There are few bare surfaces in the abandoned naval base in Bywater, New Orleans. Everything — from tags and throw-ups to sophisticated pieces — covers its exterior, interior and rooftops. Featured above is the work of New Orleans-based Reader, You Go Girl, along with others. What follows is a selection of images I captured there last week:
Read aka Reader, OYE, Booker, Bones and more
Half Dead & more
Charles
Heam
Tard
Tubman & more
Photos by Lois Stavsky
The streets of New Orleans — particularly those in the Marigny and the Bywater neighborhoods — teem with a wide range of public art. Pictured above is a mural painted by New Orleans-based visual artist and activist, Brandan Bmike Odums. Several other images captured on my recent visit to NOLA follow:
The remarkable Reader aka Booker, OYE & more — one of his dozens of pieces in NOLA
The legendary New Orleans-based You Go Girl aka Hugo Gyrl in a delicate vein
New Orleans-based Mr Balloon Hands
Seattle-based Craig Cundiff with the NOLA Mural Project
New Orleans-based Havana-born artist Ramiro Diaz
You Go Girl and Reader collaboration
Photos: 1-6 Lois Stavsky; 7 Sara Erenthal
Coming next: the graffiti outside and inside and on the rooftops of the abandoned Bywater naval base
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.