{"id":1977,"date":"2025-08-06T23:05:28","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T23:05:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/?p=1977"},"modified":"2026-06-10T14:11:02","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T14:11:02","slug":"the-gray-wash-graffiti-artist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/the-gray-wash-graffiti-artist\/","title":{"rendered":"The Gray Wash Graffiti Artist"},"content":{"rendered":"

I traveled out to Park Slope in Brooklyn in June to drop off some of my paintings for an exhibition titled “Robots and Lemonade”<\/a> at the Honey Badger Motel Art Gallery. After the drop-off, I decided to walk around Park Slope to revisit the neighborhood where I lived in the early 1990s. It’s a nice residential neighborhood with plenty of shops and restaurants on 7th Avenue, but as I was walking and exploring, I kept seeing faces and characters like the one pictured above.<\/p>\n

This graffiti artist – the work was not tagged with a name or any ID – likes to splash a gray wash on a surface and then make a simple face or figure, as you can see another pair of them here below:<\/p>\n

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A pair of gray wash figures and faces graffiti as seen in Park Slope, Brooklyn.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Here’s another gray wash graffiti piece, this time on a mailbox. It seems a bit risky for someone to paint graffiti on a mailbox, as it’s a federal crime and if caught, one faces penalties including fines up to $250,000 and imprisonment for up to three years. I’m not a graffiti artist, but if I were, I’d leave mailboxes alone.<\/p>\n

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Graffiti on a mailbox in Park Slope in Brooklyn.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I traveled out to Park Slope in Brooklyn in June to drop off some of my paintings for an exhibition titled “Robots and Lemonade” at the Honey Badger Motel Art Gallery. After the drop-off, I decided to walk around Park Slope to revisit the neighborhood where I lived in the early 1990s. It’s a nice … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2935,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[170,338,551,582],"class_list":["post-1977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-street-art","tag-brooklyn","tag-graffiti","tag-nyc","tag-park-slope"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1977"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3107,"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1977\/revisions\/3107"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mckinneyarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}