Tim Okamura

BSA Images Of The Week: 02.21.16

February 21, 2016 Artists, BSA Images Of The Week

Happy Sunday! Evidently Donald Trump is the Anti-Christ! Full disclosure, we already sort of suspected this because he is also anti-immigrant, anti-Mexican, anti-woman, anti-humility and so many other anti-s. The question is, who is going to break the news to Michele Bachman?

Also, does this mean that Obama is not going to stroll right into the United Nations and declare himself king of the world? Maybe he’s planning to appoint himself the replacement of Anthony Scalia on the Supreme Court and he’s so busy planning it that he skipped the funeral!

And what role does Formation play in all of this?

Meanwhile here on the dirty garbage-strewn sidewalk we have our our weekly interview with the street, this week featuring Barlo, CitiCop, City Kitty, Crisp, Faith 47, Flood, Hueman, JR, Madsteez, Mr. Renaissance Style, Otto “Osch” Schade, Queen Andrea, Specter, Stikman,Tim Okamura,WRSPNSK, XORS, and Zhu Hai .

Our top image: Faith 47. Detail. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Faith 47 (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Otto Osch Schade in Nairobi, Kenya. February, 2016. (photo © Urban Art International)

Mr. Renaissance Style (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Queen Andrea is hustling hard, girl! (photo © Jaime Rojo)

City Kitty with friends. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Crisp (photo © Jaime Rojo)

JR. From his Immigration series. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

JR. The remnants of a larger installation from his Immigration series. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

CitiCop merges banks and police and the force of the state. In school they called this fascism. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Barlo has two flaming cocks on the street in Zhu Hai, South China. February 2016. (photo © Barlo)

Barlo. Zhu Hai, South China. February 2016. (photo © Barlo)

Stikman (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Specter ad take over in Chinatown. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Hueman (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Madsteez draws inspiration from a movie poster. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

XORS (photo © Jaime Rojo)

WRSPNSK (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Flood is trying to tell us something, but we’re evidently not cool enough to understand… (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Tim Okamura at work at the Red Bird Space. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Untitled. Times Square, NYC. February 2016. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Evolve Gallery Presents: “Ali: The Greatest” A Group Show (Sacramento, CA)

January 12, 2012 Artists, California, Events, Fundraising, Gallery, Opening

Ali The Greatest

“Ali: The Greatest” celebrates and commemorates Muhammad Ali’s 70th birthday.

“Ali: The Greatest”
A fine art exhibition and tribute to boxing legend Muhammad Ali’s 70th Birthday
January 12 – 28, 2012

Featuring: Adrian Pickett, Alvin Burts, Alex Forster, Corey Pickett, Charly Palmer, Gerry GOS” Simpson, Frank Morrison, Joe Iurato, James Gayles, James Henninger, Kadir Nelson, Kevin OKeith, Kelvin Curry, Kinzie Davis, Lauren Gillette, Lisa Alonzo, Paul Goodnight, Tim Okamura, Charles Bibbs, Michael Grattan, Michael Brennan, and David P. Flores.

Preview Reception – Thursday, January 12th (6pm-9pm)
Opening Reception – Saturday, January 14th (6pm-10pm)

Evolve Gallery
2907 35th Street, Sacramento, California 95817
Gallery Hours: Thursday through Saturday |1-6pm | Please call first (916) 572-5123

New Specter at MOCADA

February 8, 2010 Artists, Brooklyn, NYC

The “Pink Elephant” show at the Museum of Contemporary African Diaspora Arts (MOCADA) in Brooklyn opened Thursday night and continued through the weekend with events and discussions about gentrification and it’s effects on culture, neighborhoods, and people.

This exhibition, guest curated by Dexter Wimberly, looks at urban planning, eminent domain, and real estate development and how they are affecting Brooklyn’s communities as well as how residents throughout the borough are responding.

We spoke with photographer and artist Guero about the show, and he thinks overall it is a pretty good and meaningful one, enough so that he also went to the artists’ discussion on Saturday.

Since it is reported that more than 65 Luxury buildings that are currently under development in Brooklyn are stalled or only partially occupied because of the economic crisis, wouldn’t it be great if some of those homes could benefit those people who have lost theirs?

In any event, we agree with Guero when he says, “I like the fact that the museum is using the exhibit to create dialogue on an important topic”.

See our previous post on Specter’s street art pieces for this show from January 21st.

http://www.mocada.org/

See more of Guero’s pics HERE.

Artists in the exhibition include (alphabetically):
Josh Bricker(Installation), Valerie Caesar (Photography), Oasa DuVerney (Drawing), Zachary Fabri (Video), Rosamond S. King (Installation), Irondale Ensemble(Theater Performance), Nathan Kensinger (Photography), Jess Levey(Photography / Video Installation), Christina Massey (Painting), Musa (Sculpture), Tim Okamura (Painting), Kip Omolade (Painting), John Perry(Painting), Adele Pham (Video), Michael Premo / Rachel Falcone (Photography / Multimedia), Gabriel Reese (Painting), Marie Roberts (Painting), Ali Santana (Music Video), Monique Schubert (Mixed-media), Alexandria Smith (Painting), Sarah Nelson Wright (Installation).

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