Brooklyn native, Daniel Kaufman presents an overview of Brooklyn Street Art's 15 Most Popular Murals of 2015.

1. BROOKLYN STREET ART’S
15 MOST POPULAR MURALS
OF 2015
Presentation by Daniel Kaufman

2. LAST YEAR, THE HUFFINGTON
POST PUBLISHED AN ARTICLE
featuring favorite images of the year by Brooklyn
Street Art's Editor of Photography, Jaime Rojo.

3. This year, the Huffington
Post published another
article showing how top
social platforms sorted out
Jaime Rojo’s photography
shots of 2015

4. They surveyed the number
of "likes" and shares his
images received on
Instagram, and Facebook
in 2015 and based purely
on the numbers.
Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/
jaime-rojo-steven-harrington/bsas-15-
most-popular-mura_b_8745380.html

5. HERE ARE THE TOP 15:

6. No. 15: Os Gemeos in
Manhattan
• Brazilian twin brothers
Octavio and Gustavo are
Os Gemeos and this year
they began popping out of
walls - and that's not all!
See the original posting
here: OS Gemeos Pop
Through Walls Downtown
NYC, Screens in Times
Square.
Os Gemeos in Manhattan. August 2015 (photo © Jaime
Rojo)

7. No. 14 : Icy and Sot in Berlin
• BSA curated Iranian
brothers ICY and SOT
onto this Berlin facade of
the Urban Nation.
Following the theme of our
"Persons of Interest" show
there in March with some
of Brooklyn's finest Street
Artists, the brothers
reflected the fall of the
Berlin Wall in the face of
this Brooklyn-based woman.
Icy & Sot in Berlin for Urban Nation. March
2015 (photo © Jaime Rojo)

8. No. 13 : Alexis Diaz in NYC
• Surreal illustrationist Alexis Diaz
has been making brains stretch
and stand up and clap with his
murals from Miami to Hawaii to
Lodz, Poland this year,
continually impressing with his
meticulous and tight cross-
hatching skills, wildly wide
imagination, and his uncanny
ability to collaborate stylistically
with other artists. This relatively
small piece by him in Manhattan
turned heads for months and
earned this pic lots of attention
via BSA. Alexis Diaz in Manhattan. May 2015 (photo © Jaime
Rojo)

9. No. 12 : Dian in Brooklyn
• Essentially a live shot of the last
frame for a stop -action mural
video this image got a lot of
traffic probably because of it's
perceived political critique of
the Republican Party - but the
artists say that they weren't
even familiar with US politics
when they made it. (The) whole
animation was spray-painted,
without any computer
animation. The Bullshit sign
was installed by a legendary
fusion artist Shalom Neuman. Dian in Brooklyn, NY. November, 2015. (photo © Jaime
Rojo)

10. No. 11 : Pichi & Avo in Sweden
• “The Spanish Street Art duo
Pichiavo brought the
antiquities and modern day
graffiti together last week on a
soaring multi-story wall in
Borås, Sweden,” the
Huffington Post wrote of this
multi-story mural that
appealed to many readers in
September. It's the sort of
formula that works again and
again for these guys, most
recently in Miami last week.
Pichi & Avo in Boras, Sweden for No Limits.
September 2015. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

11. No. 10 : Dal East in Sweden
• Participating in the same
small festival (Borås "No
Limit)" as PichiAvo
(previous slide), the artist
Dal East captured the
imagination of BSA
readers with this soaring
wingspan painted high
upon a five stepped
modern facade building
across from a textile
university campus.
Dal East in Boras, Sweden for No Limits. September
2015 (photo © Jaime Rojo)

12. No. 9 : Owen Dippie "Radiant
Madonna" in Brooklyn
• This merging of Raphael's
Madonna with Haring's
radiant baby snapped
people out of their stupor
with the unconventional
paring. This three story
mural by Dippie is still
vibrating with the tensions
he encompassed in this
one powerful composition.
Owen Dippie in Brooklyn. July 2015 (photo © Jaime
Rojo)

13. No. 8 : Ernest Zacharevic in
Brooklyn
• Outside of this Lithuanian
Street Artists' typical
wheelhouse, its the irony of
this piece that contains his
DNA. Capturing the same
commercial advertising
linguistic that Street Artists
typically lampoon, the text
based riff clearly draws the
connection to the
appreciation for hand-style
that originally marked a
"style" revolution in graffiti. Ernest Zacharevic. Brooklyn, NY November 2015
(photo © Jaime Rojo)

14. No. 7 : Ella & Pitr in Norway
• The French couple were in
the town of Stavanger to
create the World's Largest
Mural so comparatively
this was just doodle on the
back of an envelope for
Ella & Pitr, but something
about it struck a chord
with many this September.
Ella & Pitr in Stavanger, Norway for NUART 2015.
September, 2015 (photo © Jaime Rojo)

15. No. 6 : ECB in Brooklyn
• His pensive and looming
old men and women from
Morroco have been made
into a book recently, but
ECB made this guy in
dirty old Brooklyn this
year and photographer
Jaime Rojo caught it a day
after heavy rains provide
this reflective moment.
ECB in Brooklyn. May 2015 (photo © Jaime Rojo)

16. No. 5 : Okuda in Manhattan
• Nearing 20 years in the
game, the Spanish Street
Artist Okuda is always a
pleaser with his rich-hued
pop surrealism and
geometrics that mimic the
man-made urban
environment. Here his
organic forms in a New
York doorway pop out
from the dim grayness of
the streetscape.
Okuda in Manhattan. June 2015. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

17. No. 4: Case Ma'Claim in Berlin
• One of the current crop of
photo-realists that are
drawing so much attention,
Ma'Claims' meditation is
often on hands. This one may
have had additional appeal
on Social platforms because
of it's combination of skin
colors and its appearance
during the "Hands Up, Don't
Shoot" marches in cities
across the US.
Case Ma'Claim in Berlin. March 2015 (photo © Jaime
Rojo)

18. No. 3 : Nick Walker
• The Bristol-born Mr.
Walker has a soft spot for
New York and this
placement outside a pizza
parlor of his iconic
bowler-hatted avatar made
a lot of connections for
viewers on Facebook who
shared this image like
crazy last winter.
Nick Walker. Manhattan, NY. January 30 2015 (photo
© Jaime Rojo)

19. No. 2 : JR in Manhattan
• A commercial wheatpaste
project with The New
York City Ballet, their
principal dancer the
ballerina Lauren Lovette,
a documentary called LES
BOSQUETS, and a real
estate developer, this
image features a woman
flying through the air to
kiss Manhattan's sky.
JR in Manhattan. August 2015 (photo © Jaime Rojo)

20. No. 1 : Owen Dippie "Ninja
Renaissance Masters" in Brooklyn
• With 1.1 million shares across
BSA Facebook page, this merging
of four Renaissance master
visages and the 1990s Ninja
Turtles masks leap-frogged every
other image they posted this year,
and busted peoples' brains open.
The New Zealand based Dippie
was killing it this summer in
Brooklyn before heading out to
the West Coast, but this trackside
trick continued to draw visitors
long after he headed back to his
homeland, and his pic wins 2015
decisively. Owen Dippie in Brooklyn. July 2015 (photo © Jaime
Rojo)

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