Body painting Day NYC 2016 New York

Body painting Day NYC 2016 New York Annual Bodypainting Day 2016, New York, Dag Hammarskjold Plaza (UN) Andy Golub is a world renowned artist, best known for painting nude models in the public streets of New York City, which resulted in legal battles that ultimately changed New York's public nudity laws. But it is Golub's approach to the art itself that is truly ground breaking. Golub paints without a plan. He forms a spiritual connection with each of his models, which inspires his art. He paints models of all shapes, sizes and genders. Some of his most memorable paintings are with Nicci, a woman living with cerebral palsy and Fredi, a woman who had terminal breast cancer. Through his art, Golub shatters the superficial environment we accept without question and replaces it with an environment based on human connection and the human spirit. In 2014, Golub started Bodypainting Day, which in it's 2nd year featured 70 artists and 100 models painted in the public streets of New York City and had it’s European debut in the city of Amsterdam. Bodypainting Day is a celebration of the human body and the voice of the artist, which is often missing from our world. Golub also paints in the studio on what he calls “human canvas” paintings, where groups of models lay on the ground a form a human canvas, painted and photographed from above. Along with painting on people, Golub paints on canvases, murals and almost any object from clothing to furniture to cars. But painting people has a special place in his heart because, as he explains, "people have a soul." As important to the art itself is the experience that is shared with the model and often the public.