Shawna X

We’re Freeing Ourselves, 2021

Shawn X is an independent artist and creative based in New York, known for her vibrant, visceral, and graphical image-making across digital, spatial, and motion mediums. She creates experiences in music, fashion, and technology, collaborating with clients such as New Yorker, New York Times, W Hotel, Nike, Google, and Ghostly International.

We’re Freeing Ourselves is the first public art project to be hung on the back of a Gantry (the directional signage for cars) in NYC! The Hudson Square BID is proud to bring this kind of innovative, bold, and artistic placemaking to our neighborhood; creating art in unexpected places.

Special thanks to the following organizations who helped bring this project to life: Gilsanz Murray Steficek, Polise Consulting Engineers, North Shore Neon, and Peter J. Catanzaro

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Julia Cocuzza

Varick Street Vibrations, 2022

A custom-painted working piano that reflects the unique feel of the Hudson Square neighborhood.

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Thanks to 60 Charlton Street for providing space to paint this project.

A special thanks to the Sherwin Williams Co. for paint & supply support.

Peter Daverington

Lincoln’s Sparrow, 2023

Part of the Audubon Mural Project, a public art initiative of the National Audubon Society and Gitler & _____ Gallery, that draws attention to birds threatened by climate change.

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Molly Dilworth

Nature of Technology, 2022

From the rooftops of Brooklyn to the Pedestrian plazas of Times Square, Molly Dilworth has created outdoor site-specific paintings in New York City and exhibited them across the United States. Permanent commissions include a sculpture for a light rail station in Denver and an atrium installation for the School of Business Administration at Portland State University.

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A special thanks to the Sherwin Williams Co. for paint & supply support.

Claudia Ravaschiere and Michael Moss

Approach, 2019

The collaborative team of Claudia Ravaschiere and Michael Moss are known for their site-specific installations that play with light and color. Their 90-foot multicolored sculpture, constructed of 5,000 pieces of translucent acrylic for Freeman Plaza East, creates a dynamic prism across the fence of this public park at the edge of the Holland Tunnel.

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Hellbent

keep chopping (dinosaur jr.), 2019

Brooklyn-based artist Hellbent delivers a stunning hand-painted mural on the façade of 131 Varick Street using his unique designs of interwoven color blocks and stenciled patterns drawn from classic fabric and wallpaper motifs.

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Katie Merz

Varick Street Verticals, 2019

Katie Merz, known for her use of personal pictograms and hieroglyphs drawn from stories, conversations and research, creates two unique printed works for 161 Varick and 181 Varick using playful pictograms that reflect both the history and the present moment of the neighborhood.

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Greg Lamarche

Game Inside the Game, 2019

Greg Lamarche’s wall painting at 200 Varick Street features his signature vintage letter forms painted in large scale to create an abstract array of movement, tangled letters and color.

Game Inside the Game’s font-related design is a tribute to Hudson Square’s robust history as the center of the printing industry, paying homage to the power of the printed word and 200 Varick’s storied past as the Graphic Arts Center. Born and raised in NYC, Lamarche’s aesthetics pull from the graffiti of his childhood growing up in Queens.

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