Doze Green – Sidewalk Faces
Friday, June 15th, 2007
Warning! Needlessly obnoxious music in video.
Doze Green lays out his line from a squeeze bottle. Via Boing Boing
I’m happy to finally have a name for the squeeze bottle artist who did all those beautiful sidewalk faces in 2003. The photos below are all from the East Village, and taken with my crappy old camera. I’m searching my archives for more photos.
I’m not certain of this attribution. I’m only going by the similarity of style of the face in the video, with these familiar sidewalk faces. Searching through the Flickr dozegreen tag, the only sidewalk photos I see are mine. And I haven’t found any sidewalk photos on the doze green site. (Annoying Flash navigation on this site, see if you can find any.)
Update, 6/20: I’m even less sure of who did these. They could just as easily be Michael De Feo, who is known for his squeeze bottle flowers.
I wish they hadn’t put the construction shed post on top of it. This is my favorite. I love the grace of line.
This one is sweet as well. The shot is from April 2005, but the piece is probably from 2003.
Search for squeeze+bottle on the GammaBlog
Nice capture. The very essence of street art.
Absolutely, Elisha. I just saw a video of this artist at work, I’m in the middle of blogging about it. Gathering photos I’ve taken of his stuff over the years. I’ve always been a fan of the grace of his line. Links and such to follow.
great link, gamma, thanks for sharing.
jeepers christmas crack!
this is the bomb!
Golly Jupiter gee, Adam, ya made me laugh. Thanks Luna. Do both of you agree that Doze Green is the artist who did these?
for way more background on jeepers christmas crack then you’ll ever need:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lunapark/547370380/
as for doze green, i think i’ve only seen larger murals which look rather different.
my uninformed guess on these had always been that they’re by defeo since i’ve also seen drizzled paint flowers like his wheatpastes on sidewalks…
Frack yeah, they very well could be defeo. It might be that the technique and single line nature of the drawings might result in similar looking results.
it’s too close to call, gamma.
but a quick look through defeo’s comprehensive website turned up nothing.
hmmmm.
well, whoever did these, i really dig them.
and i believe it’s spelled ‘frak’, but regardless i am on pins and needled waiting for bsg season 3 to come out on dvd.
Katee Sackhoff rules!
Maybe it’s the ghost of Picasso:
dsc.gc.cuny.edu/part/part8/articles/gr/picasso2.jpg
indeed she does (and starbuck was revealed to be a painter once… maybe she painted these….)
Ha, they do look like her style, Adama.
uhh, you lost me about 4 comments ago. . . bsg? wha? huh?
hiya blondie
we’re nerding out abt battlestar galactica (the new version).
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whoa! great technique from the master! Thanks for the heads up G!
I’m not so sure of the attribution, celso. They could just as easily be Michael DeFeo. What do you think?