Maya Hayuk Mural on the Houston and Bowery Wall

Brooklyn-based artist Maya Hayuk braved New York’s plunging winter temperatures and snow-covered streets to complete her latest mural on the famous wall at the corner of Bowery and Houston in Lower Manhattan.

Revok and Pose Mural at Bowery and Houston Graffiti Wall

This is the new mural by MSK street artists Revok and Pose at the graffiti wall located at the corner of Bowery and Houston Streets in Lower Manhattan. The two-story masterpiece is a colorful collage of comic book stylings that doubles as a memorial mural. REVOK and POSE pay tribute to fallen street artists like Nekst, IZ, and Dondi. Images and text are painted around the spine of the phrase “Uphill Both Ways.”

Mural By Crash Featuring Popeye

Graffiti artist, Crash (aka John Matos) put together this fresh composition featuring the iconic cartoon character Popeye for a mural on the wall at  the corner of Houston and Bowery Streets. The mural is a spray-painted image of Popeye swinging his fists through the letters in the artist’s name. The Popeye is illustrated from the lower-torso up, taking up the full 17-foot height of the mural.

Faile's New Artwork on the Houston and Bowery Intersection Mural Space

The famous mural space at the corner of Houston and Bowery Streets in Lower Manhattan currently showcases a new large-scale artwork by Faile, a Brooklyn-based artists collective co-founded by Patrick McNeil and Patrick Miller. They are known for pioneering a wider variety of mediums used in street art, and the use of wheatpasting (liquid adhesive made from paste and water) and stenciling. The same mural space has been home to artworks by artists such as Shepard Fairey.

Kenny Scharf Mural on Houston and Bowery

Pop artist Kenny Scharf's new mural on Houston and Bowery has been completed last week. This space has been used for Deitch Projects where artists hared their art with the public. Scharf's mural features a crowded colorful cast of characters.  

KEITH HARING'S HOUSTON STREET AND BOWERY MURAL

These are photos of the recreation of the late artist KEITH HARING’s celebrated Houston Street and Bowery mural. The mural became an instant downtown landmark after Keith painted it in the summer of 1982. The mural was up for only a few months in the summer of 1982 before it was painted out but its image remains imprinted in the memory of many people who were part of the downtown artist community in the early 1980s. The mural was repainted by Gotham Scenic using the extensive photographic documentation of the original work. The work was unveiled on May 4, 2008 the day that would have been Keith Haring’s 50th Birthday.

Keith Haring (May 4, 1958 – February 16, 1990) was an artist and social activist whose work responded to the New York City street culture of the 1980s. Born in Reading, Pennsylvania, Haring grew up in Kutztown and was interested in art from an early age. From 1976 to 1978 he studied graphic design at The Ivy School of Professional Art, a commercial and fine art school in Pittsburgh. At age 19 Haring, who was openly gay, moved to New York City, where he was inspired by graffiti art, and studied at the School of Visual Arts. The Keith Haring Foundation was established in 1989 to assist AIDS-related and children's charities, and maintains the largest resource of archives on Keith Haring. Haring's bold lines and active figures carry poignant messages of vitality and unity. His legacy made an impact on late 20th century art and grants us all a vision for the future.