Sunday, April 28, 2024

Local students help create a tribute to Basquiat at the 12C Outdoor Gallery

Photos by @galinskynow 

The 12C Outdoor Gallery has been coming back to life with the help of some local students.

Earlier this month, several artists, parents, and grammar school students went to work on a new mural on the corner of 12th Street and Avenue C. 

The piece is titled: "With Love from the LES to the Caribbean: In Memory of Jean-Michel Basquiat."
... and the final product...
The mural is a collaboration led by artists Savannah Zambrano and Andrea Amanda with students at P.S. 188 The Island School ... with the support of Loisaida Inc., Galinsky Coaching, Thrive Collective, Curated Concepts LLC, and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council.

In early March, Brooklyn-based artist Danielle Mastrion finished the first mural outside the renovated building, paying tribute to Puerto Rican freedom fighter and spiritual luminary Pedro Albizu Campos. (Campos Plaza is directly across 12th Street.)
The 12C Outdoor Art Gallery previously featured a rotating batch of murals curated by Robert Galinsky. One constant throughout the years was the Gil Scott-Heron tribute that Chico created after the jazz poet, musician, and author died in 2011. 
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4 comments:

  1. hywel ddaApril 28, 2024 at 11:29 AM

    That mural is a keeper! Absolutely wonderful!

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  2. Jose GarciaApril 28, 2024 at 12:18 PM

    So nice to have some replacement murals there.

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  3. Anna MApril 29, 2024 at 9:30 AM

    This is lovely!!!

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  4. AnonymousMay 8, 2024 at 8:37 PM

    Local Robert Galinsky is always involved in cool stuff :)

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