graffiti/aerosol art

[FRYE!]

got pics of some fresh paint?
post em up for all to see!

[FRYE!]

http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f328/youngfrye/MVC-009S.jpg

[FRYE!]

http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f328/youngfrye/MVC-008S.jpg

[Hyuuga Neji]

nice pics

[FRYE!]

http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f328/youngfrye/MVC-062S.jpg

[Matt in the Hat]

http://www.artinfo.com/articles/story/26444/michael-namer-on-finding-the-holy-grail-of-graffiti

This May, a giant mural, thought to contain work completed by Jean Michel Basquiat, Fab 5 Freddy, Futura 2000, and other street art icons before they were famous, saw the light of day after almost 30 years hidden behind Sheetrock in a kitchen and bathroom in an eight-story SoHo building. The huge piece is rendered in spray paint, glitter, marker, and whatever else the artists had on hand at the time and features a large red airplane bearing Fab 5 Freddy's tag in the center, as well as other tags, a yellow birthday cake, notes, and the names of the artists who contributed to the mural.
Rumors of a mysterious graffiti wall somewhere in the building at 151 Wooster Street had been circulating for years, but most people dismissed the stories as local lore, until Alfa Development started gutting lofts for a luxury condo conversion and accidentally stumbled upon the artwork, which has been called the “Holy Grail of Graffiti."

Now, conservators are carefully removing the mural from the eighth-floor loft and installing it, piece by piece, next to other works by artists such as Basquiat, Fab 5 Freddy, Keith Haring, and Kenny Scharf, loaned from private collections, in a special exhibition, “The Wild Style Exhibit,” which opened at the new Gallery 151, located in the same building, last week and runs through February 15. The wall has attracted the attention of everyone from the former Guggenheim director Lisa Dennison, who is now Sotheby’s executive vice president, to the fashion designer Mark Ecko.

http://www.artinfo.com/media/image/73848/151Wooster_GraffitiWall.jpg


http://www.artinfo.com/media/image/73845/151Wooster_GraffitiDetail.jpg

[FRYE!]

http://www.expositions-exhibitions.com/03imgMastersP1/15Basquiat_30.jpg
there could be a whole thread on Jean-Michel Basquiat's art alone. rawr!

[FRYE!]

http://www.artinfo.com/media/image/14605/BasquiatUntitled1981.jpg
Jean-Michel Basquiat,

Untitled

1981
Acrylic on canvas laid down on board

30.71 x 51 in.

[FRYE!]

http://artcrimes.com/hyde/chicago_tribune_hyde.jpg

http://artcrimes.com/hyde/hyde_chinatown_chicago.jpg

http://artcrimes.com/hyde/hyde_chicago.jpg

Hyde One

[FRYE!]

http://www.nizarkrayem.com/images/imP2a_graffiti.jpg

[Matt in the Hat]

So I am working on a school project on the Upper West Side and found the holy grail. Keith Haring did this work on the staircase in about 1981. The walls are appraised at between $4 and $6 million dollars.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2397/2218953130_cfe9b2e5a1.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2164/2218951994_74cc5761a4.jpg

These little guys never get old.

[FRYE!]

http://www.untitledname.com/archives/upload/2005/3/keith-haring-crack-is-wack-playground-1.jpg (http://untitledname.com/2005/03/crash-test)
http://www.untitledname.com/archives/upload/2005/3/keith-haring-crack-is-wack-playground-2.jpg

[Matt in the Hat]

http://www.untitledname.com/archives/upload/2005/3/keith-haring-crack-is-wack-playground-1.jpg (http://untitledname.com/2005/03/crash-test)
http://www.untitledname.com/archives/upload/2005/3/keith-haring-crack-is-wack-playground-2.jpg
That's the one along the Harlem River Drive, right?

[FRYE!]

yeah, i think so. never seen it in person, but it's featured in some new hip hop video i saw on BET the other day. i thought, how cool these dudes using it as a back drop for their shoot. wish i knew what group that was...

[FRYE!]

a Keith Haring tribute piece by PEAT WOLLAEGER.
http://a628.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/114/l_86fd418e00a60f0eeede081f7d9d682b.jpg (http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=viewImage&friendID=73960&albumID=2206052&imageID=23011557)

peep the video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1w_gkQCc0M

http://a187.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/5/l_0062b6edc9fbad23ff544763704c53ca.jpg (http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=viewImage&friendID=73960&albumID=2206052&imageID=23011530)

[Alberto]

http://www.artinfo.com/articles/story/26444/michael-namer-on-finding-the-holy-grail-of-graffiti



http://www.artinfo.com/media/image/73848/151Wooster_GraffitiWall.jpg


http://www.artinfo.com/media/image/73845/151Wooster_GraffitiDetail.jpg

I got to say this is crap.

[Alberto]

http://www.expositions-exhibitions.com/03imgMastersP1/15Basquiat_30.jpg
there could be a whole thread on Jean-Michel Basquiat's art alone. rawr!

This on the other hand is not crap. This is very good.

[FRYE!]

The $8 Million Crack Haus (http://www.gothamcityinsider.com/2007/12/8-million-crack-haus.html)


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My boy C to the D schooled me to this story before it broke and I slept on it so now I'm playing catch up like a ********in' tomato.

Anyway, everybody is partying like it's 1979 over this recently unearthed concrete slab covered in early-NYC graffiti like it's a fossil of a human foot from the La Brea Tar Pits or some sort of lost Egyptian hieroglyphic lexicon from the unremembered 80's.

It's actually a chunk of a concrete wall which was recently discovered and removed from inside a 10-story limestone at 151 Wooster that was being converted into, what else but, more luxury condominiums. I guess when they were tearing into the place, they found this wall on the 8th floor behind layers of sheetrock and rusted pipes.

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2007/06/03/realestate/600-post.jpg

The slab of molten bedrock with tags and doodles by original wild style NYC graffiti artistes Fab Five Freddy, Futura 2000 and some traces by Jean-Michel Basquiat is now being used to sell said luxury condos! Come live where Basquiat once shot up! Oh, joy!

I guess your boy Basquiat took a few "SAMO," tags in the stairwell, too. Basquiat was friends with Edit deAk, an art magazine editor, who lived at 151 Wooster in the early 80's, when it was probably little more than a squat.

"Oooh look, honey, how urban! How dangerous! Do you think they did drugs here, too?"The new "luxury lofts" at 151 Wooster going for about $8 million (with a maintenance of $42,000 a year). Not a bad deal for a converted crack house!

What does it all mean, though? I'm certain there is something very deep and telling here about New York City circa now and the way faux-urbanism is being used to sell luxury condominiums so far removed, literally and figuratively, from anything urban whatsoever.

http://www.newsday.com/media/photo/2007-12/34232787.jpg

It's like, "Yes, we want so desperately to live on the rugged and raw, anything-goes Lower East Side, have a hip, young, cool address and simply surround ourselves with all this passion and creativity and energy but we want to up really, really ********ing high and have one of those car elevators so we can drive our BMW right into our living room and never have to interact with anyone on the sidewalk, ever." It's such total bullshit.

You love that ********ing old concrete wall so much? Go live in a squat. There are walls just like it with new up and coming artistes. Get urban. Get dirty. Really immerse yourself in the creative juices of the Alphabet City of the late 70's. Really get in there. Roll up your sleeves and shoot some H and take a few SAMO tags near the Projects. Eat balled up cat food and pretend it's tuna fish. Walk around barefoot. Score some more H. Repeat.

www.gothamcityinsider.com/2007/12/8-million-c... (http://www.gothamcityinsider.com/2007/12/8-million-crack-haus.html)

[FRYE!]

"SAMO" graffiti... which Basquiat was doing in 1979-82.
http://www.citynoise.org/upload/6443.jpg
http://www.citynoise.org/upload/6444.jpg

[FRYE!]

In 1977, along with a friend Al Diaz, Basquiat started to spray painting cryptic sayings on subway trains and around lower Manhattan and signing them with the name SAMO© (Same Old Shit).
http://www.basquiat.net/graffiti/samograffiti.jpg
http://www.citynoise.org/upload/6445.jpg
http://www.citynoise.org/upload/6446.jpg