The Bushwick Collective, Brooklyn, NYC (In Pictures)

OK, so here’s yet another post featuring photographs taken during my recent trip to New York City; in this case, The Bushwick Collective, an outdoor street gallery of artists from around the world. In Brooklyn, the Bushwick Collective at Troutman Street and St. Nicholas Avenue is emerging as a new destination for street artists. Joseph Ficalora, whose family owns a steel fabrication plant in Bushwick, curates the vast outdoor art gallery that is slowly transforming a neighborhood that has been plagued with crime and vandalism (the place is still overrun with illegal graffiti).

Ficalora works with other local building owners to find and provide empty walls for emerging street artists, who have come from all over the world. Artists are required to send three jpegs of recent work, a short bio, and their concept to joe@thebushwickcollective.com before permission is granted.

I spent a couple of walking around The Bushwick Collective with my daughter and brother and although it ain’t nearly as eye-popping as the Wynwood Arts District right here in Miami, it’s still well worth a visit (preferably during the daytime). Enjoy the pics…

American artist Caledonia Dance Curry aka Swoon

Australian stencil artist Damien Mitchell

Italian street artist Pixel Pancho

Collaboration between The Yok (Australia) and Sheryo (Singapore/NYC)

The Yok

German artist Hendrik Beikirch aka ECB

NYC based artist Buff Monster

American artist Joe Iurato

NYC street artist Vladimir Bubnov a.k.a. AINAC (Art Is Not A Crime) and yours truly

My daughter snapping a pic of the work of NYC artist Fumero

NYC Street artist Beau Stanton

Argentinian artist Sonni Adrian

NYC street art duo Billy Mode & Chris Stain (and me)

UK artist Phlegm

NYC Artist Lexi Bella

Australian street artist Vexta

Here are my other posts from my summer visit to NYC:

Counting Crows live at SummerStage, NYC

GRAFSTRACT: Beautifying the Bronx with Graffiti & Street Art