The “Beautiful Times” tour by Amanda Marie and X-0 has brought them back to Denver Colorado where it began. We shared with you images and a semi-travelogue for their earlier installations along this summer tour in Denver and Philadelphia. In this final installment of their easy-going art-making project we find them in Brooklyn and the upstate small town of Beacon, New York, where many New Yorkers went to settle in the 2000s, creating a kinship that continues to today.

An now a quick look at their respective public works in Brooklyn, most of it in the DUMBO neighborhood. “We got our paint for this leg of the journey at a place called Park Delicatessen,” X-O says as he lists the items on offer there – and would you care to guess which ones he likes most? “Here is what they sold there…skateboards, flowers, spray paint, and smart sexy porn zines,” he relates. “Are you freaking joking? This is the most perfect shop ever.”

Amanda Marie. Beautiful Times. Brooklyn (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Amanda Marie. Beautiful Times. Brooklyn. Detail. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Amanda Marie cutting stencils at a makeshift studio in DUMBO. Beautiful Times. Brooklyn. Detail. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

X-O. Beautiful Times. Brooklyn (photo © Jaime Rojo)

X-O. Beautiful Times. Brooklyn (photo © Jaime Rojo)

X-O. DUMBO, Brooklyn. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Heading north up the Hudson River, the two found that, “After being fully infatuated with the hustle and bustle of Brooklyn, it was an unseen and uber appreciated change of pace to have our next stop in Beacon,” says X-0.

They liked to small town sophisticated vibe and couldn’t believe how nice the people were. “Amanda painted an amazing ‘campground’ scene alongside the Beacon Natural Market,” he says, and he made a new ‘lost object piece’ in the same spot that a Ron English piece had run on for a while. “I also made one small #emogarden called ‘real sweet noise’ while waiting for Mando to get done with her big wall.”

Amanda Marie. Beautiful Times. Beacon, NY.  (photo © Alan Goldsmith)

Amanda Marie. Beautiful Times. Beacon, NY.  (photo © X-O)

Amanda Marie. Beautiful Times. Beacon, NY.  (photo © Alan Goldsmith)

X-O. Beautiful Times. Beacon, NY.  (photo © Ethan Harrison)

X-O. Beautiful Times. Beacon, NY.  (photo © X-O)

X-O. Beautiful Times. Beacon, NY.  (photo © Ethan Harrison)

X-O. Beautiful Times. Beacon, NY.  (photo © Ethan Harrison)

Going back to Colorado after being pretty much city struck for the last few weeks was a welcome return.

“Immediately I escaped to the Rocky Mountains and made some ‘string stretches’ in the woods.  One of the most successful was a gravity piece I’ve called ‘Gravity Log 1’.  I left the cotton twine…Is that littering? Hmmm.”

 

Amanda Marie. Beautiful Times. Aztlan Skate Park. F. Collins, Colorado  (photo © courtesy of X-O)

X-O. Beautiful Times. Launch. Colorado. (photo © X-O)

X-O. Beautiful Times. Rocky Mountains, Colorado.  (photo © X-O)

X-O. Beautiful Times. Rocky Mountains, Colorado.  (photo © X-O)

Amanda Marie and X-O would like to thank Todd Masters from Masters Projects in Dumbo, Brooklyn.

They would also like to thank Dan and Kalene from Thundercut/OpenSpace in Beacon, as well as a number of neighborly photographers who were generous with their time and talents in Beacon.

They would also like to thank Andy Weiss in Colorado.

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Amanda Marie and X-O “Beautiful Times” in Denver, CO

Amanda Marie and X-O “Beautiful Times” in Philadelphia

 

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