Although dozens of boards that have served as canvases for a diverse range of artworks are no longer part of Soho’s visual landscape, the neighborhood remains my current favorite destination for street art. The image featured above was created by the talented, NYC-based writer and painter Gerry Vewer. Several more images — some discovered earlier this week and others captured within the last month — follow:
West Chester, PA-born, NYC-based Maeve Cahill’s homage to Black inventors, who’ve been largely “written out of history”
Documentarian Middlemen Doc and NY-based filmmaker and multidisciplinary artist Rochelle Leanne to the left of the widely-posted “Black Lives Matter” image
Artist and self-described cosmic anthropologist Loren Crea Abbate to the left of multidisciplinary artist Beatriz Ramos
Multidisciplinary artist and designer K O FF EE
Visual artist and poet Android Oi in collaboration with Brooklyn-based MaryKathryn Medlock — to the right of NYC-based UNLOK
To be continued next week!
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
As the the coronavirus pandemic continues to impact all of our lives, it has, also, begun to make a presence on NYC streets. Pictured above is the work of Jilly Ballistic — who emerged from the underground to address us — in collaboration with Adrian Wilson. Several more images sparked by the current pandemic follow:
The Act of Love, as seen in Soho
crkshnk pasted in Freemans Alley
Jason Naylor on the Lower East Side
Sara Erenthal on a repurposed drawer in Flatbush, Brooklyn
Photo credits: 1 & 4 Ana Candelaria; 2 & 3 Lois Stavsky 5 Sara Erenthal
