Making Murals With Mason Nye
Brooklyn’s burgeoning art scene is full of juxtapositions.
There are fine artists and found artists, painters and tattooists, sculptors and multi-media creators, and printers and graphic designers, all at different stages in their careers – from aspiring to established – and with different styles and methods of selling and displaying their work – commission or retail, and public space or private gallery. Oftentimes, people cross mediums in order to make a steady living by applying their trade.
For painter and muralist Mason Nye, making art has always been a matter of creating site-specific works that “enhance architectural spaces with painted decoration” – a practice that he notes in his website, MasonNyeMurals.com, has existed since the days of cave paintings to beautify, as well as add “special significance” to interiors.