Specter BKLN/PARIS Mashup with FKDL as Gracious Host

As we have previously reported here Street Artist Specter was in Paris recently for his solo show “Things Change” at the Since-Upian Gallery. His magnum opus on the street while there was the faithful recreation of a Brooklyn bodega façade that juts out into the street with a surprisingly genuine quality. For added authenticity, the rolldown gate is reproduced with the graffiti tag of Miss 17, ubiquitous throughout many neighborhoods of New York.

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Ever challenging to conventional notions of what the Street Art scene is, Specter likes to turn your brain upside down with his actions like his spot-jocking of other Street Artist last year. Plumbing the gray areas again, he reproduces graffiti and Street Art within his own work, at once a documentation, tip of the hat, and visual paradox causing one to re-consider self evident truths about art and vandalism.

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Specter painting his “Brooklyn Bodega” on a wall in Paris. (photo © Lauren Besser)

While in Paris, Street Artist FKDL played host to Specter and his friend and facilitated a small tour of some well known spots for Street Art, here documented by Lauren Besser in these photographs exclusively for BSA readers:

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Specter “Brooklyn Bodega,” Paris. (photo © Lauren Besser)

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Specter “Brooklyn Bodega,” Paris. (photo © Lauren Besser)

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Specter “Brooklyn Bodega,” Paris. (photo © Lauren Besser)

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Specter spreads out pieces for the street (photo © Lauren Besser)

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Specter and FKDL getting up (photo © Lauren Besser)

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Specter and FKDL (photo © Lauren Besser)

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Specter and FKDL (photo © Lauren Besser)

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Specter and FKDL getting up (photo © Lauren Besser)

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Specter and FKDL (photo © Lauren Besser)

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