When the plywood returned to the streets of Soho shortly before the November presidential election, the artists got busy again. What a treat for us street art lovers! The image pictured above is the work of the increasingly prolific NYC-based Pure Genius. A small sampling of what’s been happening on the streets of Soho follows:
Brooklyn-based Manuel Alejandro Pulla aka The Creator with a call to support small businesses
Eyes that Love Art brings his mixed-media aesthetic to Grand Street plywood
Konstance Patton‘s signature lady with Amir Diop‘s political art to her right
Konstance Patton with a message; Sule on the door to her right and Light Noise above them both
Two short-lived works by One Rad Latina in her signature style
One of several collaborative works by Calicho and Jeff Rose King
Photo credits: 1, 4 & 6 Lois Stavsky; 2, 3, 5 & 7 Ana Candelaria;
Celebrating five years of Underhill Walls — the model community art project spearheaded and curated by Jeff Beler — “What’s Your Sign?” recently surfaced at the corner of Underhill Avenue and Saint Johns Place. Featured above is Jeff Beler — standing to the left of his mural, adjacent to BLJ ‘s . Several more images from “What’s Your Sign?” follow:
North Carolina / NYC-based BLJ creates a passionate, assertive Aries, the ram — the first astrological sign in the Zodiac
Colombian artist Calicho Arevalo‘s Sagittarius and Savior Elmundo‘s Scorpio
Paulie Nassar designs an alluring Gemini
Visual artist and producer Megan Watters honors Ruth Bader Ginsburg with an elegantly balanced Libra
Brooklyn-based Justin Winslow fashions a mesmerizingly playful Aquarius
And Brooklyn-based Subway Doodle adds a bit of playful sarcasm
Photos of images by Lois Stavsky
Curated and managed by Prospect Heights resident Jeff Beler, Underhill Walls, a model community-based mural art project, always delights. Earlier this month, while the streets were still somewhat occupied, I visited Underhill Walls‘ current installation, where over a dozen artists refashioned the covers of some of their favorite books. Featured above is the wonderfully talented Subway Doodle‘s rendition of Maurice Sendak’s classic, Where the Wild Things Are. Several more images that I captured follow:
Zero Productivity refashions A A Milne’s “Winnie the Pooh” with Paolo Tolentino‘s rendition of Sara Gruen’s “Water for Elephants” to its right
Gotham Pro Arts Academy students in collaboration with Jeff Beler with some additional assistance from Paulie Nassar
Jaima does Dr. Seuss’s “Horton Hears a Who!”
Colombian artist Calicho Arevalo designs the Herman Melville classic “Moby Dick”
Manhattan-based artist and art teacher Marivel Mejia does Arthur Laurents’ “West Side Story”
Justin Winslow does Armistead Maupin’s “Tales of the City”
And Paulie Nassar designs the Harper Lee classic “To Kill a Mockingbird”
Underhill Walls is located at the corner of St. Johns Place and Underhill Avenue in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn
Photos by Lois Stavsky
