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Revok, Retna, Saber Live Wall Painting on Water Street

August 6th, 2007

West Coast street artists Revok, Retna, Saber, and Ewok have been hard at work over the weekend on a live wall painting on Water Street (@ Pearl St) in Dumbo Brooklyn. Check it out for yourself. Lots of great detail to see. The work is in collaboration with a PowerHouse Arena show called All Writers Reserved. Some photos from the weekend:
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Gallery Show (Revok, Retna, Saber) at PowerHouse Arena (37 Main St, Dumbo, Brooklyn) between: August 11 – September 7 2007
Opening Reception: August 11th 7pm-11pm

{Google Street View of Water Street (Between Pearl and Jay Street)}
{Boost Mobile presents REVOK, RETNA, SABER and EWOK, Knowngallery.com}
{theseventhletter.com}

Filed in Dumbo Events, Streetart at 11:08 am
Comments
  • adam
    The portrait is especially impressive! Gotta get some better photos of the finished product.

    Obviously, I spoke too soon regarding the wall getting the painted last week.
  • yep
    It's nice to see some art around here that was created by someone who can actually paint.
  • dumbnyc - thanks for the photos, but you have to just go see it in person. The photos don't do the artwork justice. Especially with the woman's face that is painted as well -- there is just so much detail and color and depth. And to think it's all done with spray paint is just amazing.
  • clean it
    who gave these criminals permission to paint on a wall that's not their property? All these blogs portray this as 'art', but what they're doing is ILLEGAL.
  • adam
    false. the artists had permission.
  • caspar
    Wanton acts of vandalism like this are what is ruining Dumbo. Give me a shiny new condo any day. The more we allow our neighborhood to be defaced, the more it will fill up with vagrants and streetwalkers.
  • weak
    wOw! I'm not sure how to respond to "clean it" and "casper" but I'm laughing pretty hard right now.

    SHINY NEW CONDO'S RULE!
  • Fulton Ferry Res
    I would hope that caspar has a dry, ironic sense of humor which explains his/her posting. Otherwise, so sad.
  • They asked me if they could hook up legally, and I passed to our landlords' cultural czar; it is a turning point for this neighborhood where art installations are planned and organized, and the level of excellence is really impressive. If you want shiny condos, there is many in NJ; this is the last vestige of old NY, we are going to preserve it and interact with it with the best talent we have. If you don't like, move out and make room for those who do.
  • Daniel, please keep up the great work. You guys are an asset to this neighborhood and I hope you keep organizing public art installations such as this one. Keep us informed of upcoming installations!
  • tim
    How long before Smokie and Crackie come along and urinate on these charming little scribbles?

    Can we address the homeless problem first please, before we start turning the neighborhood into some novelty ghetto. Has no-one noticed that we already have a ghetto just around the corner? Its called Farragut, and its the point of origin for most of the bums who roll into Dumbo.
  • yep
    Daniel...excellence? Most of the "art" installations in DUMBO look like a 5 yo who smokes crack painted them. I hope you people plan to do a better job in the future. If you're going to deface these buildings then it damn well ought to be quality work. Maybe importing the artists from California was the key eh.
  • Peter Sunwoo
    I like it! But shouldn't they have painted the wall gray before spray painting? Efficiency points is -100. Woops they are from California, nvm.
  • adam
    the wall got vandalised last night, which anyone could've predicted. just a shame that last night's tagger was so lazy. covering quality work with errant marks and a simple tag (I won't post a picture so as to deny him the notoriety)? so it goes...
  • anon
    I didn't think this mural was a good idea when I first saw this post. This is the problem with "permissive" graffiti art. While the artist may have had permission to put up his/her work, the taggers and vandals don't know that and are encouraged to continue defacing property or if they know the artist had permission they take it as a sign that the community accepts graffiti so it is ok for them to continue vandalizing property. While the property owner is free to do what he wants with his walls, I wish the community would not support graffiti art projects like this, it is a no-win situation.
  • tim
    As I said before, this kind of 'art' will only turn Dumbo into a novelty ghetto. The best way to use this wall for the community, is with a tin of white paint and a Chase ATM.
  • adam
    I have a difficult time discerning which posts here are satire.
  • Fulton Ferry Res
    Tim is very funny
  • Peter Sunwoo
    I agree Tim is very witty, but seriously an ATM would be really convenient on that corner.
  • L.E.
    you're getting a Chase bank a block away - in Jay Condo.
  • melanie
    Commenters like Tim are a blight on this community. This type of hyper-capitalist, Republican neanderthal is pouring cold water on everything that was good in Dumbo.

    We mustn't let gentrification destroy this neighborhood. How long before we're all submerged in a swamp of Bugaboo-driving nannies, pinstriped lawyers and overbearing Wall St types. The whole point of Dumbo was that it was different, we have to keep fighting to keep these people out.
  • henry
    ha "these people" and what makes you the authority melanie? you are yet another vegeterian with leather boots...
  • tim
    Kind words, kind words.. especially from Melanie. That kind of open-minded, pioneer spirit is what Dumbo is all about. I'd bet $1000 that Melanie doesn't have a Bugaboo, and instead uses a sling to carry around her organic diaper wearing, home-schooled baby. Lovely.
  • adam
    tim was serious? I thought "novelty ghetto" was the hint he was being facetious.

    vegetarian with leather boots? there are several reasons people choose vegetarian diets, not all of them related to the ethics of murdering animals. weak metaphor.
  • anon
    Um, thinking grafitti isn't such a good idea is a capitalist, Republican idea?

    And without pinstriped lawyers and overbearing Wall Street types (who aren't all robotic republicans with no appreciation for or experience with art and culture BTW) who would buy all the DUMBO artists' art?

    Signed
    A Pinstripe Wearing, No-Leather Wearing Vegetarian, Organic Gardening Lawyer.

    DUMBO is my home too!
  • Brooklyn It Girl
    Adam, FYI your wall has been restored to as good as new in less than 24 hours after the "lazy" tagging. Good for you artists, keep it going!
  • ok
    dear dumbo residents, please open your minds and stop judging each other based on superficialities. what we don't know about each other far surpasses what we could ever possibly guess or what we think we know (and are usually wrong about). a truly diverse neighborhood (this is what we're looking at) is rare and precious, lets keep it that way via tolerance. some opinions are inexperienced, some are materialistic, some are visionary, some are practical. it takes all kinds... stereotyping is the result of a lack of imagination and dumbo need never suffer from that.
  • Dobosh
    Casper, your comment makes me want to walk over to dumbo tonight and make some "street art" in your honor. I also hope you were just being wity...because it's easy to say that Dumbo is much more of a place for artists than yuppies and their condos...and art galleries that host exhibitions of the so-called "vandals". Fuggedaboutit!!!
  • GUTS4 WSA, SLC
    That's REVOK, SABER, RETNA, and THE MAC. THE MAC painted the girl. That is not EWOK!!!!!! Y'all should change the title so to include him. He has links as well!! HAPPY HOLIDAYS! GUTS4 WSA
  • Yes...the green face is by Mac. www.elmac.net
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