As a curator-artist, my goal with Postcards, Prophets & Monuments is simple: put visionary work where people actually live their lives—on the street, at scale, in conversation with the city. The exhibition transforms billboard space across New York into temporary shrines for images and ideas that refuse to be quiet. It’s a public invitation to look up and meet art in the flow of your day.
This edition opens September 5, 2025 and remains on view for at least four weeks. I curated the show to spotlight artists building worlds across timelines and mediums—work that remembers what’s been erased, speaks with the urgency of prophets, and remixes reality through ritual, satire, and surreal imagination.
The Artists & Sites
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Mason from Blendini — Morgan Ave & Stagg St, Brooklyn, NY
Mason is a multidisciplinary artist and designer whose work reimagines the built environment as a playground for possibility. Through layered cityscapes and architectural motifs, Mason channels community, futurism, and joy, blurring the line between design and storytelling. His practice envisions what happens when infrastructure and imagination merge.
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Skip Brea — E 177th St & Devoe Ave, Bronx, NY
Skip Brea is a Dominican-American visual artist who explores memory, history, and identity through a mix of digital media, painting, and installation. Drawing from archives and cultural references, Skip reassembles narratives that challenge how history is preserved and retold. His work often positions Caribbean and diasporic experiences at the center of contemporary art discourse.
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Gianni Lee (Curator + Artist) — Atlantic Ave & Classon Ave, Brooklyn, NY
My included work, “Salting The Earth” (2022), extends my practice of Afrofuturist storytelling and personal myth-making—centering Black resilience and imagination.
What the Curation Represents
The curatorial frame asks each artist to operate like a messenger and a builder—sending signals from fractured worlds and constructing monuments for what we’re told to forget. In an era where the sacred merges with the digital, these billboards act as altars for warnings, dreams, and hidden codes—brief, bright sites of reflection amid ads and traffic. That tension is the point.
Why the Street?
Public space is the most democratic gallery we have. By placing culture over commercialism, SaveArtSpace’s mission aligns with my own: empower artists, meet communities where they are, and expand who gets to see themselves reflected at city scale.
The installations begin the week of September 5. I’ll be sharing photos once they’re live—NYC just got a few new monuments.