A daring graffiti artist pulled off a tag for the ages at New York’s New Museum on Wednesday, spraying the name “Acer” on the third story of the Bowery building.
The anonymous artist does not appear to have any social media presence, but there are a growing number of posts on Instagram showing his or her work under the hashtagPhotos show work by the artist in Seattle, San Francisco, and Oakland, before more recent tags in New York.
“I don’t know anything about them, other than their work only recently started popping up in New York,” Luna Park, a photographer and graffiti artist who rushed to document the piece on Thursday, told Artnet News on Instagram. “They painted some highly visible spots—the kind that make you sit up and take notice.”The mysterious Acer appears to be a master of tagging prominent yet hard-to-reach spots–or “getting up,” as it is known in the graffiti community.
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