Popular street artist RETNA (Marquis Lewis) has been scrawling his signature tags across LA since he was in high school—the now 34-year-old artist, who is beloved by the likes of Jeffrey Deitch, had his first major NYC solo show last month, converting a massive downtown warehouse into "his own kind of temple." This week, the artist took to the East Village to paint a massive mural on Houston and Bowery—he previously has had murals up in DUMBO, but never anything like this. Check out some pics of the mural above, and you can see more pictures of RETNA at work on the mural here.
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Street Artist RETNA Does Houston/Bowery Mural
Poster Boy Talks
Is Poster Boy angling to be street art's Keyser Söze? He's only fooling the Paper of Record so far, after a friend of the artist told them “Poster Boy can be anybody.” Mysterious!
Poster Boy, Street Artist
When we first heard of Poster Boy it was for his subway ad "mash-ups." More recently a video came out showing him work on a much larger scale, above ground, and promising it's a sign of what's to come. Earlier this week we tracked down the anonymous artist to ask him about his plans, ideas and why he does what he does.
Chris Stain, Street Artist
Recently street artist Chris Stain has been pasting up his art around town with Swoon. He says that in 1984, he was one of the "kids who became infected by graffiti's bold colors, striking form, and independent nature." Decades later he looked at his own work, describing it as a direct reflection of his surroundings -- "the people, neighborhoods, and struggles, that are swept along with the every day lives of the common American." Still in town and putting up work that he feels fits into the city's individual neighborhoods, we asked him a few questions about his art.
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