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
Note: Hailed in a range of media from WideWalls to the Huffington Post to the New York Times, our Street Art NYC App is now available for Android devices here.
Opening this evening from 6-9pm at the Hi-Arts Gallery on 304 East 100th Street is JR’s Inside Out Mi Gente/ Oyáte kiŋ Art Project — focusing on and uniting two communities: NYC’s East Harlem and South Dakota’s Pine Ridge Reservation. Here are a few images captured yesterday while visiting the exhibit, curated by Carlos Mare:
Closer-up
And more
And outside with murals by Alice Mizrachi and Part One
Photos by Dani Reyes Mozeson
Presented by No Longer Empty in partnership with Broadway Housing Communities, If You Build It features a range of artwork in different media by more than twenty local, national, and international artists. Located at 155th Street and St. Nicholas Avenue in Sugar Hill on a site designed by architect David Adjaye, the exhibit — along with an impressive array of events and programs — continues through August 10. Here is a sampling of the artworks that can be seen on the site’s grounds and in future apartments:
Rául Ayala, A Blaze of Glory
Moses Ros-Suárez, seated on sculpture he fashioned — one of four structural models of bridges
Carlos Mare aka Mare139, 8th FreeStyle Archityper
Radcliffe Bailey, From the Cabinet: Fire Music — fashioned with recycled piano keys
Scherezade García, Cathedral/Catedral, made up of stacked inner tubes/life savers ‘dipped’ in gold paint “so as to resemble a temporary alter or monument to immigrants and their aspirations”
Brendan Jamison and Mark Revels, Sugar Metropolis — composed with half a million sugar cubes
The exhibit is open Thursday–Friday 3–7pm & Saturday–Sunday 1–6pm & Wednesday by appointment.
Photo of Rául Ayala by Lois Stavsky; all others by Dani Reyes Mozeson
