When the plywood returned to the streets of Soho shortly before the November presidential election, the artists got busy again. What a treat for us street art lovers! The image pictured above is the work of the increasingly prolific NYC-based Pure Genius. A small sampling of what’s been happening on the streets of Soho follows:
Brooklyn-based Manuel Alejandro Pulla aka The Creator with a call to support small businesses
Eyes that Love Art brings his mixed-media aesthetic to Grand Street plywood
Konstance Patton‘s signature lady with Amir Diop‘s political art to her right
Konstance Patton with a message; Sule on the door to her right and Light Noise above them both
Two short-lived works by One Rad Latina in her signature style
One of several collaborative works by Calicho and Jeff Rose King
Photo credits: 1, 4 & 6 Lois Stavsky; 2, 3, 5 & 7 Ana Candelaria;
While many of the original artworks that had surfaced on the boarded-up stores in Soho are no longer on view, others continue to emerge. Featured above are works by NYC-based politically-conscious artist Sule and Brooklyn-based artist Manuel Alejandro Pulla. What follows are several more artworks I came upon earlier this week, along with a few captured within the past month.
Also by Sule, “My Color Is Not a Crime”
Artist/activist Amir Diop in collaboration with Eyes That Love Art, “Take Me to a Place Where I Won’t Be Judged by My Weight, I Won’t Be Labeled as a Nerd– Where Black Lives Matter”
NYC-based multidisciplinary artist DVNNY, “Let Us Live,” — a plea from the transgender community
Jordanian-American multidisciplinary artist Ridikkuluz pays homage to the 30–year-old Egyptian LGBTQ activist Sarah Hegazi — arrested and tortured in Cairo for raising the LGBT flag at a concert — who died last month by suicide while living in exile in Canada — to the left of LEXXX‘s plea to “Free the Ninos”
Isabelle with Vincent Van Gogh quote: “Art is to Console Those Who Are Broken by Life”
Brooklyn-based Czech artist Irena Kenny, “We are the change that we seek.”
To be continued next week!
Photo credits: 1, 3 – 7 Lois Stavsky; 2 Sara Ching Mozeson
