Poster Boy choppin it up

The man behind the razor ad mutilation (or, as he prefers to call it, "sign remixing") is nyc guerilla artist Poster Boy. In a recent NYMag interview Poster Boy explained his artistic goals and ideologies. “No copyright, no authorship," he says, alluding to his hope of derailing the stigmas associated with recycling imagery. Poster Boy hopes his art is "a social thing, as opposed to being an artist making things for bored rich people to hang above their couch.” Poster Boy began remixing signs after working as a poster boy for a Chelsea gallery. Like many great NYC street artists before him (Keith Haring comes to mind), Poster Boy realized that he cold use the subway as a tool to reach the masses. “Unless we were clever enough to get it on the international news, we weren’t gonna broaden our audience," he explains. His choice to remix pop images also catches the eye. How postmodernist...or is that post-postmodernism?

Gross Girl

Mossy Tiles 2

Macdose the World

Ad-Waiting

Watch a short documentary on Poster Boy and watch the him in action below. The film was written and directed by Keith Haskel.

For more information on Poster Boy refer to:

• Poster Boy's YouTube Channel
• NYMag article on Poster Boy "Slice and Dice: How Poster Boy Turns Subway Ads into Political Art"
• Poster Boy's Flickr Photostream (updated sporatically)

Posted by Madame Lamb on Wednesday, January 28, 2009 at 6:02 AM