Gothamist: REVS in Steel

EON

Mon, 04 Jul 2005 19:41:39 -0500

REVS is one of the best in the history of graffiti.He pioneerd many styles of graff. And now he is doing it again. Anybody who doesn't know true art when they see it.

dpm

Sun, 01 May 2005 08:11:10 -0500

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...

brooklyn

Mon, 18 Apr 2005 21:49:06 -0500

revs is dope. so many pages.

dragonballyee

Sun, 17 Apr 2005 22:09:43 -0500

Revs is getting some NYT love

RT

Tue, 05 Apr 2005 22:40:26 -0500

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

Tue, 05 Apr 2005 14:30:15 -0500

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

Tue, 05 Apr 2005 13:53:22 -0500

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.