Abstract cityscape mural featuring graffiti, a bridge in the background, and tall buildings, painted in muted tones with bright yellow and red accents.

STEVE WASTERVAL

For Sale

FOR SALE is an art show by Steve Wasterval featuring a collection of city scenes that are disappearing as fast as the neighborhood rent is going up.

New York City is not depicted as a sweeping idealized whole, but in scraps: graffitied doors, shuddered bodegas, vanished signage… pieces of a city always in transition, chopped for parts and sold to the highest bidder.

It’s nostalgia with bite, equal parts beauty, grime, and irony, because everything in New York has a price tag, even its memories. And yes, every painting really is FOR SALE.

Come see it before the whole city becomes one big juice bar.