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ArtUp Program |
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FABnyc's ArtUp program reinvigorates spaces through public art and community partnerships. Since 2008, ArtUp has been transforming construction sites, scaffolding, and other underutilized space in the Lower East Side into street-side galleries. FABnyc works with MaNY Project and ArtForward to produce this rotating public art program. See this recent feature on WABC NY to learn more about ArtUp. Read on for more information on murals and collaborations, spanning from East 1st to East 4 Street. Image Detail: Udom Surangsophon
"Saints of the Lower East Side" with works by Tom Sanford; Curated by Keith Schweitzer & Presented by FABnyc
June 5, 2012 – September 5, 2012 |
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East 1st Street ArtUp Exhibitions |
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Music Machine 
By Sonni
Artist Alley @ Extra Place, 1st Street between 2nd Ave & Bowery
May 19, 2012 - November 2012
Music Machine, the latest exhibit in this rotation at Artist Alley @ Extra Place, features a ground mural by Argentinian Artist Sonni. Music Machine will covers the sidewalk of Extra Place with vibrant, playful, and heartwarming imagery. Image (Above): Sonni, Music Machine. Image Credit (Below): Udom Surangsophon
CRONART
By Ryan Cronin
L’Apicio Windows, 13 East 1st Street
"CRONART" is the newest exhibition produced a part of FABnyc’s public art program in partnership with L'Apicio.
Image Credit: Nicci Yin
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East 2nd Street |
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 The Golden Hour
LNY
Ideal Glass, 22 East 2nd Street
This latest mural was inspired by imagery of a beached whale found dead in New York City after Hurricane Sandy. The mural depicts a struggle for survival between the whale-ship and the two-headed heron-snake, which represents nature turning to technology. Branches grow from one of the heron-snake’s heads, and—as they travel across it’s body—they die and transform into cellphone towers and oilrigs. The Golden Hour represents the greater battle between nature and human technology, drawing into question the economic factors that facilitate this situation, namely, our dependance on oil and petroleum-based products.
Image Credit: LunaPark
Previously MaNY Project has programed murals at the site as part of ArtUp, including "STAMPEDED" by Tel Aviv-based artist Know Hope and the mural's collaborative addition by UK-based artist Phlegm, as well as "The Weight of Air" by Faith47. Look for more FABnyc ArtUp murals programmed in collaboration with Ideal Glass on E. 2nd in the future! Artist & Image Credit: Faith47
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East 3rd Street |
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 Truth Implies the Good
CAKE
La Mama Arcade, 17 East 3rd Street
"Truth Implies the Good" is an outdoor mural curated and organized by MaNY Project as part of ArtUp with artist CAKE on a building exterior located on East 3rd Street slightly east of Bowery.
Image Credit: Keith Schweitzer
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East 4th Street |
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Toy Box, Tool Box
Melanie Paterson / Melaniewillspaterson.com
ArtUp Scaffolding Bridge, 70 East 4th Street
Toy Box, Tool Box celebrates creation, which occurs all around us constantly. Through a progression of interactions between children's toys and real world industrial objects, Paterson draws into question the difference between work and play, suggesting that this difference is simply defined by the attitude of those participating. In all her art, Paterson maintains that images can be messages from a source deep within ourselves, however playful they may be.
Street Lift
Sonni, Skullphone, Robots Will Kill, OverUnder, N’DA, Pasqualina & Veng
Construction Crates, 4th Street at Bowery
Fall 2011 - Winter 2012
FABnyc worked with local contractors and the City's community construction liaison to organize a public art project on the street-side of the three steel crates to transform them from eyesore to site for creativity.
Image Credit: Nicci Yin
Image Credit: Nicci Yin
Image Credit: Nicci Yin
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