HEKTAD! Love Will Tear Us Apart, a solo exhibition featuring a delightfully charming array of new works – all on the theme of love — by the prolific NYC-based artist Hektad, continues through Sunday at One Art Space. Executed in his signature style, the works reflect Hektad’s early days as a graffiti writer in his native Bronx, as well as his recent years as a Manhattan-based street and studio artist. The 30″ x 30″ image featured above is aptly titled “Love Spray.” Several more images captured while we visited One Art Space this past Sunday follow:
My Love Is Golden, 2021, 36″ x 36″
Bear Brick, Sculpture, 20″ tall
Another Bear Brick 20″ tall sculpture
My Broken Heart, 2020, 61″ x 72″ (L) and Love of Passion Series – Red, 2021, 24″ x 24″
Wide view
Located at 23 Warren Street, One Art Space is open Monday through Friday from 1 – 6 pm, Saturday and Sunday from 1 – 5 pm. And this Friday — beginning at 6pm — there will be a talk, book launch and signing for the artist’s first book. You can register for the event here.
Photo credits: 1, 2 & 5 Lois Stavsky; 3, 4 & 6 Ana Candelaria
When I visited Soho last Monday, it was hardly the rich wonderland it was several weeks ago. Yet, several new pieces greeted me, and I enjoyed revisiting some of my favorite murals that have, somehow, survived. The image featured above is the work of the delightfully talented artists Adam Fu and Duel RIS. Several more images — a few captured earlier — follow:
The legendary Duel RIS
NYC-based multimedia artist Nick C. Kirk
The prolific NYC graffiti pioneer Hektad — captured 6.29
NYC-based multimedia artist Fabio Esteban
NYC-based multidisciplinary artist Ilina Mustafina
Photos by Lois Stavsky
From the playful to the political, the artworks surfacing daily on Soho’s boarded-up doors and windows delight and provoke. Featured above — in the second of our series documenting Soho’s open-air museum — is Maeve Cahill‘s tribute to the late African-American journalist Ida B. Wells, alongside alluring images by an artist identified as A V. Several more artworks captured earlier this week follow:
NYC-based Nick C. Kirk, stencil of civil rights activist and football quarterback, Colin Kaepernick
NYC-based Urban Russian Doll, Portrait of Breonna Taylor, the black emergency medical technician who had been shot to death in her Louisville, Kentucky home
NYC-based Hektad
Athens, Greece-born, NYC-based Lydia Venieri, “Say Their Names,” Portraits of African-Americans murdered by the police
NYC-based artists Tiger Mackie (L.) and Beelzebaby (R.)
Newark, NJ-based Goomba at work
Photo credits: 1-6 Lois Stavsky and 7 Ana Candelaria
This past weekend the Graffiti Hall of Fame celebrated its 39th anniversary in the famed schoolyard on 106th Street and Park Avenue in East Harlem. Pictured above is a b-boy celebrating Duster‘s vibrant piece. Several more images captured at the event follow:
Bronx-based Tony 164 with spray can in hand
Per One FX with spray can in hand — with Shiro and more to the left of his piece
Lower East Side-based Hektad
Yonkers-native Blame FX
5Pointz Creates founder Meres One
Graffiti Hall of Fame director and veteran writer James Top in front of small segment of his tribute mural to Dondi
Special thanks to Scratch for helping us identify and introducing us to so many legendary writers.
Photo credits: 1-5 and 7 Ana Candelaria; 6 Lois Stavsky
An extraordinary array of found objects have been transformed into intriguing repurposed art for Fat Free Art‘s first annual Bizarre Bazaar. Pictured above is Hektad‘s American graffiti flag looming over Urbanimal‘s table. Here are severel more works from this stylishly imaginative exhibit.
Raphael Gonzalez, An Ciana
Tomaso Albertini, Butterfly Effect, huge segment of framed piece
What Will You Leave Behind, Worth Nothing
Icy and Sot, Let Her Be Free
Bianca Romero, The Muse Says — to the right of Hektad‘s spray cans — and shoes designed by SacSix on shelf below
JPO, 3 of a Kind
Suckadelic, Pussy Grabs Back
The exhibit continues through March 4 at Fat Free Art, 102 Allen Street on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. It is open Tuesday – Saturday 11AM-7PM & Sunday 12PM-5PM,
Photos by Lois Stavsky
Note: Hailed in a range of media from Wide Walls to the Huffington Post and the New York Times, our Street Art NYC App is now available for Android devices here.
With Lamour Supreme’s completed shutter for the legendary Katz’s Deli, the 100 GATES Project has reached its goal of transforming 100 LES shutters into artworks. Produced by the Lower East Side Partnership, the project has been connecting artists with LES businesses through original murals on roll down security gates since the summer of 2014. Beginning today, September 15 through Sunday the 18th, the 100 GATES Project – in coordination with Tiger Beer –invites us to come out for a self-guided walking tour of the gates while enjoying Tiger Beer specials. Pictured above is Lamour Supreme captured at work by travel and street photographer Karin du Maire.
Another of Lamour Supreme, close-up
Houston, corner of Ludlow
And a small sampling of what you will see on your self-guided walking tour:
ASVP, close-up, A. Feibusch Corporation, 27 Allen Street
Hektad, T shirt-express, 15 Orchard Street
For specific information, images and a wonderfully comprehensive documentation of it all, check out 100 GATES Project.
Photo credits: 1-3, Karin du Maire; 4 & 5 Tara Murray
