DESCRIPTION:
The 62 are Matthew McGuinness, Morgan Sheasby, Andrei Kallaur, and Hubert McCabe. They started out as graphic designers and a social worker but, they say, “Somehow we have ended up trying to change the world. Simply stated, we’re a crescent wrench when folks are asking for an 8 millimeter.” Apparently, clients are content to reach for their wrench: Bronx Museum of the Arts, The Shakespeare Project, Conjunction Arts, James Victore Inc., Colors magazine, New Georges Theatre Group, Queens Museum of Art, Sugo Magazine (Studio Camuffo), Plum Blossoms Gallery, New York Press, New York Civil Liberties Union, Issue Magazine, Donald Byrd Dance Company, Benetton, J.J. Snyder Studio, Toxico, Cedar Run Bakery, and The Office of Paul Sahre.

VOICE:
The 62 like to speak for themselves: “The 62, a crew of straight up ninjas, stay real 200 percent of the time, steady mobbin’ in da lab preppin’ da dills fo’ tha nills with skills that burn all the powa bills, not so con-ed and not so anti-dred, but more so the Francis Scott Key of collective consistency making mantras and sexual tantras to keep da ladies in check with crazy mad kissy peck.”

DISTINCTIVE MARKINGS:
A bit of a violent streak—though, for the most part this seems isolated to McGuinness and Kalluar. “Matt hunts hipsters, Andrei has one eye after our field trip to Italy, Hubert can jump really high, Morgan is in a dozen bands.”

HABITAT:
Their studio is in and about the vicinity of the beautiful Navy Yards in Brooklyn, located just next to the BQ Expressway, across from a Korean slaughterhouse, book ended by a brothel and a yuppie factory. “So the soot and the squawks sits in for critiques, as does Brad and Le Kev.” An 1,800-square-foot “bustling den of sin and discussion” allows for time trials, mistakes, skateboard sessions, and the occasional design and/or art endeavor. “The lack of a convenient subway entrance keeps the realtors away and our legs the size of small-block Chevys.”

SPOTTED BY:
Paul Sahre on The 62’s Matthew McGuiness: “SVA grad, Fabrica attendee, activist, truck driver, surfer, uncompromising designer, union man.”

CONTACT:
718.855.1882 | www.the62.org

Written by David Womack