Founded and curated by the veteran Bronx writer WEN COD, Boone Avenue Walls now brings an alluring array of vibrant graffiti and mural art by local, national and international artists to two locations in the Bronx. This first of a two-part post focuses on the walls that have surfaced along Boone Avenue during its recent Beautification and Artists Festival.
Featured above is Philly-based, Spanish artist Saoka at work. Several more images of both artworks in progress and completed murals follow:
Philly-based, Spanish artist Imse captured at work
BedStuy Walls founder and curator Miki Mu
Veteran uptown writer Kron
Sao Paulo-based muralist and tattoo artist Bits PMA
The legendary Tats Cru member BG 183
Bronx-based Sebar7 in collaboration with Oslo, Norway-based artist Mucho
Photos by Sara C Mozeson and Lois Stavsky
Despite the many changes in Philly’s West Kensington neighborhood, the walls along North 5th & Cecil B Moore continue to host a huge range of striking, first-rate graffiti murals. The image pictured above is the work of the gifted Philly-based Colombian artist Busta. Three more adjacent murals — all on the theme of the greek myth “Jason and the Argonauts” — follow:
Veteran graffiti writer Sew
Philly-based Spanish artist Saoka
Philly-based Spanish artist Imse
And a newly-fashioned nearby wall by Philly graffiti stylist Esteme
Photos: Lois Stavsky
Bold and engaging, the murals that surface in Trenton, New Jersey are largely site-specific, many paying homage to those who call Trenton and its neighboring towns home. The image featured above — painted collaboratively in 2014 by Will Kasso, Luvonesta, Andre Trenier and Lank — looms large over a colorful playground, a short distance from the Trenton Transit Center. Several more artworks, far more recent, captured earlier this week on my first visit to Trenton follow:
Trenton-based legendary artist Leon Rainbow — two of four murals paying homage to frontline workers
Close-up
Trenton artist Dean ‘Ras’ Innocenzi pays homage to the late New Jersey skateboarder Brendan Wilkie — one of several murals featured in the 2020 “Murals on Front Street” project, coordinated by Leon Rainbow
Philly-based Spanish artists Saoka and Imse for “Murals on Front Street”
Austin, Texas-based masterly graffiti writer Sloke One for “Murals on Front Street”
And Luvonesta and Lank bringing it inside to Trenton’s Starbucks, close-up from huge mural
Photos by Lois Stavsky
Special thanks to James J Kelewae for introducing me to the streets of Downtown Trenton
Managed and curated for over 20 years by the talented and dedicated Kensington resident Christian Rodriguez aka Tameartz, the walls along North 5th Street & Cecil B Moore Street consistently host stylishly striking graffiti fashioned by local, national and international artists. The image featured above was painted by Philly-based Colombian artist Busta. Several more images captured while visiting Philly last month follow:
Spanish artist Saoka
Spanish artist Imse
NYC-based Adam Fu and Los Angeles-based Yanoe
And a BODE-inspired production fashioned by TNS members Ant5, Monk, Cash88 and Tameartz — with background and characters by Cash88 and Tameartz — captured at dusk
Also at this site at the relatively new community park, Sunflower Philly, is an amazing array of collaborative works created by youth, many in collaboration with the artists featured here.
Photo credits: 1, 2 & 6 Sara C Mozeson; 3-5 & 7 Lois Stavsky
Always a treasure trove of first-rate graffiti, North Philly’s 5th Street and Cecil B Moore, along with its immediate surroundings, has expanded since my last visit. There are now additional walls — curated by Tameartz — in the new performance and event venue, Sunflower Philly. Featured above is the work of Philly-based Saoka DRR with Imse DBR to his right. What follows are several more murals that I came upon last week in the general location:
Busta, Imse, Desilmula, Michael Pistash and Tameartz
Seoz
Rams
Medic
Alex25 and Veer
Easy B2B
Photos by Lois Stavsky
