5Pointz

5Pointz in Long Island City, Queens, New York is an extraordinary place where many street and emerging artists have gallery space. It is a series of industrial buildings covered with street art. Here is a short snippet of the ever changing work on the outside of the buildings which was taken in January 2009. But the best way to see this magnificant living art project is in person.

Art Raw Gallery

Four small artist proof versions of my photographs were part of a large group inaugural show at the Art Raw Gallery on 210 11th Avenue, #905, in the Chelsea art district of New York City.

The opening night on February 19th was too crowded with 300+ artists and their friends and family attending. It was hard to move around, some work was not yet hung and some of the lighting needed to be adjusted. The work could not be appreciated.

So I came back another day to video the gallery and the work. All the work was hung, more lighting was installed and it all fell into place. I was very happy to see how such a wonderful and beautiful range of small works all came together to form a great inaugural show.

The show comes down on March 21 so try to see it before it's over.

Have a look:

Poop Street Art

Before the pooper scooper laws in NYC there was an artist who would quietly and stealthily add whipped cream and a cherry on top of the mounds and mounds of dog poop that lined Minetta Street in Greenwich Village NYC. I wish I had a photo of that because it looked amazing!

Many years and a pooper-scooper-law-in-place later, there is a new dog poop decorater in town now on Manhattan's Upper East Side according Jennifer 8 Lee of the New York Times. Stan O’Connor, a local tour guide posted a video of the work on YouTube. The artist spray-paints dog droppings that are being left on the sidewalk and after the dog waste is removed, the bright rings of orange and green spray paint remain, reminding passers-by of what used to be there.

Bravo, brave and intrepid pooch poop artist!