All posts tagged: Aakash Nihalani

Images of Week 07.05.09

July 6, 2009 Artists, On the Street, Week in Images

Aakash Nihalani (photo Jaime Rojo)

Part of the India Sreet Mural Project, a neighborly welcome from Skewville, Chris Stain, and Logan Hicks (photo Steven P. Harrington)

Tazmat Red Nose & Peru Ana (photo Jaime Rojo)

Yummy ocean snacks (Passenger Pigeon) (photo Jaime Rojo)

Skewville SideB (photo Jaime Rojo)

Submarine (photo Jaime Rojo)

Tada is the Coolest (photo Jaime Rojo)

One lump or two? Tea Time (photo Jaime Rojo)

We Heart Cake (photo Jaime Rojo)

Cake (photo Jaime Rojo)

A thin strip of Veng RWK (photo Jaime Rojo)

Passenger Pigeon (photo Jaime Rojo)

KH1, Bird (photo Jaime Rojo)

Skewville Side A (photo Jaime Rojo)

The brain-lung connection (Cake) (photo Jaime Rojo)

Soldiers Bones (General Howe) (photo Jaime Rojo)

“So Long Krissa” Passenger Pigeon (photo Jaime Rojo)

Images of the Week 06.07.09

June 7, 2009 Artists, Brooklyn, NYC, On the Street

Summer Action Adventure Staycation (Aakash Nihalani, Poster Boy) (photo Jaime Rojo)

Fitful growths of irregularity (Pork) (photo Jaime Rojo)

Less boxy, more planular (I made up that word), Mr. Nihalani is experimenting with new abstractions. (Aakash Nihalani) (photo Jaime Rojo)

On the lookout for incoming battalions of duncery approaching in their cargo shorts and Abercrombie t-shirts (General Howe) (photo Jaime Rojo)

Hey everybody! Come look at this new Jack Black movie! I won't bite, promise (Hellbent) (photo Jaime Rojo)

A needed Herakut (photo Jaime Rojo)

Boy, the way Glenn Miller played.... (KH1) (photo Jaime Rojo)

Its a Revolution! (Nine Flies) (photo Jaime Rojo)

Nomade keeps good company (photo Jaime Rojo)

Roof Pork (Pork) (Photo Jaime Rojo)

Which way? I'm always getting lost in this part of town. (Space Invader) (photo Jaime Rojo)

Sexy Blossoms of Wisteria only this time of year (photo Jaime Rojo)

Akash Nihalani Poster Boy Passenger Pigeon

Akash Nihalani, Poster Boy, and Passenger Pigeon become far out and psychedelic (photo Jaime Rojo)

Welcome back to the hideout (Dain) (photo Jaime Rojo)

These beer-swilling men, they're all flat and grey to me. I need someone with excitement, know what I mean? (EllisG, Leif Mcllwaine) (photo Jaime Rojo)

Shark Toof flies the friendly skies (photo Jaime Rojo)

Sometimes we have no idea what is on the wall. One of the many mysteries of the street art scene. (photo Jaime Rojo)

A great dislocation (Hellbent) (photo Jaime Rojo)

Brooklyn Artists across the Sea; “Tales From the Seaside” : New Show at Prescription Art (U.K.)

May 30, 2009 Artists

JOY RIDE Group Show at Anonymous Gallery

May 24, 2009 Artists, Events, Gallery, NYC, Opening

JOY RIDE

Opening Reception: June 18^th – 6 – 10PM /
6PM PERFORMANCE BY HUNGRY MARCH BAND at CHRYSTIE ST. and BROOME ST.

Kenny Scharf, Jonas Mekas, Martha Cooper, Agathe Snow, Kelsey Brookes, Cheryl Dunn, Maya Hayuk, Ryan Humphrey, Kenzo Minami, James Jean, Graffiti Research Lab, Scott Campbell, Erik Foss, Peter Sutherland, Mike Giant, Leo Fitzpatrick, Chiara Clemente, Julia Chiang, Takuya Sakamoto, AIKO, Ellis Gallagher, Gaia, Ji Lee, Chris Stain, Chris Uphues, Falcon Duran, Aakash Nihalani, Paolo Bertocchi, Taliah Lempert, Alfredo Bovel and Shane Bovel, Nesta Mayo, Stewert Semple, Benedict Radcliffe, Ashira Siegel, Steve MacDonald, Brian Vernor, Artus De Lavilléon, James Newman, Kevin Foxworth, Joe Stakun, Andrew McClintock, Marco Mucig, Yatika Starr Fields, Daniele De Lonti, Lisa Romans, Amy Bolger, Wonka,Jacques Ferrand, Marc Sich, Herman Mao, David Komurek, Silver Warner, Patrick Trefz, Made in Queens, Greg Ugalde, Camilla Candida Donzella, Fast Eddie Williams, Tristan Eaton, Robert S.L. Waltzer and Gordon Stevenson, Jud Turner, Suzette Lee, Wiilliam Robbins and Jeffrey Robbins, I LOVE DUST, Maripol and Lino, Dana Goldstein, Rajan Mehta, Nathaniel Freeman, Giftcycle, Amelia Shaw, Jessica Findley, Lauren Silberman, Alessandro Zuek Simonetti, Daniel Leeb, Matteo Di Nisio , Ed Glazar, Bradley Baker, Cecily Upton, Rich Jacobs, Chris Thormann, Massan Fluker

Hungry March Band kicks off opening night at 6 PM with a performance in “the pit” at Sara D. Roosevelt Park on Chrystie Street and Broome Street. Joy Ride maps will be available at each location.

For available artwork and more information about Joy Ride in NYC please visit www.anonymousgallery.com

or contact info@anonymousgallery.com
For more information about the Bicycle Film Festival, please visit

www.bicyclefilmfestival.com or contact jill@bicyclefilmfestival.com

Week in Images 05.17.09

May 19, 2009 Artists, Brooklyn, On the Street

New Stuff as the summer explosion begins…

Faile has spun out to Bedford Avenue (or at least a couple feet from it) in one more of these spinning columns to thrill the kids and the throngs of Williamsburg denizens, fans, and followers. Rumor has it that you can also charge your cell phone with the energy stored from the spinning, but we couldn’t find the jack : (

(photo courtesy of SMKjr)

Yes you did! (photo Jaime Rojo)

Overhead shot (photo Jaime Rojo)

Link to SMKjr video of this piece rotating

Aakash in the Eastern District (Aakash Nihalani)(photo Jaime Rojo)

The eventual fate of all (Chrisian Paine) (photo Jaime Rojo)

Pleased to meet you! (el Sol 25) (photo Jaime Rojo)

"Something to do with sports or something I guess" (I'm Keith Hernandez) (photo Jaime Rojo)

Well framed piece (Momo) (photo Jaime Rojo)

Nobody's sculpture, yet everybody's sculpture (Nobody) (photo Jaime Rojo)

A riotous and quirky quilt to keep your construction site warm (photo Jaime Rojo)

(Stikman, Royce Bannon) (photo Jaime Rojo)

Tong-Tong, who's there? (Tong) (photo Jaime Rojo)

Thong-Thong, who's there? (photo Jaime Rojo)

A Barbie moment (God this better not be a product placement or I will scaaareeeem!) (Zaca) (photo Jaime Rojo)

Aakash Nihalani in group show “Paraphrase” at Arario Gallery

May 16, 2009 Artists, NYC

Rising street artist Aakash Nihalani started “bombing” the streets of New York City with his colorful isometric forms just over a year ago. What began as repetitive silkscreen studies in the studio later developed into Nihalani’s signature approach to open-air installations. Using tape as his sole medium, he highlights the geometry of the city—from subway signage to a slab of concrete —with clean rectangles, squares and cubes. Employing the modus operandi of graffiti writers, Nihalani revamps public space, offering fresh perspectives and creating room for new words and ideas. His installation for Paraphrase will make use of both the walls and floors of the gallery. He will also utilize the windows that run along Arario’s south wall (facing 25^th Street) to exhibit new works on mirror.

Arario Gallery

Images of the Week 04.05.09

April 6, 2009 Artists, Brooklyn, BSA Images Of The Week

All tapped out (Aakash Nihalani and ?) (photo Jaime Rojo)

And where was this one taken? (Skewville) (photo Jaime Rojo)

Erika and the 4 handed Pistolero (The Dude Company, Pistolero) (photo Jaime Rojo)

That Dali is always trying hog the camera (Joe Black) (photo Jaime Rojo)

Col from Robots Will Kill (photo Jaime Rojo)

OMG, she is Tree Chic! (photo Jaime Rojo)

The Ears Just Scream Mickey (Miss Bugs) (photo Jaime Rojo)

I love me some good down-home old-timey organ music! (Imminent Disaster, Bishop 203) (photo Jaime Rojo)

NEO CONs at Frost Street Gallery

March 14, 2009 Artists, Brooklyn, Events

Aakash Nihalani, PosterBoy, and Ellis G.

form the new Crew called Neo Cons and are putting on their first show together.

From the Press Release:

17 Frost presents NEO CON NEW YORK, an exhibition of collaborative installations by the Neo-Con collective [Aakash Nihalani, Ellis G., Poster Boy]. The collective consists of artists that utilize ephemeral mediums to create public art, focusing on neo-contextualizing the mundane. Their works, on and off the street, possess urgent relevance to modern societal contradictions and conflagrations, confronting the humanness of discomfort and dissatisfaction with typical, routine, existence.

Opening Reception for NEO CON NEW YORK will be March 21st, 2009, 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm at 17 Frost Gallery, located at 17 Frost Street between Union Avenue and Lorimer Street in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

We Invented the Remix

March 10, 2009 Brooklyn, On the Street

No it’s not another 80’s song with a drum track and lyrics flowing over top,

it’s a brash re-ordering of a postering campaign in Williamsburg, Brooklyn over the past couple of weeks, where hundreds of copies were on surfaces everywhere. The original picture appears to be of Lewis Allan Reed, a purported musician of some type, wearing a t-shirt of the advertiser’s name, as interpreted by photographer Terry Richardson.

Within the first week (or day) the campaign appeared on abandoned lots and on the sides of condo construction sites, the rows of repeated posters were re-faced by street artist collective Faile, neating placing tiger’s heads over the bespectacled rocker and the word “Vanit y” over the logo on his t-shirt.

Saturday night on Bedford Ave. we spotted this total reapportioned interpretation, using what appears to be multiple pieces of the image in a bag and then dumping it out. It’s not signed but we have a good guess who this collab is. You just can’t be sure who to shout out to sometimes.

: Poster Diddy featuring Bid Daddy A. (photo Steven P. Harrington)

Week In Images 03.01.09

March 5, 2009 Artists, Brooklyn, On the Street

Halt! Step no further! I’m guarding this brick wall. (Veng from RWK) (photo Jaime Rojo)

Honey there’s an alien in the stairway (UFO) (photo Jaime Rojo)

Been awfully windy lately (Skewville) (photo Jaime Rojo)

There’s a Party Up in Here! (photo Jaime Rojo)

Derivation of Contemplation (NohjColey) (photo Jaime Rojo)

Which way is the wild side again? (Nobody) (photo Jaime Rojo)

Pass me a cupcake, with you? (Karat) (photo Jaime Rojo)

Okay Erykah is Hot but check out my T-shirt (Goons, The Dude Company) (photo Jaime Rojo)

Sweet Tamed (Faile) (photo Jaime Rojo)

Wild photog on the Loose! Watch out! (Billi Kid) (photo Jaime Rojo)

A hero to the Lehman family apparently (Billi Kid) (photo Jaime Rojo)

That’s funny, bunny (Aiko) (photo Jaime Rojo)

Overnight delivery in a flash! (Poster Boy and Aakash Nihalani) (photo Jaime Rojo)

Transformer Boxes (Aakash Nihilani) (photo Jaime Rojo)

Are you sure? (Zoso) (photo Jaime Rojo)

Midwinter spring is its own season (Shin Shin) (photo Jaime Rojo)

Week in Images 02.22.09

February 23, 2009 Artists, Brooklyn, BSA Images Of The Week, On the Street

We’ve been a little busy on that “Street Crush” KRAZEE-ness for a few weeks,

so we thought everyone should just take it easy, and not put up any work on the street until we could get back out there and take a look around. Well, that didn’t really work very well, did it? What the heck?

Remember your patriotism being questioned at every corner a couple years ago? Specter would like to continue the conversation apparently. (photo Jaime Rojo)

Don't know where Zoso is going with this, but Shin Shin is surrounding it with spring flowers (photo Jaime Rojo)

Oh, you are like, such a square. I mean, like you are so square you are like a cube, or whatever. (Aakash Nihilahni) (photo Jaime Rojo)

This was on a floor, which means it is probably destroyed by now. (Aakash Nihilahni) (photo Jaime Rojo)

Dreaming of Brownstones and affordable mortgages. (Blanco) (photo Jaime Rojo)

I'm watching you. (c215) (photo Jaime Rojo)

Someone needs a bib (Robots Will Kill) (photo Chris)

The Amish Robot (Robots will Kill) (photo Chris)

All tied up (Chris from Robots Will Kill) (photo Jaime Rojo)

unknown (photo Jaime Rojo)

Ellis G. (photo Jaime Rojo)

Can't tell if he's petting it or snapping it's head off (Gaia) (photo Jaime Rojo)

Obama and Iraq war veteran Tammy Duckworth at Arlington Cemetery - on a gravemarker covered with lace. (General Howe) (photo Jaime Rojo)

Like my new Stoll? Filene's Basement of course! I know, PETA would probably have a fit, but it was 40% off. (Art Goons, C215) (photo Jaime Rojo)

Damn! Forgot my gloves! (Art Goons) (photo Jaime Rojo)

Siiiiinnngggiin in the Rain, Just Singing -- In the Rain!! (Haculla) (photo Jaime Rojo)

I used to live in this apartment on the upper east side near Gracie Mansion, and sometimes at night a golf-ball sized cockroach would run across my bed and thump onto the hardwood floor and run away. I kid you not. (Hellbent) (photo Jaime Rojo)

Hope, expressed as a garish, heavy pyramid-like sculpture. (unknown) (photo Jaime Rojo)

Imminent Disaster (photo Jaime Rojo)

Keely (photo Jaime Rojo)

That famous kiss by two of our visionary leaders (MBW) (photo Jaime Rojo)

Momo (photo Jaime Rojo)

Sometimes the right hat can just MAKE the whole outfit. (Mr. Afternoon) (photo Jaime Rojo)

A temple to Sex. (photo Jaime Rojo)

Deeks and Stikman on a corroded wall (photo Jaime Rojo)

The Dude Company honors Dr. King (photo Jaime Rojo)

Bishop 203 (photo Jaime Rojo)

I know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Veng from Robots Will Kill) (photo Jaime Rojo)

The Street Crush Artists

February 18, 2009 Artists, Gallery

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