Lot F Gallery Presents: Thomas Buildmore “Animal Mother” (Boston, MA)

March 4, 2013
Animal MotherA Solo Exhibition by Thomas Buildmore

Opening Reception: Friday, March 8th, 2013 7:00pm to 11:00pm
DJ Set by Alan Manzi

Lot F gallery is proud to present “ANIMAL MOTHER” Recent works by Thomas Buildmore. In his first Boston solo show, this new body of work is in line with what viewers have seen from the artist in the past; the depiction of a dark world of pop culture. Drawing parallels between popular media, Fine art, advertising, and war, “Media and pop culture have formed an Army to wage all out war upon us, a harsh physiological environment’ says Buildmore. Rather than being defeated by it, Thomas Buildmore wants to thrive in it.

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Maquis-Art Gallery Presents: See. (Paris, France)

March 4, 2013

Exposition:

http://www.maquis-art.com/News-3031-1.html

Maquis-Art Gallery expose du 8 Mars au 24 Mars 2013, le célèbre SEE.
Une exposition consacré au métro parisien.

Axé sur les métros de la capitale. il a su imposer son nom sur les wagons de toutes les lignes du métro parisien de la 1 à la 14 en passant par la 3 et 7bis ainsi que sur les trains de banlieues avant de continuer son travail sur toile…

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Danielle Mastrion: “My NY”. First NYC Solo Show. (Brooklyn, NY)

March 4, 2013

Please come to the opening of Danielle Mastrion’s first solo exhibition in New York City.

“MY NY” features all new large scale paintings by Danielle Mastrion. “MY NY” focuses on the beauty in every day scenes & people inside the city that most would overlook.

Music all night by DJ ANAMATED
Prints of all canvases will be for sale.

reBar 147 Front St Brooklyn, NY 11201
F Train to York Street A/C to High Street

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The Superior Bugout Presents: Xavier Veal “_” At the Tender Trap (Brooklyn, NYC)

March 4, 2013

The Superior Bugout would like to extend an invite to you and yours, to join us for the opening of all new photographic work by Xavier Veal,  in his show entitled “_”. Opening Thursday March 7, 2013 from 6-10:30pm.  The work will be on view through March 20th during normal business hours 7 days a week (4p – 4a). The Tender Trap is located at 245 South 1st stree (between Havemeyer / Roebling) in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

Xavier Veal (of Ninjastatus fame) photographs the streets and nightlife scene of New York City.  His photos capture underground forces of New York City with a romantic view of homelessness, partying, graffiti, and chaos in  an age of continuing decadence.  He states, “I was born and I’m still here now.  I shoot photos to see what they look like.”

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Street Artist AIKO in “Edo Pop” at The Japan Society

March 4, 2013

Tidal waves of fertility and good luck are stenciled across the walls inside the Japan Society right now by Street Artist Aiko as part of the Edo Pop show that is examining the impact of Japanese prints on the work of contemporary artists.  Using motifs like the rabbit and butterfly, two of Aiko’s favorites that recur throughout her street stencils, this installation also references more mature themes of physical attraction and sexual liberation.

Aiko (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Throughout her piece are reoccurences of works she has done in the street, including the stenciled back of a crouching figure derived from a photograph by Martha Cooper from the 1970s. With Japan providing the formative cultural backdrop for the artist, she also makes sure to include a shout out to Brooklyn in the front and center of this collaged installation – the place where her work on the streets began in earnest about a decade ago. Like the Aiko installation, Edo Pop features a long list of artists whose work has been influenced by Japanese prints and is on view until June 9.

Aiko (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Aiko (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Aiko (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Aiko (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Aiko (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Aiko. Wall reflection on glass panels. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Aiko. Reflection of the installation on the gallery’s skylight makes it appear as a tower rising above the gallery. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Aiko (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Edo Pop: The Graphic Impact of Japanese Prints opens at The Japan Society on March 09. Click here for further details.

 

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Images of the Week: 03.03.13

March 3, 2013

NY weather remains cold/rainy/crappy on the streets still but we actually saw a Street Art tour guide plodding through Williamsburg yesterday pointing out Os Gemeos, El Sol 25, Mr. Toll, and COST paste-ups and telling stories about “beefs” to a handful of cellphone snapping Street Art fans, so Spring must be coming!

By the way, in case you were interested, “The Splasher” identity apparently applies to anyone who splashes paint anywhere today. Remember that dude who was the first “Splasher” and who enlivened many a PBR cocktail party conversation in the late two thousandzies? Remember the outraged manifestos about Street Art years ago – weren’t those wheat-pasted with shards of broken glass? Did he move on to other things? Teaching art therapy? Training sea lions? People magazine should do a “where are they now” story about “The Splasher” right?

Here’s our weekly interview of the street, this week featuring Bast, Blacksheep, Centrifuge, Daan, FRYMS, Hellbent, JM, Joe Iurato, Matthew Deston Burrows, Meer Sau, ND’A, Olek, Saane, Skount, and Young and Sick.

Top image > Joe Iurato (photo © Jaime Rojo)

OLEK (photo © Jaime Rojo)

ND’A (photo © Jaime Rojo)

ND’A (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Meer Sau. “Real World”. Salzburg, Austria. (photo Meer Sau)

A lot of advertisers have used QR codes on the street to guide you to more “content” if you simply scan them off the poster or billboard with your cellphone. That’s exactly where Street Artist Meer Sau hopes to meet people in this new conceptual piece on the street that ponders how everyday life is completely infiltrated by digital, and how it’s winning our attention from the physical. “I often catch myself walking around and just looking at my f-ing smartphone, checking office mails, typing text messages or just seeing what´s new…instead of keeping my eyes open for the real world – the weather, the people around me, nature …  simply everything,” explains Sau.

“But when I raise my eyes I just see everyone else is doing the same thing – especially the youth – Sitting next to each other, not talking to each other, but using Facebook to contact each other. They are hunting “likes” and judging their friends by their popularity on Facebook, Tumblr, Twitter, Instagram and so on. I’m interested in seeing how far this is gonna go. Actually, I don´t wanna know.” – Meer Sau

Young and Sick (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Skount “Empty Salvation” Amsterdam, The Netherlands. (photo © Skount)

Skount with Daaan and Saane. “Masks”. Den Haag, The Netherlads. (photo © Skount)

FRYMS (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Blacksheep (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Bast (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Artist Unknown on the left. JM on the right. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Artist Unknown. Detail. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Matthew Deston Burrows on the center with Hellbent on left and right. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Matthew Deston Burrows (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Untitled. SOHO, NYC. March, 2013. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

 

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BSA in New York Issue of Graffiti ART Magazine

March 2, 2013

The French contemporary art magazine Graffiti ART has just released their New York issue, giving an overview of historical and current players on the graffiti/street art scene in New York City. Along with profiling the work of people like Keith Haring, Patty Astor, Crash, Dan Witz, and How & Nosm, you’ll find a nice piece about your favorite street art blog, Brooklyn Street Art (BSA).

Special thanks to editor Samantha Longhi, who once wrote a regular column here on BSA with her Top 5 Stencils of the Week, for her inclusion of us in this issue, and to BSA readers for your continued support. We appreciate the recognition for our work and labors of love.

GraffitiART issue #17 on news stands now. (photo © courtesy of Graffiti ART)

BSA shares the spread with some true leaders At149th Street in the New York Issue of GraffitiART. Thank you to Martha Cooper for the photo! (photo © courtesy of Graffiti ART)

 

Click here for more on the Graffiti ART Magazine New York Issue.

 

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BSA Film Friday: 03.01.13

March 1, 2013

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

Now screening: El Seed’s Calligraffiti on Jara Mosque, Icy & Sot: (Pre) East Middle West Tour, and Pixação street artist L7M Interview.

 

BSA Special Feature:

El Seed’s Calligraffiti on Jara Mosque, Gabes

 “This project in my hometown, Gabes, has been the most challenging project I’ve ever did, emotionally, physically and mentally,” says eL Seed.

And the trailer from the upcoming movie >> eL Seed: Tacapes

Icy & Sot: (Pre) East Middle West Tour

Pixação street artist L7M Interview

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YZ Brings Classical Beauties to Streets of Berlin

February 28, 2013

Early celluloid startlets dripping with liquid opulence meet classical greek heroines draped in clinging peplos with these quietly elegant wheat-pasted pieces by French Street Artist YZ in Berlin. Bringing her vintage view of high culture to sometimes very decayed and mottled walls of neglect, the contrast creates a vibrational effect for the passerby, who might wonder how they got there. The black ink on silk paper creations are hers, but the images are archetypes from the popular imagination about women and their perceived role in society as decorative objects.

“The images are meant to be of alternately fatal, dreamy or provocative women that challenge our stereotypes,” says YZ, “Women are beautiful, strong, and confident. They are capable of changing the world, as they proved during the last century.”

YZ (photo © Yseult – YZ)

YZ (photo © Yseult – YZ)

YZ (photo © Yseult – YZ)

Special thanks to Guillaume Trotin of Open Walls and the artist for sharing these exclusive images with BSA readers.

 

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Cartwheel Art Presents: “Street & Outsider Art Spring Pop-Up” (Hollywood, CA)

February 27, 2013

WHAT: Hollywood newcomer PROJECT Gallery hosts CARTWHEEL’s Second Annual Pop-Up Art Show. This is an exciting opportunity for collectors and art enthusiasts to view and purchase unique works by eight stand-out street, outsider, assemblage, surf, and new contemporary artists primarily from the art fair circuit who are new to or emerging within Los Angeles. Along with the four day exhibition of art and installations, there will be a series of special interactive events occurring with artists daily including live music and painting, a family day gathering of fun to coincide with the Hollywood farmers market, and much more to be announced.

  • Corey Hagberg: A mural artist from Rockford, Illinois who works with paint and screen prints on both canvases and walls; his taboo topics are presented with optimism
  • Evo Love:  A Miami multi-media artist who creates unique altar-like assemblages and installations that focus on personal and universal symbols of belief
  • Greg Haberny: A New York artist who builds complex installations and assemblages that are part of prestigious public and private U.S. and international collections
  • Lydia Emily: An acclaimed L.A. street artist that makes her prints and paintings from a foundation of profound social responsibility and a duty to stand up and speak out
  • Lyle Carbajal: Images associated with childhood – comics, monsters, machines, and animals – draw on this Portland, Oregon artist’s affinity for the popular and primitive
  • RADICAL!: At only 21, with detailed illustrative work based on social observations, this young Albany artist has exhibited in New York City, Boston, and Copenhagen
  • Roy Gonzalez: This icon in the Orange County extreme sport industry’s art and design circles creates some of the most definitive images of the surf, skate, and music industries
  • Scott Michael Ackerman: An outsider artist from Woodstock, New York who receives acclaim for colorful paintings on found objects

WHERE:            PROJECT Gallery

1553 N. Cahuenga Blvd.

Hollywood, CA 90028

323-462-1100

WHEN:            Wednesday, March 20 7pm – 9 pm; Private preview

Thursday, March 21 7pm  – 10pm; Open to the public reception

Thursday, March 21 – Sunday, March 24; gallery hours; 10am – 7pm

http://www.cartwheelart.com/projects/cartwheel-events/press-release-cartwheel-street-outsider-art-spring-pop-up-at-project-gallery

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“Self Destruction” and How & Nosm in San Francisco

February 27, 2013

In San Francisco right now are How & Nosm, the Brooklyn based artists doing some work in a neighborhood known for serious drug related problems and violence. Tova Lobatz and Lauren Napolitano have invited the artists to participate in B.I.G. Projects, and the gents share these photos of their installation with us and with BSA readers.

The twins have said in the past that graffiti and their dedication to their art probably saved them from drugs, so they’re not passing judgement on people who have been caught up in the harmful cycles of addiction. The mural, entitled “Self Destruction”, is dedicated to the Tenderloin and was completed over the course of four days.

How & Nosm “Self Destruction” (photo © How & Nosm)

How & Nosm “Self Destruction”. Detail. (photo © How & Nosm)

How & Nosm “Self Destruction”. Detail. (photo © How & Nosm)

How & Nosm “Self Destruction” (photo © How & Nosm)

Learn more about B.I.G. Projects here

 

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