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Street Artist RETNA Does Houston/Bowery Mural
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Ben Yakas
Published Mar 4, 2012
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Published Mar 4, 2012
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Popular street artist RETNA (Marquis Lewis) has been scrawling his signature tags across LA since he was in high school—the now 34-year-old artist, who is beloved by the likes of Jeffrey Deitch, had his first major NYC solo show last month, converting a massive downtown warehouse into "his own kind of temple." This week, the artist took to the East Village to paint a massive mural on Houston and Bowery—he previously has had murals up in DUMBO, but never anything like this. Check out some pics of the mural above, and you can see more pictures of RETNA at work on the mural here.
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