New Shots from Brooklyn

Specter - Brooklyn, NY - August 2010

Faile - Brooklyn, NY - August 2010

Labrona and Dude Company - Brooklyn, NY - August 2010

Paste-up - Brooklyn, NY - August 2010

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NohJColey in Williamsburg

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Faile in Brooklyn

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Ludo Visits

Parisian street artist, Ludo, is in Brooklyn this week and dropped a bunch of posters and these three big pieces fom his Nature's Revenge project. 

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New Shots from Brooklyn

Lowride on Wythe - Brooklyn, NY - May 2010

Mr. Graceful - Brooklyn, NY - May 2010

Roa Permission Bunny - Brooklyn, NY - May 2010

Single-family homes - Brooklyn, NY - May 2010

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Wellington Court Mural Project

Wellington Court Mural Project is underway in Astoria. Residents got sick of making calls to the city about removing the ever-steady tags covering big neighborhood warehouses. Then Ad Hoc stepped in with all the right resources. Now, the community is evolving into a public art destination in Queens. Nice.

Cern - Queens, New York - May 2010

Flower Guy, Swoon/Gaia, Royce Bannan - Queens, New York - May 2010

Chris Stain - Queens, New York - May 2010

Wellington Court - Queens, New York - May 2010

Wellington Ct - Queens, New York - May 2010

Gaia - Queens, New York - May 2010

M-City - Queens, New York - May 2010

Dan Witz - Queens, New York - May 2010

Ron English - Queens, New York - May 2010

  -- Making a very clever move, this guy jockey'd the project kick-off with nearby paste-ups.

Wellington Court Jockey - Queens, New York - May 2010

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New shots up on Flickr

Look at these and lots more on my flickr page. There's also shots of Swoon and other artists' sculptures curated by Urban Art Projects for their May exhibition in East River Park. 

The middle photo is by German duo Various and Gould. They rule color and collage different body parts together for their small paste-ups.  This March, the pair had a show at Brooklynite Gallery called Make it Fit with Specter.

NEKST on Bowery  -  Manhattan, NY  -  May 2010

Various & Gould  -  Brooklyn, NY  -  May 2010

Marilyn Mouths  -  Brooklyn, NY  -  May 2010

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Dolk in Brooklyn

  Dolk in Willimaburg. The piece was put up with permission and came up just before his show with M-City at Brooklynite Gallery.

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Big roses for Mom in Crown Heights

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Swooning over Swoon

 

Swoon is all the rage and her book release party let it be known. None of her intricately cut pieces were up at Urban Art Projects in Williamsburg tonight, but her work was everywhere. The walls were covered in open books so the work was displayed, in a sense. To get one, you paid at one table, took the book off the wall and went to another table to have it signed.

Meeting Swoon is a thing like meeting ... She is a American international art super star and she sets the standards for the boys who run the show. She's personable with big smiles and seems as if she's the one having the most fun at the party. Her presence is great reminder that art is made, in fact, by people. 

So I bought the book and got it signed for my mom. Her birthday is coming up and she delights in Swoon's dreamy style and renegade personality. A moment of horror almost took me when I told her my mom is big fan. I hoped not to induce Rex Manning disappointment at his one teenage fan in Empire Record's signing line. But all rolled smoothly. She took a sharpie to a whole front page of her book and wrote, "HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY!" Until she remembered it was for her birthday and added the extra salutation facing it. 

The book is striking. One of her figures looks you right in the eye on a glossy red cover, there's an introduction by Jeffrey Deitch and the pages are full of her various projects. Included is a glimpse at her river raft expedition, which is magical to say the least. 

Swoon starts on her next project soon. The artist is bringing a team to Haiti to build Konbit Shelters  for communities ravaged by the earthquake. The structures were originally designed by Iran-born architect and humanitarian Nader Khalili and consist of ninety percent earth. A prototype is on exhibit in Urban Art Projects’ inaugural Williamsburg Waterfront Sculpture Exhibition in East River State Park during the month of May.

Swoon Konbit Shelter  -  Brooklyn, NY  -  May 2010

Swoon Konbit Shelter  -  Brooklyn, NY  -  May 2010

Urban Art Projects Exhibition  -  Brooklyn, NY  -  May 2010

Urban Art Projects Exhibition  -  Brooklyn, NY  -  May 2010

Urban Art Projects Exhibition  -  Brooklyn, NY  -  May 2010

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