05/30/2026
Here’s a show I curated at Bronx Art Space, 2024. Graffiti writing and muralism in the Bronx is mesmerizing, active, living, ever changing. Oftentimes it preserves the history and culture of the communities and sometimes even educates about social issues. Traveling through the Bronx is an astonishing visual experience. You never know what you will come across. This exhibition features Bronx-based graffiti writers and muralists: Andre Trenier and Lady K Fever. They have collaborated on projects and worked in locations of close proximity throughout the Bronx and beyond.
Lady K Fever’s large floral paintings are created with fluid graffiti line and brilliant colors. Her mixed media pieces capture and refract light, and smaller assemblages are created with found and personal items. In summer 2023 she created several activations of space with nature, including the Lilac Weekend Community Mural Project at the Bronx Botanical Gardens, creating a Bronx-inspired mural. Lady K Fever’s murals feature earth mother figures, representing the strong matriarchy of the community. In summer of 2024 she collaborated on a tribute to the late Bronx writer TRACY168, creator of Wild Style and pioneer of graffiti writing. Her NYC Graffiti Women’s Festival will be held in Spring of 2025 during Women’s History Month.
Andre’s work features paintings that originate with abstraction and lively realistic portraits of historical figures dramatically frozen in expressive moments. Andre’s murals highlight and educate on social issues. They include representations of Fannie Lou Hamer, famous Yankees, Muhammed Ali, and the Four Freedoms after Norman Rockwell. Andre invites viewers to consider and be inspired by the life and messages of these leaders. This summer Andre participated in live painting in conjunction with the Bronx Aerosol Arts Documentary Project at The Museum of Bronx History and painted at the Graffiti Hall of Fame. Like Lady K Fever, he feels a sense of duty to the Bronx, putting out images that will start conversations that need to be had.
There is a duality and cohesion amongst public and private work. There is often a struggle between commissioned mural work and what the artist wishes to create in the studio. This exhibition presents the artists’ work on canvas alongside images of their murals.
