Yesterday afternoon, James Top Productions brought live painting, art vendors and a host of performances to Jackie Robinson Park in West Harlem. Despite the intermittent rain, the infectious positive energy was palatable from blocks away. Featured above is Queens-based writer and illustrator Topaz, standing alongside his iconic character.
Veteran graffiti artist and painter Wore One alongside his masterly-fashioned hip-hop character
Moving solo to the beats in front of King Bee’s iconic bee
The prolific, gifted New Jersey-based artist Will Power and his portrait of the late “King of Style” Case 2 aka Kase2
And just hanging–as the day wraps up: Vision, Will Power, Eric Orr and Jerry Maze
Photos: Lois Stavsky
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
The 15th edition of the NYC Graffiti Hall of Fame, presented by Joey TDS and James Top, was launched this past weekend inside the famed East Harlem schoolyard on 106th Street and Park Avenue. Pictured above is by French graffiti artist Pro176. Here are several more artworks captured yesterday:
Rhode Island-based PFunk at work
Local writer Rath
New York City-based graffiti legend Quik
NYC-based, Stockholm native Scratch, the sole female to paint this year!
NYC-based Hops1
NYC-based Poet
Keep posted to our Facebook page for more images of new Graffiti Hall of Fame murals.
Photos by Lois Stavsky
Note: Hailed in a range of media from the Huffington Post to the New York Times, our Street Art NYC App is now available for Android devices here.
A visual ode to the late Wayne Roberts aka the legendary Stay High can be seen for the next four days at White Rabbit on East Houston Street. Presented by James Top Productions and Frank 151, The Stay High Memorial Show brings together an extraordinary array of artists from Stay High’s contemporaries to those for whom he paved the way.
Here are a few more images:
Duro
Slone
The Royal Kingbee, close-up
Flint 707
Portrait of Stay High by Danielle Mastrion; photos by Daniel Mozeson and Lois Stavsky
