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BSA Images Of The Week: 07.06.14

July 6, 2014 Artists, BSA Images Of The Week

Now we’re in the thick of it – summer murals and independent interventions all. Regardless of technique, experience or background, artists of all stripes are bringing new works on walls across the city, including our top image this week which is by someone new to the street, Turkish fine artist, painter, designer Anil Duran in Bushwick. Labels (Street Art, graffiti, urban art, murals) can be helpful to categorize, but let’s drop them this week and call it art, and see if it applies.

Here’s our weekly interview with the street, this week featuring Anil Duran, Anthony Lister, BD White, Chuck Berrett, Damon, Daniel Anguilu, EC13, El Niño de las Pinturas, GG Artwork, Hitnes, Joseph Meloy, Kremen, London Kaye, MKGO, Nepo, Nicole Salgar, Ramiro Davarro-Comas, TLC, Vandal Expressionism, and X-Men.

Top Image >> Anil Duran (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Anil Duran. Detail. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

London Kaye (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Daniel Anguilu (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Kremen (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Damon (photo © Jaime Rojo)

TLC (photo © Jaime Rojo)

BD White threw in a couple of hashtags here to help push forward the idea. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

X – Men truck by Keo, Sienide, Moist, Tatu, West, Zear (or at least that’s who is called out) (photo © Jaime Rojo)

The Italian Hitnes for The Bushwick Collective. Detail. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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

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

Ramiro Davaro-Comas (photo © Jaime Rojo)

EC 13 New Work in Spain. (photo © EC 13)

EC 13 and El Nino Collaboration in Spain. (photo © EC 13)

GG Artwork (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Nicole Salgar and Chuck Berrett (photo © Jaime Rojo)

MKGO (photo © Jaime Rojo)

NEPO completed his piece of comic characters from Latin America. We see Mafalda and Memin Pinguin in there. Who else? This was done for The Juicy Art Fest. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Anthony Lister for The Bushwick Collective. Detail. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Anthony Lister for The Bushwick Collective. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Anthony Lister and Joseph Meloy AKA Vandal Expressionism. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Untitled. Brooklyn, NY. June 2014 (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Myth Puts Vegans on the Street Art Menu

July 5, 2014 Artists

Since most Street Art is autobiographical by nature, we are guessing that we know what to serve Myth at today’s barbecue in the park – or rather, what NOT to serve. Not Dog with mustard and sauerkraut, anybody?

A fairly new guest chef at the Street Art smorgasbord, Myth has wasted little time getting on the radar of food enthusiasts with these comedic characters who are espousing veganism.

Myth (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Lady Liberty and New Immigrants on the Street

July 3, 2014 Artists

Statue of Liberty Inspires Street Artists in New York

The colossal creamy green neoclassical sculpture named Lady Liberty (Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi) has been greeting visitors and welcoming immigrants since it was erected in the middle of New York Harbor in the late 1800s and when Brooklyn was still a separate city from Manhattan.

As we approach Independence Day in the US (July 4^th) we look at this beacon of liberty and freedom – and we’d like to add “hope” for those that seek a better life. In a country and a city of immigrants, New York is the true melting pot and it is on these streets that we all walk upon where it all still begins. “While there is no precise count, some experts believe New York is home to as many as 800 languages,” said the New York Times in an article about our native tongues, and 175 or so of those languages are what new immigrant children bring to our schools and play grounds and streets every day.

LMNOPI (photo © Jaime Rojo)

While the president speaks again this week about making this country a fair place for immigrants who have added to our collective wealth as a diverse people, we look again to the words on the statue’s plaque that have welcomed the many for 120 years.

“Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.
“Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!” cries she
With silent lips. “Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”

In New York at least, it is no surprise that Street Artists continue to draw inspiration from Lady Liberty and we mark this holiday week and weekend by sharing with you a few that have brought their interpretation to the streets.

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

Ever comedic Street Artist Dont Fret takes a current twist on the theme. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Damien Mitchell holds an aerosol can where the torch usually is. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Pí̱gasos merges Marilyn Monroe with Lady Liberty (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Zed1 (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Miss Me speaks here of the historical Americans, to whom the new arrivals looked like immigrants. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Human-Animal Hybrids Courtesy Kaff-Eine and Lil-Hill in Bushwick

July 1, 2014 Artists

Kaff-Eine hails from Melbourne, Australia and has spent two weeks in Brooklyn in June doing her first paintings here ever. The dryly warm days have provided a perfect opportunity to bask in the sun and paint her slender and sexy animal/human hybrids in repose.

Toronto born and based Li-Hill samples a larger swath of the graffiti/street art style continuum but overlapped Kaff-Eine in the animal world when they collaborated as a crew in the BK last week.

Kaffeine & Li-Hill Collaboration for The Bushwick Collective. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Their Fantasy-Figurative Vs. Abstracted Vs. NeoRealism styles could not be more disanalogous, but this is the age of the mashup-transformer-cyborg so this sweet pair of walls at the Bushwick Collective served as an open laboratory of skin grafting and limb planting for Kaff-Eine and Lil-Hill and all to witness and behold. The resulting futuristic energy field envelopes a darkly quiet otherworldly scene that plays either side of a steer barred window beneath a coiled razor wire.

Kaffeine & Li-Hill Collaboration for The Bushwick Collective. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Kaffeine & Li-Hill Collaboration for The Bushwick Collective. Detail. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Kaffeine & Li-Hill Collaboration for The Bushwick Collective. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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BSA Images Of The Week: 06.29.14

June 29, 2014 Artists, BSA Images Of The Week

Here’s our weekly interview with the street, this week featuring Alice Pasquini, Boy Kong, El Topo, Flood, Foxx Face, GSC, Kaffeine, Li-Hil, LMNOPI, Myth, NTC Cru, Olek, Ozmo, Texas, Gane, TV With Cheese, and Versus.

Top Image >> Snowden at 5Pointz. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

OLEK “Believe the Magic” (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Kaffeine for The Bushwick Collective (photo © Jaime Rojo)

LMNOPI (photo © Jaime Rojo)

MYTH (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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

Texas & Gane are names you’ll usually see in Philly. Interesting incorporation of the attenuated lettering you may associate with extinguishers here rendered solid and with a drop shadow. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Li-Hill (photo © Jaime Rojo)

TV With Cheese (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Versus does Saddam Hussein (photo © Jaime Rojo)

And Versus paints Yasser Arafat (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Foxx Face. One of his 17 plates installed in Little Italy for The L.I.S.A. Project. The artist took his inspiration from photographs of Italian immigrants whom he researched at the Italian American Museum in Little Italy. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Foxx Face. One more plate for The L.I.S.A. Project. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

El Topo (photo © Jaime Rojo)

NTC Cru (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Flood (photo © Jaime Rojo)

In NYC the streets are paved with gold…yup. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Boy Kong (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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

Untitled. Brooklyn, NYC. June 2014. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Images Of The Week: 06.15.14

June 15, 2014 Artists, BSA Images Of The Week

Hello friend! Don’t forget that Welling Court is happening this weekend in Queens. The 5th annual neighborhood event has over 120 murals going up, and it is truly grassroots. Icy & Sot had their very successful cultural exchange this Friday as well, with 30 New York artists showing in Tehran, and 10 Iranian artists showing in Brooklyn – so hats off to them and the organizers for pulling that off. Olek has been at the Honolulu Museum of Art to celebrate World Oceans Day with a huge installation, and Swoon brought the New York premiere of “Flood Tide” and musical performances to The Brooklyn Museum this week for Submerged Collaborations. This week you don’t want to miss seeing four important NYC graffiti photographers at the same time in person at the Museum of the City of New York.

And we cannot believe the stunning amount of new stuff on the street: here’s our weekly interview with the street, this week featuring Blanco, Bradley Theodore, Damien Mitchell, Damon, Dan Witz, Dennis McNett, Dr. NO, Flood, Fra Biancoshock, Icy & Sot, JR, Myth, Olek, Sean 9 Lugo, Simek, Snow White, Sonni, TV with Cheese, and Winston the Whale.

Top Image >> An Icy & Sot collaboration with Sonni for The Bushwick Collective. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Sean 9 Lugo (photo © Jaime Rojo)

TV With Cheese (photo © Jaime Rojo)

An image sent by Fra Biancoshock of new piece in Milan, Italy. Do you think it has been photoshopped? (photo © Fra)

Adam Fujita (photo © Jaime Rojo)

“Be a voice, not an echo”, a quote from Albert Einstein in Olek’s new piece in Honolulu, Hawaii. (photo © Olek)

An Olek and Dan Witz collaboration in New York. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Winston The Whale, “The Lost Cause” (photo © Jaime Rojo)

A strongly graphic abstraction by Simek in Athens, Greece. (photo © Dimitris Vasiliou)

Damon (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Dennis McNett (photo © Jaime Rojo)

This looks like a very tiny JR. Perhaps a fragment from a larger installation “accidentally” found its way on this wall? (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Damien Mitchell (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Myth (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Bradley Theodore (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Dr. NO (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Flood (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Blanco’s new piece in Albany, NY (photo © Blanco)

Street Artist Blanco shares his new piece this week in Albany and in his description of it below you may draw a connection between recreation of old stories and myths and the recreation of our cities through gentrification as well – although he doesn’t specifically address the latter.

” This work was kind of inspired by my interest in the common roots of divergent cultures. An example is the eytemology of Dyaus Pitra (Sky Father, Hindu) = Zeus Pater(Father of Gods, Greek) = Ju Piter (God of the Sky, Roman). I am interested in the way that cultures evolve, split off and borrow from one another and how its all mixed back together. The way some Mongolian friends of mine revere Buddhist monasteries, consult shamans and consider themselves Christians or The way the Aztec mother goddess Tonantzin was transformed into the Catholic ‘Our Lady Of Guadalupe’. We are sometimes led to believe its all black and white but its not usually so simple. Cross cultural heritage and mixing have always interested me but Joseph Campbell wrote about this aspect of religion and story telling in a very interesting way.

In some ways modern cities bear some resemblance to this cross pollination as neighborhoods and buildings are transformed, converted and reclaimed.

Specifically for this piece I was interested in the Proto-Indo-European Mother Goddess and the way she was changed, destroyed, recycled and recreated as the Hindu goddess Kali. She is associated with the ability and powers for both creation and destruction.” ~ Blanco

Untitled. A tempest approaching Brooklyn. June 2014 (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Industrial Makeover: East Williamsburg Breaks Out the Cans

June 12, 2014 Artists

As the Borough of Brooklyn continues a rolling cultural renaissance the spotlight shifts from one neighborhood to the next as investors and cultural workers leapfrog one another in search of opportunity. Naturally, “capitalizing” on that opportunity can be interpreted in a variety of ways, and is.

Gabriel Gimenez AKA GG (photo © Jaime Rojo)

The Williamsburg Industrial Park, sometimes referred to as East Williamsburg, has been known for light manufacturing industry such as food processing, furniture making, packing/shipping of dry goods, warehousing – and of course it has played host to a growing number of artists studios in the mix. Of course it has been impacted by the ballooning interest in Bushwick and Williamsburg and all-things-Brooklyn in general but for some reason this still feels fresh and unjaded. Because you don’t have to worry too much about nervous neighborhoody types it has also been a welcoming environment for musicians to rehearse and artists to experiment.

Sonni for The Juicy Art Festival. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

The doors of cafes, live music venues, scattered galleries and performance spaces have opened in the last couple of years and a growing number of legal murals alongside an occasionally lively graffiti / Street Art scene has been cropping up and out. As is the case with new bohemia and a heady mix of hormones/entrepreneurship/euphoria/good weed, some of these dreams will take off and grow while others will fade into the lore of an experimenting NY scene that proudly cuts a notch with a pen knife into the cultural timeline. The best idea is always to jump in and be a part of it right now and enjoy it to its fullest. But that’s just us.

A music and mural art festival called “Juicy Art” saw its first edition this past weekend and the transformation continues with entire blocks getting smashed by a mix of independently produced work, unsanctioned guerilla pieces, and naturally, murals. Take a look at this survey of a popping scene captured by photographer Jaime Rojo in the last couple of weeks.

Sonni for The Juicy Art Festival. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Cruz (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Ramiro Davaro-Comas for The Juicy Art Festival. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Kremen (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Never for The Juicy Art Festival. Detail. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Don Rimx, Ricardo Cabret and Son for The Juicy Art Festival. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Matthew Reid (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Ever for The Juicy Art Festival. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Ever in collaboration with Zio Ziegler for The Juicy Art Festival. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

NM Salgar and Chuck Berrett (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Nepo for The Juicy Art Festival. Piece in progress. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Tony Washington and Ramiro Davaro-Comas for The Juicy Art Festival. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Denton Burrows (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Dasic for The Juicy Art Festival. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Muro, Txemy, Stinkfish and Meca for the Juicy Art Festival. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Exit Room Gallery current show. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Another Man’s Treasure: “Art Is Trash” Creates on the Street

June 11, 2014 Artists

Converting Your Garbage Into a Fleeting Work of Art

With legal murals proliferating through the neighborhoods and cities that are embracing and inviting Street Art, it is refreshing to see that the renegade spirit of D.I.Y. is still coursing through the creative veins of the street.

Art Is Trash (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Today we take a look at “Art is Trash” (El Arte Es Basura) the nom de street of Barcelona-based Francisco de Pajaro, who appropriates the stuff you threw away and creates art with it. Sometimes he rearranges boxes and bags and lampshades and that old headboard from your bed to create a new canvas. Other times he connects his characters with pieces that other street artists have left – creating a sort of “forced collaboration”. Most frequently he is spontaneously taking inspiration from whatever materials are at hand and creating something new with them.

Art Is Trash (photo © Jaime Rojo)

He also is pretty successful at stand-alone comedic characters who pop up on a field of graffiti tags with their own drama and an occasional fly.

Round the corner and you may witness his contingent of horse riding warriors wielding long paint rollers and an assortment of miscreants, jesters, ruffians and scallywags with wide eyes and long-stretched arms in tow.

Art Is Trash (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Catch him in action, and you see the same sort of free-style improvisation you might find at a comedy-jam; an artist working rapidly with the materials before him, unrestricted and unencumbered by contracts, provisions, conventions or censorship.

Art is Trash recently left an entertaining trail through New York streets. Here we present you with just a sample of his in-the-moment offerings… and a few flies.

Art Is Trash (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Art Is Trash forced collaboration with Hiss. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Art Is Trash in collaboration with Balu and The Dusty Rebel. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Art Is Trash (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Images Of The Week: 06.08.14

June 8, 2014 Artists, BSA Images Of The Week

Dude and Dudette it’s not even officially summer (June 21) but New York streets are off in the deep end of the public pool with all these new backflips and cannonballs and arched dive art in the streets. Can someone please say UNPRECEDENTED? Everybody jump in!

Here our weekly interview with the street, this week featuring Bifido, Case Ma’Claim, City Kitty, Crummy Gummy, Dain, Damien Mitchell, Dee Dee, EC13, FKDL, JAZ, Jerk Face, Lambros, Mark Samsonovich, Pixel Pancho, Pyramid Oracle, Rubin, SheWolf, Skount, Solus, UAI, and Zio Siegler.

Top Image >> Case Ma’Claim and Pixel Pancho collaboration for The Bushwick Collective. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

A sonic POP reverberated through the streets this week when this duet happened between Case Ma’Claim and Pixel Pancho at The Bushwick Collective. Detail. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Lambros combined nightmares into this one hideous hybrid. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Dain is dressed for success. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Damien Mitchell pays tribute to the divine Nina Simone at The Bushwick Collective. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Pyramid Oracle levitates sagely. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Dee Dee (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Mark Samsonovich. This happened to me one time when I ate an entire bag of jelly beans and then washed them down with orange soda. Same thing. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Mark Samsonovich. We come in peace. Would you like a banana? (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Bifido. New conceptual piece form his series “Don’t Forget To Play” in what appears to be an abandoned and derelict public park in Naples, Italy. (photo © Bifido)

SheWolf (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Looks like FKDL was in town this week with his mix of 1950s nostalgia and idealized female collages. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Detail of FKDL wall for The Bushwick Collective. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Crummy Gummy features out of work actor ET looking for options on the streets of Los Angeles. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

The Irish Solus left a love letter to BK and The Bushwick Collective. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Skount new street work in Barcelona, Spain. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Jerk Face and the Cookie Monster for The Bushwick Collective. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

City Kitty (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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

EC13 new piece in Huetor Vega, Spain. The artist continues to explore his non-figurative expressions with new mediums and surfaces. This placement is immaculate. (photo © Patricia Fernandez)

Zio Siegler (photo © Jaime Rojo)

JAZ is seen here at work in Berlin on his new mural in conjunction with his solo show currently on view at the BC Gallery. (photo © Phillipp Barth)

Jaz. The completed mural in Berlin. (photo © Phillipp Barth)

Untitled. The Empire State Building photographed from Brooklyn, NY. June 2014. Via Instagram and iPhone. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Images Of The Week: 06.01.14

June 1, 2014 Artists, BSA Images Of The Week

BOS, Bushwick Collective, Juicy Fest, RedHook Studio Tours, Northside Festival, Welling Court… BK and QNS are bombed with artists in June – and today’s throwdown in Bushwick is just one tab on the 12-pack to pop and spray all over your friends on a hot summer day. When it comes to street art we’re in this new legal mural phase right now and when you head out to Bushwick Open Studios today you will see freshly painted and in-process walls. Don’t worry, we’re still seeing a lot of uncensored freewheeling self-selecting artistic installations of the unsanctioned variety – and that sector is alive and well. See you out in the street!

Here our weekly interview with the street, this week featuring

Adam Fujita, BustArt, Cb23, Chris Dyer, Dain, Dasic, Don Rimx, Ethos, FoxxFace, Jerk Face, Labrona, Meca, Meer Sau, Milo, Muro, Osch, Princess Hijab, QRST, Ricardo Cabret and Son, Sem, Skewville, Stinkfish, Stovington 23, Txemy, Vexta, Zaira

Top Image >> Dasic for the Juicy Art Festival. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Skewville (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Adam Fujita for The Bushwick Collective. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Princess Hijab has a new installation in the Paris Metro (photo © Adrien Chretien)

Princess Hijab. Detail of the above installation. Paris, France. (photo © Adrien Chretien)

Are you feeling this felt lava lamp? Milo calls what she does Graffeltti. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Osch new installation in London’s Brick Lane. (photo © Massimo Filippi)

Dain (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Sem (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Ethos new piece in Sao Paulo, Brazil. (photo © Claudio Ethos)

QRST (photo © Jaime Rojo)

If you are lucky enough to be in NYC this Sunday, get out of the house and head over to East Williamsburg and Bushwick. You’d have the chance to see many of these murals in person and perhaps and artist or two while applying the final touches to his or her wall. Click HERE for more info on The Bushwick Collective block party taking place today. And HERE for the Juicy Art Fest which is not happening until June 5, 6 and 7 but artists are currently busy at work on their murals and it is only a short walk between the two.

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BSA Picks for Bushwick Open Studios 2014

May 29, 2014 Artists

So Summer is officially here and with it comes Bushwick Open Studios (BOS) – in fact close to 600 venues are opening their doors for the next 3 days and you are encouraged to just wander the streets or to be strategic about it.

As always, the arts and culture festival is hosted by the volunteer organization Arts in Bushwick (AiB) and as always BSA has an eclectic collection of a few highlights we think you’ll like. They are not in any particular order and they are not all related to Street Art, but yo, isn’t everything related to Schtreet Aht in Bushwick?

1. Maps N Mimosas at Norte Maar
2. Art Brooklyn
3. Bushwick Smushwick
4. blokactivity: A People’s History
5. Exit Room Group Show and Art Battles
6. Meg Hitchcock
7. Secret Project Robot Renaissance Faire
8. “Vacancy” with Pufferella in the Factory Fresh Penthouse
9. The Bushwick Collective Block Party and Art Show

Yes, there’s the launch party on Friday but the place to get your bearings will be Maps-N-Mimosas on Saturday morning with Norte Maar, who we want to shout out.

In their seventh year at BOS, Norte Maar has been a unique and steady force in the evolution of the arts scene in Bushwick. Free of the posturing characterized by round-tables and panels, Norte Maar dove into its programming by involving the public and the neighbors, showing leadership and piquing curiosity thanks to co-founder/ Director Jason Andrew. A myriad of cultural programs have unfolded, each with a strong commitment to collaboration and inclusiveness.

For BOS 2014 Norte Maar is giving you a chance to explore your voyeuristic side by opening his private collection of art comprised of local Bushwick artists, including drawing, mixed media, painting, photography, and sculpture. And yes, Jason will likely welcome you at the door with a mimosa. GO!

Norte Maar
83 Wyckoff Ave., 1B
Brooklyn, NY 11237

Art Brooklyn

Mighty Tanaka Gallery owner Alex Emmart will be in residence for this pop-up and a handful of the names associated with Street Art in the late 00s and some new friends too. Guest artists include JM Rizzi, Chris RWK (Robots Will Kill), Rubin415, Reginald Pean with Kristin Maher and Karina Herrera, Brandon from Greatest Hits Gallery. The event will have free refreshments.

2 St. Nicholas Ave., 2nd floor
Brooklyn, NY 11221

Friday May 30, 12-6pm
Saturday May 31, 12pm-6pm
Sunday June 1, 12pm-6pm

Bushwick Smushwick

A collection of drawing, mixed media, painting, photography, sculpture, and some street artists thrown in for spice with Skewville, Jon Burgerman, Allison Sommers, Vahge, QRST, Rachel O’Donnell, Lev Sloujitel, Caroline Harrison, Alden Stover, Megan Watters, Daniel Mitchell, Peter Striffolino, Herm, Ariel Hellwitz, Alex Feld, Sasha Braginsky, Dane LaChiusa, Glenn Friedel, Chip Moeser, Hsin Wang, Ben Ripley, Ryan Ford, and Ronit Zvi.

Bob Jefferson
308 Jefferson St.
Brooklyn, NY 11237

blokactivity: A People’s History

blokactivity: A People’s History is an art event that limits itself to just one block in Bushwick and the change that it has undergone in the last two decades. Curated by Clare Stack and photographer Brenda Kenneally, this is the story of their neighborhood, their culture, their love for their home, and they have created this show with other local artists to bring the block and it’s history to life for BOS 2014. The photos alone are a rare eye-opening opportunity to appreciate life in Bushwick and to provide insight into how things have changed.

“There will be a display of personal photographs and stories belonging to people who are either long time residents/grew up in the area or those who have made it their home more recently. Some of these images will be displayed on a wall-sized map of the block, drawn especially for the show by Victor Llanos and Hannah Lichtenstein. There is an interactive component for those who want to share their own stories. This show also includes many original works by local artists including video pieces by Kevin Little and C. Stack, collage by Zak Vreeland, photography by Oriana Fine.”

rare form studio/ pop-up gallery
1102 Broadway, 3rd Floor
Brooklyn, NY 11221

Friday May 30, 4p.m.- 7p.m. (event at none)
Saturday May 31, 12pm-7pm (event at tba)
Sunday June 1, 12pm-6pm (event at none)

Exit Room

This experimental show space that has provided opportunity to Street Artists in the last year will host Art Battles, a group show of about 20 artists, live painting and video projects.

270 Meserole St., Ground Floor
Brooklyn, NY 11206

Friday May 30, 2pm-8pm
Saturday May 31, 2pm-8pm

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Meg Hitchcock

Artist Meg Hitchcock has been building her text-based practice for a while in Bushwick and her astounding works on paper using letters cut from sacred texts will be on display as well as some older pieces. By separating the text from its original moorings, she finds that these spiritually infused symbols are set free to rearrange themselves across walls and re-present rather decoratively, rhythmically, organically. Formerly evangelical, now she is simply angelical.

698 Hart St., Ground Floor
Brooklyn, NY 11221

Saturday May 31, 12pm-7pm

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Secret Project Robot Renaissance Faire

A not-for-profit artist run art space that moved from Williamsburg to Bushwick a few years ago, Secret Project Robot is celebrating its 10 year of introducing new artists to new opportunity and new audiences. For Bushwick Open Studios they are converting the outdoor garden into an artist’s made installation of a Renaissance Faire. It will be “Fully equipped with outdoor stage, artist made goods, beautiful masks and decorations that have come to define both the aesthetic of a renaissance faire and the hand-made feel of Secret Project Robot.”

Featuring work by Raul De NIeves, Thomas DeLaney, Chris Uphues, Erik Zajaceskowski, Rachel Nelson, Cameron Michel, Vashti Windish, Korey Helburst, Dave Kadden, Alexandra Drewschin, Greg Fox, Zachary Lehrhoff, Eli Lehrhoff, Poison Dartz, Ovary Reaction, Barry London, and Kid Mi.

Secret Project Robot
389 Melrose St.
Brooklyn, NY 11237

Friday May 30, 7pm-11pm
Saturday May 31, 12pm-9pm
Sunday June 1, 12pm-9pm

Vacancy

Not part of the BOS 2014 slate of events, Street Artist/fine artist Pufferella nonetheless belongs in Bushwick. One half of the duo that brought Factory Fresh to Flushing Ave in the late 00s, Pufferella invites you to the Penthouse, where you have always secretly wanted to go. Her most recent hand sewn artworks will be on display.

Factory Fresh Penthouse,
1053 Flushing Avenue, 1 Flight Up
Brooklyn, NY 11237

Saturday, May 31st & Sunday, June 1st, noon-6pm

THE BUSHWICK COLLECTIVE BLOCK PARTY AND ART SHOW

After all the darting in and out of studios for three days you are invited to stay outside in the more democratically available Street Art environs of The Bushwick Collective Block Party on Sunday. Not really a BOS event and not really a collective, Joe Ficalora is really Bushwick, so get your facts straight knucklehead.

There will be live Street Art, food trucks, a beer tent, bands, DJ’s, giveaways and raffles. In addition there is an art show featuring Bleck Le Rat, Solus, Rubin415, Chris Stain, Dan Witz, Zimad, Jerk Face, Joe Iurato, Sexer, Beau Stanton, Atom and FKDL.

Sunday June 1st 11:00 am – 7:00 pm
Troutman Street between Wyckoff and St. Nicholas
Brooklyn, NYC

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BSA Images Of The Week: 05.25.14

May 25, 2014 Artists, BSA Images Of The Week

We start this weeks collection of images from the street with a new piece in Bushwick by Joe Iurato, a New Jersey based Street Artist who also, as we learned via press release this week, has been selected to co-curate the newly announced Mana Museum of Urban Arts in Jersey City with another stencillist on the street, Logan Hicks. Billed as the first museum of its kind, Director Eugene Lemay says it will be comprehensive and interactive and programming will begin as early as this September.

Mr. Lemay and co-founder Yigal Ozeri have expressed and demonstrated a sincere affinity and enthusiasm for the creative spirit since Mana Contemporary opened here in ’11 and this 100,000 square foot space represents just the audacity of hope that is demanded when building a stage for urban/street/graffiti art and its multitude of tributaries. New York and this entire scene is about 5-10 years overdue for this kind of bold development and we say, nevermind the armchair critics, let’s get going!

Here our weekly interview with the street, this week featuring Art is Trash, Bast, Bio Tats Cru, Bishop203, Charlie Chaplin, Crash, Damien Mitchell, Dan Witz, Forest Ghost, Freddy Sam, Hiss, Hot Tea, Joe Iurato, King, Li-Hil, LMNOPI, Nick Walker, Olek, Paper Skaters, Shepard Fairey, Skount, Stinkfish, Tripel, and Zola.

“Recently South Africa celebrated the 20th anniversary of freedom day commemorating the first post-apartheid elections held on that day in 1994.They were the first national elections in South Africa in which the franchise did not depend upon race.

My mural is of a photograph taken on this day in 1994.With a flock of birds flying through the middle representing freedom.Showing that to be free we need to work together, we need to live together.

Freedom is to be human. And to be human is to be connected.

My mural is not celebrating Freedom day but rather looking at what freedom really means and how far we really have come and how free we really are within South Africa and within a global context” ~ Freddy Sam

Barcelona’s Francisco de Pajaro is a resourceful performance street artist who goes by the name of “Art is Trash” or “El Arte es Basura”. He recently did a number of on the street installations with the Dusty Rebel in tow. Check out his excellent photos of the experience here. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Bast is going over himself;, updating his original comment from Oh Snap! a few weeks ago to Oh Crap!. Oh, word? (photo © Jaime Rojo)

John CRASH Matos, BIO Tats Cru and Nick Walker on their second collaborative wall in the LES with an existing Shepard Fairey in the upper right corner. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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