A range of curious characters have found a home on the streets of NYC. This is the third of our occasional series:
Nychos and Smithe at the Bushwick Collective

Smithe getting his characters up earlier this year — in Bushwick

Media Unit in Bushwick

Unidentified artist in East Village garden

Craig Anthony Miller aka CAM in Dumbo

Galo in Williamsburg

How & Nosm and R. Nicholas Kuszyk aka R. Robot in Williamsburg

Kingbee, Pose 2 and Chemis in East Harlem

Photos by Dani Reyes Mozeson, Tara Murray & Lois Stavsky
The second in a series of blackbook posts features pages from the blackbook of the wonderfully talented Luis Zimad Lamboy, who began hitting the handball courts of the South Bronx over 30 years ago and is now getting ready — along with James Sexer Rodriguez — for his first Chelsea gallery exhibit.

With tagged trains

With old school character and Jesus Saves tag

Art Junkie

With Thor

Homage to TD4

All images from Zimad’s black book.
Zimad, along with James Sexer Rodriguez, will be exhibiting new pieces next Friday, October 25th, 6-10pm, at Rogue Gallery Chelsea, 526 West 26th Street. Info and interviews with both artists to soon follow.
This is the fifth in an ongoing series featuring the range of faces that surface daily in NYC’s open spaces:
West Coast – based GATS at the Bushwick Collective

Dasic in Bushwick

Lamour Supreme and Lee Trice in Bushwick, close-up of huge mural

Judith Supine in Williamsburg

Meres at 5Pointz

Skullphone in the East Village

Ecuadorian artist Raquel Eschinique at 5Pointz

Epic Uno in Long Island City

Photos of GATS, Lamour Supreme & Lee Trice collab, Judith Supine, Meres, Skullphone and Epic Uno by Dani Reyes Mozeson; photo of Dasic by Tara Murray; photo of Raquel Eschinique by Lois Stavsky