The Bronx Graffiti Art Gallery, a new outdoor public art space located in the courtyard of Gustiamo at 1715 West Farms Road, officially opens tomorrow, Saturday, October 18, 1-5pm. Committed to preserving and celebrating the culture of graffiti in NYC, its first exhibit features works by such Bronx legends as Ces, Kingbee, and Tats Cru, along with artwork by its curators, Lady K Fever and Scratch.
Here’s a sampling of what’s been going down:
Tats Cru‘s Bio, BG 183 and Nicer
Ces
Kingbee
Lady K Fever
BG 183 and Scratch
Hush Tours will provide free transportation from Manhattan to tomorrow’s event. For further information, contact Hush Tours at 212-714-3527.
All photos courtesy Scratch.
The Centre-fuge Public Art Project has transformed the Department of Transportation trailer on First Street and First Avenue into a vibrant rotating open-air gallery. Here are a few more images from Cycle 15 completed last week:
Marthalicia Matarrita at work
Dasic at work
And completed
Mr. Prvrt
Sest2
And here with Sean Gallagher and Miss Zukie
Coordinated by Pebbles Russell and Jonathan Neville, the Centre-Fuge Public Art Project was conceived in 2011 in memory of their friend, Mike Hamm.
Photos by Dani Reyes Mozeson
It’s been busy at the Bushwick Collective with new murals surfacing by local, regional and international artists. Here’s a small sampling of what’s been going down:
Mr. Prvrt — pictured above — with his new mural, and as seen, below, in Sunday’s sun
Bishop 203 to the left of Danielle Mastrion’s long-running Biggie mural
Thievin’ Stephen — at work on Jefferson off Saint Nicholas
And tomorrow — Wednesday evening — at 5pm, Tyson, a dear friend of the Bushwick Collective, is opening his doors to his new restaurant, Arrogant Swine, at 173 Morgan Avenue.
Bushwick Collective founder and curator Joe Ficalora invites the Bushwick Collective fam to head over there. Expect to dine and wine with DJ’s, fire breathers, free tattoos and more surprises, along with a newly completed mural by Sexer.
Final image by Vers; all photos by Dani Reyes Mozeson
UR New York has fashioned an amazing array of works in a range of media for their newest exhibit, Product of UR Environment, that opened this past Thursday evening. On view at Pop International Galleries at 473 West Broadway in SoHo, Mike Baca’s (aka 2Esae) and Fernando Romero’s (aka Ski) pieces on a range of surfaces — from spray cans to found objects to canvases — brilliantly reflect NYC’s distinct grit and the passion that it rouses. Here are a few more:
New York Side Hustle
Brooklyn Boro
Intersection
Close-up from one of a series of fenced-in artworks with paste-ups, stickers, tags and more
And spray cans with a message
Pop International Galleries SoHo location is open Mon to Sat 10am – 7pm and Sun 11am – 6pm.
Photos by Dani Reyes Mozeson
Huge fans of stikman — in all his permutations — we were delighted to discover how active he’s recently been in Little Italy, particularly on Mulberry Street. Here’s a sampling of what we discovered this past week:
And his homage to Dr.Seuss, whose very first children’s book was And To Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street
With an earlier 3-D variation peering from the rear left
And lurking behind bars
Photos 1, 2, 4 and 6 by Lois Stavsky; 3 and 5 by the acutely observant City-as-School intern Robert Verdejo
Particularly impressive about this year’s DUMBO Arts Festival was not only the extraordinary array of art just about everywhere, but the wide extent of community engagement and expression in public space. Here’s a small sampling:
Leaving a brief personal statement
And reading those left by others
Creating artwork with others
Or alone
Signing a Giant Get-Well Card for Humanity
Or just leaving your mark
Sponsored by Two Trees Management Company, this year’s DUMBO Arts Festival serves as a model of community engagement with art in public space.
First image is of art installation, Reflection/Kolonihavehus, forged by Tom Fruin from recycled materials.
All photos by Dani Reyes Mozeson.
For the past few days, we New Yorkers have been treated to a Hot Mess, the wildly expressive aesthetic of Montreal-based Stikki Peaches. Brought to us by Station 16, a Hot Mess, Stikki Peaches‘s first international exhibit, found a transitory home here at 345 Broome Street. Here are a few more images:
One of many skulls
And a somewhat wider view of the transformed Broome Street space
For some insight into it all, you can check out Yoav Litvin‘s interview with Stikki Peaches here.
Photos of artworks by Dani Reyes Mozeson
Currently on view at Dorian Grey Gallery in the East Village is Strada Veloce, an intriguing exhibit largely fusing the divergent — seemingly contradictory — cultures of luxury autos and expressive graffiti. Here are a few more works (Cope2 pictured above):
John “Crash” Matos
Luxury car customizer and furniture designer Joe MAC Lapadula of Martino Auto Concepts
Nick Walker‘s iconic vandal
A luxurious sofa featuring graffiti by Meres One
And — in the window — a reproduction of a Ferrari painted by the legendary John “Crash” Matos
This exhibit continues through next Sunday at 437 East 9th Street between 1st Ave and Ave A. The gallery is open today — Sunday — from 12pm-6pm and Tuesday through Saturday from 12pm-7pm.
Photos 1, 2 and 3 by Dani Reyes Mozeson; photo 4 by City-as-School intern Robert Verdejo; photo 5 by City-as-School intern Tyler Dean Flores and final photo by Lois Stavsky.
