GAIA & NohJColey on Brooklyn Street Art, "Mutual Discrepancy"

NYC Street Artists Gaia and NohJColey Wreck a Big Wall in Brooklyn, curated by Brooklyn Street Art for Espeis Outside Gallery.

Mutual Discrepancy is the name of the mural and the video by Nicolas Heller, a NYC/Boston filmmaker who likes to explore personalities on the street. He worked with Gaia on a short over the summer of 2009 and is in the process of doing a documentary on him. You can a short video he did of Gaia (http://vimeo.com/6930011) and see some of his other fim work at http://nicolasheller.com/
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Culminating weeks of prep, Mutual Discrepancy goes up, with both artists feeling good about street art in the new year.

On Friday two young and hungry New York Street Artists combined their artistry, critical intellects, and kinetic energy (and questionable dancing skills) to help define street art for a new generation on the cusp of the 2010s.

In an age of shifting definitions in the art world, the Street Art world, and, well, the whole freakin modern world, you can take heart to know that the kids still know how to have fun, and some of them are willing to work their butts off in pursuit of a vision.

On a 30 foot by 8 foot luhan-wood billboard in Brooklyn, Gaia and NohJColey brought their A Game to the street and auspiciously stretched the definition of wheat-pasted smart-aleck wall-wrecking.

Both New Yorkers, they communicated since Thanksgiving via email while Gaia was in school in Baltimore. They traded sketches, ideas, pictures, opinions and when Gaias winter vacation started, they hung out at each others studios and kitchen tables planning the collaboration. Both guys had labored over their hand drawn and hand painted pieces for few weeks, so when it was game day, it really felt more like graduation.

It was a cold grey January day on the street, but no one cared and the mood was celebratory. NohJ even refused to eat because he was too excited to put his work up eventually he did eat though.

Horsing around and doing bike tricks and break/dip/jerk dancing of course was a periodic pursuit by galloping Gaia so the work got interrupted by Major Lazer and Free Gucci once in a while. We think it was the cup of coffee that pushed him over the edge you might as well give him a dumptruck of cocaine the kid was jumping around like a long-tailed-cat in a rocking-chair convention.

Meanwhile, on a totally different wavelength, NohJ was chilling to ear-blasting jazz from Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers giving him a valium-nuanced, snappy kind of gait.
Read the full interview here: http://www.brooklynstreetart.com/theBlog/?p=7589

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Mutual Discrepancy
• Nicolas Heller
• Brooklyn Street Art
• Gaia
• NohJColey
• NohJ Coley
• Espeis Outside Gallery

[ksevn]

reminds howard chaykin somehow. great clip. great works.

[eeeBRASILtafoda]

louco!

[Provokasi]

LOL!! The Gaia Dance!!

[michaelaaronart]

nice man thats legit

[ricosity]

@Tang526 shine blockas ft. gucci mane- big boi

& fresh, fly, fitted- chip tha ripper

[Tang526]

anyone know these songs their fresh?

[brokengimp]

best thing i have ever seen

[EndroidPrime]

Victory dance for the win!

Great work! ^^

[SuburbanAntiChrist]

I don't know about that art but those dudes can dance! Stupid Dope Fresh moves!!!

[bboydee]

hahaha! terrible dancing! TIGHT PIECE!