4th Avenue water tower gets some STIK figures

UK-based street artist STIK has painted the water tower at 127 Fourth Ave. at East 13th Street ... bringing a little color to this corner near Union Square ...







Back in September, STIK, working with the Dorian Grey Gallery, created the mural titled "Liberty" on the building above Doc Holliday's on East Ninth Street and Avenue A.

As for 127 Fourth Ave., that vintage-looking clock arrived up here in April as part of a rebranding effort for the apartment building. Not sure if STIK's work is part of that same rebranding.

All along the water towers

For the past two years, Gary Conger has been painting portraits of the rooftop water towers (like the one above) that he sees from his apartment. According to his Web site:

The water towers in my neighborhood (Flatiron/Madison Park) represent an older New York, a city of smaller brick buildings and rooftops that offer living and playing space as well as the hardware needed to run the building. Views of these rooftops and water towers though are being blocked by the new glass towers rising up all around us.

An exhibition of his work, titled "Vanishing New York" (Hey Jeremiah!), is now on display at BooMA, the art gallery at the public relations firm M Booth & Associates, 300 Park Ave. South at 23rd Street, 12th floor. According to the Booth site, "BooMA (with affectionate apologies to MoMA) is one of very few art collections mounted in the halls of New York City public relations firms."

Related:

Bowery Boogie has a nice post from last month on water towers. Jeremiah also has some thoughts on water towers. As he wrote, "I think of the iconic wooden water tanks as lovely anachronisms, symbols of the old New York that is rapidly vanishing."