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Street artists and world traveler ABOVE has teamed up with Italian screen printing company, STUDIOCROMIE to produce a new set of prints, titled MOBILE series. Above (no pun intended) are the images of the available four lettered prints. Limited to a run of 100, with a one per customer limit, I am sure every art geek will snatch these up and then sell them on eBay. All prints are signed by ABOVE and are approximately 13″ x 19″. The prints are sold individually for about $238- or as a set of three for $477-.

During the weekend of May 16th - May 18th, 24 street artists will head into the upstate town of Beacon, NY. Each of the artists involved will create 8′ x 12′ works of art to be displayed in the windows of an abandoned factory building located at 510 Main Street. The windows will act as frames for the works, that will be on display for 12 months.

Artists involved: Above, Chris Stain, Cycle, Dan Funderburgh, Daryll Pierce, Depoe, Elbow Toe, Jim Darling, ILOVEMYBOO, Lady Pink, Michael De Feo, Mr Kiji, Peripheral Media Projects, Pete Wollenger, Rene Gagnon, Rick Price, Ripo, Ron English, Tes One, The Love Movement, Tina Darling, Ultra, UPSO, You Are Beautiful

On May 17th & 18th you can watch the artists paint live, but you will only get to listen to live music on the 17th. Making the event even better is the price - FREE!

Learn more at www.electricwindowsbeacon.com

Street artist extraordinaire, ABOVE has concluded his Central and South American tour with this lovely little ditty down in Mexico. Reading “THIS IS THE END OF THE BEGINNING”, this piece nicely sums up the mans six month excursion. Now resting it up here in the States, I am sure it will not be long before ABOVE will be back out there ripping up some other countries. Who knows, maybe ABOVE will grace the states with some more of his work before skipping a red eye back to Europe.

Following the below post on 11 Spring Street, I felt it was necessary to put up this photograph of the building located just down the street. Right on the corner of Spring and Bowery sits another canvas of street artist and graffiti writers. While this building never reached the notoriety of 11 Spring Street, it’s walls have still been graced with the works of REVS, Judith Supine, WK, Shepard Fairey, the IRAK crew and many, many more. Now the majority of the building is covered in memorial graffiti for Joey Semz. Props.

It has been over a year now since NYC, nay the World lost one of the most valuable street art canvases ever to exist. For years 11 Spring Street was the equivalent of the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel with the works of modern day Michaelangelo’s gracing every inch of it. 11 Spring Street amplified the difference between graffiti and street art (because yes, there is a HUGE difference) and the battle and embracing between these two cultures. The walls were constantly changing and telling the stories of those putting their mark on them and tales of the city. The reason I am writing about 11 Spring so long after it has been covered in construction tarps and scaffolding, in the interim of being whitewashed and becoming multi-million dollar condo’s, is simple, I walked passed the decomposed shell of a building that was once a gorgeous piece of art, life and NYC and just missed it. This is yet another example of old and true NYC being phased out into anywhere U.S.A.

R.I.P. 11 Spring.

For more information and images check out these links:
Wooster Collective, Wooster On Spring, NY Times, Streetsy

ABOVE has been mentioned on this blog before, but here are a few more pics of works created during his Central and South American tour, that we’re worth posting. These particular images are painted in Panama City, Panama and appear on opposite sides of the same walls. I appreciate this work because it fits the area it was painted, an abandoned warehouse that was cast aside by one man and made into a canvas by ABOVE.