Cielo’s the Limit For Nick Walker

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In the week before Bonham’s NY auctioned off his work, British stencil artist Nick Walker was busy painting a number of legal walls around lower Manhattan and Williamsburg. He painted a radio controlled giraffe on Roebling Tea House, some suited umbrella holders on Thunder Jackson and Restaurant PT, and a pair of sparring splashers on Nike iD Design Boutique. For the enjoyment of queued up club-goers, Walker stenciled a pin-striped rat killer on Cielo in the Meatpacking District. And inside the club’s smoker’s garden, Walker painted a few smaller pieces, which we photographed below. It’s hard to say what effect, if any, these pieces had on auction results but many of Walker’s pieces were sold off for triple the estimated price at Wednesday’s Contemporary Art auction.

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7 Responses to “Cielo’s the Limit For Nick Walker”

  1. this is a pure banksy jock…

    By i think on May 18th, 2008 at 12:38 am
  2. really uninspired and boring

    By johansen on May 22nd, 2008 at 5:56 am
  3. Yeah and Banksy is just a pure Blek la Rat jocker!!
    Know your history!!
    Banky didn’t start stencils…he just made fools believe in paying thousands for them!!!

    By Justin Kees on May 28th, 2008 at 11:00 am
  4. who cares whos jockn who .. no one is the first jus some stand out harder . but yeah i can see the whole banksy image i honestly would have thought it was jus another banksy hit if i took a quick glance . its not the fact that its a stencil . its the design of .. i guess

    By jah jah on June 17th, 2008 at 2:38 pm
  5. Banksy is genius but he’s not the only one making grafitti into high art.

    I have some great stuff about art, grafitti in london and in Paris, and some cool things in contemporary art going on!!

    Check out http://artjetset.blogspot.com/

    bisous

    By ArtJetSet on June 22nd, 2008 at 2:57 pm
  6. where you at razor? club med?

    By dachiworld.com on June 27th, 2008 at 2:01 am
  7. no more posts?
    what gives?

    By edible on July 12th, 2008 at 9:28 pm

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