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UP6 – Martha Cooper: Graffiti Exposed
While not an artist herself, pioneering photographer Martha Cooper, played a pivotal role in the development of graffiti culture through her work documenting the early days, most notably in “Subway Art.” At 80 years old, she maintains an active calendar, but still made time to sit down with UP to discuss as her ongoing projects and legacy in the urban art world.
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At an Exhibition in Brooklyn, Rolling Stock Graffiti Lives On
Tim Conlon has been tracking graffiti on freight trains for decades, using it to inform his artwork, including life-size photo-realistic paintings of the sides of train cars marked with company logos and graffiti art, and jumbo G scale model trains embellished with colorful renderings of tags and other aerosol artwork. Now Conlon is bringing his love for graffiti train art, including some of his hyper-realistic model trains and his full-size paintings, to a show called “The Future Now” at Julia Seabrook Gallery, 660 Franklin Ave., Brooklyn.
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Beyond The Streets London: 40 years of Mode 2
Melissa Chemam speaks to elusive and charismatic graffiti writer Mode 2, whose work spans from the violence of colonialism to the joy of overthrowing it. Melissa caught his work at the Beyond the Streets show at Saatchi in London, and you can too up until May 9.
