2011

Rania Attieh & Daniel Garcia Screen their new film “OK, Enough, Goodbye” At The MoMA (Manhattan, NYC)

Ok, Enough, Goodbye
brooklyn-street-art-rania-Attieh-daniel Garcia-OK-enough-goodbye

  • Okay, Enough, Goodbye

    2011. Lebanon/USA/UAE. Written and directed by Rania Attieh, Daniel Garcia. With Daniel Arzrouni, Nadime Attieh. Okay, Enough, Goodbye is a caustic coming-of-age story about a man pushing 40 who lives with his elderly mother. Using her complete dependence on him as an excuse, he has refrained from making a life for himself—until one day when, without warning, his mother moves to Beirut. Attieh and Garcia’s debut feature is an incisive deconstruction of manhood and a graceful meditation on inertia, loneliness, and cowardice. Winner of the Black Pearl at the 2010 Abu Dhabi Film Festival. 93 min.

  • MoMA FILM SCREENINGS:

Introduced by Attieh, Garcia

Friday, October 14, 2011, 7:00 p.m.

Theater 2 (The Roy and Niuta Titus Theater 2), T2

Saturday, October 22, 2011, 5:00 p.m.

Theater 1 (The Roy and Niuta Titus Theater 1), T1

Read more

Moniker International Art Fair October 13-16 2011 (London, UK)

Moniker
brooklyn-street-art-moniker-art-fair-carmichael-gallery

Following our hugely successful debut last year, Moniker is back to shake up London’s art fair scene once again highlighting the international scope of street art and beyond. Moniker was responsible for putting East London on the art fair map in 2010, challenging traditional conventions with both gallery exhibits and further signature project spaces ready to whet the appetites of the art crowds.
With over 10,000 people walking through its doors last year, Moniker is set to bombard the scene once again, with a matchless assemblage of artists and galleries who are often overlooked by mainstream art fairs.
Moniker has become recognised by those in tune with international art trends, along with collectors, critics and art lovers alike.Moniker will take place in October this year at Village Underground, Shoreditch from the 13th–16th of October. In addition, Moniker Projects will continue with its philosophy of commissioning a series of offsite projects including public artworks, educational workshops and film screenings, offering visitors a number of opportunities to get involved and be informed.

EXHIBITORS:

Mauger Modern
London

Shea & Ziegler
London – Los Angeles

The Garage
Amsterdam

Village Underground

54 Holywell Lane
Shoreditch
London
EC2A 3PQ

Read more

OneThirty3 Presents: Gaia “Streets in the Sky” (Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK)

Gaia
Brooklyn-street-art-gaia-onethirty3-Newcastle-upon-tyne-UK

onethirty3 – Artists Installation Space will host six innovative and exciting installations a year. The invited artists will create site-specific art installations which will provide a unique opportunity for visitors to experience large scale examples of the best in underground art from around the world.

Brooklyn-street-art-gaia-onethirty3-Newcastle-upon-tyne-UKGAIA. Installation shot. (photo © courtesy of the artist)

Read more

Boston Street Art, and Swoon’s “Anthropocene” at ICA

Her name is unpronounceable, so people just call her Mrs. Bennett. One of the last aboriginal people in Australia, she sits atop a rolling line of four-eyed Tibetan demons with human faces who are sucking species into their mouths on this wall installation at the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston (ICA). Traditionally these demons would be protective, but “Swoon really sees these as a representation of humanity’s need to devour, and in excess, to destroy“ explains Pedro Alonzo, curator of the show, as he gives guests a tour of “Anthropocene”, the two part installation by the Brooklyn Street Artist. The shows’ name refers to the current era, and according to Wikipedia, “The Anthropocene is a recent and informal geologic chronological term that serves to mark the evidence and extent of human activities that have had a significant global impact on the Earth’s ecosystems.”

brooklyn-street-art-swoon-ICA-boston-jaime-rojo-09-11-web-8Swoon “Anthropocene Extinction” (photo © Jaime Rojo)

brooklyn-street-art-swoon-ICA-boston-jaime-rojo-09-11-web-1

Swoon “Anthropocene Extinction” (photo © Jaime Rojo)

brooklyn-street-art-swoon-ICA-boston-jaime-rojo-09-11-web-2

Swoon “Anthropocene Extinction” (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Part two of the installation at this modern museum overlooking the Boston waterfront is the mini temple suspended from the ceiling in the entry hall to the galleries, best viewed from the glass central elevator that carries you from floor to floor. With joints hand-tied in a manner Swoon learned from Chinese scaffolding architecture, the 400 pound structure is made of bamboo, copper, and multiples of hand cut paper animals, species endangered or soon to be in this era of human destruction on Earth. “She built the structure in four parts, we assembled it and installed it (over 6 days), and she draped it with these materials, ” said Alonzo.

brooklyn-street-art-swoon-ICA-boston-jaime-rojo-09-11-web-5

Swoon “Anthropocene Extinction” (photo © Jaime Rojo)

brooklyn-street-art-swoon-ICA-boston-jaime-rojo-09-11-web-7

Swoon “Anthropocene Extinction” (photo © Jaime Rojo)

During the installation the main hall was reserved for work tables and a temporary print shop, where many assistants spent hours hand cutting the animals and shapes that adorn the works and the parade that swings from the ceiling connecting the two areas. Seahorses, frogs, beetles, and butterfies all create the chain of life in this intuitive biologic story of connective species and collective endangerment. Disappearing before they can become fossils, the animal world is memorialized in this most ephemeral of materials, an exhibition that will similarly be destroyed when the wall is sanded and painted. In this impermanent way, it best mimics the installations Swoon does on the street.

brooklyn-street-art-swoon-ICA-boston-jaime-rojo-09-11-web-4

Swoon “Anthropocene Extinction” (photo © Jaime Rojo)

brooklyn-street-art-swoon-ICA-boston-jaime-rojo-09-11-web-6

Swoon “Anthropocene Extinction” (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Then out to the streets of Boston we went, hitting a number of spots with the guidance of photographer, artist, and Street Art expert Geoff Hargadon, who began one of the city’s only organic walls for Street Art and graffiti art in 2007. A natural magnet for painters and wheat-pasters, the ever-changing dialogue of “The Wall” on display is periodically wiped clean for a new group installation. The outdoor gallery has provided an outlet for hundreds of local and visiting artists as well as a providing a backdrop to photo shoots, video, and television programs. On the day we were there, a dancer was set to perform her moves under bright lights in the alleyway. Below are images from that days tour.

brooklyn-street-art-swoon-boston-jaime-rojo-09-11-web-23

Swoon on the streets of Boston (photo © Jaime Rojo)

brooklyn-street-art-swoon-boston-jaime-rojo-09-11-web-14

Swoon on the streets of Boston (photo © Jaime Rojo)

brooklyn-street-art-swoon-the-wall-at-central-square-boston-jaime-rojo-09-11-web-21

Swoon on The Wall at Central Square in Cambridge (photo © Jaime Rojo)

brooklyn-street-art-alphonse-jaime-rojo-09-11-web

Alphonse (photo © Jaime Rojo)

brooklyn-street-art-darkcloud-mise-jaime-rojo-09-11-web

Darkcloud, Mise. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

brooklyn-street-art-obey-jaime-rojo-09-11-web

Obey (photo © Jaime Rojo)

brooklyn-street-art-stickman-jaime-rojo-09-11-web

Stikman (photo © Jaime Rojo)

brooklyn-street-art-syms-jaime-rojo-09-11-web

Syms (photo © Jaime Rojo)

brooklyn-street-art-the-wall-at-central-square-boston-jaime-rojo-09-11-web-23

The Wall at Central Square (photo © Jaime Rojo)

brooklyn-street-art-the-wall-at-central-square-boston-jaime-rojo-09-11-web-22

The Wall at Central Square (photo © Jaime Rojo)

brooklyn-street-art-brian-butler-the-upperhandart-jaime-rojo-the-wall-at-central-square-boston-09-11-web

Brian Butler. The Upperhandart on The Wall at Central Square (photo © Jaime Rojo)

brooklyn-street-art-darkcloud-jaime-rojo-the-wall-at-central-square-boston-09-11-web

Darkcloud on The Wall at Central Square (photo © Jaime Rojo)

brooklyn-street-art-mancini-jaime-rojo-the-wall-at-central-square-boston-09-11-web

Mancini and friends on The Wall at Central Square (photo © Jaime Rojo)

brooklyn-street-art-mark-carvalho-jaime-rojo-the-wall-at-central-square-boston-09-11-web

Mark Carvalho on The Wall at Central Square (photo © Jaime Rojo)

brooklyn-street-art-mer-one-jaime-rojo-the-wall-at-central-square-boston-09-11-web

Mer One on The Wall at Central Square (photo © Jaime Rojo)

With special thanks to Swoon, Pedro Alonzo, the ICA, and sincere gratitude to Geoff Hargadon.

Read more

Occupy Wall Street, Occupy Boston; Another Sort of Art in the Street

It’s been a few weeks since BSA first showed images of the protesting marchers of Occupy Wall Street and the number of everyday people from many walks of life in the streets has only bolstered what the kids have been saying. Now it looks like the marches have spread to hundreds of other cities in the country and around the world. All this in less than a month? It’s like it was waiting to happen.

brooklyn-street-art-jaime-rojo-occupy-wall-street-occupy-boston-09-11-web-4Occupy Wall Street (photo © Jaime Rojo)

In the intervening days the rapidly blossoming movement has been endorsed and reviled by many a political figure and well-known media personality. While some shiny happy telecasters seem bewildered by the discontent – the majority of people you talk to on the street or whom you stand behind at the grocery store or bank aren’t particularly mystified by the marchers or their myriad messages. It’s the same stuff people have been talking about at their kitchen table for years now – and now they’re talking together in the public square. Oops.

brooklyn-street-art-jaime-rojo-occupy-wall-street-occupy-boston-09-11-web-2

Occupy Wall Street. American Economist Rick Wolff speaks to Occupy Wall Street Open Forum on  October 4. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Aside from the populist uprising aspect of it all, the art in the street during these Occupy marches has been pretty good. So have been the slogans, the witty turns of phrase, the clever costumes and dramatic street theater. Is there any question that Street Art will be reflecting what is happening in the streets? In many ways, it already has been – our recent talks at LA MOCA and the New York State Museum concentrated on the tea leaves of the street telling us for the last few years about homelessness, the effects of war, the struggles of the working class, and the housing crises. For many Street Artists this stuff is personal and they’ve been telling their stories with their art.

Here are some of the scenes we caught of the Occupy Boston and Occupy Wall Street marches recently; it will be very interesting to see how art and popular culture are influenced by what is now on display in the Streets. When you call yourself the 99%, you’ve cast a pretty wide net.

brooklyn-street-art-jaime-rojo-occupy-wall-street-occupy-boston-09-11-web-1

Occupy Wall Street (photo © Jaime Rojo)

brooklyn-street-art-jaime-rojo-occupy-wall-street-occupy-boston-09-11-web-12

Occupy Wall Street (photo © Jaime Rojo)

brooklyn-street-art-jaime-rojo-occupy-wall-street-occupy-boston-09-11-web-3

Occupy Wall Street (photo © Jaime Rojo)

brooklyn-street-art-jaime-rojo-occupy-wall-street-occupy-boston-09-11-web-17

Occupy Wall Street (photo © Jaime Rojo)

brooklyn-street-art-jaime-rojo-occupy-wall-street-occupy-boston-09-11-web-13

Occupy Wall Street (photo © Jaime Rojo)

brooklyn-street-art-jaime-rojo-occupy-wall-street-occupy-boston-09-11-web-16

Occupy Wall Street (photo © Jaime Rojo)

brooklyn-street-art-jaime-rojo-occupy-wall-street-occupy-boston-09-11-web-5

Occupy Wall Street (photo © Jaime Rojo)

brooklyn-street-art-jaime-rojo-occupy-wall-street-occupy-boston-09-11-web-7

Occupy Wall Street (photo © Jaime Rojo)

brooklyn-street-art-jaime-rojo-occupy-wall-street-occupy-boston-09-11-web-8

Occupy Wall Street (photo © Jaime Rojo)

brooklyn-street-art-jaime-rojo-occupy-wall-street-occupy-boston-09-11-web-14

Occupy Wall Street (photo © Jaime Rojo)

brooklyn-street-art-jaime-rojo-occupy-wall-street-occupy-boston-09-11-web-18

Occupy Wall Street (photo © Jaime Rojo)

brooklyn-street-art-jaime-rojo-occupy-wall-street-occupy-boston-09-11-web-10

Occupy Wall Street. “Rent Is Too Damn High” party founder and political activist Jimmy McMillan talks to the assembled on October 4th. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

brooklyn-street-art-jaime-rojo-occupy-wall-street-occupy-boston-09-11-web-21

Occupy Wall Street. “Rent Is Too Damn High” party founder and political activist Jimmy McMillan talks to the assembled on October 4th. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

brooklyn-street-art-jaime-rojo-occupy-wall-street-occupy-boston-09-11-web-6

What cha knitting? Occupy Wall Street. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

brooklyn-street-art-jaime-rojo-occupy-wall-street-occupy-boston-09-11-web-9

Occupy Wall Street. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

brooklyn-street-art-jaime-rojo-occupy-wall-street-occupy-boston-09-11-web-19

Occupy Wall Street. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

brooklyn-street-art-jaime-rojo-occupy-wall-street-occupy-boston-09-11-web-15

Occupy Wall Street. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

brooklyn-street-art-jaime-rojo-occupy-wall-street-occupy-boston-09-11-web-11

Occupy Wall Street. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

brooklyn-street-art-jaime-rojo-occupy-wall-street-occupy-boston-09-11-web-20

Occupy Wall Street. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

brooklyn-street-art-jaime-rojo-occupy-wall-street-occupy-boston-09-11-web-32

Occupy Boston. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

brooklyn-street-art-jaime-rojo-occupy-wall-street-occupy-boston-09-11-web-30

Occupy Boston. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

brooklyn-street-art-jaime-rojo-occupy-wall-street-occupy-boston-09-11-web-22

Occupy Boston. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

brooklyn-street-art-jaime-rojo-occupy-wall-street-occupy-boston-09-11-web-23

Occupy Boston. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

brooklyn-street-art-jaime-rojo-occupy-wall-street-occupy-boston-09-11-web-24

Occupy Boston. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

brooklyn-street-art-jaime-rojo-occupy-wall-street-occupy-boston-09-11-web-25

Occupy Boston. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

brooklyn-street-art-jaime-rojo-occupy-wall-street-occupy-boston-09-11-web-35

Occupy Boston. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

brooklyn-street-art-jaime-rojo-occupy-wall-street-occupy-boston-09-11-web-31

Occupy Boston. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

brooklyn-street-art-jaime-rojo-occupy-wall-street-occupy-boston-09-11-web-33

Occupy Boston. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

brooklyn-street-art-jaime-rojo-occupy-wall-street-occupy-boston-09-11-web-26

Occupy Boston. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

brooklyn-street-art-jaime-rojo-occupy-wall-street-occupy-boston-09-11-web-27

Occupy Boston. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

brooklyn-street-art-jaime-rojo-occupy-wall-street-occupy-boston-09-11-web-28

Occupy Boston. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

brooklyn-street-art-jaime-rojo-occupy-wall-street-occupy-boston-09-11-web-29

Occupy Boston. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

brooklyn-street-art-jaime-rojo-occupy-wall-street-occupy-boston-09-11-web-34

Occupy Boston. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Read more

Doodles for Living Walls : Albany

Graphic-Banner-WEB-BSA_Living-Walls

Finished Piece Frees Itself From Fear

That dude Doodles completed his piece at “Living Walls : Albany” in this hidden alley of the state capitol after all the camera-packing explorers and six-packing parties ran out of town.  Out behind of storehouse Doodles had a lot of time to himself and he created this ode to shaking off the burdens of life with a progressive story across a cinder-blocked wall.  The Street Artist explained to us that in one interpretation the figure represents an average modern person accumulating possessions in a materialistic world. But the metaphor he likes best is about shaking off the mounting burden of fear. The final frame, inspired by the artist’s recent trip to the wilds of the Adirondacks in upstate New York, shows the figure freeing himself from those fear and making a break for the woods.  Off the grid! Here we go!

Thanks to Samson Contompasis for photos of the finished piece.

brooklyn-street-art-doodles-jaime-rojo-living-walls-albany-web-6Doodles (photo © Jaime Rojo)

brooklyn-street-art-doodles-jaime-rojo-living-walls-albany-web-5

Doodles (photo © Jaime Rojo)

brooklyn-street-art-doodles-jaime-rojo-living-walls-albany-web-4

Doodles (photo © Jaime Rojo)

brooklyn-street-art-doodles-samson-contompasis-living-walls-albany-web

Doodles (photo © Samson Contompasis)

brooklyn-street-art-doodles-samson-contompasis-living-walls-albany-web-1

Doodles (photo © Samson Contompasis)

brooklyn-street-art-doodles-samson-contompasis-living-walls-albany-web-3

Doodles (photo © Samson Contompasis)

Read more

NOMADE Points to the Lights of Metropolis L.A.

Street Art collective Nomade continue apace with reinventions of their fearless painting Roman soldier – that spear is a paintbrush by the way – in LA once again. The piece is 89 feet long by 22 feet high (27m x 7m) and located in the heart of the Arts District in Downtown LA, their sixth installation over the last couple of years with the LA Freewalls Project. The group boasts designers of various stripes who have been actively involved in a number of LA industries and who collectively bring this metaphor to life in new ways, each time with elements of photorealism, illustration, and a generous amount of propagandic heroicism from classical antiquity.

brooklyn-street-art-nomade-la-freewalls-los-angeles-3-webNomade for LA Freewalls Project (photo courtesy © NOMADE)

brooklyn-street-art-nomade-la-freewalls-los-angeles-1-web

Nomade for LA Freewalls Project (photo courtesy © NOMADE)

brooklyn-street-art-nomade-la-freewalls-los-angeles-2

Nomade for LA Freewalls Project (photo courtesy © NOMADE)

Read more

“Heartship” Takes Flight: How and Nosm Complete Mural in LA

Street Artists How and Nosm have just completed a 6 day installation of a brand new piece with the LA Freewalls project here in the Arts District of downtown Los Angeles. With occasional interruptions for rain and food and sleep, the twins methodically knocked out a complex and detailed mural 106 feet wide and 60 feet tall (32m x 18m) that effectively nails their reputation as two of the most talented artists on the Street Art scene today, not that it was in doubt. With two decades of work under their belts, it is a rare combination of focus, relentless creative exploration, and artistic integrity that has shifted the work of these guys into an international limelight over the past couple of years.

brooklyn-street-art-how-nosm-birdmna-la-freewalls-project-web-4

How and Nosm. (photo courtesy LA Freewalls Project © Birdman)

brooklyn-street-art-how-nosm-birdmna-la-freewalls-project-web-1How and Nosm. In this image you can appreciate the scale and proportion of this mural on the far right. (Photo courtesy LA Freewalls Project © Birdman)

Named “Heartship” the gargantuan mural is on a mission to entertain, elate, and educate about what self-taught artists with heart can produce and add to the man-made environment. In a direct way the whole project strikes at the center of the current “mural moratorium” in LA, which many local artists view as narrow, marginalizing, and inept.

“The fact that this mural exists contrary to any official public art policy in Los Angeles is a miracle, and a testament to the courage, will, and determination of everyone involved in the project,” says Daniel Lahoda, who’s LA Freewalls Project has routinely advocated for a review and revising of the City’s official policy toward public art and Street Art.

brooklyn-street-art-how-nosm-birdmna-la-freewalls-project-web-2

How and Nosm. (photo courtesy LA Freewalls Project © Birdman)

This Saturday (10/15) the brothers will also be celebrating ACHTUNG!”, their first solo show, with 50 new original works at Known Gallery in LA. Expect to be suitably blown away, and to see a huge crowd.

See BSA’s interview with How and Nosm this summer in Juxtapoz here.

brooklyn-street-art-how-nosm-birdmna-la-freewalls-project-web-3

How and Nosm. (photo courtesy LA Freewalls Project © Birdman)

brooklyn-street-art-how-nosm-birdmna-la-freewalls-project-5-web

How and Nosm. (photo courtesy LA Freewalls Project © Birdman)

brooklyn-street-art-how-nosm-birdmna-la-freewalls-project-11-web

How and Nosm. (photo courtesy LA Freewalls Project © Birdman)

brooklyn-street-art-how-nosm-birdmna-la-freewalls-project-6-web

How and Nosm. (photo courtesy LA Freewalls Project © Birdman)

brooklyn-street-art-how-nosm-birdmna-la-freewalls-project-web-8

How and Nosm. (photo courtesy LA Freewalls Project © Birdman)

brooklyn-street-art-how-nosm-birdmna-la-freewalls-project-web-7

How and Nosm. (photo courtesy LA Freewalls Project © Birdman)

brooklyn-street-art-how-nosm-birdmna-la-freewalls-project-web-9

How and Nosm. (photo courtesy LA Freewalls Project © Birdman)

brooklyn-street-art-how-nosm-birdmna-la-freewalls-project-10-web

“Heartship”, by How and Nosm. (photo courtesy LA Freewalls Project © Birdman)

With special thanks Daniel Lahoda and to Dante at Madison Realty Group. All photographs © “Birdman Photos” (@birdmanphotos on Twitter).

Read more

Images of the Week 10.09.11

Brooklyn-Street-Art-IMAGES-OF-THE-WEEK_05-2010

Here’s our weekly interview with the streets, this week featuring: Nice One, Jim Darling, Cardiff, NohJColey, El Sol 25, Dan Witz.

brooklyn-street-art-dan-witz-jaime-rojo-10-11-web-12

Dan Witz. fresh from his participation in NUART 2011 Dan give us his take on “Equus”   (photo © Jaime Rojo)

brooklyn-street-art-dan-witz-jaime-rojo-10-11-web-13

Dan Witz. Detail.   (photo © Jaime Rojo)

brooklyn-street-art-nohjcoley-jaime-rojo-10-11-web-9

NohJColey.  (photo © Jaime Rojo)

brooklyn-street-art-nohjcoley-jaime-rojo-10-11-web-11

NohJColey. Detail. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

brooklyn-street-art-nohjcoley-jaime-rojo-10-11-web-10

NohJColey. Detail. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

brooklyn-street-art-nohjcoley-jaime-rojo-10-11-web-6

NohJColey. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

brooklyn-street-art-nohjcoley-jaime-rojo-10-11-web-7

NohJColey. Detail. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

brooklyn-street-art-nohjcoley-jaime-rojo-10-11-web-8

NohJColey. Detail. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

brooklyn-street-art-nice-one-brock-brake-chicago-3-webNice One. Last month photographer Brock Brake spent some time with Street Artist Nice One on the same rooftop in Chicago where Ludo put his piece in August. Nice One departed from his usual wheat pastes or air brush compressor and painted this piece with the can. (photo © Brock Brake)

brooklyn-street-art-nice-one-brock-brake-chicago-2-web

Nice One. (photo © Brock Brake)

brooklyn-street-art-nice-one-brock-brake-chicago-1-web

Nice One. (photo © Brock Brake)

brooklyn-street-art-jim-darling-web

Jim Darling new mural in LA. (photo © Jim Darling)

brooklyn-street-art-cardiff-jaime-rojo-10-11-web-2

Cardiff. Street installation in Pasadena, CA (photo © Cardiff)

brooklyn-street-art-cardiff-jaime-rojo-10-11-web-1

Cardiff. Street installation in Pasadena, CA (photo © Cardiff)

brooklyn-street-art-el-sol-25-jaime-rojo-10-11-web-4

El Sol 25. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

brooklyn-street-art-el-sol-25-jaime-rojo-10-11-web-5

El Sol 25. Detail. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

brooklyn-street-art-el-sol-25-jaime-rojo-10-11-web-2

El Sol 25. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

brooklyn-street-art-el-sol-25-jaime-rojo-10-11-web-3

El Sol 25. Detail. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

brooklyn-street-art-jaime-rojo-10-11-web

“The benefit of death is you know not to waste life living someone else’s choices. Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition” Steve Jobs. Stanford University, 2005.  (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Read more

New York’s Nuit Blanche Redux : Industrial Buildings Brought to Light

Still way off the beaten path, and captivatingly so, New York’s 2nd annual Nuit Blanche overcame difficult weather and logistical hurdles to blind a few thousand revelers with brilliance and interactivity in this waterfront industrial neighborhood facing Manhattan. This festival of ingenius light is inspired by those sharing it’s name in cities like Paris and Toronto, but the D.I.Y. ethos that permeated Brooklyn during the 2000s in neighborhoods like this keeps the corporate chill at bay.

brooklyn-street-art-jaime-rojo-bring-to-light-nuit-blanche-new-york-10-2011-web-1Untitled (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Performance, poetry, projections; the description does no justice to the ingenuity of spectacular pieces like Chris Jordan’s timelapse of Hurricane Irene hitting Manhattan projected inside a cloud named Bob that is designed by Columbia architecture students. Only in person, on the street, and in the cold October air can you be suitably shocked by the sight of yourself crawling up a factory building with a hundred others going at different rates. “Asalto”, by Daniel Canogar does just that; a public participation piece where you can crawl across a stage being recorded by a camera overhead and a few seconds later see yourself climbing to the top of this abandoned factory, progressive participants looping and layering as the evening advances.

The Manhattan art crowd may have been lured by the new ferry service and the promise of the occasional marquee name (Serra, Wodiczko), but it’s the unposing open quality of this curated installation of light that still feels promisingly ad hoc. While you’re discovering and rooting for it to succeed, you hope it retains the radiant wit as it grows. Glows

brooklyn-street-art-richard-serra-1968-hand-catching-lead-jaime-rojo-bring-to-light-nuit-blanche-new-york-10-2011-web

Richard Serra, 1968. “Hand Catching Lead” (photo © Jaime Rojo)

brooklyn-street-art-marcos-zotes-lopez-jaime-rojo-bring-to-light-nuit-blanche-new-york-10-2011-web

Marcos Zotes-Lopez (photo © Jaime Rojo)

brooklyn-street-art-daniel-canogar-jaime-rojo-bring-to-light-nuit-blanche-new-york-10-2011-web-1

Daniel Canogar (photo © Jaime Rojo)

brooklyn-street-art-daniel-canogar-jaime-rojo-bring-to-light-nuit-blanche-new-york-10-2011-web-2

Daniel Canogar (photo © Jaime Rojo)

brooklyn-street-art-chakaia-booker-jaime-rojo-bring-to-light-nuit-blanche-new-york-10-2011-web-2

Chakaia Booker (photo © Jaime Rojo)

brooklyn-street-art-alex-villar-jaime-rojo-bring-to-light-nuit-blanche-new-york-10-2011-web

Alex Villar (photo © Jaime Rojo)

brooklyn-street-art-amanda-long-jaime-rojo-bring-to-light-nuit-blanche-new-york-10-2011-web

Amanda Long (photo © Jaime Rojo)

brooklyn-street-art-poemobile-jaime-rojo-bring-to-light-nuit-blanche-new-york-10-2011-web

POEMobile (photo © Jaime Rojo)

brooklyn-street-art-poemobile-jaime-rojo-bring-to-light-nuit-blanche-new-york-10-2011-web-1

POEMobile (photo © Jaime Rojo)

brooklyn-street-art-chika-lijima-jaime-rojo-bring-to-light-nuit-blanche-new-york-10-2011-web

Chika Lijima (photo © Jaime Rojo)

brooklyn-street-art-chris-jordan-shai-fuller-jocelyn-oppenheim-jacob-segal-brycia-suite-jaime-rojo-bring-to-light-nuit-blanche-new-york-10-2011-web

Chris Jordan, Shai Fuller, Jocelyn Oppenheim, Jacob Segal and Brycia Suite. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

brooklyn-street-art-jaime-rojo-bring-to-light-nuit-blanche-new-york-10-2011-web

Untitled (photo © Jaime Rojo)

brooklyn-street-art-jeff-desom-rear-window-jaime-rojo-bring-to-light-nuit-blanche-new-york-10-2011-web

Jeff Desom take on Rear Window (photo © Jaime Rojo)

brooklyn-street-art-nathan-kensinger-jaime-rojo-bring-to-light-nuit-blanche-new-york-10-2011-web-1

Nathan Kensinger description of lost interiors consumed by fire.  (photo © Jaime Rojo)

brooklyn-street-art-organelle-design-elliot-goodman-jaime-rojo-bring-to-light-nuit-blanche-new-york-10-2011-web

Organelle Design and Elliot-Goodman (photo © Jaime Rojo)

brooklyn-street-art-Krzysztof-wodiczko-jaime-rojo-bring-to-light-nuit-blanche-new-york-2011-10-web-4

Krzysztof Wodiczko (photo © Jaime Rojo)

brooklyn-street-art-the-company-stage-jaime-rojo-bring-to-light-nuit-blanche-new-york-2011-10-web-5

Andrea Cuius and Roland Ellis (photo © Jaime Rojo)

brooklyn-street-art-diller-scofidio-jaime-rojo-bring-to-light-nuit-blanche-new-york-2011-10-web-2

Diller Scofidio (photo © Jaime Rojo)

brooklyn-street-art-jaime-rojo-bring-to-light-nuit-blanche-new-york-10-2011-web-2

Untitled (photo © Jaime Rojo)

brooklyn-street-art-sean-mcintyre-reid-bingham-jaime-rojo-bring-to-light-nuit-blanche-new-york-10-2011-web

Sean McIntyre and Reid Bingham (photo © Jaime Rojo)

brooklyn-street-art-ugly-art-room-jaime-rojo-bring-to-light-nuit-blanche-new-york-10-2011-web

Ugly Art Room (photo © Jaime Rojo)

brooklyn-street-art-valeska-soares-jaime-rojo-bring-to-light-nuit-blanche-new-york-10-2011-web

Valeska Soares (photo © Jaime Rojo)

brooklyn-street-art-elisabeth-smolarz-jaime-rojo-bring-to-light-nuit-blanche-new-york-10-2011-web

Elisabeth Smolarz (photo © Jaime Rojo)

This article was previously posted on The Huffington Post.

Read more

Fun Friday 10.07.11

Fun-Friday

Welcome to Friday! Hope it’s a good one for you.

1. “Anti-Social Networking” Show by Skewville at Black Book (Denver)
2. Oh MOMO You Didn’t! That’s right. (Philadelphia)
3. Street Art Tribute to Steve Jobs on Bond Street in Manhattan (VIDEO)
4. Swoon and Olek on the TV Machine (VIDEO)
5. Cape Town Crushes Rochester, New York  (VIDEO)
6. Formaje In Romania (VIDEO)
7. HOPE and Craola in Connecticut (VIDEO)
8. Anthony Lister Plays with Fire (VIDEO)

“Anti-Social Networking” Show by Skewville at Black Book (Denver)

You’ve been Skewvilled again, this time with a number of their “friends, including BAST. The constellation of connections you can make will be revelatory. Like.

brooklyn-street-art-WEB-skewville-black-book-gallery

For more information about this show please click on the link below:

http://www.theblackbookgallery.com/2011/10/black-book-gallery-presents-skewville-anti-social-networking/

Oh MOMO You Didn’t! That’s right. (Philadelphia)

The post-graffiti abstract Street Artist MOMO is in Philadelphia for a small group show with Amber Dubois and Steven Riddle opening today at the Space 1026 Gallery. It’s an opportunity to see three painters exploring traditional issues of abstraction. Through their use of color, shape and form – each in their own distinct but related mediums of painting, collage and sculpture respectively. Check it.

brooklyn-street-art-momo-jaime-rojo

MOMO (photo © Jaime Rojo)

For more information about this show please click on the link below:

http://www.brooklynstreetart.com/theblog/?p=25169

Street Art Tribute to Steve Jobs on Bond Street in Manhattan

A poorly shot little video of this lenticular tribute to Steve Jobs, but you get the idea. Yesterday there were many tributes to the founder of Apple in front of the Apple stores in Manhattan, as many people were clearly affected by the creative genius of the guy over the last 3 decades.  Our thoughts go to his family and friends.

Swoon and Olek on the TV Machine

PBS ARTS has a new short film with two female Street Artists  SWOON and OLEK for their series “Off Book”. Watch it below- sorry about the commercial at the start of the video.

Cape Town Crushes Rochester, New York

This summer in July a group of four artists from Cape Town, South Africa traveled to Rochester, New York to collaborate on a series of murals with local artists. Watch Faith47, Make1one, Dal, and Freddy Sam at work. This privately funded project was sponsored by the Synthesis Collaborative, a non-profit based in Rochester.

Formaje In Romania

Here is a teaser for their upcoming show Cosmonotrips. Short but fun!

HOPE and Craola in Connecticut

The Beast Brothers presents HOPE X CRAOLA getting work done in New Haven, CT.  Video by Carlos East.

Anthony Lister Plays with Fire

Anthony Lister talks to Frank 151 in West Hollywood, CA. while playing with fire. See our interview with Mr. Lister posted last week after you watch the video, if you like.

Read more