RECAP – BSA and Living Walls : Albany
This weekend in Albany very important Street Art presentations were made at the New York State Museum during “Living Walls: Albany”, including one from Street Art duo Broken Crow, pictured here in custom made aluminum foil head gear that reflected light rays all around the Clark Auditorium.
Mike has the remote for the Powerpoint show in his right antenna. Broken Crow at the New York State Museum. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
There were so many moving parts in this large and easy going cultural festival this weekend, and we were really happy to meet so many people in the street, at the Marketplace encampment, in St. Joseph’s Church, at the tile factory, and during our keynote lecture at the New York State Museum Saturday. Thanks to Samson Contompasis for asking BSA to partner with him for LWAlbany and a quick shout out to other local partners James Shultis at Grand Street Community Arts, Sivan Shimoni, the staff at NYS Museum, and local blogger KC Orcutt at KeepAlbanyBoring.com along with photographers Andrew Franciosa, Bob Anderson, MC3, Frank Whitney, and Ken Jacobie. Also big ups to Monica Compana, who c0-spearheaded Living Walls Atlanta, which we covered a lot when it began last year. For all the locals mentioned, they are just the tip of the iceberg of a large committed creative and professional community in the Upstate New York region who helped to pull this thing off with almost zero dollars and tons of planning and hustling. For the first year, it is/was a major achievement.
Broken Crow (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Of course our main focus is always the Street Artists and the creative spirit that is alive and well on the streets so it was a total honor to see the artists and see brand new stuff going up, like the last one before catching a train last night – Broken Crow’s ram under a bridge. There are still some pieces being finished by NohJColey, Clown Soldier, Doodles, and one we missed from Michael DeFeo. Also coming up should be Hellbent and possibly some other artists this fall, so we’ll get back to you on that. Not all these pics are from Living Walls : Albany by the way — when you are combing the streets you find all kinds of stuff you didn’t expect.
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Broken Crow (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Broken Crow (photo © Jaime Rojo)
White Cocoa (photo © Jaime Rojo)
White Cocoa (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Artist Unknown (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Doodles at work on his wall. He explained to BSA that it will eventually contain 5 frames of a figure gradually being crushed under a backpack, which he will shake himself from and run into the wild. It’s meant to symbolize the fears and problems that can accumulate in life and our need to shake the “baggage” if possible. — and some more esoteric descriptors that we can tell you about if you want to know. Stay tuned for the finished piece. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Doodles at work on his wall (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Doodles wall in progress (photo © Jaime Rojo)
NohJColey at work on his wall (photo © Jaime Rojo)
NohJColey at work on his wall (photo © Jaime Rojo)
NohJColey at work on his wall (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Cake, Infinity (photo © Jaime Rojo)
(photo © Jaime Rojo)
Overunder (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Overunder next to an old Radical! (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Overunder (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Veng RWK (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Clown Soldier (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Michael DeFeo (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Radical (photo © Jaime Rojo)
N’DA (photo © Jaime Rojo)
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