These days, Buff Monster concentrates on making his works in the studio, selling them in galleries and working with commercial clients.
(He had painted the same wall a few years before.) His huge mural, featuring big-eyed characters that he calls Mister Melty and the Melty Misfits, measures 94 feet wide and 31 feet tall. “I wear a lot of color, and I use a lot of color,” he said. One of the best-known painters in the bunch, Buff Monster, stopped by his completed mural on the Lower East Side in late May he was wearing heart-shaped sunglasses, and many people said “hi” to him because his studio was just a few blocks away. “When Diego Rivera was doing murals, no one was calling him a street artist,” Remi Rough said.
“Not everyone comes from the graffiti tradition, though I do.” (Graffiti being the unsanctioned division of mural making.)Īnd he added that the genre sometimes doesn’t get the respect it deserves. “I’m more abstract, and Steph is more illustrative,” he said. The iconic event transpired for the entire month of June, and celebrated 50 years. Remi Rough celebrated the artistic diversity of the murals’ creators. In 2019, New York celebrated a special pride, in the form of WorldPride NYC.
