Horror Street: The Visible Woman

Welcome back to Horror Street, my ongoing journey in search of awesome yet spooky graffiti art on the streets and little-traveled corners of New York City!

Photo © 2021 Steven A. Roman

We return to the back streets of Brooklyn’s East Williamsburg neighborhood for The Visible Woman, a building-wide mural that graced the side of a commercial building on the corner of Gardner Avenue and Randolph Street, which I came across in September 2021 during my pandemic-inspired wanderings through the less-populated industrial areas of New York City. Delivery trucks zipping up and down the streets made it impossible for me to get a wider shot of the mural, so here’s a pic courtesy of Google Street Views. And yes, the bottom half had been just as tagged by others when I took my photo; a shame, really.

Photo © Google Street Views

The mural is the work of a graffiti artist named Nychos, who’s a member of the Brooklyn artist community called the Bushwick Collective. And to see the unblemished version of the original painting, check out this YouTube drone camera footage taken after the mural’s completion. Very nice work, indeed. And appropriately horrific for us!

Be sure to check out my previous Horror Street entries. And stay tuned for further installments of Horror Street—there’s plenty of macabre graffiti art to be found on the streets of New York, if you look in the right creepy places!