Scratching the surface with City Kitty

Send us Fan Mail This week Lunge Box and I are talking all things wheatpaste, it’s history, why we use it, and our favorite wheatpaste recipes. Join us for our drive through New York City rush hour traffic as we commute from work. 

Send us Fan Mail This week I head down to Philadelphia and catch up with Sean Lugo to talk about how he got his start in street art , his influences and the importance of art criticism. Make sure to check out his upcoming solo show “Immigrant Mentality” opening this Friday July 23rd at Paradigm gallery in Philadelphia. 

Send us Fan Mail Lunge Box and I reflect on artists we miss in the street art scene. As we make our way through the streets of NYC on our morning commute. 

Send us Fan Mail This week I head up to the Bronx and catch up with Old School graffiti writer Zimad. We talk about his origin story, how the face of New York City and graffiti have changed over the years and what keeps him creating after over 40 years of art making. 

Send us Fan Mail Lunge Box and I discuss murals, our favorite mural artists and if we even really like murals!  Listen to us discuss on our early morning commute through the streets of NYC. 

Send us Fan Mail This week I am sitting down with Daniel Albanese aka Dusty Rebel. We talk street art, anthropology, pigeons and his ambitious Queer Street art documentary and book “Out In The Streets” that he has been working on for past few years. 

Send us Fan Mail Lunge Box and I discuss Freeman Alley, the street art hot spot in the lower east side of Manhattan. Do we love it or hate it?

Send us Fan Mail Lunge Box and I head over to Staten Island to talk with our favorite robot Chris RWK.  We talk to Chris about the history of the robot, the website that started it all, collaboration and what keeps him creating after over 20 years in the art world.

Send us Fan Mail Lunge Box and I dicuss why we make collaborations and the importance of collaborating in the street art scene while we make our way through the streets of NYC on our morning commute. 

Send us Fan Mail I sit down with Steve Stoppert the patron saint of NYC street art and curator of the second Avenue mural wall in Manhattan. We talk about how he ended up in NYC and how he went from being mildly interested in art to an art collector/ hoarder.

Send us Fan Mail Lunge Box and I discuss our feelings on the new documentary "Martha" about the Graffiti and street art photography icon Martha Cooper on our early morning commute through New York City. 

Send us Fan Mail I sit down with my friend and talented photographer Rapheal Gonzalez to talk street art, murals, the artistic process and how he started down the path of persuing photography. 

Send us Fan Mail  Lunge Box and I talk the good the bad and the ugly of galleries on our morning commute through NYC. I share my insight from working at many galleries and museums in NY over the past 10 years as he starts thinking about opening a gallery in his apartment.  

Send us Fan Mail I sit down with my painting mentor and drawing professor from Nazareth College  Maureen Brilla-Fitzpatrick. Freshly retired and ready for her next chapter we talk about her experience as a professor, the time she spent in Africa with the Maasai and the meaning of art. The episode ends with no warning as she brings me outside to show me a visual trick about how to properly see the...

Send us Fan Mail On our morning commute through NYC Lunge Box and I discuss what leads an artist to choose the content of the art they create. The use of artistic troupes and symbology in street art. Digitally created street art vs. hand made pieces and the artists we admire.  

Send us Fan Mail I sit down with my dad to talk about what it was like being raised by two NYC artists.  Why it made him love art but not want to make it and how I don't make the same mistakes as I enter into parenthood. 

Send us Fan Mail While driving through the streets of New York City on our way to work fellow street artist Lunge Box and I talk about the past year, how our lives and the street art scene has changed.  The influx of new artists to the scene.  Old haunts and new spots being created and how covid may have rejuvenated the street art and graffiti scene in NYC.