New York City’s Meatpacking District is saluting a new wave of pop art, the controversial yet legendary Pop Street Artist Mr.Brainwash is displaying his latest exhibit, ICONS. The warehouse-style studio, located at 415 W 13th St, enraptures the viewer into a refreshing environment of brilliant hues. The well-suited space is housing his art pieces, which are constructed with the use of fragmented records and color-soaked screen prints. The pieces channel the likes of Andy Warhol with his focus on iconic subjects from decades past and present, including President Obama, the Beatles, Madonna, Muhammad Ali, Kate Moss, Einstein, Charlie Chaplin, Michael Jackson, and Karl Lagerfeld. The exhibit displays the artist’s bravery when it comes to color choices, and his clever way of incorporating bold quotations as a focal point. His statement making installations include an actual NYC taxi enclosed in a Hot Wheels box, as well as massive spray-paint cans wrapped in Campbell’s Soup and Tootsie-roll images, emulating Warhol’s influences. Mr.Brainwash transcends the brilliance of  pop-art icons and could quite possibly cement is own iconic stature in the doing. Love him or hate him he is using his cultural influences to create his loud and unmistakable footprint in the future of pop art.

Icons Exhibit 
415 West 13th Street
Meat Packing District 
www.mrbrainwash.com