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Thursday, January 14, 2010

Art Street Artist (Christine) Finley to Beautify Dumbo Dumpsters Tomorrow

Posted by Benjamin Sutton on Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 4:57 PM

New York is getting the prettiest dumpsters in the country at no extra charge to tax-payers. Tomorrow afternoon Rome-based street artist Christine Finley (who mostly just goes by Finley) will continue her Wallpapered Dumpsters project in Dumbo, pasting pretty recycled wallpaper onto dumpsters at 25 Jay Street—right next to our offices! Finley recently papered up some dumpsters on the Lower East Side (pictured), and before that in Los Angeles and Rome.

Her studio work is similarly covered in abstract and oddly juxtaposed patterns from reclaimed materials, kind of like a flea market version of gallery star Tauba Auerbach. Despite what one cranky Curbed commenter had to say on the matter, I don't really see how anyone can get offended by this sort of benevolent street art, which takes something ugly that we all walk past every day (trashy dumpsters) and drapes them in rich and rather Gothic patterns. More wallpapered dumpsters, please!

Tags: public art, street art, nyc art, brooklyn art, Christine Finley, Finley, dumpsters, Wallpapered Dumpsters

        
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Thursday, January 14, 2010

Art Street Artist (Christine) Finley to Beautify Dumbo Dumpsters Tomorrow

Posted by Benjamin Sutton on Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 4:57 PM

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