It's a Stick-Up

SPECTER

I’LL INSTALL WORK ANYWHERE, INDOORS OR OUTDOORS. I PREFER OUTDOORS BECAUSE THERE ARE NO CEILINGS.

Brooklyn-based Specter has not always been keen on paste-ups. His first expressive experiments in street art date back to his adolescence in Montreal and consisted of painting graffiti. This led him to try stick-ups a couple of years later. ‘After my first experience with pasting I wrote the technique off because I felt it to be too impermanent. Four years later I started to collaborate with the artist Dan Bergeron. He opened my eyes to its potential,’ he recalls. With the help of a so-called elephant broom, the possibility of conquering otherwise inaccessible spaces is very important to him. The urban environment is not only his expressive ...