fun!
Images: 1. BK Foxx 2. Dain 3. See One 4. Rob Plater 5. Zimad 6. Taki 183 and Nic 707 7. Art is Trash 8. Rocko
Interview by Lois Stavsky
Photo credits: 1, 3 5-8 Lois Stavsky; 2 & 4 Dani Reyes Mozeson
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This past Saturday, David Gonzalez, award-winning journalist, photographer and co-editor of the New York Times photoblog, Lens, led a group of Instagramers on a walk through Hunts Point, introducing us to works by some of its legendary graffiti artists and muralists. Here are a few images StreetArtNYC captured on Instagram:
Tats Cru with How and Nosm, close-up
Nicer, Tats Cru with Instagramer Sarah Sansom aka catscoffeecreativity seated
Crash, who also shared some Hunts Point history with us, in front of his mural
David Gonzalez leads the way to the Point, Tats Cru‘s headquarters
Artist-at-work at the Point
David Gonzalez (left), Whitney Richardson (center), James Estrin (right) and Kerri MacDonald (top) of The New York Times at the Point
Renowned photojournalist Martha Cooper, also on the walk, shared with us some photos she had taken of the trains in key spots over 30 years ago, and she captured us all here.
Note: You can check out the Instagram hashtag #NYTBronxWalk for more images from Saturday’s tour.
Photos by Lois Stavsky
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Artworks in a range of styles by local, regional and international artists continue to surface along Asbury Park’s waterfront. Here are a few more:
Cope2 and Joe Iurato
B Ready
Note: The first image is by Chilean-German artist Pau
Special thanks to Billy Schon of FreshPaintNYC for sharing these images with us.
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On our recent stopover in Ithaca, New York, we were delighted to discover the rich and varied street art and graffiti — by local, national and international artists — that have found a home there. Here is a small sampling:
Italian artist Alice Pasquini, close-up
Brazilian artist Eder Muniz
Peruvian artist/activist Paloma Abregu Arroyo and Ithaca-based Caleb R Thomas, close-up
Oakland-based artist Desi Mundo
French artist Roti
The legendary Copenhagen-based graffiti writer Bates
Ithaca-based Meal
First image is a collaboration between Eder Muniz and Meal
Special thanks to Meal for introducing us to Ithaca’s rich public art and to Fresh Paint NYC for connecting us.
Photos: 1, 2, 5, 6 & 8 Lois Stavsky; 3, 4 & 7
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Within the last month ArtBattles local champion, Cernesto, and European ArtBattles champ, El Niño de Las Pinturas, have painted — to our delight — huge murals in the East Village and in Soho.
Cern‘s completed mural in the East Village
El Niño de Las Pinturas, completed mural in the East Village
El Niño de Las Pinturas, close-up in the East Village
Cern in Soho
El Niño de Las Pinturas in Soho
Photos: 1-3 & 5-6 Tara Murray; 4 Lois Stavsky
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