I am dreXeL. I thought you knew…

This weekend is the DUMBO arts festival and I’m actually quite excited about it. I just brought three paintings over to the studio where they’ll be on display. And I FINALLY got to meet Anthony and James Cospito, my total heroes since I’ve lived in Brooklyn. Anthony runs the Brooklyn Art Project [...]

Here’s a new piece I finished 2 days ago. 16″ x 20″ spray paint on canvas. It miiiiight be in the DUMBO Arts Festival this weekend, that remains to be seen. At least 1 piece will be, just not sure which one yet. I’ll go over all those deets with the [...]

I know I’m always going on about how awesome layers are and how much I love Brooklyn because of this…layers of paint on walls, graffiti done and redone and redone again, etc. An old poster on top of a new one. But this particular layer I just saw a few minutes ago made [...]

My first group show since I moved here last spring was Friday at Gitana Rosa Gallery, 19 Hope Street in Brooklyn. It was a live exhibition featuring street artists creating eco-social/political/urban art. Some of these artists in the show are people whose work I’ve followed since moving here like Cern and Ellis G. [...]

I just wanted to make sure and send proper condolences to the parents, friends and family of Carlucci Bencivenga, aka Elf One MPC. He was a famous and wonderful artist from the Bronx, his work has inspired more people that we’ll probably ever know, but thousands upon thousands that we DO actually know. [...]

Just so you know, I have my first two group shows since moving to New York coming up.  The first is this Friday night.  Local artists and graffiti artists together painting walls and work also on display inside in the Gitana Rosa gallery 19 Hope Street, Brooklyn, NY  11211.  Second show is 28-30 September at [...]