Paste-up of iconic muse-girl face in green by Matt Siren in the East Village, downtown New York.
© Ivan Corsa Photo – Street Art Images
Monthly Archives: August 2008
Matt Siren in Blue
Matt Siren in Blue
Olympia Stencil
Olympia Stencil
Olympia Stencil
Olympia Stencil
Neckface Van
Barca Stencils
Barca Cute Teardropper
Frankenstein Stencil
Frankenstein Stencil
Frankenstein Stencil
Peru Ana Faces
Peru Ana Faces
Peru Ana Faces
Peru Ana Faces
Peru Ana Faces
Peru Ana Faces
The Feral Child
The Feral Child
The Building at Spring and Bowery
The massive, squat hulk of a building (originally a bank long, long ago and now a private property) at the corner of The Bowery and Spring Street in Nolita / Lower East Side, in downtown New York City, is a kind of open canvas or shrine to street art and graff in much the same way that another building (the famous 11 Spring Street or “Candle” building) at the opposite end of the block at Spring and Elizabeth streets was before it was renovated and turned into multi-million-dollar luxury residences. This image shows the side of the Bowery-Spring building that faces Spring Street. Note the spaces where the windows have been covered and sealed.
© Ivan Corsa Photo – Street Art Images
The Yellow and The Green
The Yellow and The Green
SIL
SIL
SIL
Street Art and U.S. Presidential Race 2008
There was an illuminating
article this past weekend in the Los Angeles Times about the
role street art is playing in the 2008 U.S. presidential race. One obvious example is the wheatpaste posters, stickers and paintings of Obama by street art pioneer Shepard Fairey (of Obey / Giant Has a Posse and Swindle Magazine fame). Fairey’s images of Obama with the word “Hope” have been appearing all over the world since the primaries campaign season earlier this year. Barack Obama personally contacted Fairey and thanked him for the street art work in support of the candidate, and Fairey is now involved in a project with the Obama “08 campaign and MoveOn.org. The L.A. Times article further connects the dots between several other artists and street art (or “graffiti art”) and politics this year, also pointing out how examples of grassroots street art has been in favor of Obama and not his opponent John McCain.
