L’Atlas Chalks Up Washington Square

In town for a solo show that opens tomorrow night, L’Atlas drew one of his geometric designs in Washington Square Park yesterday. The French street artist spent hours on his hands and knees, shading the chalk maze with the help of a friend and the occasional passerby. It’s the first time he created a large public piece in such an impermanent medium and L’Atlas said he enjoyed the idea of today’s stormy weather mixing with the chalk and eventually erasing it completely. More photos of the temporary vandalism below. Read more »

L’Atlas Paints and Prints Pavement

With stark lines and colors, L’Atlas focuses his work on the street, installing massive geometric ground covers, printing canvases off sewer caps and street textures, as well as painting bold typographic designs over the last decade. On Friday, the French street artist will be opening his first solo show in the United States, but not before kicking things off with one of his “monumental site-specific works in the streets of New York City.” “City Fragments” runs from October 16th to November 16th at Gallery Nine 5, 24 Spring Street. Read more »