Steve Powers Painted More Stuff In Downtown Brooklyn

A few blocks away from the vintage Macy’s parking garage that Steve Powers dressed up a few months ago, lies this newly decorated building at 119 Livingston Street in Downtown Brooklyn. The NYC subway map inspired piece is entitled the “Train To Always” on his website, and features stops we’ve all been to before: “NOPE,” “MEH,” and “MAYBE,” among others. A guy who answered the phone at the hero shop below it and didn’t really feel like talking, said the landlord gave Powers permission to do the work.

By on January 5, 2012 at 2:00 pm
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Graffiti Artist Festoons Brooklyn Parking Lot

Artist Steve Powers (formerly ESPO) is working on a “Love Letter” to Brooklyn on the giant, ugly banks of a giant, ugly parking lot for the giant, ugly Fulton Mall. Read more »

By on September 13, 2011 at 11:00 am
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Steve Powers’ ‘New York’

After painting all those murals in Philadelphia, Steve Powers, the artist formerly known as ESPO, was able to get back to his sign painting style of art. He’s releasing this ‘New York’ print via Pictures On Walls that offers some graphical-based insights about the greatest city known to mankind. The four color screen print measures 25×25 inches, is an edition of 125, and comes signed/numbered ($338).

By on October 30, 2009 at 11:30 am
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Michael Anderson vs. Steve Powers

Michael Anderson laughed off recent criticism by fellow artist Steve Powers aka ESPO over a graffiti sticker collage he created for the Ace Hotel, telling ANIMAL, “I think it’s just completely ignorant and I don’t think ESPO knows anything about my real work.” Powers told New York magazine that “stickers are meant to be ephemeral, not to be poached and hoarded” and called Anderson a “fanbot” for his collection. White Wall mag has joined the fray and thinks Powers is a hypocrite: Read more »

By on August 11, 2009 at 2:26 pm
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Steve Powers Painting ‘Love Letter’ To Philly

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Steve Powers
Steve Powers
Steve Powers
Steve Powers
Steve Powers


Artist Steve Powers is returning to his hometown with an ambitious new project, “Love Letter.” The series of murals covering 50 walls and rooftops will be form letter of love visible for 20 blocks on the Market-Frankford elevated train line. The message will not only come from the neighborhood but be painted by residents as well. With project collaborators at the Philadelphia Mural Arts Program, Powers is opening a sign making school to teach and employ young adults on the project’s construction beginning in August.

By on July 6, 2009 at 11:21 am
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Artists Attempt to Rebrand America

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Steve Powers
Dan Wieden
Dan Wieden
Kevin Roberts
Kevin Roberts
Andy Spade and Anthony Sperduti
Andy Spade and Anthony Sperduti


Paper magazine’s Kim Hastreiter recently asked a group of artists and ad makers to fix America’s image: “How would you make people love us again? … How could you project our future to our citizens? If America had a new ad campaign, what would it look like?” The group of “visual communicators,” including Steve Powers, Shepard Fairey and Ron English, responded with some interesting concepts for “Rebranding America,” a sample of which you can preview in the gallery above.

By on May 7, 2009 at 6:17 pm
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Video of Steve Power’s ‘Church of the Open Tab’

For those who can’t get served at Steve Powers’ Church of the Open Tab, this video provides a nice view of the work on display. Famed cartoonist and sign painter Justin Green, one of the artists who contributed to the production, also describes the cooperative work that went into putting 2 Fists of Iron and a Bottle of Beer together. |TWBE|

By on April 29, 2009 at 1:28 pm
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Steve Powers’ Full Service Art Show

On Saturday, Steve Powers, the artist formerly known as ESPO, opened a solo show at White Flag Projects in St. Louis. 2 Fists of Iron and a Bottle of Beer showcases Powers’ distinct slogans and sign-painter style within a drive-through wedding chapel and custom auto graphics shop installed in the gallery. While volunteers can have their cars covered in his cut-out vinyl slogans, it’s unclear if anyone can get married before the show closes on June 7th.

By on April 27, 2009 at 1:45 pm
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ESPO’s ‘Street Art’ Is Gay T-Shirt

Although the media clumsily lumps them both together, “graffiti” and “street art” are not one and the same. For one, “Street Art is gay,” according to ESPO, who appears to subtly take a swipe at the less ruffian art form in this new rainbow colored t-shirt design. It was created for T-Shirt Monthly, a Swiss company that operates like a magazine, offering subscribers one t-shirt a month that features “exclusive artwork by talented designers.” |TWBE|

By on January 30, 2009 at 11:00 am
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ESPO’s Line of Hooker Raincoats


In an effort to attract the highly sought after Parisian prostituting demographic and make some sort of statement about sex workers or something, SoHo artist Stephen Powers aka ESPO created a line of yellow raincoats with imagery devised to represent a “metaphor for protection,” many of which were reportedly “given to and worn by actual prostitutes” as part of an exhibit the former vandal created for French fast crowd boutique Colette to highlight World Aids Day. |Supertouch|

By on December 5, 2008 at 8:02 pm
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