Bringing a touch of the 1920’s to First Street Green Art Park on Manhattan’s Lower East Side, the prolific Brooklyn-based muralist Lexi Bella painted the image featured above last month on the occasion of FSG’s 2nd annual New Year New Murals & Clothing Drive. What follows are several more faces fashioned by artists in NYC open spaces that I’ve encountered in recent meanderings around the city:
Moscow-born, NYC-based Urban Russian Doll in Manhattan’s Chinatown
Brooklyn-based self-taught Haitian American artist Alan Aine in Park Slope, Brooklyn
Bronx-native Andre Trenier in East Harlem with the 2021 Grandscale Mural Project
British-Israeli artist Solomon Souza in Crown Heights, Brooklyn
Photos: Lois Stavsky
For the past several years, the corner of 43rd Avenue & 38th Street in Sunnyside Queens — penned The Great Wall of Savas — has hosted a varied range of intriguing artworks. The mural pictured above was recently painted by NYC-based Argentine artist Sonni in dedication to his new wife. Several more images of mural art captured in this location follow:
Long Island-based Phetus
Manhattan-based My Life in Yellow
Moscow-born, NYC-based Urban Russian Doll
NYC-based Dirk
NYC-based Soho Renaissance Factory artist Konstance Patton
Lima, Peru-based Monks
Now a twin of the Akumal Arts Festival walls, each time an Akumal artist gets up at Savas, Thirdrail Art, the project’s curator, sends a donation to Akumal to support the local community.
Photo credit: Lois Stavsky
The rotating walls that surface in the East Village and in Chinatown — under the curatorial direction of street art aficionado and photographer Ben L. — feature some of NYC’s most delightfully expressive murals. Largely painted by local artists, the walls occasionally showcase the talents of those visiting from abroad, as well. The image featured above is the work of Beijing-born, Brooklyn-based artist and Thrive Collective member, Peach Tao. Several more murals currently on view at East 2nd Street off First Avenue follow:
Lima, Peru-based Monks
Argentine-American artist Ramiro Davaro-Comas in collaboration with Outer Source on the First Ave. Laundry Center shutter
Moscow-born, NYC-based Urban Russian Doll
New York-based photorealistic muralist BKFoxx
NYC-based Early Riser
Photo credits: 1-3, 5 & 6 Lois Stavsky; 4 Sara C Mozeson
From the playful to the political, the artworks surfacing daily on Soho’s boarded-up doors and windows delight and provoke. Featured above — in the second of our series documenting Soho’s open-air museum — is Maeve Cahill‘s tribute to the late African-American journalist Ida B. Wells, alongside alluring images by an artist identified as A V. Several more artworks captured earlier this week follow:
NYC-based Nick C. Kirk, stencil of civil rights activist and football quarterback, Colin Kaepernick
NYC-based Urban Russian Doll, Portrait of Breonna Taylor, the black emergency medical technician who had been shot to death in her Louisville, Kentucky home
NYC-based Hektad
Athens, Greece-born, NYC-based Lydia Venieri, “Say Their Names,” Portraits of African-Americans murdered by the police
NYC-based artists Tiger Mackie (L.) and Beelzebaby (R.)
Newark, NJ-based Goomba at work
Photo credits: 1-6 Lois Stavsky and 7 Ana Candelaria
