Few NYC walls successfully fuse as many distinct styles and sensibilities as those up in the Bronx. Among these is the huge wall on Boone Avenue in the West Farms district. East meets West; graffiti couples with street art and comic art merges with folk art. Here are a few images:
Shiro, Deem, Rubin415, King Bee, Logek & Obey
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While Elbow Toe’s lyrical artwork and poetic statements surface in many NYC neighborhoods, they seem to survive the elements best on the gritty doors and abandoned spaces of Brooklyn’s Red Hook district. Here are a few recent sightings:
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More images of girls — and women — who grace the walls of New York City:
Cake in Red Hook, Brooklyn
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From the playful to the poignant, dozens of girls — and women too — grace the walls of New York City. Here’s a sampling of some that are currently part of NYC’s visual landscape:
Cekis close-up in downtown Brooklyn
Chris Stain close-up in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn
Cro stencil in West Harlem
Dasic portrait in the South Bronx
Elle paste-up in Chelsea
Shiro in Bushwick, Brooklyn
Toofly mural in Williamsburg, Brooklyn
Photos by Street Art NYC, Lenny Collado & Dani Mozeson
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Although the streets of Bushwick almost always attract visiting artists, it is home to many NYC-based artists whose works surface regularly. Among these are Veng, Bast, Ewok, Never & Wane.
Veng’s signature character on Stewart Avenue off Johnson Avenue
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Not many street artists make their way up to Manhattan’s Washington Heights and Inwood neighborhoods. Ben Eine, Aiko, in collaboration with Indie184, and Peruvian artists Jade and Pesimo, who collaborated with Ket, are among those who did.
Ben Eine
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Long the home to immigrants and working-class folks, Manhattan’s Lower East Side, south of Houston Street, is continually revising itself. Yet, despite the proliferation of modern glass-walled high-risers and seemingly wealthy newcomers, its public spaces and storefronts still remain a canvas for both legal and illegal street art. Here’s a sampling of what we spotted yesterday:
ABOVE on store shutter off Hester Street
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Within the same 10-block radius of Bushwick’s vibrant graffiti walls are some of NYC’s most expressive street art pieces. While many are fashioned by locals, others are the work of artists from abroad who leave their mark on Bushwick’s walls. These range from C215’s 2009 seductive stencils – some of which we’ve only recently uncovered — to huge pieces by ROA on some of Bushwick’s grittier walls.
C215
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The walls of Bushwick, Brooklyn — off the L train’s Morgan Avenue and Jefferson Street stops — have become a canvas not only for the most innovative street art to surface in NYC, but also for some of its freshest writing styles.
Deem and Rubin415
Rubin415
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Faile’s vibrant, bold mural on the corner of the Bowery and Houston Street, installed in late October, continues to capture passersby daily. A few blocks south at Opera Gallery NY, some of their small work — ranging from simple portraits to riveting collages — can be seen in the group exhibit Making Faces through February 19th.
On the Bowery and Houston, installation close-up, fall 2011
At Opera Gallery NY
photos by Dani Mozeson & Tara Murray
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