New Shepard Fairey Mural Shows Up in Brooklyn

Photos courtesy of Louie Lobuglio

Street art’s most loved and hated corporate giant has returned to tag gentrified Brooklyn this fall, after running into some legal trouble over the summer for alleged ”malicious destruction of property” in Detroit. (A nice little bump, at least, for his on-and-off street cred.)

Sometime in the past few days, on the side a cupcake shop along St. Marks Avenue in Prospect Heights, Shepard Fairey threw one brick wall’s worth of shade at Earth destroyers and climate-change deniers.

The piece is painted all in white. It shows a single eyeball shedding an oversized teardrop with our good planet inside.

Near the top, Fairey wrote the words: ”EARTH CRISIS.”

Fairey has been printing this particular design since December of last year, and has thrown it up at least once since then. (On Jefferson Avenue in Detroit.)

But when the folks who run the Little Cupcake Bakeshop at 598 Vanderbilt Avenue — one of the shop’s two Brooklyn locations — saw a print of Earth Crisis in Fairey’s new collection, they thought it just right for the neighborhood.

“We’re friends of his, so he’s done our other shops in the past, and we worked with him on this piece,” Louie Lobuglio, the store’s manager, told Patch. “We’re just trying to draw attention to climate change and make people more aware. Hopefully it sparks conversation. Hopefully people start thinking of ways they can be more eco-friendly.”

In a second, smaller mural inside the shop, Fairey painted some of his characteristic wind turbines.

Little Cupcake Bakeshop, Lobuglio said, is “completely eco-friendly” itself — “and we like to promote that as much as we can.“

Lobuglio said passerby have already started stopping to take pictures and gush over the piece. ”People I’ve seen have absolutely loved it,” he said.

Fairey also has a piece on the outside wall of the Little Cupcake Bakeshop at Mott and Prince streets in Manhattan.