Mike Cockrill and Rick Prol

Hello From New York from Frau Kolb!

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Home.  This is my base line.  Here: I know the streets of Manhattan.  I'm an urban girl.  The grid of Manhattan is the map of my soul.  "Broadway Boogie Woogie," by Mondrian is one of my favorite paintings.  I digress…

Yesterday was an amazing day for this independent art journalist, blogger.  She met with two AMAZING ART STARS: Mike Cockrill AND Rick Prol.  Thanks to artist Skip Snow, collaborator/leader of the street intervention(s) "Exchange," currently in Los Angeles.  (Read more below…)

Now, I sit down at my computer with so much to write about.  These men are BRILLIANT ART MINDS.  Thinkers.  Paint philosophers, expressing it ALL in whatever medium they can and they do. Masters in communication, NYC visual artists strut a prowess of knowlege and historic significance that is dumbfounding. 

I've collected some AMAZING footage of our conversations, with Mike Cockril in Brookyln and Rick Prol in a secret East Village location. 

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