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Concrete Alchemy Street Art Displays Their Talent on Water Street

May 17th, 2008

[Update: For full photo set, visit DumboNYC's Flickr set]

A group of 15 visual artists called Concrete Alchemy painted the wall on Water Street (@ Pearl St) in Dumbo on Thursday and Friday. The 15′H x 50′W previously had street artist work done by Revok, Saber, Retna, And the Mac. The Concrete Alchemy collaborative includes well known muralists, fine artists, and street artists. The collaboration has great detail and worth a visit in the area. Some pictures below. (Aside from the first “before” photo, thanks to our friend Amy Donoghue for these great photos.):


 Previous Revok, Saber, Retna, And the Mac street art. (Photo courtesy of Atomic LLC)


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Concrete Alchemy

More info: {albuscav.us/concretealchemy/}
{dailysession Photos}
Concrete Alchemy Flickr pool: {flickr.com/groups/concretealchemy/}
Previously: {Revok, Retna, Saber Live Wall Painting on Water Street, 06Aug2007}

Filed in Dumbo Art, Streetart, Water Street at 11:49 am
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  • oldschooler
    I didnt even tell you girls what I wrote, why would you know me, clown? have fun being Saber's bitch. ask your mom why writing in capital letters is childish...
  • JUNGLEJUICE
    GRAFFITI STILL REAL YOU JUST FELL OFF...HAHAHAHAHA ...THATS WHY I NEVER HEARD OF YOU AND DIDNT MAKE ANYTHING OF YOURSELF ....IN THE "GRAFF" SCENE....
  • Laura
    Hmmmmmmm. I ponder again, who gives a super crap?
  • oldschooler
    Actually, I was writing in the early 80's when most of these people were toddlers. I grew up in South Brooklyn and would write in DUMBO before it was called DUMBO, before most of you even moved to NY. To me it was a right of passage, i wrote from ages 13-18. My crew found a hatch at the foot of Furman street (know where that is?) where we would walk the tracks from high street to East Broadway (having to time it so we didnt get crushed by the trains), We would go into the City Hall and Canal street lay ups, risking other crews, work bums, and police.All this mind you, when I was a minor. My black books show it, my photo albums show it, i have no need to prove anything to you "cyber fanboys". Keep believing you're down. The fact that there is scafolding and its during the day proves its legal, and saying you're "pretty sure" they have paid their dues (in all caps no less) makes you look unsure and silly. Obviously this site doesnt have the appreciation for the true history of Graffiti like, say "thestreetsaresayingthings.com, zephyrgraffiti.com, or at149thst.com" look it up kids, learn something. Oh, and when I wrote, no one called it "Graff" thats like saying "lets go get a brew and order some za" straight up suburban speak.I was part of Graffiti when it was real, have fun with the commercialized version, you're too late, its all been done before, by people much younger.
  • JUNGLEJUICE
    IM PRETTY SURE ALL THE ARTIST IN THAT MURAL HAVE PAID THEIR DUES..AND COULD PAINT SOMETHING LIKE THAT MURAL ON A "TRAIN" AT A "YARD"....SIMPLY BY YOU SPEAKING OF THE GRAFF CULTURE IN THAT MANNER MAKE YOU SOUND LIKE AN OUTSIDER WANNA BE WITH NO TRUE CONCEPT OF THE ART..WHICH I FIND TOO MANY PEOPLE NOW IN DAYS TALKING ABOUT LIKE IF THEIR PART OF IT ...THE FACT IS YOUR NOT PART OF IT AND WILL NEVER BE ...
  • loose stool
    if it looks like graffiti, smells like graffiti walks like graffiti, and quacks like graffiti it probably is graffiti. How are we to know it was done legally or not? In actual fact it probably is illegal. LPC would never give a permit to paint that in a landmark district. In this case the landlord is aiding and abetting a crime.
  • oldschooler
    Grafitti is illegal, and the fact that there's risk involved, gives it more outlaw respect. When done legally, its simply art that's grafitti derived or in the style of graffiti. Why wouldnt it look nice?, they were able to take their time, soak up the sun and relax. try doing that on a train in a yard you just broke into in the middle of the night with no lights, THATS graffiti. Half the "kids" doing graffiti these days are in their late 20's early 30's and picked it up in art school.
  • 68JayResident
    Not sure if anyone's posted this, but I walked past the mural at 10am this morning and it's been vandalised. Some mindless moron splashed paint all over the entire mural. It makes me sick to think there's people around here who would do something like this.
  • ING
    you guys are silly going over that old mural. son..what you thinking!
  • Diamondtrim
    i don't want to knock the artists for their work, but whoever made the call to go over the old mural is wack.

    to keith: obviously, you got no clue talking about the old mural being "dingy and typical". do the research homie.
  • Great collab between the east and the notorious west! This mural reminds me of the movie "Clash of the Titans"
  • Mike
    Out with the old , IN WITH THE NEW...................
  • Keith
    The old mural way so dingy and typical..... How many times have we seen that type of work before? The new mural has so much life and energy, feels like a new twist on graffiti art. Concrete Alchemy definitely stepped it up a level. Who's gonna be able to top it???????
  • Pearl
    wow!!! this new wall is just freaking amazing!
  • The other mural, while not the best of the artist's work, was certainly much better than the new one. I believe it was dissed though.
  • ok
    the old mural was beautiful & so is the new one. how lucky we are!
  • low bmi
    As great as the new piece is, I'm sad to see the previous work painted over.
  • fratello
    Were there no other walls available? I miss the portrait by El Mac.
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