Street Artist and fine artist Specter hails from Brooklyn but has been traveling a lot and has been creating some interesting work in Russia and Tokyo, two places not typically mentioned during Western discussions of the street art scene – but we’d be remiss to miss.
“I was invited to Russia from my friend Pasha Shugurov who runs the artist collective 33plus1,” he says as he discusses the new piece called “Chromatin Structure”.
Specter “Chromatin Structure”. Vladivostok, Russia. (photo © Specter)
For the artists in our audience who were doodling in the margins of their science textbook during class, the chromatins are the combination of DNA and proteins that make up the contents of the nucleus of a cell. The work is installed in Sister City Park. Also in the town of Nahodka, a port city in Primorsky Krai, he painted a geodesic dome with art students from the university there.
While in Tokyo Specter returned to some of the faux realism that we have become familiar with in his work in the last few years, recreating a façade that blends seamlessly, yet attracts your attention. The “Bodega Window” here is in the Harajuku Fashion District known for the chic shops and slick shoppers.
Specter “Chromatin Structure” in progress. Vladivostok, Russia. (photo © Specter)
Specter “Chromatin Structure” in progress. Vladivostok, Russia. (photo © Specter)
Specter. Geodesic Dome done in collaboration with art students from the university in Nahodka, Russia. (photo © Specter)
Specter “Bodega Window” in the Harajuku Fashion District of Tokyo, Japan. (photo © Specter)
Specter “Bodega Window” in the Harajuku Fashion District of Tokyo, Japan. (photo © Specter)
Specter’s project in Vladivostok was made possible from a grant from the US Consulate in Vladivostok and curator Kendal Henry.
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