Art for After Hours: Professional 3D or 2D Street Paintings in Dry Chalk, Painted Murals, with Hand Drawn 4D Animated Augmented Reality Installations Worldwide
Art for After Hours, a professional street painting company brings beautiful, exciting, and conceptually thoughtful works of 4D or augmented and virtual reality with chalk art 3D or 2D for corporate, exhibition, public art, tradeshow, festival, and government clients in the United States and many international locations worldwide.
Art for After Hours social activism murals, concepts, and projects created to address social issues important to us as a company and as creative artists for like minded clients seeking a thoughtful yet positive message for their viewers. Projects can be 2D, 3D, and add 4D augmented reality for interaction virtually currently and live at the time in the future that all of us may do so.
Reach Out with your inquiry as follows - a prompt reply will follow:
4D animated augmented reality with our 3D Murals and/or 3D Chalk Art (AR, VR, XR): arstreetart@artforafterhours.com and 4dstreetart@artforafterhours.com.
3D Murals: 3DMurals@artforafterhours.com
3D Chalk: 3dchalkart@artforafterhours.com
Workshops: streetartworkshops@artforafterhours.com
4D Augmented Reality Environments with Chalk Grasshopper Nymph ‘Harry’/ 31st Avenue Open Streets Program in Astoria NY (August 2021)
Second event for our local community blending 4D, augmented reality, character animation, and freehand drawn chalk art live. Art for After Hours imagines and brings traditional hand drawn chalk art and murals with emerging technologies together for our viewers and clients. Speak with us about how we can make an immersive art and technology mix for your next project.
Hand drawn chalk art translatable to indoor and outdoor settings including 4D augmented reality to ground, walls, combined planes for projects.
4D Augmented Reality Goldfish Bowl with Chalk Koi Pond/31st Avenue Open Streets Program in Astoria NY (July 2021)
Watch Wendy and me having fun with the 4D augmented reality fishbowl and our pavement art Koi Pond at 31st Avenue Open Streets! Note that all of our 4D illusions are hand drawn as our chalk art is typically.
New 4D Augmented Reality projects by Anthony Cappetto of Art for After Hours: 31st Avenue Open Streets (2021), Community of Westfield NJ (2021), Project In Brooklyn, NY (2019), Dubai Canvas (2015).
4D Animated Augmented Reality/3D Chalk Art in Westfield NJ
(June 2021):
Watch Anthony and Wendy try to keep up with the AR ‘Silly Dancers’ !
A montage of our hand drawn chalk work throughout the downtown of Westfield NJ including a few with the AR ‘Silly Dancers’ which allowed us to bring the animated augmented reality effect to the community.
Some of the wall and sidewalk pieces large and small Art for After Hours created for the Westfield community during a one week project.
Select 3D and 2D Illusionary Projects by Anthony Cappetto and Art for After Hours:
Art for After Hours homage to the upcoming return to the Moon in 2024 and a woman will lead the way…
Our 3D interactive painted street mural shows a female astronaut with the new uniform for the Artemis space program with the Earth at the top right, and the mission symbol at top left. A small red/orange Mars is seen as a reflection in the astronaut’s visor; indicating humankinds’ next step forward in space exploration.
‘Spaced Out’ Virtual Festival / United Kingdom (2020)
An outdoor piece for Berkeley College in Woodbridge, NJ featuring the theme of ‘Be Inspired’ led by the Berkeley College Mascot. The mural was started in November of 2019 and finished for final installation in January of 2020. The mural measures 12 feet high by 20 feet long.
3D street painting art work created as a part of a nationally televised commercial in January 2020.
Anthony Cappetto was invited to the studios of PIX11 in midtown Manhattan to create a chalk piece for Breast Cancer Awareness Month in October 2020. It was great to be able to create the art sharing this important public message.
One of three identical 11 by 14 foot chalk pieces for Marc Jacobs as part of an evening event in Brooklyn by the water. Thanks to Wendy for helping me through the wind and one day deadline!
Art for After Hours was very proud to partner with MTV and their ‘Vote For Your Life’ national campaign using our chalk art to encourage early voting. We created six art works around NYC inspired by 20th Century Pop Art to incorporate the vote message.
From top left, clockwise - Inspired chalk pieces in the styles of Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat, and Robert Indiana. Additional pieces not shown were Piet Mondrian and Keith Haring.
A sequel to our signature 3D installation ‘Visions of Cambodia’ completed in 2011, we consider the blending of the wonders of nature with the wonders of the built environment of Angkor in Cambodia across a painted 8 by 16 foot backdrop combined with ground art 10 feet deep as an unified 3D immersive illusion. Works such as these were built as public works in the 12th and 13th Centuries. This location is truly a Garden of Wonder combining the marvels of the natural world and human imagination. Assisted by Wendy Stum of Art for After Hours.
Dry chalk on pavement; 30 feet wide by 40 feet deep; six days to complete with a team of three. First use of animated augmented reality at a public event anywhere to date (2011).
A 15 by 17 foot chalk piece depicting the dreams of a young Hispanic girl to be the first woman to step foot on Mars,
3D mural as part of a 3D installation and chalk demo promoting the Aavrani cosmetic brand and outdoor restaurant dining during the COVID pandemic in New York City’s East Village.
3D chalk art piece for BD Provisions celebrating their two year anniversary in Newtown, Connecticut in Fall 2020. We street painted one of BD Provisions containers filled with dried Turkish apricots and a big metal scoop as seen in their store behind us. Weather was perfect and a nice community excited about the artwork. A 4 by 9 foot piece completed in 4 hours’ time.
3D installation for a private event in NYC. Design created over two separate planes (wall and floor) such that entire piece is dependent on both images as one illusion. Imagine your viewers within a hand drawn 3D mural creation of ours. One or many attendees becoming a living part of the creativity.
Our take on the classic children’s game tying in nostalgia, nature (with ladybugs), and bringing fun for attendees at the first chalk festival held at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas. Assisted by Wendy Stum of Art for After Hours (not pictured).
3D interactive artwork gridded, drawn, and colored in one day. A nod to cutting edge, mesh architecture as a thoughtful, conceptual alternative to other ‘drop’ solutions. we love to imagine and design conceptual ideas, large and midsize. Check out our ladybug at the lower right - blending nature and built imagery…
Designed and painted for a private client at luxury residence in New Jersey; this 550 square foot illusion of a majestic castle, soaring clouds, and a tree top all to match existing stonework and forest mural - including over 1,400 separately painted stones and architectural details. June/July 2018
As a statement to show everyone under the sun around the world are one. All immigrants, all peoples. 15’ x 15’, chalk on pavement.
3D painted mural installation at the #dubaicanvas in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. 15 by 15 feet.
Dry chalk on pavement; 10 feet wide by 20 feet deep; three days to complete. Onsite use of augmented reality driven robot models and fluttering flags.
Exploring organic and parametric imagery in my hand drawn works with a 3D piece featuring waterfalls, a tightrope with a parametrically inspired green wall. For public event in Summit NJ.
A 3D street painting surrealistically depicting vines symbolizing the community of Vineland, NJ rising up from the pavement supporting a plane into another dimension, defended by a giant metallic ant.
10’x27’, tempera and chalk on pavement.
A centerpiece 3D installation for the Sweet Chalk Festival in Lockport, NY; based on the popular 1970’s game. This 12 foot wide by 30 foot deep piece allowed visitors to relive their childhoods in the very warm weather while not ‘falling’ through the ‘ice’… Our festival sponsor was Oath: July 2018
Cappetto standing atop the ‘Treasury’ facade carved into the stone of the famed city of Petra in Jordan. This 10’ x 20’ 3D illusion was done as part of the ‘World’s Fare’ international food event at Citi Field in May 2018.
A 3D street art piece calling attention to the children of immigrants seeking asylum in the United States and the terrible treatment brought to these children and their families by this country.
Four children sitting on a metal bench in custody facing the US Flag upside down, a sign of distress, holding a mylar issued blanket foe warmth streaming across the top of the art over the scene of Mexico and the US at the Rio Grande below. The prison bars separate the children from the freedom of a nation from walls and barriers and a better future for all. At Baltimore, MD.
This 3D piece created celebrating Pride here in New York City with Brooklyn Boulders Queensbridge as part of an event supporting the Ali Forney Center, an organization empowering LGBTQ homeless teens, allowing them with the tools to live independently. June 2018.
A three plane 3D street art installation calling attention to the refugee crises in the world, especially affecting children. A refugee child, given a bubble bottle from an aid worker has a brief moment of happiness amidst her environment around her. Artist Anthony Cappetto (pictured) with Wendy Stum from Art for After Hours imagined and created this piece at the Sarasota Chalk Festival 2017.
Created as part of a major European street art festival in September 2017, Cappetto designed this piece 8 feet high by 12 feet wide and 10 feet from the vertical wall panel realizing this 3D anamorphic design.
Dry chalk on sidewalk; 10 feet wide by 26 feet deep; three days to complete with team of three. Demonstration of augmented reality along with a virtual reality driven interpretation of the chalk piece.
Dry chalk on sidewalk; 10 feet wide by 16 feet deep; three days to complete.
Dry chalk on pavement, 10 feet wide by 22 feet deep; three days to complete.
Dry chalk on pavement; 10 feet wide by 18 feet deep; three days to complete.
