Just saw a Paul Richard sign smack in the middle of Fairey’s wall asking for no graffiti to be added to it…
Shepard Fairey
Mystery solved… Shepard Fairey and his crew of 2 others are putting up the new mural (as we speak) at the Bowery/Houston wall. Took some shots and a couple of videos…
Shepard Fairey will have a solo show opening May 01, 2010 — May 29, 2010 @ Detich Projects Gallery – 18 Wooster Street, New York.
Looks like has has been busy doing some work in LA as well. Read about it here.
(ps: It’s nice to know that the Os Gemeos mural is safe…..for now)
WNYC Interview Below:
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We know Deitch Projects has had past control of this wall… and they’ve had fun and interesting murals come up in the past… Os Gemeos will now be replaced, but with what? The Brazilian twins painted openly, yet this time, the wall is covered with a door for access… who is behind these walls and what are they doing????
Previous murals: Os Gemeos
Keith Haring Tribute:
wanna hang at a meth lab?
Deitch Projects on 18 Wooster st. has an interesting project by Jonah Freeman and Justin Lowe called BLACK ACID CO-OP. It’ll be running until Aug. 15th. Be ready to sign a release form and experience a stuffy, burnt, messy, dirty, dark, claustrophobic, and skeevy meth-lab environment. 
These guys did a good job transforming the space into a trashed trailer/abandoned 70’s ski lodge. You can go up and down stairs and get a feel of the underground meth culture… At one point, you’ll be inside a Chinese porn store, then find yourself at a beautiful museum-like room with its walls busted through. The back rooms, where the action happens, are torn up, burnt and pretty destroyed, the bathrooms are disgusting and the hallways seem dangerous to walk through. I felt like a investigator going through a freshly raided meth house. I forgot I was in the city for a second…
Os Gemeos on Bowery/Houston NYC
On this wall once stood a Keith Haring tribute mural. It was drowned by tags and graffiti for many years, but it was recently resurrected and stood strong. But a week ago, it was replaced by the brazilian duo Os Gemeos, known for their illustrative caricatures, strong color and their respectful reputation in the graffiti world. Deitch Projects approached the twins with this commission to replace the Haring wall.
I love this, it really brightens the street, the area, the people (as did the Haring piece). There is much detail and needs to be enjoyed in person. I hope this one stays up for a long time, and I kind of wish Deitch will come up with a project of this stature to replace the Hollister mess on Broadway and Houston… Many more images on my flickr, as usual.
Os Gemeos dedicated the wall to the late artist, Dash Snow.
Ryan McGinness Works – Deitch
Swung by Deitch gallery to see Ryan McGinness exhibit. what a space. his work fills it nicely with great amount of color, intricate paintings and complicated sculptures. eye sensory overload….in a good way. take a look for yourself, it’s worth it.
The exhibit runs from March 07, 2009 — April 18, 2009
18 Wooster Street, New York.
from deitch.com –
“…McGinness merges several of the most important directions in contemporary painting. His work combines all-over composition, inspired by Jackson Pollock and the mechanical silkscreen process inspired by Andy Warhol. The work also fuses naturalistic and contemporary pop culture references. His imagery derives form a broad range of sources: from dreams and hallucinations to song lyrics and fragments of art history. There is a push and pull between content and form, and between literal meaning and intuitive feeling. McGinness’s paintings represent his own mental landscape. His compositions reflect the infinite, ever-flowing continuum of the universe.”
I took some photos as well.
