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December 20, 2007Bast Robot - New York City
Well-worn classic wheatpaste by Brooklyn-based artist Bast in downtown Manhattan, New York City.
Photography gear: Canon PowerShot SD 630 ELPH digital camera November 16, 2007Brooklyn UFO Graff on Truck, Midtown - 3
© Ivan Corsa Photo - Street Art Photos Photo gear: Canon PowerShot SD 630 ELPH digital camera Brooklyn UFO Graff on Truck, Midtown - 2
© Ivan Corsa Photo - Street Art Photos Photo gear: Canon PowerShot SD 630 ELPH digital camera Brooklyn UFO Graff on Truck, Midtown - 1
© Ivan Corsa Photo - Street Art Photos Photo gear: Canon PowerShot SD 630 ELPH digital camera November 14, 2007Video: Adhoc Interview with SkewvilleGreat little interview clip with Skewville. June 08, 2007The Story of "The Splasher"
Since late autumn 2006, around the time of the final, great explosion of street art at 11 Spring St. in Nolita, in downtown New York City, we started to notice that a lot of work by some well-known street artists was suddenly being defaced with splashes of paint. Works by Swoon, Shepard Fairey, Faile and many others were attacked with bright colors of paint that appeared to have been intentionally splashed on to the work. The paint never covered the pieces completely -- the underlying art was always identifiable. The mysterious person(s) defacing the art was dubbed "The Splasher." The atttacks continued through the winter and spring months that followed. Only recently have we noticed that "The Splasher" has slowed down.
New York Magazine chronicles and investigates the mystery in
a recent article. The irony of the Splasher's attacks is that they amount to a form of vandalism upon vandalism itself. Most street art is destruction of property in the eyes of the law. The paint splashes can also, as some have pointed out, be construed as an act of art in and of itself, as a crude, shocking commentary upon the street art it targets.
Ivan Corsa Photo Photo gear: Canon PowerShot SD 630 ELPH digital camera January 16, 2006Brooklyn: "You Don't Know Me" Graff
More in our Brooklyn graphica series. Here is a tag toward the lower-rent end of the Park Slope neighborhood, now the center of an anguished New Yorker real-estate condo- and apartment-buying frenzy. It's increasingly rare to see graff in Park Slope these days with all the gentrification that has swept the nabe during the past decade. Ivan Corsa Photo January 10, 2006Brooklyn Street Art: Sharks on the Slope 1
Here's another shot, from another angle, of the shark stencils near the 7th Ave. subway stop in Park Slope, Brooklyn, NYC Background Ivan Corsa Photo April 23, 2005Shuttlecock Paste-up Way Downtown
A wheat-paste graphic of a badminton shuttlecock (that's "birdie" in American English) in downtown NYC, somewhere on a wall amid the luxury lofts and apartments of Nolita and Soho. THe graphic is a poster for the "Badassminton" event in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Ivan Corsa Photo March 29, 2005Williamsburg Rock Mural
This huge mural in Williamsburg, in Brooklyn, "rocks the rockingest!" This well-executed work has the look of a magazine illustration writ extra-large. But what really makes this mural pop is the explosive tag painted in the center, which is polished, highly-stylized and pristine. It's rare to see such a juxtoposition of representative painting and graf integrated into a single, flawless piece of street art. The artist(s) has the skillz. Ivan Corsa Photo March 15, 2005Call That Car Accident Attorney, Too!
We love the bold, yet weathered, exterior of this car body shop in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. It certainly gets your attention and tells you what they're about with vivid, effecive simplicity: collision work. And it does it with a simple aesthetic -- but an aesthetic nonetheless. Check out the combination of crimson and gold paint and the bold, all-caps typography. When you get in an car accident you might have more important things to worry about than the condition of your car or the exterior colors of an auto body shop's garage--you should probably try to figure out first whether you need medical attention or the use of a good car accident or injury attorney. Ivan Corsa Photo March 11, 2005Street Art for DUMBO Loft Dwellers 02
Contextual shot of DUMBO, Brooklyn street art on a renovated factory building that now has multi-million dollar condos and lofts apartments. See next entry for more detailed view of the art and notes. Ivan Corsa March 10, 2005Street Art for DUMBO Loft Dwellers 01
Found this beautiful pastel-colored and wheat-pasted banner artwork in DUMBO, Brooklyn on the sealed brick archway of a renovated factory building. The neigborhood attracts street art and artists, but is scarcely affordable to most creative types now that the former industrial area has been fully gentrified and filled with multi-million dollar condos, duplex penthouse apartments and gargantuan, airy lofts that have -- as the real estate brokers like to say -- stunning city views. There's a West Elm furniture store in DUMBO now, which tells you everything about where this nabe is going in the minds of the city's aspirational and overly status-conscious real estate peeps. While the loft apartments keep coming, let's hope the street art does, too. Ivan Corsa Photo August 19, 2004Seventies Sunglasses Girl
These black-and-white photos of a woman wearing large 1970's-style sunglasses were pasted up on the side of a large building across from St. Ann's Warehouse in Dumbo, in Brooklyn, in area filled with street art. The photos are in all sorts of sizes and are cropped in many different ways. We don't know who the woman in the photo is nor the source of the image. Note the red, white and blue sticker with the words "The Streets Are Saying Things," the name of an organization with an excellent Web site devoted to documenting graffiti writing. Ivan G. Corsa Photo July 07, 2004Thinking Dumbo
Walk the streets of Dumbo in Brooklyn and you get a feel for the kind of ambiance that SoHo had twenty years ago, after the first waves of gentrification had wrapped up but before the entire area became a giant outdoor shopping mall with brand names everywhere. In Dumbo (the name is an acronym for "Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass") you'll see a once industrial neighborhood finding its feet as a now mostly residential area. You'll also discover a 'hood filled with moneyed and not-so-moneyed creatives. Multi-million-dollar loft conversions with spectacular views of the Manhattan skyline are surrounded by beat-up cobblestone streets, artists studios and plenty of graffiti and street art like "Thinking," a piece of graphica we found pasted up across from St. Ann's Warehouse, an arts-perfrmance space. Part of the poster has been ripped away (was it an advertisement), but enough remains that it still communicates and resonates. The person in the bunny suit (or is it an anthropamorphic rabbit) has something of a Japanese-anime look about his or her or its face. Why is the bunny amid the clouds? What does the kite represent. Is thinking akin to riding a cloud? Or is thinking here simply a substitute for "daydreaming." Maybe that is the message, that daydreaming is a form of thinking. Or maybe that we shouldn't be thinking too much about it at all. Notice the clouds pasted up separately to the right of the main picture. C'est cool. Anyway, we just like the way it looks. Ivan Corsa Photo May 15, 2004Wild Style in Billyburg
The Brooklyn neighborhood of Williamsburg (sometimes called "Billyburg" by local hipsters) is not a part of the borough generally known for lots of graffiti. But the 'hood, like SoHo three decades ago, has become a well-established colony for artists, who settled in Williamsburg throughout the 1990's and into the '00's. They were attracted to the area by relatively low rents and big spaces. With artists, naturally, came art. Some of it has spilled onto the streets like this first-rate example of a retro Wild Style-esque graffiti tag painted over a mural we found just off Union Ave. Notice how the tag has been dedicated "For Natkoa and Joce" and dated "'98." Ivan Corsa Photo |
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What is Street Art?
Many people know street art when they see it. But what it is and what it isn't sometimes is unclear and often debatable at best. A definition of street art may be helpful. According to the Wikipedia's entry on the subject as of July 11, 2008, Street Art is defined as follows: Street art is any art developed in public spaces — that is, "in the streets" — though the term usually refers to art of an illicit nature, as opposed to government sponsored initiatives. The term can include traditional graffiti artwork, stencil graffiti, sticker art, wheatpasting and street poster art, video projection, art intervention, guerrilla art, flash mobbing and street installations. Typically, the term Street Art or the more specific Post-Graffiti is used to distinguish contemporary public-space artwork from territorial graffiti, vandalism, and corporate art. Contact Send your picture submissions and inquiries to Global Graphica at streetartnyc@gmail.com 落書き写真 Credits |
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