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BSA in NYTimes : DAZE + Swoon LIVE with Us Next Week at MCNY

February 27, 2016 Artists

We’re happy today to see BSA photographer Jaime Rojo in The New York Times with two great shots to highlight our Swoon and DAZE event next week at the Museum of the City of New York.

Taking our theme from DAZE’s current exhibition there called “The City is My Muse” we will highlight a number of artists in the streets who have found that New York is an important inspiration in their story telling.

A life-long New Yorker, DAZE will talk to us on stage about his process and practice of integrating personal and city imagery into a psycho-social painted collage style that he has developed since first writing on MTA trains in the 1970s and 80s. Street Artist Swoon will share her interaction with the streets of New York during the 1990s and 2000s and her highly individualized tracing of the lives of everyday people initially in paper cuts, later in linotype prints wheat pasted on city walls.

One important correction to the New York Times caption for the top image – the artists are Chris Stain and Billy Mode on the rooftop shot. It was a mural we organized with them on the occasion of Martha Cooper’s birthday 5 years ago. The image of the child is from a photograph by Martha Cooper. (she loved it!)

For more on the March 2 presentation “Street Art Stories” with DAZE, Swoon, Steven P. Harrington, Jaime Rojo, and you – please CLICK HERE.

BSA Film Friday: 02.26.16

February 26, 2016 Artists

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

Now screening :

1. Pejac: Heavy Sea
2. Giulio Vesprini: Promise
3. Rime at the Coliseum

BSA Special Feature: Pejac: Heavy Sea

Heavy indeed. Street Artist Pejac does the simplest of installations to highlight the sea of refuse we are creating. There isn’t much to say except this tired scene is repeated throughout the “developed” world, including floating in our actual seas.

Giulio Vesprini: Promise

PROMISE, a street art intervention by artist Giulio Vesprini. The work has been created between the 5th and the 7th of February in “Piazza della Pace”, a multicultural working-class neighborhood in Terni, Umbria.

Rime at the Coliseum

Currently having a show at Jonathan Levine in Manhattan, this is RIME aka Jersey Joe paying tribute to his friend NACE (NACEO) as a memorial to a graffiti innovator of the 1990s. “I felt like this would be a fitting tribute, many years after his passing,” RIME says.

MB6 Street Art Update I – Marrakech Biennale

February 25, 2016 Artists

The 6th Marrakech Biennale has begun and the parallel project MB6 Street Art is in full effect as well – with an international collection of 10 artists painting murals at street level and on roofs inside the “Red City” or Medina of Marrakech.

One of the core principals of the biennale is to be sensitive to the local context, and organizers for MB6 have taken that guidance to heart in these old and often conservative neighborhoods by curating artists whose work in abstract, geometric, and decorative forms can endure a while under the intense sun. Particular sensitivity has been taken into consideration in this sort of magical fortified city where time seems to have slowed or even stopped in many ways. The approach is appropriate for the theme of this years biennale “Not New Now”.

Lucy Mclauchlan at work on her wall in The Medina. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Many inquisitive passersby in this bustling, chaotic/serene street scene will stand by and observe for long periods of time to discuss the evolving artworks and question others about the significance of a particular feature. Whether you speak Arabic, French, or Tamazight these new murals are providing a lot to talk about and many appear to relish the discussion.

We’ll be bringing you more details later but thought you’d like a few images of walls in progress, today with Birmingham’s Lucy McLauchlan, Moscow’s Alexey Luka, and Marrkesh’s own Kalamour.

Alexey Luka at work on his wall in The Medina. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Additionally we are pleased to announce our new partnership with Urban Nation (UN) in Berlin to discover and bring new Street/Urban Art from around the world to you.

Of course our very first collaboration with UN was the successful and enriching cultural exchange between Brooklyn and Berlin last year for for Project M/7 when we curated a show with 12 Street Artists in Berlin entitle “Persons of Interest”.

The nascent museum is emerging before our eyes with ever deeper ties to the global/local urban art communities and artists. We’ll be making more announcements regarding our collaborations in the near future.

Kalamour at work on his wall in The Medina. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

MB6 Street Art at the Marrakech Biennale is BSA in Partnership with Urban Nation (UN)

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A special shout out to photographer Ian Cox for showing us how to get around the market and the souks on our first day! We’d still be stuck in there right now without his help. Follow him @wallkandy on Instagram

Johannes Mundinger “Below The Fog” in Berlin

February 24, 2016 Artists

Indoor and outdoor merge in shifting slabs of memory that slip and stick in this new Berlin wall by Johannes Mundinger.

In work that similarly slides from representative and abstract, the work of the Offenburg born painter benefits from a sense of place and this new wall is especially good in these pictures when shot through by diagonal snow.

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Johannes Mundinger for Urban Spree. Berlin. February 2016. (photo © Lucky Cat)

Currently a resident artist at Urban Spree since 2012, Mundinger is preparing for his show opening next week at the galerie entitled ‘Unterm Nebel’. He tells us that it is an examination of memories first imprinted during childhood, somehow breaking and shifting during time, even crumbling and sinking deep into the subconscious.

Says Penny Rafferty in her description of ‘Unterm Nebel’ (Under the Fog), “The impressions we have aren´t reliable, it was a lifetime ago and now we have vague feelings of atmospheres, colours and smells; everything else remains inside a dense fog that psychiatry calls the consciousness.”

The exhibition will present a new series of large paintings, including a 8.5 meter canvas that he is painting in the gallery in the days leading up to the opening. Stop by if you remember.

Johannes Mundinger for Urban Spree. Berlin. February 2016. (photo © Johannes Mundinger)

Johannes Mundiger’s solo exhibition “Below The Fog” opens on March 4th at Urban Spree. Click HERE for more details.

Unterm Nebel

Opening: 4. March from 7pm

Introduction: Lars Hering
Finissage: 20. March from 6pm with a concert by Ori

Exhibition: 5. – 20. March 2015
Tuesday – Sunday, 12 – 7pm

Urban Spree Galerie
Revaler Str. 99, Berlin
www.urbanspree.com

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Donald Trump “Loser” by Artist Vicki Da Silva in Front of His Building

February 23, 2016 Artists

The unreality TV version of the US political race is simplifying and degrading the discussions that candidates are having during this election cycle. If you ask the Republican frontrunner what the race is about he’ll reduce it down to a contest of winners and losers.

Artist Vicki da Silva would agree.

The artist did her own ode to The Donald in front of his 40 Wall Street building in New York to illustrate her sentiment.

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photo © Vicki DaSilva

“Since Trump has a nasty habit of calling people losers, it was my way of putting it back on him using his name and logo,” she says. With the new piece she reminds us of the corrosive court jester’s daily attacks on any person or class of persons who do not agree with him on any number of issues.

DaSilva points to comments made a few weeks ago in the run-up to the primaries in his state by former New Hampshire Republican governor John Sununu that call into question the myriad Trump stump speeches crowing about the real estate mogul’s head-spinning winning.

“I pointed out that he’s been a loser all his life. He’s had four big bankruptcies. Trump Airlines went bankrupt, Trump Magazines shut down, Trump Steaks went out of business, and when he was the owner of New Jersey Generals, they also went out business. This guy has a history of failure and losing. He’s a perpetual loser,” say Sununu in an ABC.com article.

Says DaSilva “The entire Republican Party is a loser party, now more than ever, in my opinion.”

To get the shot the artist is photographer, set director, and performer. DaSilva positions a still camera on a tripod to record the movement of the lamp as she writes the text during a single-frame time exposure photograph. Important to the process is that she uses no post editing or digital alteration of the still photograph. She refers to the work as “light graffiti” and she makes prints of it to exhibit and sell.

Truthfully, she says she’d love to wheat-paste a huge version of this one on a wall somewhere. Any takers?

Light graffiti photograph made at 40 Wall Street, NYC by Vicki DaSilva. Video documentation by Owen Crowley.

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This article is also published on The Huffington Post

Fintan Magee, Puerto Rico, and Rising Sea Levels

February 22, 2016 Artists

Fintan Magee chose this water tower shape to feature a local San Juan boy carrying an iceberg – while the water levels rise and flood his world. Perhaps he is remarking on the fact that we are burdening the next generation of people with a host of ecological disasters to carry on their backs.

The Australian artist has been merging his graffiti practice and studio practice on the streets in large murals in recent years and often he uses the opportunity to speak to social and environmental ills, many on a global scale.

Fintan Magee for Santurce Is Ley 6. Puerto Rico February 2016. (photo © TotsFilms)

For the 6^th edition of the Santurce es Ley Festival, Magee addresses rising sea levels due to climate change and asks passersby to envision the coasts of world being re-defined and imagine the hardship it may incur. “Despite the low C02 emissions of small island states in the Caribbean,” he explains on his Facebook page, “rising sea levels, increasing natural disasters and other affects of climate change are a huge threat to the small nations who’s economies are dependant on fishing, tourism and agriculture.”

Fintan Magee for Santurce Is Ley 6. Puerto Rico February 2016. (photo © TotsFilms)

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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)

Dourone with Elodieloll: “Pura Vida” en Costa Rica

February 20, 2016 Artists

The Madrid born illustrator Fabio Lopez aka DOURONE just completed his new mural with Elodieloll in the Costa Rican village of Jacó. You may be familiar with his earlier monochrome figurative and surreal work, perhaps reminding you of the Dutch graphic artist Maurits Cornelis Escher, who made woodcuts and lithographs that are somehow recalled in these images.

Dourone new mural in Jacó, Costa Rica. February 2016. (photo © Dourone)

Most recently you may recall his black and white mural with Elodieloll in downtown LA last spring for the DoArt foundation and the local business improvement district. Now he is incorporating more color into the illustrations and they remain aesthetically decorative with images of faces and abstractions.

A commercial artist by trade, DOURONE’s self-taught style has enabled him to work with a number of lifestyle and spirit brands, an evolution in style from his public aerosol genesis as a graffiti writer.

The new wall is titled “Pura Vida”, is 7 x 30 meters, and incorporates elements of Jacó’s landscape and the amazing sunsets he and Elodieloll enjoyed while there.

Dourone new mural in Jacó, Costa Rica. February 2016. (photo © Dourone)

BSA Film Friday 02.19.16 – Cane Morto FULL LENGTH FEATURE

February 19, 2016 Artists

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

Now screening :

1. Cane Morto: AMO -TE LISBOA ⁄ AN IGNOMINIOUS STREET ~~ART~~ MOVIE.

BSA Special Feature: Cane Morto: AMO -TE LISBOA ⁄ AN IGNOMINIOUS STREET ART MOVIE. The full movie.

Cane Morto is haunted by the vicious trash-talking spiritual guide who insults and implores them to recover their graffiti gonads by foregoing the limp-dicked mural route that all of their friends are following.

Not quite a manifesto nor a morality play, AMO-TE Lisboa follows the Italian collective on their Portugal quest to assuage their own consciences and retain street cred virility – all the time being licked by fiery tongues of contempt of those who would have them clearly identify themselves and their allegiances.

We’re usually impressed by these guys’ bombastic and sarcastic tirades about the strictures of the Graffitti/Street Art/Urban Art/Contemporary Art dogmas – and their willful insistence on making their own path nevertheless.

This ranting, whining, bragging trio of road-trip roller romeos never let you down with their parodies of almost everything and everyone as they hit bold, ridiculous and cutty spots all around town and interact with people on the street – including many who weigh in to insult their work.

Wallflowers they are not.

A full-length movie like this helps Cane Morto secure their own uncomfortable place in these ongoing debates of artists/writers by mocking them to their face and making crude and poetic paintings – while crying hot righteous angry tears, then begging for forgiveness.

Pure drama! Pure feeling! And a grande mestolo of comedy ragu.

St+ART India 2016: Niels “Shoe” Meulman, Reko Rennie, Anpu Varkey & Chifumi

February 18, 2016 Artists

Amsterdam based designer, artist, calligrafitti writer Niels Shoe Meulman appears to have had an excellent time in all the photos we’ve been seeing from his time in India. Tagging since the turn of the eighties, “Shoe” is still making meaningful and fresh marks around the world in a way that tells you he continues to push himself as an artist and to do more to expand his unique visual vocabulary.

The producers of ST+ART India continue to demonstrate a proclivity for quality programming – at least the general mix is of higher caliber thinkers and feelers than we are seeing in bigger (and more commercial) blow-out festivals. BSA readers are starting to become very accustomed to seeing great impactful work coming out of this relatively young mural event.

You’ll also notice a fair contingent of local talent on the roster in addition to more internationally recognizable Street Art names, which is always a good sign because it suggests an integration of community. With a few more days to go before the end of the 2016 program, we’ve already seen plenty.

Here’s our 3rd installment from this years events with Niels Shoe Meulman, Reko Rennie, Anpu Varkey and Chifumi – and we’ll do a round-up once its all wrapped.

Our most sincere thanks to BSA Contributors Lorenzo and Giorgio at BlindEyeFactory.com for sharing their photos with BSA readers. Stay tuned for a full photo essay of this year’s edition of St+ART India with more photos from these gentlemen.

Lilliputian Art on Electric Poles: Patrick Picou Harrington in Albany

February 17, 2016 Artists

These quiet bits of visual punctuation on telephone poles in Albany caught our eye recently and we thought immediately of fairies, pixies, and sprites. Who else would care enough to adorn wooden telephone poles along a non-descript strip of sidewalk in the Delaware Avenue section of the New York State capital?

Each assembly is a collage, an individually drilled collection of wood pieces painted and glued and arranged according to its own eclectic sense of order. Some are geometric, others organic in form, they strike you as a form of city folk art because of their handmade and idiosyncratic nature, but they not quite “crafty”.

Themes are surreal and unfixed, or scientifically diagrammatic, or campy reassemblies of 60s pop sci-fi and hair-salon motifs. Certainly the pieces are outside – You may not refer to them “outsider art” however.

Friends Barb and Bobbie, who have lived in the neighborhood for years, tell us that these are the work of artist Patrick Picou Harrington and that the neighbors have grown attached to them since they started attaching themselves to power poles.

Each installation is a sort silent surprise that catches you off guard, Bobbie says as she points to another a few yards away. You may walk past them many times without noticing them and once you do, their tiny scale requires a certain amount of intimacy between viewer and the art, says Barb.

A little Internet digging reveals that these are part of a planned 365 day installation on these utility poles by Harrington last year that was cut short at 107 days when company officials discovered the project and firmly asked him to stop. Many street artists don’t ask for permission, preferring to apologize if caught, and he had already been identified. Still these pieces remain.

As you can see, many of the poles are heavily pocked and addled by nails, screws and staples from myriad commercial and political signage that regularly gets posted here and presumably those protuberances are approved or at least not troublesome enough to remove.

Either way, Picou Harrington’s half-pint interventions, some small enough to fit in your hand, may alter your strolling experience when they wink at you from their perch; a piece of the personal and the imaginative in the public sphere, studied before they are worn away by the elements.

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This article is also posted on The Huffington Post.

London Walls in Conjunction with Saatchi “XX: A Moment in Time”

February 16, 2016 Artists

New murals today in London in conjunction with the Olly Walker curated “XX: A Moment in Time” show at Saatchi Gallery, which is now running until March 6. The all-female show highlights the depth of field that has emerged during these last few years with formally trained artists of many disciplines explanding the definitions of contemporary art and Street Art.

A mix of emerging and established, the show brings in an international selection of artists, including: Aiko (Japan/USA), Alice Pasquini (Italy), Caratoes (Belgium/Hong Kong), Crajes (Spain), Elle (USA), Faith47 (South Africa), Handiedan (Netherlands), Hera (Germany), Hueman (USA), Lora Zombie (Russia), Madamoiselle Maurice (France), Marina Zumi (Argentina), Martha Cooper (USA), Mimi S (Germany), Miss Van (France), Olek (Poland), Sandra Chevrier (Canada), Vexta (Australia) and Zabou (France).

Here we see new walls by Elle, Zabou, Marina Zumi, Himbad, and Alice Pasquini.

“XX: A Moment in Time” is curated by Olly Walker of Ollystudio and is supported by Yasha Young. The exhibition is on view in the Prints & Originals Gallery at the Saatchi Gallery from until March 6. Please check the Saatchi Gallery homepage for some closure days in February and see the additional pieces available online.

Zabou (photo courtesy of Zabou)

Marina Zumi (photo courtesy of Marina Zumi)

Himbad and Marina Zumi (photo courtesy of Marina Zumi)

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BSA Special Feature: Pejac: Heavy Sea

Giulio Vesprini: Promise

Rime at the Coliseum

Lucy Mclauchlan at work on her wall in The Medina. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Alexey Luka at work on his wall in The Medina. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Kalamour at work on his wall in The Medina. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Johannes Mundinger for Urban Spree. Berlin. February 2016. (photo © Lucky Cat)

Johannes Mundinger for Urban Spree. Berlin. February 2016. (photo © Johannes Mundinger)

Johannes Mundinger for Urban Spree. Berlin. February 2016. (photo © Johannes Mundinger)

Johannes Mundinger for Urban Spree. Berlin. February 2016. (photo © Johannes Mundinger)

photo © Vicki DaSilva

Fintan Magee for Santurce Is Ley 6. Puerto Rico February 2016. (photo © TotsFilms)

Fintan Magee for Santurce Is Ley 6. Puerto Rico February 2016. (photo © TotsFilms)

Fintan Magee for Santurce Is Ley 6. Puerto Rico February 2016. (photo © TotsFilms)

Fintan Magee for Santurce Is Ley 6. Puerto Rico February 2016. (photo © TotsFilms)

Fintan Magee for Santurce Is Ley 6. Puerto Rico February 2016. (photo © TotsFilms)

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)

Dourone new mural in Jacó, Costa Rica. February 2016. (photo © Dourone)

Dourone new mural in Jacó, Costa Rica. February 2016. (photo © Dourone)

Dourone new mural in Jacó, Costa Rica. February 2016. (photo © Dourone)

Dourone new mural in Jacó, Costa Rica. February 2016. (photo © Dourone)

Dourone new mural in Jacó, Costa Rica. February 2016. (photo © Dourone)

Dourone new mural in Jacó, Costa Rica. February 2016. (photo © Dourone)

Dourone new mural in Jacó, Costa Rica. February 2016. (photo © Dourone)

Dourone new mural in Jacó, Costa Rica. February 2016. (photo © Dourone)

BSA Special Feature: Cane Morto: AMO -TE LISBOA ⁄ AN IGNOMINIOUS STREET ART MOVIE. The full movie.

Niels Shoe Meulmuan for St+ART India 2016. New Delhi, India. (photo © @BlindEyeFactory)

Niels Shoe Meulmuan for St+ART India 2016. New Delhi, India. (photo © @BlindEyeFactory)

Niels Shoe Meulmuan for St+ART India 2016. New Delhi, India. (photo © @BlindEyeFactory)

Niels Shoe Meulmuan for St+ART India 2016. New Delhi, India. (photo © @BlindEyeFactory)

Anpu Varkey for St+ART India 2016. New Delhi, India. (photo © @BlindEyeFactory)

Anpu Varkey for St+ART India 2016. New Delhi, India. (photo © @BlindEyeFactory)

Anpu Varkey for St+ART India 2016. New Delhi, India. (photo © @BlindEyeFactory)

Reko Rennie for St+ART India 2016. New Delhi, India. (photo © @BlindEyeFactory)

Reko Rennie for St+ART India 2016. New Delhi, India. (photo © @BlindEyeFactory)

Reko Rennie for St+ART India 2016. New Delhi, India. (photo © @BlindEyeFactory)

Reko Rennie for St+ART India 2016. New Delhi, India. (photo © @BlindEyeFactory)

Chifumi for St+ART India 2016. New Delhi, India. (photo © @BlindEyeFactory)

Chifumi for St+ART India 2016. New Delhi, India. (photo © @BlindEyeFactory)

Chifumi for St+ART India 2016. New Delhi, India. (photo © @BlindEyeFactory)

Chifumi for St+ART India 2016. New Delhi, India. (photo © @BlindEyeFactory)

Patrick Picou Harrington. Albany, NY. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Themes are surreal and unfixed, or scientifically diagrammatic, or campy reassemblies of 60s pop sci-fi and hair-salon motifs. Certainly the pieces are outside – You may not refer to them “outsider art” however.

Patrick Picou Harrington. Albany, NY. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Friends Barb and Bobbie, who have lived in the neighborhood for years, tell us that these are the work of artist Patrick Picou Harrington and that the neighbors have grown attached to them since they started attaching themselves to power poles.

Each installation is a sort silent surprise that catches you off guard, Bobbie says as she points to another a few yards away. You may walk past them many times without noticing them and once you do, their tiny scale requires a certain amount of intimacy between viewer and the art, says Barb.

Patrick Picou Harrington. Albany, NY. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Patrick Picou Harrington. Albany, NY. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

As you can see, many of the poles are heavily pocked and addled by nails, screws and staples from myriad commercial and political signage that regularly gets posted here and presumably those protuberances are approved or at least not troublesome enough to remove.

Either way, Picou Harrington’s half-pint interventions, some small enough to fit in your hand, may alter your strolling experience when they wink at you from their perch; a piece of the personal and the imaginative in the public sphere, studied before they are worn away by the elements.

Patrick Picou Harrington. Albany, NY. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Patrick Picou Harrington. Albany, NY. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Patrick Picou Harrington. Albany, NY. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Patrick Picou Harrington. Albany, NY. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Patrick Picou Harrington. Albany, NY. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Patrick Picou Harrington. Albany, NY. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Elle (photo © Allison Crawbuck)

Elle (photo © Allison Crawbuck)

Elle (photo © Allison Crawbuck)

Zabou (photo courtesy of Zabou)