GERA LOZANO

Instagram: @geraluz

Location: 125th b/t Park & Madison

GERA LOZANO

Instagram: @geraluz

Location: 125th b/t Park & Madison

DIEGO MOLINA

Instagram: @diegumberrto

Location: 125th b/t Park & Madison

Diego Molina hails from Ecuador and often works with fellow mural artist Gera Lozano. An illustrator and muralist influenced by popular culture, dreams, cartoons and Latin American culture.

MARTHALICIA

Instagram: @marthalicia

Location: 125th b/t Park & Madison

Marthalicia Matarrita grew up in Harlem during the late 1970s, and now makes her home in the Bronx. Her piece for Grandscale is an homage to the bond that exists between a mother and her child, and is a metaphor for the bond that should exist between human beings, Mother Nature and our planet.

QUA / Social Icon

Instagram: @socialicon

Location: 125th b/t Park & Madison

Shanequa Benetiz, also known as QUA, was raised in housing projects in Yonkers, where she confronted the harsh realities of the drug trade from a tender age. Since winning a housing lottery nearly a decade ago, she has lived in East Harlem and has worked as a mural artist and in fashion. Her work personifies the resilience inherent in adversity and also often incorporates the theme of being a “black sheep” or outsider. Her piece for Grandscale features one of her characters, a resilient bear wearing boxing gloves.

SIENIDE

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Location: 125th b/t Park & Madison

ERIC CAPERS

Instagram: @axxhouse

Location: 125th b/t Park & Madison

Eric Capers grew up in The Bronx during the 1970s, steeped in the arts renaissance of graffiti artists using burned-out buildings as their canvases. Fascinated with this new art form, he started his own journey into the world of graffiti art and began writing "Cape," a shortened version of his last name, as an homage to Cope, his favorite writer. After several run-ins with law enforcement, E moved on from walls and trains to legal art. While you can still spot an old "Cape" tag in classic 1990s movies including "New Jack City" and "Juice," E is now the creative director of Art In The Park, a local nonprofit that works to engage youth in beautifying their neighborhood.

ZANE

Instagram: @zanestyles

Location: 125th b/t Park & Madison

Zane is a Bronx native known for his use of lettering and portraiture. For Grandscale, he has created a portrait of Harlem rapper Cam’ron.

EVAN BISHOP, IN PARTNERSHIP WITH AJASS

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MARGARITA KOROL

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FALLOU WADJE

Instagram: @Baayfall_Art

Location: 125th b/t Park & Madison

The Baayfall are a tribe in Senegal founded and led by Fallou’s great-great grandfather, Maam Cheikh Ibrahima Fall. Centering love, hard work and community (humankind), Fallou Wadje’s art reflects the values and history of the Baayfall themselves, and Fallou’s own family legacy.

SCRATCH

Instagram: @scratch_nyc

Location: 125th b/t Park & Madison

Scratch was born and raised in Sweden and started painting graffiti in 1989, when she was involved with the infamous “graffiti school” in Stockholm. In 1998, she relocated to New York to work as a graphic designer and art director. Scratch is recognized as one of NYC’s most creative female graffiti artists, and has painted walls, collaborated on projects and curated art shows with graffiti legends including Snake 1, Tats Cru, Crash, Kingbee and Ces.

FAUSTO RAMOS

Instagram: @_fm_ramos_

Location: 125th b/t Park & Madison

BC1

Instagram: @bc_nba

Location: 125th b/t Park & Madison

BC is a graffiti artist who was born and raised in Spanish Harlem, and got his start tagging trains in the Bronx. He now exhibits in galleries and exhibits citywide. By 1979, he was doing graffiti in and around his neighborhood, then in 1982 began tagging the C and D train lines, moving to the 6 line by 1983. Advised by the Vandal Squad to stop hitting the 6, he then teamed up with Hektad to hit every line possible, with his alias WIN 1 TTR (Time Ta Rock) for productions. His piece for Grandscale features what he calls “cosmic flowers,” a new take on the flower patterns for which he is known.

Trap

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Location: 125th b/t Park & Madison