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Last month, I had the pleasure and the privilege to meet up with some of my favorite New York artists at their studios. I’ve finally gotten those photos off of my camera and can share them here.
First, I visited TrustoCorp. TrustoCorp are best known for making custom street signs with clever jokes or political statements and installing them around the USA. The signs first appeared last in Miami last December and since then have appeared in cities like New York, Austin and Detroit.
Since first seeing the signs last December, I’ve been a fan of TrustoCorp. They rarely produce uninteresting work, and everything they make is well designed. But the one thing I’d never quite understood was why TrustoCorp had done a solo show at Brooklyn Brothers’ Gallery back in April. After all, TrustoCorp makes street signs. There aren’t any streets inside a gallery. Then, once I was at the TrustoCorp studio, I finally understood. The gallery show was an event. Yes, there were street signs, but the real highlights of the evening were the giant map showing how TrustoCorp had placed all their signs in a pattern creating a giant middle finger across Manhattan and the shooting gallery, a carnival-esque game that had players shooting at TrustoCorp art.
On the roof of TrustoCorp’s studio, they set up a makeshift version of that shooting gallery for me. As rain began to fall, I quickly shot up some TrustoCorp targets: the D-List Socialite, an Arrogant Rapper and, of course, a Greedy Banker.
So it seems I was way off about TrustoCorp becoming boring once inside a gallery. If anything, they’re even more fun.
Check back soon for photos from my visit to see street art legends John Fekner and Don Leicht.
get photos of TrustoCorp's work here - http://www.flickr.com/photos/trustocorp/.