In town this week for the SCOPE art fair, UK artist D*Face is gracing huge walls in Manhattan and Brooklyn with impressive, satirical murals.
In Williamsburg, Brooklyn
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Walls
This past weekend, the famed wall on the Bowery and Houston Street became the outdoor canvas to Retna’s distinct script. Derived from symbols and hieroglyphics of ancient heritages, it also reflects the West Coast’s artist’s graffiti background and sensibility.
Here are some images
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Over 30 years ago, Angel Ortiz aka LA 11 and Keith Haring met on the streets of Manhattan’s Lower East Side. Sharing a similar aesthetic sensibility, they began to partner on dozens of projects. And while Keith Haring went on to achieve enormous recognition, LA ll has been largely overlooked. Recently, though, LA 11’s work has begun to surface in various gallery exhibits and festivals, including a solo exhibit at the Dorian Grey Gallery last spring, and on East Village walls, as well. Earlier this week, we revisited LA 11’s recent mural on East 11th Street. A welcome addition to the streets of NYC’s Lower East Side/East Village, its countless curves, lines and figures distinctly evoke Haring’s signature style.
Here are two images captured from the huge mural:
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While Elbow Toe’s lyrical artwork and poetic statements surface in many NYC neighborhoods, they seem to survive the elements best on the gritty doors and abandoned spaces of Brooklyn’s Red Hook district. Here are a few recent sightings:
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More images of girls — and women — who grace the walls of New York City:
Cake in Red Hook, Brooklyn
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From the playful to the poignant, dozens of girls — and women too — grace the walls of New York City. Here’s a sampling of some that are currently part of NYC’s visual landscape:
Cekis close-up in downtown Brooklyn
Chris Stain close-up in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn
Cro stencil in West Harlem
Dasic portrait in the South Bronx
Elle paste-up in Chelsea
Shiro in Bushwick, Brooklyn
Toofly mural in Williamsburg, Brooklyn
Photos by Street Art NYC, Lenny Collado & Dani Mozeson
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Although the streets of Bushwick almost always attract visiting artists, it is home to many NYC-based artists whose works surface regularly. Among these are Veng, Bast, Ewok, Never & Wane.
Veng’s signature character on Stewart Avenue off Johnson Avenue
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Although Bushwick has evolved into Brooklyn’s largest free open-air gallery, Williamsburg remains home to a range of both sanctioned and unsanctioned street art and graffiti in an array of media and styles. Here’s a sampling of what we came upon yesterday:
Tristan Eaton, close-up
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Not many street artists make their way up to Manhattan’s Washington Heights and Inwood neighborhoods. Ben Eine, Aiko, in collaboration with Indie184, and Peruvian artists Jade and Pesimo, who collaborated with Ket, are among those who did.
Ben Eine
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Long the home to immigrants and working-class folks, Manhattan’s Lower East Side, south of Houston Street, is continually revising itself. Yet, despite the proliferation of modern glass-walled high-risers and seemingly wealthy newcomers, its public spaces and storefronts still remain a canvas for both legal and illegal street art. Here’s a sampling of what we spotted yesterday:
ABOVE on store shutter off Hester Street
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