Sing for Hope’s Pop-Up Pianos This is one of the most beautiful art projects I’ve had the chance to participate in. Thanks Sing for Hope for combining art + music + people. I HOPE the pop-up pianos come back in 2013. You can help make it possible by donating on their website. I’m in this […]
Hearts of the World- Transgender workshop
I started the Hearts of the World project in 2010, it’s an ongoing project that I plan to take to the corners of the earth. After painting many stylized anatomical hearts myself I wanted to see what was in the hearts of others. I want to do this project with as many different kinds of […]
ROCKAWAY KIDS CARNIVAL
ROCKAWAY KIDS CARNIVAL This Saturday, November 17, 1pm-4pm Location TBA shortly! (Get in touch if you know any big vacant lots in The Rockaways.) We need your help! See here: tinyurl.com/Rockkids Questions? parade@winkelstudio.com Donations? parade@winkelstudio.com, subject line DONATE FEATURING The Hungry March Band (www.hungrymarchband.com/) Toad, a mobile soundsculpture (www.facebook.com/Itstoad) The Boom Trike by Michael White […]
The Massive Mad Hatter Tea Party III
The Free Art Society and I just wrapped the Third Annual Massive Mad Hatter Tea Party. It was a great success, more than doubling in size from the first one in 2010. Held in Tompkins Square Park in NYC’s East Village, the Massive Mad Hatter tea party is a free and open festivity that aims […]
Walker Fee, ladies and gentlemen
Walker Fee is one of my best friends and one of the most talented and prolific artists I know. He lives and breathes his art. As I type this as I am sitting at his house in Bushwick, Brooklyn, NY surrounded by books and paintings. I sit beneath shelf over shelf filled with books of […]
A new video about Hearts of the World in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil! By Riot de Janeiro We went around the favela and shouted “Vamos pintar! Vamos pintar!” (let’s go paint) and the children came out of their houses and called together their friends and we sat in a circle on the dirt road as […]
The Magic Bus
Burning man is approaching. This means it’s time to deck out the school bus my friend Maxine bought to drive across country. She painted the thing with silver chrome spray paint and I’m doin’ up the ceiling in rainbow nebula. Here are some progress photos: Maxine and the magic bus More to come…
Portal # 1 finished
Portal # 1, the Sun Portal, is finally finished. Perola and I have spent many late nights and all of our spare moments working on it. It is my first time to collaborate with her on a project and the process is challenging and wonderful. Both of our lives up to this point have prepared […]
The First Portal
Perola and I are almost finished with the first of thirteen portals we are making for our portal project. The first portal corresponds to the sun. For the panel we combined ancient symbols from Egypt with symbols from Mexican and Mayan culture. We should finish this weekend and by early next week this piece will […]
The Portals
Perola Bonfanti and I are formulating our next idea. It is a collaborative, interactive public street art project that will take place in the East Village of New York City. It involves numerology, signs, symbols, doors, keys, technology and public interaction. We are starting the series of paintings this week. My […]