The East Village was the place to be this past weekend as the Centre-Fuge Public Art Project was at it again — transforming a once-abandoned trailer into a masterpiece of urban art. Here are some images from Cycle 5 captured over the weekend on East First Street off First Avenue:
Brooklyn-based ND’A at work
Completed piece with OverUnder
NYC’s prolific Chris and Veng, RWK at work
Close-up
Iranian brothers Icy & Sot at work
Close-up from completed piece
Baltimore-native Billy Mode
The legendary Cost and Brooklyn-based Enx at work
Completed piece
Brooklyn-based Jose-Aurelio Baez & Ponce, Puerto Rico native Noidone at work
NYC native See One
Photos by Lenny Collado, Tara Murray and City-as-School intern Hallie Lederer
This is the fifth in a series of posts of images of girls — and women — who grace New York City’s walls:
The legendary Chilean artist Cekis in Bushwick, Brooklyn
Queens native Cern at Welling Court in Astoria, Queens More after the jump!
Close to a dozen masters of styles and letters — representing both the East and West coasts — hit the walls in Bushwick this past weekend. Here are a few images:
Queens-based Hoacs
More after the jump!
This is the second in a series of ongoing posts featuring the diverse range of stylish trucks and vans that strike NYC streets:
The masterful Curve in Manhattan
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This is the first in a series of the wide array of art — from first-rate stickers to iconic installations — that can be seen on and from the Williamsburg Bridge:
Swamp Donkey aka Swampy as seen from the Williamsburg Bridge
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Under your leadership 5Pointz has evolved into an internationally acclaimed aerosol art Mecca. When did you first become involved in managing this space? And how did it happen?
It was back in 2002. I simply asked the landlord, Jerry Wolkoff, if I could, as the space had been neglected. And he agreed. He told me, in fact, that he loves graffiti. More after the jump!
This is the fourth in an occasional series of images of girls — and women — who grace New York City’s walls:
Celso González of Puerto Rico in Bushwick, Brooklyn
More after the jump!
A native of Binghamton, New York, noted sculptor John Ahearn gained recognition in the 80’s for his remarkably life-like, colorful casts of residents of the South Bronx — the community in which he chose to live and work. We recently sighted two of his astonishing installations — fashioned in collaboration with Rigoberto Torres — on the exterior walls of two South Bronx buildings. A homage to the community, these pieces transform both the buildings and their surrounding landscape into a celebration of local life. More after the jump!
Punctuating some of NYC’s dreariest industrial blocks in the Hunts Point section of the Bronx is an array of vibrant graffiti walls. Here’s a sampling of these bold outdoor canvasses in a South Bronx district that attracts not only local writers, but also visitors to Tats Cru’s headquarters from across the globe:
West Coast-based Jurne, close-up
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