All posts tagged: Brooklyn

Jef Aerosol in NYC, “Black is Beautiful”

October 23, 2014 Artists

Jef Aerosol, the French master street stencilist for over 3 decades was in NYC this week. He took part in a couple of commercial events and to visit other Street Artists shows and events like Nick Walker’s show on the LES/Chinatown border and the L.I.S.A. Project outdoor jam in Little Italy with Zimad, Bishop203, Carlo McCormick, Martha Cooper, and a cast of hundreds.

He told us he is lining up a couple of projects for next year in New York, which is good to hear, and of course he managed to hit up a handfull of spots himself at The Bushwick Collective in Brooklyn, including a large piece he’s calling “Black is Beautiful”.

Jef Aerosol (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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BSA Images Of The Week: 10.19.14

October 19, 2014 Artists, BSA Images Of The Week

We start this weeks images of the week with a postering campaign by nice, friendly, educated photo-journalists who illegally put up wheatpastes of their artistry this week in many parts of the city. “We’re not trying to vandalize,” says a member of #Dysturb in an article published yesterday by The New York Times, “It’s pure journalism”. Following on the heels of the arrest of wheatpaster COST the week before, you have to wonder if these folks, whose full names are given in the Times piece, will gather praise or condemnation for doing essentially the same thing.

Or is there a difference? Not quite Street Art, not quite a campaign for a concert or a perfume or shampoo, these folks use the same techniques as many others on the streets and say it is for high-minded purposes. Similarly, there are a number of Street Artists who address social and political themes which we all could agree on are honorable in some way or another. Gentrification, child slavery, sexual harassment, racism, the housing crisis, indigenous peoples issues, human trafficking, environmental issues – all of these have been addressed on the streets in the last handful of years by artists whose work we follow and present here daily. The waters are invariably muddy when it comes to this form of expression.

On a related side note: It is interesting that in published articles about COST and #Dysturb, we learn what kind of ride they each have; Porshe versus Cadillac. We totally have to up our game next time we rent a Zipcar to go on a studio visit.

Meanwhile, here’s our weekly interview with the street, this week featuring #Dysturb, Clint Mario, Crummy Gummy, James Bullough, ME, Myth, Pyramid Oracle, Ramiro Davros-Coma, Sexer, She Wolf, Smarty, Smeller, and Thievin’ Stephen.

Top Image >>#Dysturb photograph by Alvaro Canovas. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Pyramid Oracle for The Bushwick Collective. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Pyramid Oracle (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Artist Unknown (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Crummy Gummy. It is a fact of life that in order to make it in NYC one should be equipped with more than one skill and be prepared to work more than one job at a time. E.T. knows the drill and to that extent he wants you to know that if his acting chops are not what you are looking for perhaps you might consider his exotic good looks and hire him as a spokesmodel for an advertisement campaign. Also, his keyboard skills are fierce. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Yeah, you and me both, doll. Sexer for The Bushwick Collective. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Myth dips back to the nineties for this version of Darkwing Duck. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

A singular Mexican musician here to serenade a senorita outside the window. Artist Unknown (photo © Jaime Rojo)

The tide is high. Ramiro Davaros-Coma (photo © Jaime Rojo)

An illustration outside Lucky Chengs in The Lower East Side. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

FRESH! Me and Clint Mario team again for this telephone booth take over. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Smeller and Smarty on a sunny day. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Thievin Stephen has all the fried chicken you can eat for The Bushwick Collecive (photo © Jaime Rojo)

She Wolf (photo © Jaime Rojo)

James Bullough for The Bushwick Collecive (photo © Jaime Rojo)

HOME (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Untitled. NYC Sky Landscape. August 2014. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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BSA Images Of The Week: 10.12.14

October 12, 2014 Artists, BSA Images Of The Week

Here’s our weekly interview with the street, this week featuring Bishop203, Blek le Rat, Caratoes, Cone SP, Cost, Dasic, Eelco “Virus” van den Berg, ENX, Enzo Sarto, Jerk Face, Nemo’s, Ripo, and Trash Bird.

Top Image >>Eelco “Virus” van den Berg (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Wanna taste of this? NemO’s new site specific installation in Sicily, Italy. (photo © NemO’s)

COST. ENX (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Veteran New York Street Art/graffiti artist COST was in the news this week after being nabbed for putting up illegal work, and as you might expect, is instantly a hero to some because of it. Literally the same day as the police press release about the arrest we noticed a fellow artist mask taping some letters on a buffed portion of this legal wall where COST and his fellow artist ENX have been riding for a while. We returned a day later to find the message below.

COST . ENX (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Dasic new wall for The Bushwick Collective. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Dasic (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Trash Bird shows how the evolution of man has been affected by cellphones. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Blek le Rat in collaboration with Low Brow Artique. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Blek le Rat in collaboration with The L.I.S.A. Project. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Enzo Sarto (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Caratoes for The Bushwick Collective. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Cone SP (photo © Jaime Rojo)

RIPO for The L.I.S.A. Project. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Jerk Face (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Bishop203 for The Bushwick Collective. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Untitled. Afternoon Prayer. SOHO, NYC. August 2014 (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Kobra Gets Pugilistic with Warhol and Basquiat in Brooklyn

October 6, 2014 Artists

Expert colorist KOBRA rocked a New York theme in Williamsburg last week with his own tesla patterned faces of Andy Warhol and Jean Michel Basquiat. Not exactly the scale you usually see him doing – like this one in Sao Paulo he painted last year, the iconic Times Square scene he did near New York’s Highline, or even the portrait of Alfred Nobel he did in Sweden last month.

But the relevance of the subject matter to the Street Art scene here could not be more on point as these two loom large over many artists today. 29 years ago this month the poster and photo shoot that inspired this painting was devised by gallerist Tony Shafrazi to promote an unprecedented dual show in Soho.

Stay tuned to see if we can get our Brazilian bros a bigger wall in BK this week. Who knows?

Kobra (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Kobra to the left with Abmaldo his assistant to the right. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Kobra (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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BSA Images Of The Week: 10.05.14

October 5, 2014 Artists, BSA Images Of The Week

School’s back in session, the Jews just celebrated a new year, Kobra painted new portraits of Warhol and Basquiat in Williamsburg, and if you were at Brooklyn Museum last night you got to see Street Artist and muralist Don Rimx and us live – and us with markers in our hands looking completely lost.

But that’s not nearly all the action this week; Gaia was in the Rockaways, Dain showed up in BK, the old Os Gemeos was “unveiled” on Houston Street, Nychos was in Hamburg, Nick Walker was in Yonkers, Ludo was readying his big solo show in London, we marked a year since Banksy hit NYC, students were in the streets in Hong Kong, ebola showed up in Texas, banks are being cracked open by cyber hacks, the US has begun another war, the new SNL is almost unwatchable, and you better start thinking about your Halloween costume.

Other than that, not much is happening.

Here’s our weekly interview with the street, this week featuring $howta, Apples on Pictures, Conor Harrington, Dain, EKG, Funky13, Jack the Beard, Jeff Huntington, Jesse James, Matthew Reid, Mr. Prvrt, Os Gemeos, Pyramid Oracle, Ramiro Davaros-Coma, Sam3, Square, Stikman, and What Is Adam.

Top Image >> EKG and Stikman collaboration. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

MR. PRVRT for The Bushwick Collective. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Not sure if this is true. Jack the Beard (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Brazilian twins Os Gemeos are back on the Houston Wall after a long hibernation under a constructed cover that hosted Shepard Fairey, Faile, and a petite litany of others. So if you missed this the first time around and you are in NYC go and take a look before the wall comes down. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Os Gemeos. Otavio and Gustavo. They painted the mural on a hot day on July 10, 2009. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

New work from Dain has recently appeared in Soho and parts of Brooklyn. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

A portrait of Maya Angelou; a collaboration between Jesse James and Jeff Huntington for Annapolis, Maryland’s first Street Art Festival. (photo © Jesse James)

““I think that the courage to confront evil and turn it by dint of will into something applicable to the development of our evolution, individually and collectively, is exciting, honorable.” ~ Maya Angelou ~

Facing Evil With Maya Angelou (Full Show)

Ramiro Davaros-Coma (photo © Jaime Rojo)

An Unknown Artist made this original piece from duct tape in Brooklyn. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

What Is Adam? Apparently a pipe-smoking duck sailor. That’s what. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Square is back with this melting facade (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Another melting facade, this time from Conor Harrington for The L.I.S.A. Project. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Sam3 in Rome, Italy for Wunderkammern Gallery. (photo © Giorgio Coen Cagli)

Apple On Pictures (photo © Jaime Rojo)

2 Face Work (photo © Jaime Rojo)

2 Face Work with Ai Wei Wei in the center. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Matthew Reid (photo © Jaime Rojo)

$howta (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Pyramid Oracle for The Bushwick Collective (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Funky13 (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Untitled. Reflection. Flatiron Building. Manhattan, NYC. Fall 2014. Via Instagram @jaimerojoa (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Abstract Specter at the Bus Stop

September 30, 2014 Artists

It’s been sort of rainy in New York recently so you may have to take shelter while you wait for the bus. While you do, would you rather be treated with a large illuminated ad for hair color, headache medicine, or hemorrhoid creme?

Or would you like to spend a few minutes gazing on a new piece by Street Artist Specter, whose new works have been appearing in a few new locations in Brooklyn? Once better known for his large hand painted portraits of people who live on the streets or who collect recyclable materials and push them in shopping carts, Specter’s more recent work has been abstract and reliant upon texture, shape and composition.

Specter (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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BSA Picks 19 Things to See at DUMBO ARTS FEST 2014

September 27, 2014 Artists

New York Clobbers Fall again and one of the finest examples of art in the public sphere has again returned to swing the aesthetic bat straight at your head with the DUMBO ARTS FESTIVAL.

With it comes the electrifying Brooklyn energy that transforms the street into a place you actually want to be in, linger in, discover in. Smack between two iconic Bridges (Brooklyn and Manhattan) DUMBO boasts a world class art festival that has grown both organically and with great purpose, often commanding your attention.

You can make a plan to hit a few installations, performances, galleries… — or you can just show up and grab a map.

Above image is of artist CHIKA’s large scale interactive LED sculpture in the archway under the Manhattan Bridge. More on her SEI: Stella Octangula HERE.

Following are some BSA picks that we think are worth highlighting:

1. FOLIOLEAF GALLERY. “Bad Vibes” Rubin415 and David Head.

A solid mix of new contemporary work that leans toward popular tastes, Folioleaf is making a strong showing with a growing stable that includes a number of current Street Artist like DAIN, Gilf! (image above), Hellbent, and others that are tangentially related. Street Art culture is a wide world and gallery owner Todd Masters is stretching his arms to embrace it.

111 Front Street, Suite 226.

http://folioleaf.com/

2. SIDE HUSTLE NYC: “By Day, By Night” Karoleen Decastro, Alyssa Gruen, Patrick Ramos, Jon Chen.

What is your sidehustle? In the ever more expensive NYC game, almost every creative we know has one – Check out this installation and on Sunday they will have another photo shoot.

Plymouth Street Park Perimeter Fence.

http://sidehustlenyc.com/

3. Dumbo Underfoot”. Karen Mainenti

Mainenti draws your attention to the actual street in this installation highlighting those rail tracks cutting through the neighborhood that were used by Brooklyn industries and trades like coffee, soap bubbles, sugar, shoes and Brillo steel wool pads.

See MORE here.

Plymouth Street (between Main and Washington Streets)

http://www.karenmainenti.com

DUMBO WALLS – All over the place

Two Trees and Lisa Kim have humanized the experience year long for people working/living/passing through DUMBO by curating some large mural installations by some great Street Artists over the past couple of years. Below are a few to keep your eyes open for on the streets.

4. DUMBO WALLS: Faith 47

Pearl Street Underpass, BQE,

http://www.faith47.com

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5. DUMBO WALLS: dalEAST

Pearl Street Underpass, BQE

http://www.daleast.com/

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6. DUMBO WALLS: El Tono

Corner of Prospect and Jay Streets

http://www.eltono.com

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7. DUMBO WALLS: CAM

York Street (between Adams and Pearl Streets)

http://www.craiganthonymiller.com

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8. DUMBO WALLS: MOMO

York Street (between Washington and Adams Streets)

http://www.momoshowpalace.com

9. DUMBO WALLS: Shepard Fairey

Corner of York and Jay Streets

http://www.obeygiant.com

10. DUMBO WALLS: Stefan Sagmeister & Yuko Shimizu

Jay Street Underpass, BQE

http://www.sagmeisterwalsh.com

http://www.yukoart.com

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11. SMACK MELLON:

Á la Cart with Kristyna and Marek Milde

“If we are what we eat, who are we if we don’t know the origin and the context of the production of our food?”

Originally created for Smack Mellon’s exhibition FOODShed: Art and Agriculture in Action –

6 shopping carts filled with soil parked at Old Fulton Plaza.

Smack Mellon Gallery
92 Plymouth Street, Brooklyn
http://www.smackmellon.org
http://www.estebandelvalle.com

12. Global Virtual Drawing Party: DADA featuring EN MASSE

At the Festival, creators from around the world will be encouraged to draw on DADA, while artists on site will respond using their iPads. The results will be projected live.

1 Main Street, Festival Lounge

http://enmasse.info

http://www.dada.am

13. MIGHTY TANAKA: “Here and There”. Chris Otley, Herb Smith

Which one are you?

Together, they explore the impact between native and invasive species within both of their local communities.

111 Front Street, Suite 224, Brooklyn

http://www.mightytanaka.com

14. “I ____ a Dollar” . Jody Servon

Main Street (between Plymouth and Water Streets)

http://www.jodyservon.com

15. BE MIGHTY! SPACE: LA2/LA ROC

“LA2, aka LA ROC, collaborated with Keith Haring to create iconic NYC street art in the ’80s. LA2 is part of the original street art movement, and a godfather of the scene. His work is highly sought after for its iconic nature and history. This exhibit will showcase some of the classic styles that LA2 is known for, along with his new work that pushes the style into a more contemporary realm. On display will be works on canvas, wood, and an assortment of objects.”

80 John Street

http://www.la2graffitiartist.com

https://www.dynomighty.com

16. MASTERS PROJECTS: “Lost Corcosa” . Various Artists

The largerer and higher ender version of FolioLeaf , this the MASTERS PROJECTS. oof!

Peter Buechler, DAIN, Dee Dee, ELLE, Amze Emmons, Dima Gavrysh, gilf!, Nicolas Holiber, Steven Katzman, Karl Klingbiel, Amanda Marie, Timothy Paul Myers, QRST, RAE, Jon Rappley, Joram Roukes, Shin-Shin, Cris Uphues, Nathan Vincent, Charles Wilkin, X-O.

111 Front Street, Suite 212

http://www.maste.rs

17. REFLECTION / KOLONIHAVEHUS . Tom Fruin and CoreAct

“The colorful glass house is inhabited by two performers, who portray everyday dilemmas and lifestyle paradoxes in a subtle manner. They have lost the ability to meaningfully discriminate, and are trapped in a long chain of procrastination, mirroring our current social patterns. As an audience you can wonder in and out of the performance as you like. “

Empire Fulton Ferry Deck

http://www.tomfruin.com

http://www.coreact.dk

18. “TRUST YOUR VISION” . Gilf!

Front Street (between Adams and Pearl Streets)

http://www.gilfnyc.com

This installation on BSA

19 . MPH-BENCH . Lee Mandell, XAM

MPH-BENCH is an indoor and/or outdoor furniture piece created using the idea of adaptive reuse. We like the fact that this hydroponic bentch can be whe bench can be wheeled around to fit into various aesthetic environments – Mobile agriculture!

1 Main Street, Festival Lounge
http://www.xambuilt.com
http://www.boswyckfarms.org

BONUS!*** TRUFFULA LORAXIA . Lee Mandell, XAM

Truffula Loraxia is a hydroponic sculpture project created by Lee Mandell and XAM. It combines growing technologies with design. Truffula Loraxia’s basic structure is a tree, which extends from a dodecahedron shaped base.

Main Street Park

http://www.xambuilt.com

http://www.boswyckfarms.org

For a complete schedule of events, maps and other details click HERE

BSA Images Of The Week: 09.21.14

September 21, 2014 Artists, BSA Images Of The Week

Autumn in New York yo! Crisp cool, sunny days. Girls in tight sweaters. Boys in combat boots. Every cool air festival you can think of is all happening simultaneously – skateboarders closing down Kent Ave on BKs north side, Indian Larry’s block party with motorcycles of every stripe, and this years San Gennaro festival in Little Italy looks like it wants to reclaim this part of town before it is subsumed by the crushing wealth machine now chewing through Chinatown. Literally the festival looks like it spans the entire length of Mulberry from Canal to Houston – that’s longer than the line to get the new iPhone in Soho!

But neither one of those will compare to todays’ expected line of concerned citizens snaking through the streets in Manhattan to address the effect of climate change. Coordinated with marches in cities around the world it’s estimated to draw 100,000 people. We’ve had a sneak peek at what Street Artist Swoon has in store for an installation at the end of the march, including some of the very same materials she just used for her “Submerged Motherlands” at the Brooklyn Museum, but arranged entirely cleverly differently.

A few weeks ago at Nuart we were invite to speak about activism on the street around the world using Street Art as a form of expression, and we are surprised to see a rising wave of it that not many seem aware of – including some of our artworld peers. This week alone a few Street Artists have created new work to promote today’s march. It is not hard to get us into the street on a regular day so this is just one shiny bauble of grassroots creativity that you won’t want to miss. Also, technically, it’s still summer until Tuesday.

Here’s our weekly interview with the street, this week featuring Bifido, Crash, Daze, Gilf!, Hek Tad, Jetsonorama, Karl Addison, LMNOPI, Misshab, Sean9Lugo, and Skount.

Top Image >> A portrait of Ta’kaiya Blaney, a 13 year old girl from the Sliammon First Nation (Vancouver) and an environmental activist. The large mural was painted by Street Artist LMNOPI this week to commemorate the People’s Climate March here today in NYC. Click HERE for more details on the march. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

LMNOPI (photo © Jaime Rojo)

A collaborative image created by Jetsonorama and Monica Canilao (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Gilf! created this new piece to bring people to the march.(photo © Jaime Rojo)

Misshab (photo © Jaime Rojo)

A cosmic folkloric futurist meeting of souls from Skount at the StreetMeet Festival in Würzburg, Germany. (photo © Skount)

Skount. Detail. StreetMeet Festival. Würzburg, Germany. (photo © Skount)

Karl Addison for The Bushwick Collective. That spot to the left may look like a prison, but that’s what we call a beer garden in Brooklyn. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Karl Addison for The Bushwick Collective. Detail. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Hek Tad. A public declaration of love. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

An outdoor installation of craft paper by an unknown artist. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Oh, hi! Sorry I kicked the ball into your head. Bifido “Do It” Caserta, Italy. (photo © Bifido)

A porcine pal to stand atop, but you are still not tall enough. Bifido “I Want My Meat” Budapest, Hungary. (photo © Bifido)

Could be cheese. Could be a brick of a hallucinogenic substance that gives people animal heads. Sean9Lugo (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Crash and Daze for The L.I.S.A. Project. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Untitled. SOHO, NYC. August 2014. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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BSA Images Of The Week: 09.14.14

September 14, 2014 Artists, BSA Images Of The Week

The street appears in the living room when you visit some artists homes or those of hard core collectors. “Brooklyn is in da house!” suddenly takes on additional meaning. So imagine rolling through a heavily graffitied section of Bushwick this week to find someone’s living room is on display on the street. It’s like a set for a TV show, or a theater stage; The couch, the coffee table, a lamp, paneling, even a hard wood floor comprised of, well, not really hard wood. A hunter’s lodge maybe? A cabin in the Adirondacks? Without a back story, this looked like a stage had been built but you couldn’t be sure what for. Just as our intrepid photographer raised his camera to his eye, the woody indoor scene became exactly that – a stage.

“As I was taking the above photo a fast and furious dude came like a flash out of nowhere on his bike, stopped abruptly, and threw his bike on the floor,” says Jaime. “I didn’t know what to expect and watched him fish a spray can from a plastic shopping bag and step up on the sofa and write his tag upon the living room wall. The actor muttered something I couldn’t hear as he sprayed over another’s tag and then stepped down, leaving just as quickly as he has appeared. It was as if the fourth wall really did exist and he didn’t see me, the audience. I did want to ask him about the tag and about his very fashionable French chignon. But really, I wasn’t even visible.”

See him in action in the photo below.

Here’s our weekly interview with the street, this week featuring C215, Dain, Damon, Dope, Dotmasters, Jamie Paul Scanlon (JPS), Marilyn Minter, NRG US Crew, Pøbel, Richard Best, Stefan Ways, Wolfe Work, You Go Girl!, and Østrem.

Top Image >> The living room set in the street. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

A stage set in the street with an impromptu live tagging performance. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Pøbel and Østrem in Stavanger, Norway. (photo © Steven P. Harrington)

Dain (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Artist Unknown. Stavanger, Norway. (photo © Steven P. Harrington)

Wolfe Work (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Artist Unknown (photo © Jaime Rojo)

C215. Stavanger, Norway. (photo © Steven P. Harrington)

You Go Girl (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Jamie Paul Scanlon AKA JPS. Stavanger, Norway. (photo © Steven P. Harrington)

NRG US Crew (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Artist Unknown. Stavanger, Norway. (photo © Steven P. Harrington)

Dotmasters. Stavanger, Norway. (photo © Steven P. Harrington)

Damon (photo © Jaime Rojo)

A fox by an artist from Chile. Stavanger, Norway. (photo © Steven P. Harrington)

DOPE (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Stefan Ways in front of his Warner Mural in Baltimore. Detail. (photo © David Muse)

Richard Best. Warner Mural in Baltimore (photo © David Muse)

Untitled. I took this photo from a Marilyn Minter video commissioned by the Brooklyn Museum for the current exhibition “Killer Heels” curated by Lisa Small. Brooklyn, NYC 2104. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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BSA Images Of The Week: 09.07.14

September 7, 2014 Artists, BSA Images Of The Week

Here’s our weekly interview with the street, this week featuring Crummy Gummy, Dan Witz, Dasic, Dot Dot Dot, Flood, Hama Woods, Jaye Moon, Jerk Face, LMNOPI, Mr. Toll, Ostream, Pobel, QRST, Robert Janz, The Department of Well Being, Tilt, and Todo Es Mentira.

Top Image >> Tilt. Stavanger, Norway. September, 2014. Tilt embellishes his throwie with the flag of the countries he visits. Norway it is this time, next to an encampment of people living on the street. (photo © Steven P. Harrington)

We caught a rare glimpse of Robert Janz taking a photo of his just installed art on the streets of NYC (photo © Jaime Rojo)

These new pieces by QRST recently appeared with his ever more sophisticated technique of sculptural painting, now popping the forms forward into the street. The symbology is known to him only, combining religious iconography with street, science and mythological metaphor to tell a story, sometimes to write a diary entry. We found out that these are 3 of 4 new pieces that are about loss and death, relating different aspects of the the same experience, “different personifications of the same dark thing,” according to the artist.

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BSA Images Of The Week: 08.31.14

August 31, 2014 Artists, BSA Images Of The Week

A powerful group of images this week as we do a drive by on Labor Day Weekend in New York. We know it’s the last weekend of Summer but hell no! I’m gonna have another strawberry ice cream out on the stoop.

Here’s our weekly interview with the street, this week featuring Alma’s, Anthony Lemer, Arnaud Montagard, Alice Pasquini, Bast, BLY, Cesar Mieses DALeast, Dek, Jerk Face, Paul Insect, Pete Kirill, Ryan McGinness, Sean9Lugo, Seymour Chwast, Solus, Swil, Tripel, Willow, Wing, and You Go Girl!

“This is my latest wall, painted in Syracuse, Sicily with the support of the Istinto Naturale cultural association,” says Alice Pasquini of this new tableau.

“Titled ‘The myth of Arethusa and Alpheus’ it was inspired by the spring of Arethusa in Ortygia (Syracuse), a body of fresh water close to the seashore. The legend says that the nereid Arethusa, trying to escape the advances of the river god Alpheus, fled by turning into a stream, eventually breaking ground in Ortygia where Alpheus found her and was able to mingle in her waters.” ~ AP

Let the mingling begin! Although you have to admit that she doesn’t look like she’s quite committed to the idea.

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Dek’s installation of Bronx native Seymour Chwast’s posters from 1987. The timeless and timeliness of a 27 year old poster on the streets is remarkable. War Is Madness. (photo @ Jaime Rojo)

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The folks at Colossal are having a laugh with this hand painted rendering poking fun at the deluge of probing glass and steel luxury condos that are springing up around Williamsburg these days. “Insert Yourself Into Exquisite Luxury Surroundings”. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

In this new piece in Wynwood, Miami, Pete Kirill depicts James Bond (Sean Connery) as 1990’s hip-hop artist Vanilla Icee. (photo © Cesar Mieses)

The only surviving plate from the series Ryan McGiness installed in collaboration with DOT for Summer Streets Series. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

“Beautiful Times” hits Brooklyn, Beacon and Back to Colorado

August 28, 2014 Artists

The “Beautiful Times” tour by Amanda Marie and X-0 has brought them back to Denver Colorado where it began. We shared with you images and a semi-travelogue for their earlier installations along this summer tour in Denver and Philadelphia. In this final installment of their easy-going art-making project we find them in Brooklyn and the upstate small town of Beacon, New York, where many New Yorkers went to settle in the 2000s, creating a kinship that continues to today.

An now a quick look at their respective public works in Brooklyn, most of it in the DUMBO neighborhood. “We got our paint for this leg of the journey at a place called Park Delicatessen,” X-O says as he lists the items on offer there – and would you care to guess which ones he likes most? “Here is what they sold there…skateboards, flowers, spray paint, and smart sexy porn zines,” he relates. “Are you freaking joking? This is the most perfect shop ever.”

Heading north up the Hudson River, the two found that, “After being fully infatuated with the hustle and bustle of Brooklyn, it was an unseen and uber appreciated change of pace to have our next stop in Beacon,” says X-0.

They liked to small town sophisticated vibe and couldn’t believe how nice the people were. “Amanda painted an amazing ‘campground’ scene alongside the Beacon Natural Market,” he says, and he made a new ‘lost object piece’ in the same spot that a Ron English piece had run on for a while. “I also made one small #emogarden called ‘real sweet noise’ while waiting for Mando to get done with her big wall.”

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Going back to Colorado after being pretty much city struck for the last few weeks was a welcome return.

“Immediately I escaped to the Rocky Mountains and made some ‘string stretches’ in the woods. One of the most successful was a gravity piece I’ve called ‘Gravity Log 1’. I left the cotton twine…Is that littering? Hmmm.”

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Amanda Marie and X-O would like to thank Todd Masters from Masters Projects in Dumbo, Brooklyn.

They would also like to thank Dan and Kalene from Thundercut/OpenSpace in Beacon, as well as a number of neighborly photographers who were generous with their time and talents in Beacon.

They would also like to thank Andy Weiss in Colorado.

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Amanda Marie and X-O “Beautiful Times” in Denver, CO

Amanda Marie and X-O “Beautiful Times” in Philadelphia

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Jef Aerosol (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Jef Aerosol (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Top Image >>#Dysturb photograph by Alvaro Canovas. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Pyramid Oracle for The Bushwick Collective. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Pyramid Oracle (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Artist Unknown (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Yeah, you and me both, doll. Sexer for The Bushwick Collective. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Myth dips back to the nineties for this version of Darkwing Duck. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

A singular Mexican musician here to serenade a senorita outside the window. Artist Unknown (photo © Jaime Rojo)

The tide is high. Ramiro Davaros-Coma (photo © Jaime Rojo)

An illustration outside Lucky Chengs in The Lower East Side. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

FRESH! Me and Clint Mario team again for this telephone booth take over. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Smeller and Smarty on a sunny day. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Thievin Stephen has all the fried chicken you can eat for The Bushwick Collecive (photo © Jaime Rojo)

She Wolf (photo © Jaime Rojo)

James Bullough for The Bushwick Collecive (photo © Jaime Rojo)

HOME (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Untitled. NYC Sky Landscape. August 2014. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Top Image >>Eelco “Virus” van den Berg (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Wanna taste of this? NemO’s new site specific installation in Sicily, Italy. (photo © NemO’s)

COST. ENX (photo © Jaime Rojo)

COST . ENX (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Dasic new wall for The Bushwick Collective. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Dasic (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Trash Bird shows how the evolution of man has been affected by cellphones. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Blek le Rat in collaboration with Low Brow Artique. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Blek le Rat in collaboration with The L.I.S.A. Project. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Enzo Sarto (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Enzo Sarto (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Caratoes for The Bushwick Collective. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Cone SP (photo © Jaime Rojo)

RIPO for The L.I.S.A. Project. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Jerk Face (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Bishop203 for The Bushwick Collective. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Untitled. Afternoon Prayer. SOHO, NYC. August 2014 (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Kobra (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Kobra (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Kobra (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Kobra (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Kobra to the left with Abmaldo his assistant to the right. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Kobra (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Top Image >> EKG and Stikman collaboration. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

MR. PRVRT for The Bushwick Collective. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Not sure if this is true. Jack the Beard (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Os Gemeos. Otavio and Gustavo. They painted the mural on a hot day on July 10, 2009. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

New work from Dain has recently appeared in Soho and parts of Brooklyn. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

A portrait of Maya Angelou; a collaboration between Jesse James and Jeff Huntington for Annapolis, Maryland’s first Street Art Festival. (photo © Jesse James)

““I think that the courage to confront evil and turn it by dint of will into something applicable to the development of our evolution, individually and collectively, is exciting, honorable.” ~ Maya Angelou ~ Facing Evil With Maya Angelou (Full Show)

Ramiro Davaros-Coma (photo © Jaime Rojo)

An Unknown Artist made this original piece from duct tape in Brooklyn. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

What Is Adam? Apparently a pipe-smoking duck sailor. That’s what. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Square is back with this melting facade (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Another melting facade, this time from Conor Harrington for The L.I.S.A. Project. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Sam3 in Rome, Italy for Wunderkammern Gallery. (photo © Giorgio Coen Cagli)

Apple On Pictures (photo © Jaime Rojo)

2 Face Work (photo © Jaime Rojo)

2 Face Work with Ai Wei Wei in the center. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Matthew Reid (photo © Jaime Rojo)

$howta (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Pyramid Oracle for The Bushwick Collective (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Funky13 (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Untitled. Reflection. Flatiron Building. Manhattan, NYC. Fall 2014. Via Instagram @jaimerojoa (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Specter (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Specter (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Specter (photo © Jaime Rojo)

1. FOLIOLEAF GALLERY. “Bad Vibes” Rubin415 and David Head.

111 Front Street, Suite 226. http://folioleaf.com/

2. SIDE HUSTLE NYC: “By Day, By Night” Karoleen Decastro, Alyssa Gruen, Patrick Ramos, Jon Chen.

What is your sidehustle? In the ever more expensive NYC game, almost every creative we know has one – Check out this installation and on Sunday they will have another photo shoot. Plymouth Street Park Perimeter Fence. http://sidehustlenyc.com/

3. Dumbo Underfoot”. Karen Mainenti

““I think that the courage to confront evil and turn it by dint of will into something applicable to the development of our evolution, individually and collectively, is exciting, honorable.” ~ Maya Angelou ~

Facing Evil With Maya Angelou (Full Show)

111 Front Street, Suite 226.

http://folioleaf.com/

What is your sidehustle? In the ever more expensive NYC game, almost every creative we know has one – Check out this installation and on Sunday they will have another photo shoot.

Plymouth Street Park Perimeter Fence.

http://sidehustlenyc.com/

Plymouth Street (between Main and Washington Streets)

http://www.karenmainenti.com

Main Street Park

http://www.xambuilt.com

http://www.boswyckfarms.org