On October 7, 2023, 27-year-old Haifa-based art student and graffiti writer Inbar “Pink” Haiman aka The Pink Raven went down to the Nova Music Festival in southern Israel to serve as a volunteer. While there, she was kidnapped — along with dozens more partygoers — by Hamas terrorists riding motorcycles and armed with knives. On December 16, her family was informed that she was dead and that her body was still in Gaza. Approximately two weeks later, a huge group of artists celebrated her all-too-brief life in a painting session in Tel Aviv.
The image featured above is a portrait of Inbar painted by the hugely talented Dudi Shoval. Several more images that we captured while visiting the site last month follow:
Stylemaster Logikal
Street artist and painter Tru Amta
Graffiti writer and muralist Hami Art
The distinctly gifted Solomon Souza
Multidisciplinary artist Aviva Charles aka Ladybug Art
Artist, arts educator and tour guide extraordinaire Dina Segev
Unidentified artist
Photo credits: 1, 3, 5, 7, 8 Lois Stavsky; 2 & 6 Sara Ching Mozeson
Bringing a touch of the 1920’s to First Street Green Art Park on Manhattan’s Lower East Side, the prolific Brooklyn-based muralist Lexi Bella painted the image featured above last month on the occasion of FSG’s 2nd annual New Year New Murals & Clothing Drive. What follows are several more faces fashioned by artists in NYC open spaces that I’ve encountered in recent meanderings around the city:
Moscow-born, NYC-based Urban Russian Doll in Manhattan’s Chinatown
Brooklyn-based self-taught Haitian American artist Alan Aine in Park Slope, Brooklyn
Bronx-native Andre Trenier in East Harlem with the 2021 Grandscale Mural Project
British-Israeli artist Solomon Souza in Crown Heights, Brooklyn
Photos: Lois Stavsky
The soulful face pictured above is the work of the young Tel Aviv-based UK native Solomon Souza. Several more images of faces that recently greeted me in Jerusalem follow:
Also by Solomon Souza, on a lighter note:
A decade-old stencil in Jerusalem’s German Colony
A series of stenciled faces in Jerusalem’s Talpiot neighborhood
Closer up
Jerusalem-based Signer AFK
Photos by Lois Stavsky
Note: Hailed in a range of media from WideWalls to the Huffington Post to the New York Times, our Street Art NYC App is now available for Android devices here.
Whereas street art makes its way onto a range of public surfaces in Tel Aviv, it is far less prevalent in Jerusalem. But hidden alleyways and spaces off the main roads, along with Mahane Yehuda — Jerusalem’s marketplace — host a range of intriguing pieces. The image pictured above was fashioned by Haifa native Maayan Fogel. Several more images I recently encountered while wandering the streets of West Jerusalem follow:
The itinerant Jerusalem-based Elna of Brothers of Light
Brazilian artist Manoel Quiterio
The prolific British-Israeli muralist Solomon Souza
Solomon Souza‘s rendition of Amar’e Stoudemire — as seen at the Mahane Yehuda Marketplace, as it was closing
Random installation in the art-friendly Nachlaot neighborhood
Photos by Lois Stavsky
Note: Hailed in a range of media from WideWalls to the Huffington Post to the New York Times, our Street Art NYC App is now available for Android devices here.
