GammaBlog » Street Art http://gammablog.com NYC Street Art, Architecture from the East Village Wed, 08 Sep 2010 20:42:15 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Iconography, A Reflection of Anonymity http://gammablog.com/2010/09/08/iconography-a-reflection-of-anonymity/ http://gammablog.com/2010/09/08/iconography-a-reflection-of-anonymity/#comments Wed, 08 Sep 2010 20:42:15 +0000 gamma http://gammablog.com/?p=5849 Mighty Tanaka presents:

Iconography, A Reflection of Anonymity

Featuring the work of Matt Siren, Peat Wollaeger (stenSOUL), Royce Bannon, Chris & Veng of Robots Will Kill and 2Esae & SKI of URnewyork

New York City is rich with colors, sounds, textures, personal exchanges and human interactions, a scene constantly in motion. Through the busy veil of urban lifestyles is an artistic detail that binds the city together. Mighty Tanaka is excited to present: Iconography, A Reflection of Anonymity. Featuring the artwork of Matt Siren, Peat Wollaeger (stenSOUL), Royce Bannon, Chris and Veng of Robots Will Kill and 2Esae and SKI of URnewyork, they represent an accurate cross section of the street art one finds in NYC and beyond.

Each artist demonstrates their own personal blend of techniques and styles as they have developed a highly personalized means of branding their work, and ultimately, themselves. The icons they choose to place on the streets hold an individualized significance, a means of projecting self onto a surface interpreted by the general public. Their work represents a generation’s visionary artistic approach to the urban landscape.
Through a variety of methods including wheat paste, screen print, spray paint, stencils and more, their chosen techniques encompass a broad spectrum of what one encounters on the streets today. However, it is the integrity of the iconic imagery that translates the rawness of the streets into the refinement of the gallery setting.

OPENING RECEPTION:

Friday, September 10, 2010

6:00PM-9:00PM

(Show closes October 8, 2010)
Mighty Tanaka

68 Jay St., Suite 416 (F Train to York St.)

Brooklyn, NY 11201

Hours: M-F 12:30PM to 7PM,

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Manhattan empties out on the Labor Day weekend. A walk through my neighborhood with the dullest bits excised.

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After Hurricane Earl ignored the city, I went out in search of cool air. I found none.

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I was walking down Ludlow street when Michael Antonio asked me to photograph his installation. He says he does them all over the city.

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Sunday afternoon shadows on the buffed Deitch wall.
Deitch Wall

Monday afternoon – Barry Mcgee aka Twist on the Deitch wall at Houston and Bowery. Written over night. I like it a lot better up close than how it looks from a distance. This is apparently the base layer, more paint to come.
On the scene coverage from The Art Collectors.

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Church and

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Wacky Doodler, my favorite Torontonian and street art enthusiast, visited NYC this past weekend. I took her on an in vain search for some remnants of the Manhattan street art scene on the West Side. But by blind luck we did stumble upon the Giant Os Gemeos schoolboy with the international pants.

Giant Os Gemeos Boy

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On East Houston Street.

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Just west of the American Apparel outlet on the Lower East Side. This bit of counter-advertising was under the glass covering a real ad for American Apparel. I assumed it was a Photoshop of Dov Charney’s face on the model, but I’m not sure. It doesn’t really look like Dov, or at least how he appears in Google image search.

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