#boneyardproject

A street art pioneer, @KennyScharf studied in New York, was a roommate of Keith Haring, and traded art with Andy Warhol. Reflecting an early fascination with television and the futuristic promise of shows like The Jetsons, Scharf's anti-elitist work often includes pop culture icons and spans a wide range of practices including sculpture, fashion, video, and performance. Back in his native Southern California Scharf recently moved from his Culver City studio to a large space in Inglewood and is working as hard as ever, telling @GalerieMagazine at one point "I don't stop—seven days a week, ten hours a day." Back in 2013 Scharf visited the @PimaAir & Space Museum in Tucson to participate in the Bone Yard Project, painting "Back to Supersonica" on this out of service Lockheed Jetstar.  @kennyscharf  

On this date in 2013 I had the pleasure of visiting #TheBoneyardProject at @pimaair with @joshuabgeyer. This is @hownosm’s plane! I’ll do my best to post as many 🛩’s as I can today, though I must say my #iPhone5 photography skills were not as polished as my current day standards. #HowNosm #HowAndNosm #HowAndOrNosm @tatscru #tatscru #BoneyardProject #pimaairandspacemuseum @ericfirestone #StreetArtOnThisDate #streetartspringbreak #artnerd #artington #artingwithhalopigg (at Pima Air & Space Museum)

Designed in the 1930s the Douglas DC-3 revolutionized air transport and is still in use more than 80 years later, especially in parts of the world where runways may not always be paved. The majority were originally manufactured as the military C-47 but a number of C-117 variants were also produced and several of those have found their way to the Pima Air and Space Museum, the largest non-government-funded aviation museum in the U.S. In 2010 gallery owner Eric Firestone conceived the Boneyard Project, originally inviting urban artists to paint nose cones and then in 2011 to start painting complete planes for the Pima museum. One such C-117 was painted by Brazilian Francisco Rodrigues da Silva, aka Nunca (“Never” in Portuguese) who began spray painting in his poor São Paulo neighborhood as a symbol of rebellion. Today Nunca’s work has become far more elaborate and has been displayed in galleries and museums around the world.  @nunca.art  @ericfirestone  @pimaairandspace  @pimaair  

On this date in 2013 I had the pleasure of visiting #TheBoneyardProject at @pimaair with @joshuabgeyer. This is from @retna’s plane, I’ll do my best to post as many as I can today, though I must say my #iPhone5 photography skills were not as polished as my current day standards. #Retna #RetnaMSK #IronEyeRetna #BoneyardProject #pimaairandspacemuseum @ericfirestone #SomeoneElsie #StreetArtOnThisDate #streetartspringbreak #artnerd #artington #calligraphy #calligraffiti #typography #lettering #MSK #MadSocietyKings #artingwithhalopigg (at Pima Air & Space Museum)

Final pics from my 2013 trip to #TheBoneyardProject, but this #Roa never made it to @pimaair... #SecretRoa #RoaArt #RoaB5RP #B5RP #BrrrrrpSquad #TheBrrrrrpPack #iPhone5 #BoneyardProject @ericfirestone #StreetArtOnThisDate #streetartspringbreak #artnerd #artington #artingwithhalopigg (at Tucson, Arizona)

My closeup of @retna’s plane from #TheBoneyardProject is getting mad love so here’s a pic of the whole plane! This shot is from 2013 when I was a bootleg #iPhone5 photographer as opposed to now where I am a bootleg Sony A7ii photographer 😂 #Retna #RetnaMSK #IronEyeRetna #MSK #MadSocietyKings #Retna🛩 #BoneyardProject #pimaairandspacemuseum @ericfirestone #StreetArtOnThisDate #streetartspringbreak #artnerd #artington #artingwithhalopigg (at Pima Air & Space Museum)

On this date in 2013 I had the pleasure of visiting #TheBoneyardProject at @pimaair with @joshuabgeyer. This is @kennyscharf’s plane! I’ll do my best to post as many 🛩’s as I can today, though I must say my #iPhone5 photography skills were not as polished as my current day standards. #KennyScharf #BoneyardProject #pimaairandspacemuseum @ericfirestone #StreetArtOnThisDate #streetartspringbreak #artnerd #artington #artingwithhalopigg (at Pima Air & Space Museum)