All posts tagged: NYC

BSA Images Of The Week: 04.10.16

April 10, 2016 Artists, BSA Images Of The Week

Our weekly interview with the street, this week featuring 3rd World Pirate, A Pill NYC, Anglo, Augustine Kofie, Balu, CB23, City Kitty, Icy & Sot, Jerk Face, Jetski, LX One, Solus, Swiz, and WK Interact

Our top image: A warring door by WK Interact. Detail. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

WK Interact (photo © Jaime Rojo)

This dude lived in Williamsburg before all this happened. Balú (photo © Jaime Rojo)

And this dude lived in Williamsburg only two summers ago. The wifi still has his name on it. Balú (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Artist Unknown. Subway ad take over. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

That’s one way to shine his buttons. 3rd World Pirate (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Augustine Kofie in Marrakech, Morocco. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Solus looking up for guidance. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

LX ONE in Marrakech, Morocco. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

CB23 (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Swiz in Marrakech, Morocco. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Icy & Sot offers some words of comfort to Stikman. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

City Kitty and friends. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Anglo . Jetski (photo © Jaime Rojo)

A Pill NYC is just frothing at the mouth to see the consumers move in. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Jerk Face (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Untitled. SOHO, NYC. April 2016. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Spring Time With Stikman

April 9, 2016 Artists

Saturday! Time to go out for a walk around the neighborhood to stretch your legs, say hello to old friends, and to look for some new ones.

Along with the blooming Magnolia, Dogwood and Wisteria in the cold/hot/windy/rainy/sunny spring we have in Brooklyn, some new Stikman pieces have been popping up through the aerosol tags and stickers in doorways and elsewhere. Here’s a handful for you to regard as you marvel at the promise of spring.

Stikman (photo © Jaime Rojo)

“Young New Yorkers” Auction to Feature Jaime Rojo and 100 More

April 7, 2016 Artists

BSA has been supporting and donating to the organization Young New Yorkers and many of the participating artists who are in tonight’s auction for a long time through our work for a number of years. This year BSA Co-founder and editor of photography Jaime Rojo is also donating something else – his own photography.

Jaime Rojo. Untitled. Tawana and Miriam. Brooklyn, NY. August 31, 2003 (photo © Jaime Rojo)

YNY provides 16 and 17 year old people in New York State who have had the unfortunate occurrence of being arrested an opportunity to re-see themselves and society through an art-based program. The state has the unfortunate distinction of being particularly harsh with our youth, treating them as adults in some circumstances where other perspectives can and should come into play. It’s a mature and nuanced position that great societies can muster when we dig deep and we’re proud of the staff and volunteers who put in the huge amounts of effort to make YNY successful.

Shepard Fairey. Natural Springs. Print. (photo courtesy of YNY)

Joe Russo. Shepard Fairey, NYC 2010. Print. (photo courtesy of YNY)

This program is an opportunity to short-circuit a potentially harmful cycle of crime and incarceration because it recognizes the whole young person, not just a narrow aspect. If they qualify and graduate from the court-appointed program, graduates’ cases are dismissed and sealed, leaving them free of the collateral consequences of an adult criminal record.

Not surprisingly, graffitti and Street Artists and others familiar with the scene recognize the value of this kind of work and have given great pieces to the auction. Please consider the works here and go online to bid and attend the public auction in New York tonight!

Daniel Albanese. Larry The Bird Man. Print. (photo courtesy of YNY)

“I wholeheartedly support Young New Yorkers; not only as an art program and constructive alternative to teens being incarcerated, but it is also highly therapeutic. It builds problem solving skills that can boost self confidence and allow participants to feel more empowered to pursue their dreams as well as deal with their realities.”—Shepard Fairey

Fairey has generously donated a number of prints for tonight along with works by an array of artists you’ll recognize such as Ben Eine, Swoon, Cern, Pure Evil, Icy & Sot, Robert Janz, Know Hope, Daniel Albanese, Hellbent, Greg LaMarche, Joe Russo, LMNOPI, Li Hill, Dan Witz and many others for tonights’ event. Your support will actually help keep our young people out of jail and contributing in a positive way.

Swoon. Haiti Sketch (Older Man Collar). (photo courtesy of YNY)

This year’s YNY benefit auction show is curated by Lunar New Year, Ann Lewis, and Maya Levin.

Here is a small sample of the works being offered up for auction. To see the whole collection, bid and for more details on the actual works of art please go to: Paddle8 Young New Yorkers benefit auction.

Ben Eine. See No Evil. Print. (photo courtesy of YNY)

Brittany Williams. Blooming Mind. Painting. (photo courtesy of YNY)

Li-Hill. Dive. Work on paper. (photo courtesy of YNY)

QRST. In The House Of The Coyote. Work on paper. (photo courtesy of YNY)

Dan Witz. Container Study (Green). Mixed Media. (photo courtesy of YNY)

Jetsonorama. Stephanie on JR ‘s House. Print. (photo courtesy of YNY)

Mataruda. Verso, Perla, Pluma y, Flor. Giclee Print. (photo courtesy of the artist)

Dan Witz Paints Skinheads, Slam Dancing, Erotica

April 4, 2016 Artists

Because you can’t get your fill of angry white men from all the Donald Trump rallies this spring, painter and Street Artist Dan Witz is presenting Mosh Pits, Raves and One Small Orgy at Jonathan Levine Gallery in New York. The paintings further capture the freneticism of clan-like gatherings of nearly entirely caucasian youth in the “hardcore” subcultures of punk and alternative music.

Dan Witz. Jonathan LeVine Gallery. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Rebellious, provocative, warm, sensual, rhythmic, chaotic and violent dancing as depicted in these hormone-infused scenes are easily as erotic as the de-clad coitus-seeking scene makers in the Bosch-Bruegelian mass of bodies. Ecstacy abounds often and which view is more orgiastic depends entirely on you.

One question among many; if this is a small orgy, how many participants are in a large one?

Dan Witz. Brite Nite 2, Jonathan LeVine Gallery. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Dan Witz. Byronesque 3, Jonathan LeVine Gallery. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Dan Witz. Mosh Pit Study (Jets), Jonathan LeVine Gallery. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Dan Witz. Sick of It All, Jonathan LeVine Gallery. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Dan Witz. Small Orgy, Jonathan LeVine Gallery. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Dan Witz. Scrum 3 (System of a Down), Jonathan LeVine Gallery. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Dan Witz. Scrum 1 (King of Hearts), Jonathan LeVine Gallery. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Dan Witz. Scrum Study (The Flash), Jonathan LeVine Gallery. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Dan Witz. Very young “collectors” spotted on opening night… Jonathan LeVine Gallery. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Dan Witz solo exhibition “Mosh Pits, Raves and One Small Orgy” is currently on view at the Jonathan LeVine Gallery in NYC. Click HERE for more information.

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BSA Images Of The Week: 04.03.16

April 3, 2016 Artists, BSA Images Of The Week

Dang! The birds are singing! Why do birds suddenly appear every time you are near?

An uptick in politically based street art in New York and elsewhere as people are waking up to the reality that Donald Trump is an actual contender for the presidency. Also New York, which tends to vote for the Democrat is now being targeted by former senator Clinton and Brooklyn native Bernie Sanders for New York’s April 19 primary, with both candidates appearing here this week.

Meanwhile a worldwide corruption scandal that was revealed this week about Unaoil and major oil corporations like Dick Cheney’s Halliburton is expanding to include corruption in the (gasp!) banking industry as well. What’s next? Revelations about 9/11 and the war in Iraq? Is it just us or do many of the figurative images on the street look alternately docile, frightened and/or angry?

Here’s our our weekly interview with the street, this week featuring A Pill NYC, Anarkia, CASH RFC Crew, Crummy Gummy, Damien Mitchell, DKF, El Sol 25, Gold Loxe, Monsh & Grey, Nick Walker, Riner, Sac Six Art, Stray Ones, Thomas Allen, and Twazzo.

Our top image: Never get __________– discouraged, a fake tan, seafood in a land-locked state, health advice from a drug dealer, fooled. From Thomas Allen… you fill in the blank… (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Sac Six Art (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Damien Mitchell (photo © Jaime Rojo)

A cat and mouse game from Stray Ones (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Stray Ones (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Monsh & Grey (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Loser (photo © Jaime Rojo)

DKF (photo © Jaime Rojo)

A Pill NYC (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Crummy Gummy in Mexico City. (photo © Crummy Gummy)

Twazzo (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Riner…or so we think. The signature could actually spell something else… (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Riner (photo © Jaime Rojo)

CASH RFC Crew (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Anarkia (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Nick Walker (photo © Jaime Rojo)

El Sol 25 (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Gold Loxe (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Untitled. Brooklyn, NYC. Spring 2016 (photo © Jaime Rojo)

BSA Images Of The Week: 03.27.16

March 27, 2016 Artists, BSA Images Of The Week

Happy Easter to the folks who are celebrating this day of Christ’s rise from the dead. The rest of ya’ll can just enjoy the Sunday roast dinner we made for you. Cousin Charlemagne has already eaten both the ears off his chocolate bunny and there are two eggs that have not been found during the hunt. Let’s look for them after we eat. Pass the scalloped potatoes please.

Here’s our our weekly interview with the street, this week featuring A Visual Bliss, Bang Bang Errol, Cash Cash RFC Crew, Chupa, CJ Fly, Dasic Fernandez, Geoffrey Carran, Jay Shells, Jesse A. Edwards, Joseph Acker, KLOPS, Kuma, LMNOPI, Lunge Box, Myth, Papoose, Rocko, Rowena Martinich, Sorick 21, Trifer, Wallplay, Willow, and Zimers.

Our top image: Rocko and Zimer painted this tribute to King Biggie Smalls back in October of 2015 for Spread Art NYC. We just hadn’t been able to flick it. So here it is. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

And speaking of Biggie Smalls, urban artist and lyric lover Jay Shells left this plaque just across the street recently. His unique campaign of placing original rap lyrics at the geographical spot they refer to has taken him to cities across the country. These new platters have just popped up like spring tulips. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Jay Shells (photo © Jaime Rojo)

LMNOPI brings the street a new portrait of “a Haitian girl I met when I was in Port Au Prince in 2010.” (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Sorick21 . Trifer . Chupa (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Kuma (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Artist Unknown (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Klops(photo © Jaime Rojo)

Dasic Fernandez (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Cash Cash RFC Crew (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Geoffrey Carran . Rowena Martinich (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Lunge Box (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Jesse A Edwards and RAMBO Memorial for @bang_bang_errol at Wallplay. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Artist Unknown (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Myth “A culture fixated on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty, but an obsession about female obedience” (photo © Jaime Rojo)

A Visual Bliss (photo © Jaime Rojo)

The Koch Brothers. Portrait by Joseph Acker – Prision ID #15967538. Mural by Willow. The Captured Project in conjuction with The L.I. S.A. Project. People in prison drawing people who should be. More information here. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Untitled. Good Friday 2016. Williamsburg. March 2016. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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BSA Images Of The Week: 03.20.16

March 20, 2016 Artists, BSA Images Of The Week

The Street Art world was shaken this week by the announcement and group action by BLU and friends in Bologna buffing/chipping away his street pieces in reaction to the opening of a new show there Friday night that contained BLU works done on a derelict building owned by someone else.

The ironies are rampant when a city chases down vandals, sponsors graffiti/street art clean-up programs, and then heralds the exact same works in a formal museum show with good lighting, cocktails, elegant suits, a press conference, and invited guests. Aside from the various contingencies trying to hi-jack these events to put forth other agendas or establish their opinion as sacrosanct, the psychological and philosophical rifts have been self-evident long before this show and this astounding act of self-destruction.

We’re all wondering what is an amenable solution to interests that are by nature in conflict yet are so intertwined as to appear fused, and the list of questions to consider continues to grow. See our questions from a posting earlier in the week HERE. Normally the press ignores these stories which we talk about regularly, but BLU mastered the PR game this week (and you know that serious money is involved) so it was in Le Monde, The Guardian, and ArtNet, among others. See some images from the opening and press conference are here.

Meanwhile the street can’t stop, won’t stop.

Here’s our our weekly interview with the street, this week featuring Adam Fu, ATOMS, Butt Sup, El Sol 25, Fish With Braids, KEO Xmen, Knon, London Kaye, Nipper, Persue, Reed B More, Sean9Lugo, Scott Marsh, Self-Indulgence, SGNL, Skewville, Tara McPherson, The Yok & Sheryo and Zola.

Our top image: Reed B More. — Finding this handmade wire mobile hanging from electrical wires somewhere in Brooklyn made us very happy this week because; a. mobiles are cool, b. It’s hand made, one of a kind, and c. artists like Skewville and others were doing them at the turn of this century and we haven’t seen many lately. It is fashionable to bash muralism at the moment for usurping the spirit of Street Art, or some other silliness. It’s mucho mas dopetastic to just do good work and put it out there and let the hackneyed non-debate rage without you. We’re keeping our eyes open for small, often hidden, fresh, well placed, unexpected, unpredictable, original, one of a kind, non-derivative, non-hash-tagged pieces. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Speaking of Skewville…these new dogs have suddenly been flying in Brooklyn skies. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

It’s not just Pi. It’s octopi. London Kaye forever and ad infinitum. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

London Kaye. Here is our guess with this installation. The graff by Knon was already on the wall and she decided to collaborate. What do you think of the results? (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Butt Sup under a Pear. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

SGNL (photo © Jaime Rojo)

KEO Xmen on the other side… (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Tara McPherson (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Sean9Lugo in collaboration with El Sol 25 (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Sean9Lugo. Detail. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

El Sol 25. Detail. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Popeye imagery pops up again. El Sol 25 (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Nipper in Stavanger, Norway. (photo © @toris64)

Zola. An apt street visual representation of the polarity we’re dealing with today. Although there would probably need to be 98 more of the figure on the left to present a more accurate ratio, and 97 of them would be sleeping or watching reality TV and ESPN. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Zola. Detail. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Speaking of celebrity culture, Sydney based muralist Scott Marsh often depicts recognizable music personas like James Brown and Biggie Smalls in his figurative works. This week he completed this intense love scene parody on the street. But this is evidently more than romance, it’s carnal.

“No one can love Kanye quite like Kanye,” says Marsh of the new piece on Zigi’s Wine & Cheese Bar in Teggs Lane, Chippendale. Wonder what music they are listening to?

New mural of Two Kanyes kissing in Sydney. Detail. Scott Marsh (photo © Scott Marsh)

“I’m a big Kanye fan,” says Marsh. “He’s an incredible artist and a character and I like that. I was contacted by Lush’s manager to help find him a wall in Sydney. He painted a giant Kim Kardashian at the other end. It’s probably the least effort I have put into any mural – I painted it in four hours as a bit of a laugh. The response has been hilarious.”

Two Kanyes kissing in Sydney. Scott Marsh (photo © Scott Marsh)

Fish With Braids updates Frida Kahlo on a purple van (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Self Indulgence (photo © Jaime Rojo)

ATOMS. Adam Fu and Persue (photo © Jaime Rojo)

The Yok & Sheryo. Detail. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

The Yok & Sheryo (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Untitled. SOHO. NYC. March 2016. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

BSA Images Of The Week: 02.21.16

February 21, 2016 Artists, BSA Images Of The Week

Happy Sunday! Evidently Donald Trump is the Anti-Christ! Full disclosure, we already sort of suspected this because he is also anti-immigrant, anti-Mexican, anti-woman, anti-humility and so many other anti-s. The question is, who is going to break the news to Michele Bachman?

Also, does this mean that Obama is not going to stroll right into the United Nations and declare himself king of the world? Maybe he’s planning to appoint himself the replacement of Anthony Scalia on the Supreme Court and he’s so busy planning it that he skipped the funeral!

And what role does Formation play in all of this?

Meanwhile here on the dirty garbage-strewn sidewalk we have our our weekly interview with the street, this week featuring Barlo, CitiCop, City Kitty, Crisp, Faith 47, Flood, Hueman, JR, Madsteez, Mr. Renaissance Style, Otto “Osch” Schade, Queen Andrea, Specter, Stikman,Tim Okamura,WRSPNSK, XORS, and Zhu Hai .

Our top image: Faith 47. Detail. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Faith 47 (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Otto Osch Schade in Nairobi, Kenya. February, 2016. (photo © Urban Art International)

Mr. Renaissance Style (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Queen Andrea is hustling hard, girl! (photo © Jaime Rojo)

City Kitty with friends. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Crisp (photo © Jaime Rojo)

JR. From his Immigration series. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

JR. The remnants of a larger installation from his Immigration series. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

CitiCop merges banks and police and the force of the state. In school they called this fascism. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Barlo has two flaming cocks on the street in Zhu Hai, South China. February 2016. (photo © Barlo)

Barlo. Zhu Hai, South China. February 2016. (photo © Barlo)

Stikman (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Specter ad take over in Chinatown. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Hueman (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Madsteez draws inspiration from a movie poster. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

XORS (photo © Jaime Rojo)

WRSPNSK (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Flood is trying to tell us something, but we’re evidently not cool enough to understand… (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Vermibus Returns to NYC to Dissolve Concepts of Beauty

February 15, 2016 Artists

The emancipation of the proletariat will be at its own hands!

Just thought we’d announce something vaguely Marxist on Presidents Day to get your attention, since the masses are awakening to the idea of a democratic socialist as a possibly viable Presidential candidate. Ah, but we citizens are now deep in the stew of consumerism, quite cut off from the means of production. Now we city people just buy stuff, and sell stuff.

Part of that selling, especially when it comes to beauty and fashion, is to create obsolescence. Integral to the street messaging is to continually insult and degrade the passerby and plant insecurity about our appearance and physical attributes in our minds, ensuring that we never actually are good enough until we buy this new shirt, blouse, lipstick, purse, watch, cologne, sunglasses, sneakers, underwear.

Now as New York’s fashion week is underway with new looks for next fall and winter, street artist Vermibus continues to mount his personal DIY full frontal attack on beauty culture and fashion, one street poster at a time.

The Situationists of the 1960s would likely smiled at his brand of détournement, pranking the everpresent models who belittle you as you walk in public. Ironically in New York people are so focused on the game of keeping their jobs and their rents and their social lives that they pass right by Vermibus in broad daylight as he replaces these ads with his dissolved/repainted ones.

Some curious folks stop to watch as he replaces the gorgeous healthy wealthy young people who have fabulous lives and smooth complexions with these brutal and stylized grotesques. It’s like a jolt to the commercial streetscape in the frigid winter. The subtle changes are a curiosity that brings out the cell phone for a quick shot and a question to a companion. Then they hurriedly clop up the sidewalk to the next appointment.

BSA Images Of The Week: 02.07.16

February 7, 2016 Artists, BSA Images Of The Week

Here’s our weekly interview with the street, this week featuring 92, Alice Mizrachi, Bifido, Dubois Does Not Speak French, El Sol 25, Futura, Jick, JR, Klops, Rubin415, Specter, and Tara McPherson.

Our top image: Tara McPherson is not usually someone whose work you see on the street but here it is… (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Artist Unknown or is this mural an advert? Actually, the latter. The Guggenheim uses this ten-point motivational sign to advertise the restrospective of Swiss artists Peter Fischli and David Weiss. According to the artists the original sign was found in a factory in Thailand. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Klops for The Bushwick Collective illuminates the concentration of 90% of the media in the hands of 6 companies. In 1983 there were 50. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

The sky poem along the top reads: That Morning / Everything / Remember? / Made of SKY / The hardpress of Avenues / Your hands / My day a checklist mingling with a cosmos / We have been in love / Since the invention of gazing at stars / I still whisper “We one day / will have to party”/

Futura dissed. This is Futura’s Houston/Bowery wall in Manhattan which we published as he was painting it. Honestly! Actually, now that you see the choice of black on grey and white on black, you may even say this is a collaboration. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

BSA Images Of The Week: 01.31.16

January 31, 2016 Artists, BSA Images Of The Week

How are things with you? Did you survive the snow/slush/sludge? Did you check out the launch of SOLD magazine this week? It’s made by artists for artists, and straight out of Brooklyn – check out their Instagram here. Proceeds from the show will help keep it going. We start this weeks images with a few from Nick Walker’s show at the Quin hotel. See Nick in February in person with Daze and KET at the Museum of the City of New York.

Here’s our weekly interview with the street, this week featuring Col Wallnuts, Jilly Ballistic, Kai, Nick Walker, RAE, REVS, and Tuco Wallach.

Nick Walker’s exhibition at the Quin Hotel in Manhattan is currently on view and open to the public.

Chris “DAZE” Ellis: The City Is His Muse

January 30, 2016 Artists

Active on the city’s urban art scene since the 70s and 80s as a teen hitting up trains on the Broadway line, this New Yorker transitioned to studio art thirty five years ago and never lost his love for his city. Currently on view at the Museum of the City of New York, this collection rightly typifies an era and is the best way to appreciate the inspirations that have driven him.

DAZE. Reflections on Time Square #2. 2013. Chris “DAZE” Ellis: The City Is My Muse. Museum Of The City Of New York. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

There are personal and topical narratives here and storylines to investigate, always rendered with the distinct DNA of the original aerosol train writers, his own style and undampened sense of wonder throughout.

Looking at the collaged approach to painting figurative scenes you may feel like they are frozen in a moment, a near relief of archetypes, character, symbols and typical New York scenes assembled at different perspectives.

DAZE. Electric Boogaloo. 1982. Chris “DAZE” Ellis: The City Is My Muse. Museum Of The City Of New York. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

His people are ones you recognize, sometimes with ghosts mingling with the earthbound. Coney Island and the beach, the Staten Island Ferry, Times Square, taxi cabs, police – these are his memories colored brightly and rendered palpable.

“City as Muse” ultimately is a commentary and diary that fuses memory with emotion, attesting to an undimmed romance with NYC.

DAZE. Revisitn a Dream. 2004. Chris “DAZE” Ellis: The City Is My Muse. Museum Of The City Of New York. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

DAZE. Coney Island Pier Study. 1999. Chris “DAZE” Ellis: The City Is My Muse. Museum Of The City Of New York. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

DAZE. Parachute Drop. 1997. Chris “DAZE” Ellis: The City Is My Muse. Museum Of The City Of New York. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

DAZE. Queensborough Plaza. 2010. Chris “DAZE” Ellis: The City Is My Muse. Museum Of The City Of New York. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

DAZE. Portrait of Daze by Tom Warren and Tagged by Chris “Daze” Ellis. 1983 Chris “DAZE” Ellis: The City Is My Muse. Museum Of The City Of New York. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Chris “DAZE” Ellis” The City Is My Muse is currently on view at the Museum Of The City Of New York. Click HERE for more information.

See Daze February 9th at 6:30 with Alan KET and Nick Walker for “Urban Art Legends“

See Daze March 2nd at 6:30 with BSA’s Steven Harrington & Jaime Rojo for “Street Art Stories”

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