I came across Rebecca Adams‘ work on BOOOOOOM! this week. And Since I haven’t lifted anything from that site in a while, I thought I would share. The dramatic lighting in these quasi-photo realistic paintings, coupled with the monochromatic format really does it for me. See more here.
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Some really good new stuff has gone up in the city in the past week. I took the opportunity yesterday to snap some of it. One of my favorites, is the Invader piece above. I also included a shot of the finished Hurricane Sandy tribute piece below, for which Swoon contributed the central figure.
And…. some additional invader pieces.
As an FYI, Animal posted the locations of each of the Invaders, over here.
The funny part about this, is that I walked right past this spot an hour before when I was snapping the new Swoon piece down the block. Anyway, here is a view from across Houston Street, of Banksy’s Reaper installation. Since I had my cam with me, I shot this quick vid. When we first started observing, the reaper in the bumper car was driving to the soundtrack of a live accordion player. Then, smoke machines went on, and so did the track “baby don’t fear the reaper.” That is the segment in the video below.
With only a week left in the month of October, and after yesterday’s efforts were apparently thwarted by “police activity,” Banksy put up this gem today. It is definitely my favorite, to date, from the “Better Out Than In” campaign that the artist has been waging on the City of New York. Not only is it a beautiful piece, but the context is everything. It is located on one of the roll up doors at Larry Flint’s Hustler Club.
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Swoon is currently working on a Hurricane Sandy themed mural, on the famous Houston and Bowery. She is one of my all time faves. Photo courtesy of Animal.
I’m seriously digging this new piece in Austria by Bezt (from Etam Cru). Especially, I love the subtlety of the fish.
In other news, Banksy put up a pretty dramatic piece in the LES today. It is my favorite so far, from his ‘better out than in’ campaign. The funny part is that he took down a Hot Tea piece that used to be on that gate. What is also funny, is that I snapped a photo in that same alley earlier this year.
So, everyone has probably heard now that Banksy is in town. I wasn’t able to see this piece that went up yesterday. It was buffed pretty quickly. Actually, Animal has the full story. Anyway, the piece above went up this morning about 5 blocks away, and I was able to snap these images. I’m excited to see what he has lined up next for the “Better out than in” campaign.
I feel like I have reposted enough stuff from Boooooom! lately, that I may as well just stream Jeff’s RSS right into this page hahahaha. Anyway, I am really into these drawings and painting by Mandy Tsung. Check out some more of Her work over here.
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I poached this little gem from Wooster, this morning. I seriously love this kind of stuff.
SWARM NYC from Tasha Lewis on Vimeo.
“Better out than in” is the clever title of the new outdoor Banksy piece that recently appeared in LA.
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Some fashion. Some art, etc..
I snapped the above shot on Saturday night on Spring St. The artist is Hot Tea. I’m a huge fan of his yarn spun creations. One of the first Hot Tea pieces that I ever saw was the one below, almost exactly a year ago. It was up for less than a week before someone destroyed it. Hoping that the one above sticks around for a bit longer.
I spent some time cycling over the weekend. I wanted to peep the new murals that went up in BK in connection with the Wooster Collective 10 Exhibit. They were all good. This Shepard Fairey piece was my favorite, though. And unfortunately, I snapped my favorite shot of it (with Trixie below) with my phone, and not a real camera. If you want to check out the work in person, Wooster posted a guide to the locations of all of the murals, here. Also, check out this.
Complex recently shot a video of my favorite Brazilian street art duo, Os Gemeos “fazendo desenhos” in their studio. It is similar to a video that the artists posted on their blog called “um dia de chuva.” This one is subtitled. Check it, below–
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Leigh Viner recently posted on her blog this illustration that she created of Fashion Toast‘s Rumi Neely. Viner perfectly captured the facial expression that Rumi does in about 90% of the images on FT. I’m into it.
Why not paint buck’s heads onto the bodies of bucksome women? A-Raj could have come up with a much better pun than that. Hey, at least I gave it a shot. I’m really digging this set by Emily Burns, wherein she paints the heads of big game animals onto pin-up style humans. Check out the rest of the set on BOOOOOOM!.
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One of my favorite street art blogs, Wooster Collective, celebrated its 10th year this week with a group exhibit at Jonathan Levine Gallery. The exhibit is featuring work from some of my favorite contemporary artists, some of which were on hand at the event held this week at Levine’s Pop up gallery on 22nd Street in Chelsea (525 west 22nd St.). It opens to the public tonight, and runs through August 24th. It is definitely worth checking out.
Here are a few more looks.
