February 2014

Images Of The Week: 02.16.14

February 16, 2014 Artists, BSA Images Of The Week

In between snow storms, there has been some Street Art and graff to be seen this week, and not surprisingly, some of it is surprising (see the Tupac/Rosselli mashup).

We had the great honor of hiking up, over, and around the crunchy white / grey / black Brooklyn Appalachian snow mountains that now clog our sidewalks along with a few visiting Afghani graffiti/Street Artists when the temperature was about 15 degrees. No mountain goats encountered although a couple of trucks almost mowed us down. The guest didn’t mind because it’s freaking cold back in Kabul too. More on that visit soon.

Also if you didn’t see the announcement this week Swoon and BSA are going to be at the Brooklyn Museum in April. Hope you can make it!

Here’s our weekly interview with the street, this week featuring Adek, Ainac, Broke M.C., BTM.14, Cartoon Bacon, Cruz, Enzo & Nio, Kai, Lewy, See, Seedr, Skount, and UFO907.

Top Image >> Detail of work by Street Artist KAI hi-jacks Italian Baroque and Counter-Mannerist painter Matteo Rosselli, putting Tupac Shakur in the role of David as he carries Goliaths’ head. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

“I ain’t a killer, but don’t push me” KAI pays tribute to Tupac. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

The original oil painting The Triumph of David 2 by Matteo Rosselli (Italian, 1578-1650). Oil on canvas. (Creative Commons copyright)

KAI frames the tobacco practice. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Cruz outside Low Brow Artique Gallery. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Free Wifi! Wonder what he was arrested for? Artist Unkown (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Enzo & Nio (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Broke M.C. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

See (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Cartoon Bacon, real tears. Yeah, I don’t know either. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Artist Unknown (photo © Jaime Rojo)

It’s Mourning Again in America. Noknockcalling (?) (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Seedr of BTM.14 giving shout outs to his homies Lewy and Adek. Ainac on the bottom right. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Skount new mural in his hometown of Almagro in Spain. Psychadelic hippie folk art much? (photo © Skount)

Artist Unknown (photo © Jaime Rojo)

UFO907 has been in flight around town lately, and next to this otherworldly Kenzo campaign, it seems perfectly analogous.(photo © Jaime Rojo)

An unknown artist telling it like it is. Or at least how it was last year. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

The dirty side of the snow. Brooklyn, NY. February 2014. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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BIP: From Connecticut to Taiwan

February 15, 2014 Artists

Connecticut based artist BiP (short for “Believe in People”) is sampling a handful of the aesthetic styles associated with the past decades of art on the streets – including this recent one “Worth Every Blow” that draws from the graphic poster style many people will associate with Shepard Fairey.

BiP. A new permanent mural commissioned by The Museum Of Modern Art in Taiwan. (photo © courtesy of BiP)

Completed for a Taipei museum last fall the piece has been published before elsewhere but is a prime example of the impact that the popularity of Street Art is having on the work of new artists including BiP who has reportedly courted an Ivy-leagued audience with multiple installations on and around Yale’s campus in New Haven. Here you will see BiP also cycles through the conventions of pop, light irony, illustration, and even tries his hand at a throwie, albeit with a five syllable word. Oh, word?

BiP (photo © courtesy of BiP)

BSA Film Friday: 02.14.14

February 14, 2014 Artists

Our weekly focus on the moving image and art in the streets. And other oddities.

Now screening :

1. Painting, Yoga and Love on the Roof
2. Spidertag in Madrid
3. HOTTEA in St. Paul Home Depot
4. Pillas Brothers at Wallplay Gallery
5. H0tBox “Remember That One Time?”

BSA Special Feature: Wall Painting, Yoga, Love and Valentines

Our little Valentine to you …

The sweet yoga couple Kristina Serna and Joerael Elliott, who go by the name of Soulvision, show us some zen-like poses on the roof while Joerael takes a break from painting a mural. “We don’t have money for much, we just hang around,” says the soundtrack by Kotchy.

Spidertag in Madrid: Mucho Verde, Nuevo Rojo

Whip out the midi tech muzak and grab the suitcase full of yarn because estamos en Madrid, kiddies. In the urban squatted garden of Solarpiés, Spidertag found a great wall and some vegetation with which to begin of a new minimalism in his work. Seems simple enough, but that’s when it is deceiving.

HotTea in St. Paul

Thinking strategically when the temperature drops to -20F

Yep, Hottea is back with one strategy for shaking off the cold.

Number 1. Don’t do Street Art.

Number 2. Go to Home Depot and look for some fencing.

WU500MG X Pillas

Watch the Pillas brothers do an inside wall celebrating Wutang Clan’s 20th Anniversary at Wallplay Gallery on Orchard Street in New York.

H0tBox “Remember That One Time?”

From Chicago’s ONLY mobile gallery, a quick greatest hits collection from 2013, including fun with painting the Box Truck everybody loves.

Rafael Schacter and His “World Atlas of Street Art and Graffiti”

February 13, 2014 Artists

As we endure our one billionth snowstorm this winter we continue to paw through the stack of beautiful Street Art, graffiti, public art, and urban art books that we are honored to receive through the mail, and today we’re taken by The World Atlas of Street Art and Graffiti by Rafael Schacter, with foreword by John Fekner.

Rafael Schacter “The World Atlas of Street Art and Graffiti”

The substantial hardcover from Yale University Press is a very solid survey of largely undisputed practitioners of Street Art world wide as well as a number of lesser known names, accompanied by succinct and accurate overviews of their individual influences and styles. With contributors that include a good balance of graffiti artists, street artists, academics, authors, graphic designers, writers, and aestheticians of various stripes, Rafael Schacter has done his research; presenting 113 artists from 25 countries with illustrative photography and examples.

Aside from the thankless task of the editing of candidates that will necessarily leave out hundreds of great artists, Schacter endeavors to present a good cross-section, something that represents the scope of the “independent public art” that has now lifted the oeuvre to global recognition along with historical context and without the narrowly pinched European academic need to effect sanctimonious pronouncements or subtly derisive classist views upon it.

Rafael Schacter “The World Atlas of Street Art and Graffiti”

“Indeed, there are as many different motivations, styles, and approaches within this artistic arena as there are practitioners themselves – a ‘street art’ for every street artist, a ‘graffiti’ for every graffiti writer,” says Schacter in his introduction, and his appreciation for the fundamentals of a self-determination philosophy toward the act of creative expression permeates the descriptions and analysis while gaining your respect for his adept characterizations.

We gratefully acknowledge his help in trying to categorize and describe the enormous varieties of styles, practices and influences at play today, a quickly sampling of which includes for example abstractionist, absurdist, anti-aestheticism, character based, classic graffiti lettering, collage, conceptual, contemporary, culture jamming, decontextualization, decorative, digital/geek, figurative, folk, geometric, graphic design, illustration, indigenous, installation based, interventionist, naïve, performance, photo realistic, photographic, sculptural, surrealist, symbolic, and typographic.

Rafael Schacter “The World Atlas of Street Art and Graffiti”

With a brilliant and personal foreword by conceptual text-based and multimedia artist John Fekner, a veteran of the art-in-the-streets practice that predates the birth of many of the artists in the book, we get a scene-setting update on what collectively is evolving as well as an insight into what is feeding the explosive growth. “For the first time in history, artists who are creating art away from the major centers of art and culture are no longer at a disadvantage. The Internet has increased accessibility through the proliferation of blogs and social media, which has fueled hordes of dedicated fan bases using cell phones and cameras to instantly record, document, and post their interpretations of life, culture, and art online,” Fekner writes.

With a well-rounded atlas like this at hand the student, scholar, and fan can gain a greater understanding of the guys and girls that paint messages in the street as well as an appreciation for their minds and craft.

Rafael Schacter “The World Atlas of Street Art and Graffiti”

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Twin Sets: Graffiti Art Magazine

February 12, 2014 Artists

You ever look at Graffiti Art magazine from Paris? It has really turned into such a great quarterly and this new issue number 20 has MOMO on the cover! Also finally an article about the fascinating occurrence of a number of twin duos who work in the Street Art scene today.

Graffiti Art Magazine Cover with MOMO.

Profiled are Os Gemeos, How & Nosm, Skewville, Sobekcis, and even Miss Van, who reveals that she is one half of a twin set. Because the magazine has such impeccable taste, it also features portraits of Skewville and How& Nosm by our own editor of photography Jaime Rojo. Check it out!

Graffiti Art Magazine #20. How & Nosm portrait taken by Jaime Rojo at their studio.

To order the new issue go to Graffiti Art Magazine

Vladimir Putin: The Poster Boy at Sochi

February 11, 2014 Artists

Conceptual artist and cultural critic Charles Steelman is fed up with today’s politicians behaving like sullen teens. He thinks their outsized egos and penchant for bullying their way to grandiosity is now totally out of control and instead of looking after the best interests of those who elected them into office they resort to blackmail if their capricious demands are not met.

Hmmmm, sounds familiar now that you think of those who can’t get their way so they shut down the government and close bridges and restrict people’s ability to vote. Maybe Steelman has a point, as he addresses the masculine / feminine continuum in his new image online satire that pokes fun at Putin’s problem with the LGBT community.

Penis Riot (image © Charles Steelman)

Says Mr. Steelman in his description of his new project “Penis Riot!”:

“PENIS RIOT!!! is about softening the hyper-masculine images that dominate today’s politics. From America to Russia, politicians have adopted a “by any means necessary” approach to governance, an approach which is largely self-serving and under-represents those who it claims to favor. Our democracies have become playthings for perverted egos. It is time for those men to get on their knees and pray for forgiveness. Less dick pics, more pussy licks.”
– CH

As part of his Penis Riot project Steelman will be releasing a new photo illustration along with the original photo each day for the duration of the Sochi Olympic Games. Below are day 1 and 2 images. For daily updates click the link after the photos.

Penis Riot (image © Charles Steelman)

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“I’m In Miami Bitch”, Andrew Kaufman photographs Wynwood

February 10, 2014 Artists

A. It has a good name, and
B. It’s the way Wynwood feels every year during Art Basel and this self published book by photographer Andrew Kaufman captures the excitement unpretentiously.

Andrew Kaufman “I’m In Miami Bitch” ( photo © Jaime Rojo)

In the fall of 2012 Kaufman began walking the streets with camera in hand in what used to be called “El Barrio”, shooting the murals of the international Street Art magnet called the Wynwood District. The previously low-income and light manufacturing neighborhood had been transforming itself as a destination in the shadow of the decade old art fair across the water in Miami Beach. He discovered artists from in town and around the world painting walls side by side and a palpable thrill in the air in this 20 square block public space like none he had previously experienced.

Andrew Kaufman “I’m In Miami Bitch” ( photo © Jaime Rojo)

“Every year in late November artists from around the world descend on the streets of Wynwood to remake the façade of almost every building, overhead door and nook or cranny where paint could be applied,” he says in this image packed softcover. He doesn’t try to romance it, he just lays it open for you to take a look and to possibly feel what it was like for him for a few weeks talking to artists, interviewing locals and pilgrims and internationally known names as they painted, listened to music, traded stories, passed a joint, ate barbecue, and got distracted by the bikinis, parties, hammocks and lawn chairs.

Andrew Kaufman “I’m In Miami Bitch” ( photo © Jaime Rojo)

In a down-to-earth way Andrew steers clear of grandiosity or otherwise put a self-serving spin on the scene. He learns just by asking questions and taking photos, with highlights including conversations with Kenny Scharf, DAZE, and BooksIIII Bischof, who lays bare the conflicting feelings of local graff writers who had already been organizing and slamming walls organically for a handful of years before the real estate developer Tony Goldman brought his economic heft to flood the scene with international Street Artists.

Andrew Kaufman “I’m In Miami Bitch” ( photo © Jaime Rojo)

The rapid change that neighborhood has undergone the other 11 months of the year has created rifts between the locals and the well-heeled newbies, and its good that Kaufman gives airtime to those perspectives as well, diplomatically describing the power struggles as “growing pains”. While some characterizations may be a bit naïve at times with statements like “there are no curators, no rules,” he still captures the near spiritual peregrination of idealist artists from around the US who hop trains and buses or hitch-hike to a warm sunny climate at the end of November with little more than a desire to find a wall to paint and a couch to crash on.

I’m in Miami Bitch is a personal account of the zoo and the spectacle and an historical capture of a moment on an evolutionary timeline that will become more valuable as the inevitable cultural seachange in this Miami neighborhood takes place and the presumptive commodification and gentrification runs its full course. For the moment you can still catch the crazy collaborative creative magic yourself just by showing up. But if you can’t, Kaufman is happy to share his sense of magic with you.

Andrew Kaufman “I’m In Miami Bitch” ( photo © Jaime Rojo)

Included in the book are works by Cite, Crayola, Dabs and Myla, Ewok, Pia, Fumerosim, Pose-MSK, Aimer, Patch Whiskey, La Paneilla, Kenny Scharf, Blink, Torek, Daze, Pez, Gorey, and about 50 more artists. For more information about I’m in Miami Bitch, cliek HERE.

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Images Of The Week: 02.09.14

February 9, 2014 Artists

Maya Hayuk on the Houston Wall this week got tagged mid-job, took a moment and repaired and continued on to completion in signature glowing dripping geometrically teXt-driven style, Ben Eine ISHued a jab at entertainment culture, and QRST made a reappearance with a hand-rendered reminder of temporality on a bus stop, saw his shadow and went back into a hole.

Here’s our weekly interview with the street, this week featuring Alice Pasquini, Ben Eine, Bone, Bradley Theodore, Ellis G., Issa, Jilly Ballistic, Maya Hayuk, and QRST.

Top Image >> Fashion profiler Bradley Theodore depicts Diana Vreeland as social x-ray (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Maya Hayuk. Houston Wall. Detail. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Maya Hayuk. Houston Wall. Detail. The beginning. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Maya Hayuk. Houston Wall. Process shot. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Maya Hayuk. Houston Wall. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

QRST. Bus shelter ad takeover. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Issa and Jilly Ballistic collaboration in a MTA subway platform. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Ben Eine. “Thats Entertainment. ish” (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Ben Eine (photo © Jaime Rojo)

BONE (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Yes, it does seem rather harsh. Ellis G. THR (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Justin in time for Valentine’s Day, this smashed bouquet of flowers. Serge Miquel. “Yummy” (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Alice Pasquini at work on her piece in Barcelona, Spain for ÚS Festival. (photo © João Gordicho)

Alice Pasquini in Barcelona, Spain for ÚS Festival. (photo © João Gordicho)

Untitled. Manhattan, NYC. February, 2014. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Priest Comes to Brooklyn and Puts Ego on the Alter

February 8, 2014 Artists

Priests are really taking a beating in public opinion these days, and with good reason (see U.N. report this week). One New Orleans priest visiting Brooklyn this week hopes to change all those negative perceptions and replace them with new ones by taunting the church, law enforcement, the KKK, illegal immigrants, Street Art fans, and, well, anyone really.

PRIEST (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Priest is the Po-Boy’s Banksy, a less talented stencillist perhaps by half, but equally smart and witty if he applies himself. You won’t need to buzz saw through a concrete wall to get a Priest piece – if you arrive early tonight he’ll give you one. For that money you won’t find a better blender of graffiti’s nihlism with street art’s self-indulgent sarcasm as he rifles through the visual tropes and winking in-jokes you have grown to know and tire of.

PRIEST at work on his installation. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Without reading into it too far, it appears that he’s also questioning the necessity for polarization between the vocabularies of graffiti and Street Art. For the new kids who didn’t absorb the context the styles were developed in and have no interest in it, the practices and visual vocab have all been dropped into a cultural food processor. Welcome to the ‘teens.

PRIEST (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Originally from Mobile Alabama, “Priest landed in the only place a person with zero skills and a computer could: the superficial world of street art,” says his wife in the press release for the solo “ALTARed Ego,” opening tonight at Mecka Gallery in East Williamsburg. The approach could be the self-conscious disarming of critics by an out-of-town bomber but don’t let it cloud the reality of a certain underlying sophistication and pathos. When realized, the social critiques meet with a harsher edge and still retain the humor we need to swallow it: Witness the silhouette of ET in the front bicycle basket as a sombrero- and-poncho-wearing alien.

It’s just frank enough commentary to engage with and contemplate without droning on and on about immigration policy. Did we say droning? That’s a different painting.

PRIEST “Graffiti has always been a grey area of the LAW” (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Taunting everyone from the NSA to Big Oil to consumerism, the police and the shallowness of art fans, Priest experiments with stencils, the paint brush, and losing control of his spray across the wall. With “ALTARed Ego,” Priest tells us to calm the f**k down about all the ginned up hype and consider the mess we’re actually in. It’s one of the new faces of activism that we are seeing more of these day, and just one tip of the iceberg.

PRIEST. The stencil in the middle is of the Gray Ghost. The infamous graffiti buffer in New Orleans. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

PRIEST (photo © Jaime Rojo)

PRIEST at work on his installation. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

PRIEST (photo © Jaime Rojo)

PRIEST at work on his installation. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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BSA Film Friday 02.07.14

February 7, 2014 Artists

Our weekly focus on the moving image and art in the streets. And other oddities.

Now screening :

1. Swoon Lays It On the Line
2. “Vacant View” and Baltimore’s Slumlords
3. FAREWELL: In Memory of a Lost Friend
4. Galeria Urban Forms 2013

BSA Special Feature: Swoon Lays It On the Line

“A little bit less about art stuff and a little bit more about life stuff” is how Street Artist Swoon introduces the revelatory truths that underpin her work and her fundamental relationships with family. She brings light into her upbringing, her family’s addictions a how Swoon decided to tackle the challenges that life presented her and to find a way to courageously forgive and heal.

“Vacant View” Trailer

Vacant View is an inspirational documentary that shows the creative and innovative ways street artists, activists and community members utilize their available resources with the hopes to draw attention to the vacant housing epidemic in Baltimore.

Directed by:
Tarek Turkey and Julia Pitch

FAREWELL: In Memory of a Lost Friend. (SUBWAY-WORK-SLEEP)

What does it feel like to be behind bars?

Who says conceptual public art has to come with an artists’s statement? Here is the act planned by two, and finished by one.

“My partner and I tried to carry out this intervention three years before. The result was unsatisfying and we promised ourselves to try again. The year after, my friend left us brutally. I hope he will like the result.”

Galeria Urban Forms 2013

The Urban Forms festival in Lodz, Poland put together this nice compilation of walls completed this year, including the artists ROA (Belgium), INTI (Chile), 3TTMAN (France), and TONE, GREGOR, and PROEMBRION (all from Poland).

Ben Eine Would Like To Have A Heartfelt Word With You

February 6, 2014 Artists

Heartfelt words are a dime a dozen this time of year with Valentine’s Day coming up, which makes you want to drunk dial your ex girlfriend and see watcheezdoinritenow, but few people’s words are as crisp and wry and dang colorful as the sentiments that flow from Street Artist EINE, who is in New York to present “Heartfelt”.

Known for his trademark alphabet in a prismatically pleasant palette on pulldown gates around the planet, we stumbled across him posing for pics on the Bowery and thought we’d pop by the new show. The London based former graff writer, now painter and master-printer has a distinctively crisp and plump typography that is rippling with stripes and clever color pairing in this new body of work at Judith Charles Gallery – as well as the couple of pieces he left around town.

From New York to you Ben, a heartfelt welcome.

Ben Eine gives us all that cheerful backwards peace sign thing those Brits are always doing. Think it means “I Love You”. At Judith Charles Gallery, NYC. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Ben Eine “Hearfelt” is now open to the public at the Judith Charles Gallery in Manhattan. Click HERE for further details.

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The Power of Color via Street Art, Graffiti, and Murals

February 5, 2014 Artists

No doubt it is the grey days of late winter that is making us think about this as we brace for the next snowstorm, but today we’re considering the impact that Street Art color has on architecture that never asked for it.

We’re not the first to think of hues, shades, tones, and palettes when it comes to the man made environment of course, but it does strike us that most of the buildings that are hit up by street art and murals today were designed by architects who never imagined art on their facade.

Modern architecture for some reason is still primarily grey, washed out greens, beige, eggshell, snore.

“Color is something that architects are usually afraid of,” said internationally known and awarded architect Benedetta Tagliabue in an interview last May about the topic of color. A generalization probably, and you can always find exceptions of colorfully painted neighborhoods globally like the Haight in San Francisco, La Boca in Buenos Aires, Portafino in Italy, Guanajuato in Mexico, Bo-Kaap in Capetown, the favelas of Rio de Janeiro and the Blue City of India, but many of those examples speak to color blocking and pattern.

We’ve been looking at the power of Street Art to reface, re-contextualize, re-energize, and re-imagine a building and its place in the neighborhood. Some times it is successful, other times it may produce a light vertigo. The impact of work on buildings by today’s Street Artists and muralists depends not only on content and composition but largely on the palette they have chosen. It sounds trite, and self-evident perhaps, but much of Street Art is about color, and primarily on the warm scale first described by Faber Birren with his OSHA colors and color circle in the 1930s .

Birren developed his color system with the observation that artists favor the warm colors more than the cold, from the violet side of red and extending beyond yellow because “, their effect is more dynamic and intense and because the eye can, in fact, distinguish more warm colors than cold.”

It’s common now to think of 21st century Street Art as the graffiti-influenced practice that primarily activates the detritus of the abandoned industrial sector blighting western cities in the wake of trade agreements that sent all the jobs to lands without protections and regulations. While that is definitely the sort of neglected factory architecture preferred for “activation” by many graffiti artists and Street Artists alike, we also see more curious couplings of color with the delicately ornate, the regal, or even modernist structures today thanks to artists being invited, rather than chased.

The results? Abstractionist, cubist, geometric, letter-based, illustrative, figurative, text-based, outsider, folk, dadaist, pop. One common denominator: color.

“The environment and its colors are perceived, and the brain processes and judges what it perceives on an objective and subjective basis. Psychological influence, communication, information, and effects on the psyche are aspects of our perceptual judgment processes,” writes Frank H. Mahnke in his recent piece for Archinect. The author of Color, Environment, & Human Response has made it his mission to explore psychological, biological effects of color and light and to help creators of the man-made environment make good choices.

Whether all of these choices are good, we leave up to you. But it is worth considering that Street Artists have been part of the conversation on the street for decades now, making powerful suggestions to architects and city planners , so maybe it’s worth taking another look at what they’ve been up to lately.

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This article was also published on The Huffington Post

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