Greenpointers Complain About the Neighborhood's Bad Street Art
Dumbo had its Graffiti Garage, Long Island City has the street art Mecca, 5Pointz, at least for a while longer. But Greenpoint appears to be stuck with some downright untalented street artists. According to an article in the Times, the neighborhood is covered in scrawl. It’s on trees and buildings, signs and statues, and, for…
Dumbo had its Graffiti Garage, Long Island City has the street art Mecca, 5Pointz, at least for a while longer. But Greenpoint appears to be stuck with some downright untalented street artists. According to an article in the Times, the neighborhood is covered in scrawl. It’s on trees and buildings, signs and statues, and, for the most part, its hardly the internationally recognized work by Banksy, Shepard Fairey or the New York-based collective Faile. The Greenpoint Chamber of Commerce has spent more than $25,000 since November painting it over. The chamber’s president told the Times, “the conventional wisdom was that most of the graffiti drawers were local, but there is another theory. Call it graffiti tourism. ‘People from the Midwest come here just to do graffiti’ and then post pictures online, he said. ‘I’ve heard that.'” Speculation aside, have you seen a an increase in graffiti in Greenpoint? Is the quality good or bad. Does it make a difference?
The Writing is on the Walls, and the Signs and the Trees [NY Times]
Photo: Treetop Mom
tagging =/ street art
Agree DH,but some taggers actually evolve and get into other forms of ‘street’ art e.g. wheatpasting,mixed media,doing it on canvas etc
Kosbe would be an example http://cosbe.tumblr.com/Gallery.
Seen,Daze,Dabs & Myla,Cope2,UR New York,LA2 etc
Defacing someone else’s property with crappy scribbling or spray painting of your name (or whatever illegible crap most of this is) isn’t art. It’s simply defacing someone else’s property. They should have to scrub it off with a toothbrush.
A shame we cant get some good graffiti as we have many top notch artists that live/work in the area – Faile,Logan Hicks,El Sol 25,Jilly Ballistic etc…Colosal Media/SkyHigh Murals which has many walls in the area is based here as well.
Forgot to add R.Robots to that list – he has many beautiful pieces up around WillyB/Greenpoint including the rental building at 349 Metropolitan
Let’s please not refer to this as “art”. I think something along the lines of “litter” is much more appropriate.