Bushwick Open Studios (BOS), an annual art happening that promotes the “vibrant community and local art,” in Bushwick (and Williamsburg), entered its eighth year of existence on Friday. As part of the three-day event, the Bushwick Collective invited a slew of street artists to paint the blocks and blocks of legal walls it curates as passers-by gawk, take pictures, and break their concentration. But hey, it’s all part of the game. After all, no one wants to just see a finished mural, they want a little spectacle as well.
ANIMAL stopped by Saturday afternoon and snapped some photos of Fumero, Vers, Billy Mode, Solus, Adam Fu, and Jerkface as they worked to get their pieces done for the block party on Sunday, the latter of whom showed me what his latest nostalgia-inducing art, a fractured version of TMNT’s Michelangelo, should look like when its all done. (Photos: Bucky Turco/ANIMALNewYork)
For Bushwick Open Studios 2014, the Bushwick Collective added a few more murals to the already street art-laden landscape of Troutman, Jefferson and Wyckoff streets. We caught Adam Fu, Vers, Solus and others in action over the weekend, but here the completed murals. This year, the Bushwick Collective also held a…
Street artist Buff Monster has been busy painting walls in Brooklyn lately using his signature pink color scheme. We showed you the collaboration he did with HOACS and just the other day he finished another wall at Bushwick Collective, a sort of outdoor gallery on Troutman Street between St. Nicholas…
ZEXOR, a graffiti writer born and bred in NYC, has been on a rampage lately, defacing (or beautifying, depending on who you talk to) one mural after another with spray paint. His main target? The Bushwick Collective, an ongoing street art project that facilitates the painting of scores of walls…
