REVS in Steel

Gothamist loves the REVS sculpture that Untitled Name captured in Gowanus (here's another set of REVS scupltures in the Meatpacking District from Untitled Name). Are there any other artists working in steel graffiti that you know of?

REVS graf on Flickr, Joe's REVS graf spotting in Northern Manhattan, and REVS wrote the text for the book, Autograf.

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By Jen Chung in Arts and Events on April 5, 2005 1:04 PM

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dpm

I just watched some asshole steal the sculpture on water street in dumbo, literally 10 minutes ago. How can someone do that? It just seems to me having an appreciation for art and graf and stealing his work just doesn't make any sense, it's incongruous, i can't understand it. I yelled "Theif!" from pretty far away which prompted a wave of a gun so I shut up. Mofo put it in the back of his black SUV and drove away, jersey plates but I was too far away to get a number. But I guess it's illeagal art in the first place so...

RT

Ken, I tend to agree with you. There's tons of media out there about graffiti, using graffiti, or influenced by graffiti. It seems like people who grew up with graffiti are finally in decision making positions. I guess graffiti has been coming of age recently.

However, though REVS is an amazing writer, I would characterize his sculptures as street art or post graffiti, etc. I hate to lump him in generically though. People don't associate it with painted graffiti. Most would probably be repulsed by a REVS tag.

ken

having lived in nyc for a while now, i have never witnessed anything like the present day respect for graf. i'm just curious when people not involved in graf started respecting graf? is it because of the magazines, the videos, the commercials, the books, the fashionistas, the galleries, etc. which in recent years have commercialized what was once a sub-culture? is it the internet, which has allowed one-hit wonders proclaim themselves all-city? or is it because of writers like revs, cost, espo, kr, twist, and many many others who have transformed the usual methods of writing, that made you look at graf differently? do you have the same respect for the writers who solely use paint and markers, the "brick and mortars" of the genre?

just curious...

nater

thanks so much for posting the revs steel link. i knew he had done one, but didn't realize he was doing a bunch of steel pieces. they are fantastic.