This weekend, New York City street art takes center stage at the 17 Frost Gallery in Williamsburg. The Neo-Con Collective, made up of renown street artists Aakash Nihalani, Ellis G., and Poster Boy, has created an exhibition of collaborative installations for the gallery that will open Saturday.

17 Forest has praised the artists for their innovative and thought provoking work.

The collective consists of artists that utilize ephemeral mediums to create public art, focusing on neo-contextualizing the mundane. Their works, on and off the street, possess urgent relevance to modern societal contradictions and conflagrations, confronting the humanness of discomfort and dissatisfaction with typical, routine, existence.

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You may not recognize the name Poster Boy but if you have been in a New York City subway this year, you know his work.

Poster Boy, who likes to stay anonymous since the nature of his work is technically illegal, has been creating street art mash-ups by taking existing ads and using a cut and paste technique to create completely new, and usually much more provocative, images. Poster Boy has been known to get people’s attention by taking iconic pictures, like a portrait of Heath Ledger, and turning it into something haunting, like a piece of anti-drug propaganda. ]]> cmb 2009-02-25T12:31:11-05:00 Search Jaunted string http://www.jaunted.com/search/