Poster Boy Busted Again

It’s been a while since we’ve heard from Poster Boy, the subway ad manipulating artist who plead guilty last December and was sentenced to 210 hours of community service, but here’s the latest update by way of the Post: “Prosecutors said Matyjewicz, aka Poster Boy, was arrested Jan. 22 at 3:20 a.m. after a cop spotted him at the Jefferson Street L train station in Bushwick slicing the heads off people depicted on an ad.” He has apparently abandoned the “Poster Boy is a movement defense,” reportedly admitting his identity to the arresting officer after his name was run through the computer. |NYP|

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Poster Boy Sentenced to Community Service

Nearly a year after his arrest at a Soho art opening, Poster Boy has been sentenced to community service. The ad altering artist was given 210 hours of work yesterday in Brooklyn Supreme Court after pleading guilty to two counts of criminal mischief, a felony and misdemeanor, according to the Post. Read more »

Poster Boy Is Conflicted

Not much has been heard from Poster Boy since his New Jersey art gallery takeover, until now. The ad-altering artist recently submitted to an interview and discussed his conflicted efforts to be both an artist and a movement. Read more »

Poster Boy Is Doing Something In Bushwick, But We’re Still Not Sure What

So the subway ad modifying vandal and newly christened gallery artist known as Poster Boy is doing some sort of art event at the 3rd Ward gallery in Bushwick and it’s being hosted by indie quarterly Pomp and Circumstance, but beyond that the details become awfully sordid. According to the Brooklyn Paper, local businesses like “Dogfish Head Craft Brewed Ales, Harper Perennial, and the Brooklyn Salsa Company” are giving him permission to cut up their ads. The public will then be invited to help “remix” them under his tutelage. But that’s not the case according to Poster Boy who slammed the Rupert Murdoch owned paper in the comment section:
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Poster Boy Should Remain Underground

This past weekend, the subway ad modifying artist known as Poster Boy unveiled his first solo exhibit at Eastern District in Brooklyn. The show basically consisted of a massive cut up Dunkin’ Donuts vinyl billboard that was stretched across the main wall. Unfortunately, like many street artists before him trying to make that transition from the streets into a gallery setting, the concept just doesn’t come off as interesting when taken out of its illegal element and it becomes a softer, less edgier version of his unsanctioned work. But we can’t knock everything from the show, the exterior sign is brilliant (after the jump) and we’ll still be on the lookout for what happens below the streets.
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Neo-Cons Conspire In Brooklyn

Poster Boy—the artist not the movement—is showcasing some new collaborative installations with fellow Neo-Con Collective members Aakash Nihalani and Ellis G. at 17 Frost Gallery in Brooklyn Saturday, March 21st. For those fluent in art fag, here’s the lofty description of the exhibit: “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.” Considering what happened last time he showed up, Poster Boy fall guy Henry Matyjewicz might want to avoid the event altogether.