June 2016

BSA Images Of The Week: 06.05.16

June 5, 2016 Artists, BSA Images Of The Week

It’s Bushwick Collective Weekend Yo! The assembled faces and artists is local, national, international – a melange of what Brooklyn has become in recent years and the streets are alive with involved citizenry in search of entertainment, art and community. The Street Art scene is alive and well, just mutating weirdly as it always does; charges of commercialism and the whitening power of gentrification notwithstanding. A little further out in BedStuy was the #PrincePartyBK yesterday with Spike Lee celebrating the Purple One’s birthday, along with a lot of Biggie love, and Muhammad Ali love, and you, Love.

Here’s our weekly interview with the street, this week featuring 1Penemy, BG183, Bio, City Kitty, Coro, Crash, GIZ, JMR, KLOPS, Loco Art, Marie Roberts, Nepo, Nicer, Samantha Vernon, Sheryo, Tats Crew, The Yok, Thomas Allen, Tristan Eaton, UNO, XSM, and You Go Girl!

Our top image: Marie Roberts for Coney Art Walls 2016. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Unidentified artist’s portrait of Muhammad Ali who passed away this Friday. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

BG183 TATS Crew for The Bushwick Collective Block Party 2016. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

CRASH TATS Crew for The Bushwick Collective Block Party 2016. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Nicer TATS Crew for The Bushwick Collective Block Party 2016. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

BIO TATS Crew for The Bushwick Collective Block Party 2016. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

“Oh my God, I am totally getting a selfie with this. No one back in Nazareth will believe this. Suurreeusly.” KLOPS for The Bushwick Collective Block Party 2016. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

JMR for The Bushwick Collective Block Party 2016. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

NEPO . CORO for The Bushwick Collective Block Party 2016. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

GIZ. Joe Ficalora The Bushwick Collective founder with his BFF Pope Francis. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

You Go Girl! (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Protestors at the entrance of the Brooklyn Navy Yard have been drawing attention to their opinion that the Duke Riley “Fly By Night” art project with Creative Time is cruel to the pigeons in some way and that the animals are being exploited for profit. Riley has reportedly consulted pigeon clubs, an avian veterinarian, experts from animal welfare groups and been given a good review from the Audubon society so the opinion does not seem unanimous. Regarding the charge of making a profit, we’re pretty sure all the tickets are free, right? Our favorite one is the sign that also insults the artistic quality of the project as “mediocre.” Oh, gurl, you did not manage to throw some shade while protecting those birds did you? Snap! (photo © Jaime Rojo)

XSM (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Pizza on the run. The Yok and Sheryo shot through the driver’s seat of a parked UPS truck. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

UNO. Marseille, France. May 2016. (photo © UNO)

Thomas Allen, partially obscured by some green buffing. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Thomas Allen (photo © Jaime Rojo)

City Kitty. A mash up of two giants of rock whom we lost withing months of each other this winter/spring – with that intuitive third eye. “You will be missed” (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Prince. Is VJZ the signature of the artist who painted the portrait? (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Unidentified Artist (photo © Jaime Rojo)

“The monster within and the fool that follows.” Heard that. Tristan Eaton for Coney Art Walls 2016. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Samantha Vernon for Coney Art Walls 2016. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Is there a story behind this, or simply a fantasy scenario? 1Penemy (photo © Jaime Rojo)

“I hate your negative energy”. Unidentified Artist (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Loco Art (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Untitled. Brooklyn Navy Yard. Duke Riley’s Fly By Night performance with pigeons in collaboration with Creative Time. Brooklyn, NY. June 2016. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Louis Masai, Dogs, Kids and “Mission Rabies” in Malawi

June 4, 2016 Artists

“Dog is man’s best friend,” goes the colloquialism attributed to Frederick II, King of Prussia.

Rabies is friend to neither.

Louis Masai for Mission Rabies. Blantyre, Malawi. May 2016. (photo © Louis Masai)

To Malawi today we go to school with artist Louis Masai, who just painted three happy vaccinated dogs with colorfully patterned ears during eight days with the goal of raising the discussion about the vicious disease that has hurt this country.

With Zambia, Tanzania and Mozambique as neighbors, landlocked Malawi has about 17 million people and its capital Blantyre has one of the highest rates of child rabies anywhere in Africa. Along with Mission Rabies, a voluntary veterinary team, the artist has been working to make it the lowest.

Louis Masai for Mission Rabies. Blantyre, Malawi. May 2016. (photo © Louis Masai)

Masai tells us that since May of 2015, the volunteers have vaccinated more than 35,000 dogs in Blantyre, vastly lowering the threat to children, and his new paintings are meant as a point of reference for the educational component of the Mission Rabies campaign.

“Using acrylics and brushes, I painted three murals of local dogs that I had met and whom the vets were treating,” he tells us of the new works inside the walls of local schools.

“It’s not unusual to have 5,000 to 8,000 children in a school, so it’s an incredibly busy and awesome place to host an education program,” he says. “The concept is that with the murals in situ, the teachers and students can discuss the information passed on to them by Mission Rabies and their team.”

Sometimes people can be man’s best friend as well.

Louis Masai for Mission Rabies. Blantyre, Malawi. May 2016. (photo © Louis Masai)

Learn more about Mission Rabies here: http://www.missionrabies.com/projects/malawi/

Muhammad Ali R.I.P. 1942-2016

June 4, 2016 Artists

He floats like a butterfly, stings like a bee.

“The government had a system where the rich man’s son went to college, and the poor man’s son went to war” Muhammad Ali opposing the draft and the Vietnam war. He took the slings and arrows, and stood his ground as very few do.

Ali inspired many portraits on the street and here is one recent mural from Street Artist Brolga.

#Muhammadali art by @brolga_ (photo ©Jaime Rojo)

BSA Film Friday: 06.03.16

June 3, 2016 Artists

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

Now screening :

1. Left Out: by Maxwell Rushton and Liam Thompson
2. CHEAP Street Poster Art Festival 2016
3. Sky High: Mexico City from Tost Films:
4. RUN has a Kickstarter for New Book “Time Traveller Artist Man”

BSA Special Feature: Left Out: by Maxwell Rushton and Liam Thompson

A thoughtful perspective on a public social experiment triggered by placing a despondent figure inside a garbage bag in highly trafficked areas of London. Selected responses to Maxwell Rushton’s piece are indicative of something nearly life-changing, or consciousness-raising. Somewhere along the way there is serious discussion of the idea that people have become disposable in the minds of the modern citizen-turned-consumer.

Temper those responses with the larger number of Londoners who either didn’t recognize the shape as that of a human figure and the number whom were uninterested, disconnected, partially interested or just joking to one another blithely – and you’ll get a wider survey of our current civilized state.

A large and related story may be that some corporate brands are using the honest original work of Street Artists today to mislead and sell, short-circuiting the intent of artists who pioneer social experimentation with different goals. Even this documentary format is often re-engineered, using “authenticity” to “engage” and tell “compelling stories” with “influencers” – effectively disparaging and eroding public trust and civic connection to one another by abusing our human tools of communication.

One other artist you may like the work of: Street Artist Mark Jenkins was creating figurative public work, some of it very similar to this, in the late 2000’s and teens, but perhaps with different goals and often a little humor as well.

CHEAP Street Poster Art Festival 2016

A hybrid of advertising posters re-engineered by Street Artists here at the Bologna festival that playfully recalls public space for public art. Inspired perhaps by those groups who would like to battle the ubiquity of ads and their messages on bus stops and mass transit in large cities, this is “a collective poster art installation involving 25 international artists working in illustration and street art.” The small audiences and kids seem to like it!

Sky High: Mexico City from Tost Films:

The third edition of Constructo brings some amazing talents to walls in Mexico City, and Tost does a fly by here of some of the newest pieces.

RUN has a Kickstarter for New Book “Time Traveller Artist Man”

Time Traveler: A book about the international public artist Giacomo Bufarini aka RUN, traveling through 8 countries, sharing his art in this book.

Please click on the Kickstarter link to help the artist to bring this book to reality:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/480833114/time-traveller-artist-man

La Catedral: Part II. Barcelona Hand Style in a Factory

June 2, 2016 Artists

We’re back with more from La Cathedral, an abandoned factory in Barcelona that manufactures some mighty fine pieces woven by local aerosol hands, ready here for foreign import. Photographer and BSA contributor Lluis Olive Bulbena has taken us there before but this time you can really see some examples of what might be called the Barcelona hand style. You decide.

ARYZ and the Mixed Media Collective (ARYZ – GRITO – KIKX – POSEYDON – ROSTRO – RGTD) are going strong. (photo © Lluis Olive Bulbena)

Barlo “Upside Down” in Hong Kong

June 1, 2016 Artists

Street Artist Barlo sends us this mural he did in his hometown Hong Kong in the back of a bar that features caricatures sculpted of Mao, Stalin, and Hitler – which gives you an idea of what sorts of rabble rousers might be there having a drink. He says this is actually his second mural there – his first one was of such a political nature that it had to be painted over to avoid some undefined conflicts. The newer one is decidedly less political, more representational of a general feeling of living in a land that feels like it is “upside down”, he says.

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He calls this one The World Upside Down

“Since the beginning of civilization men have believed in the existence of another world, parallel to ours but opposite in every sense, to the point of believing in people walking upside down. Through the centuries the myth took many names and forms, from ‘Heaven on Earth’ to the myth of the Antipodes or the land of Cockaigne,” he says.

As an aside, you may know Cockaigne is a place in medieval myth where life is completely enjoyable and luxurious and food literally falls out of the sky, which sounds awfully appealing, but you may need to carry a dinner plate around with you wherever you go, right? Otherwise that ham sandwich might land on the sidewalk, right? And what about gravy? Does it come in its own gravy boat? Not sure how that all would work. Also, what about spaghetti sauce?

Anyway, returning to Barlo’s description. “In popular folklore these stories represented a naive hope, an illusory land, where tyrants would meet their justice and the people who remained would live free from their misery, thus subverting the natural order of things.”

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Our top image: Marie Roberts for Coney Art Walls 2016. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Unidentified artist’s portrait of Muhammad Ali who passed away this Friday. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

BG183 TATS Crew for The Bushwick Collective Block Party 2016. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

CRASH TATS Crew for The Bushwick Collective Block Party 2016. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Nicer TATS Crew for The Bushwick Collective Block Party 2016. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

BIO TATS Crew for The Bushwick Collective Block Party 2016. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

“Oh my God, I am totally getting a selfie with this. No one back in Nazareth will believe this. Suurreeusly.” KLOPS for The Bushwick Collective Block Party 2016. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

JMR for The Bushwick Collective Block Party 2016. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

NEPO . CORO for The Bushwick Collective Block Party 2016. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

GIZ. Joe Ficalora The Bushwick Collective founder with his BFF Pope Francis. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

You Go Girl! (photo © Jaime Rojo)

XSM (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Pizza on the run. The Yok and Sheryo shot through the driver’s seat of a parked UPS truck. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

UNO. Marseille, France. May 2016. (photo © UNO)

Thomas Allen, partially obscured by some green buffing. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Thomas Allen (photo © Jaime Rojo)

City Kitty. A mash up of two giants of rock whom we lost withing months of each other this winter/spring – with that intuitive third eye. “You will be missed” (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Prince. Is VJZ the signature of the artist who painted the portrait? (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Unidentified Artist (photo © Jaime Rojo)

“The monster within and the fool that follows.” Heard that. Tristan Eaton for Coney Art Walls 2016. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Samantha Vernon for Coney Art Walls 2016. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Is there a story behind this, or simply a fantasy scenario? 1Penemy (photo © Jaime Rojo)

“I hate your negative energy”. Unidentified Artist (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Loco Art (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Untitled. Brooklyn Navy Yard. Duke Riley’s Fly By Night performance with pigeons in collaboration with Creative Time. Brooklyn, NY. June 2016. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Louis Masai for Mission Rabies. Blantyre, Malawi. May 2016. (photo © Louis Masai)

Louis Masai for Mission Rabies. Blantyre, Malawi. May 2016. (photo © Louis Masai)

Louis Masai for Mission Rabies. Blantyre, Malawi. May 2016. (photo © Louis Masai)

Louis Masai for Mission Rabies. Blantyre, Malawi. May 2016. (photo © Louis Masai)

Louis Masai for Mission Rabies. Blantyre, Malawi. May 2016. (photo © Louis Masai)

Louis Masai for Mission Rabies. Blantyre, Malawi. May 2016. (photo © Louis Masai)

#Muhammadali art by @brolga_ (photo ©Jaime Rojo)

BSA Special Feature: Left Out: by Maxwell Rushton and Liam Thompson

CHEAP Street Poster Art Festival 2016

Sky High: Mexico City from Tost Films:

RUN has a Kickstarter for New Book “Time Traveller Artist Man”

Treze. Detail. (photo © Lluis Olive Bulbena)

Treze (photo © Lluis Olive Bulbena)

ARYZ and the Mixed Media Collective (ARYZ – GRITO – KIKX – POSEYDON – ROSTRO – RGTD) are going strong. (photo © Lluis Olive Bulbena)

ARYZ. Detail. (photo © Lluis Olive Bulbena)

Mixed Media (photo © Lluis Olive Bulbena)

Mixed Media (photo © Lluis Olive Bulbena)

SRC (photo © Lluis Olive Bulbena)

JBCB (photo © Lluis Olive Bulbena)

VMD (photo © Lluis Olive Bulbena)

VLOK . Otavio & Gustavo (photo © Lluis Olive Bulbena)

HDA (photo © Lluis Olive Bulbena)

NAZKA (photo © Lluis Olive Bulbena)

Unidentified Artist (photo © Lluis Olive Bulbena)

Barlo. “The World Upside Down” Hong Kong. May 2016. (photo © Barlo)

Barlo. “The World Upside Down” Hong Kong. May 2016. (photo © Barlo)

Barlo. “The World Upside Down” Hong Kong. May 2016. (photo © Barlo)

Barlo. “The World Upside Down” Hong Kong. May 2016. (photo © Barlo)

Barlo. “The World Upside Down” Hong Kong. May 2016. (photo © Barlo)

Barlo. “The World Upside Down” Hong Kong. May 2016. (photo © Barlo)

Barlo. “The World Upside Down” Hong Kong. May 2016. (photo © Barlo)

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