The Wooster Collective talks to Sean Woolsey about making advertising a little more inspirational.
Sean Woolsey, the man behind the Appropriated Poster Campaign, transforms mediocre everyday outdoor advertising into something bold and meaningful. His messages are clear and concise. In the hopes of having the...
The Wooster Collective talks to Néle about the temporary street art of his miniature ice sculptures.
Néle makes magic in cities. His ice sculptures are arresting, beautiful, and inspiring. Placed in city centers near iconic buildings, they only last hours before they melt away. The process...
The Wooster Collective talks to Jace about working on street art on a tropical island.
Jace is an artist from Réunion Island (a little east of Madagascar). We don’t know what it is—perhaps a little island craziness—but Jace’s characters are always up to something mischievous. They are blowing things up, riding rocket ships,...
The Wooster Collective talks to Princess Hijab about hiding the faces of ubiquitous advertising.
Princess Hijab embodies all that we love about billboard liberation. The images are shocking, disturbing, and powerful. A simple black swath completely changes the meaning of the advertisement. The billboards, in...
The Wooster Collective talks to Neozoon about their furry installations, and what they mean for how we view animals.
Neozoon’s work is both amusing and arresting. Seeing the playful animals in city centers and on monuments makes us smile. But the subsequent realization that these are actual animal pelts (made from discarded...
The Wooster Collective talks to Bumblebee about narrative, bee-based street installations.
What is it about Bumblebee’s work that we find so interesting? First, he focuses on bees, the ever important—yet disappearing—insect that is so essential to human existence. Second, his “street...
The Wooster Collective talks to Ji Lee about turning video billboards into glowing art pieces.
Ji Lee is one of New York City’s most prolific street artists. Lee's day job is in advertising, and his art is a reaction to the prolific and uncreative advertising on our streets. He is most well know for the “Bubble Project,”...
The Wooster Collective talks to Specter about his depictions of the New York City's unheralded workers.
Specter is one of the few artists today who is putting up large hand-made pieces in New York. Focusing his art on those the city often ignores, his goal is to bring attention to the people who keep the city "alive." We...
The Wooster Collective talks to C215 about his new piece in Paris and how his art can improve a community.
The Paris-based artist C215 focuses on the streets and their inhabitants. In the last year, C215 has come into his own by traveling the globe putting his stencils of the downtrodden...
Elbow-Toe turns children's literature into urban art.
Elbow-Toe is an active New York City street artist who places large linocuts across lower Manhattan and Brooklyn. Often these pieces are one-of-a-kind works that draw from literary sources and interact with the environment in which they're placed....
