James De La Vega. A street artist that currently lives in Harlem. He often does chalk drawings on sidewalks or murals on the sides of buildings. His chalk drawings are usually accompanied by little messages, like "Become Your Dream". Many of his drawings are of fish inside fishbowls. His art is quite simple, but Christie's has sold lots of his work for thousands of dollars. In July 2003, he was charged with vandalism for a mural he painted on a blank wall in the Bronx, and eventually sentenced to 50 hours of community service, but he's still a working artist today.
Recently, he's been hitting up the Upper East Side, and I've thoroughly enjoyed each and every one of his pieces. Below, a combination of phone shots and camera shots of a few drawings I've seen.
First photo.
These are cool, any idea what his actual paintings look like? I'd be very interested to see, fish make beautiful art.
ReplyDeleteSincerely,
Sarah from The Etiquette Cult
This comment has been removed by the author.
ReplyDeletewait i saw one of his quotes on 20th street last weekend and took a photo of it -- had no idea it was an art piece. cool stuff!
ReplyDeletex