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BSA Images Of The Week: 10.22.23

BSA Images Of The Week: 10.22.23

Welcome to BSA Images of the Week!

Sometimes, this frog feels like the water seems to be getting a little warm if you know what I mean. Our minds are being strained daily by a laundry list of stressors, not the least of which is neverending war. It is almost like it is profitable for industry. Also, it is surprising how many initiatives have been approved and passed during new periods of crisis ever since 9/11. Why does it seem like a new normal is introduced every two years? Meanwhile, the House is not in order, doesn’t even have a leader, 2 of the Orange man’s lawyers plead guilty this week, Biden’s giving 100 billion to Ukraine and Israel,

Meanwhile, people are still buying pumpkins this year for Halloween, the leaves are starting to turn yellow and orange, it is raining for the 7th weekend straight, and street artists and graffiti writers are keeping the streets alive from Grand Army Plaza to LES to Bushwick to Midwood to da Bronx. We have noticed several portraits and figurative works that ring true – and photographer Jaime Rojo shares some of them below.

So here’s our weekly interview with the street, this time featuring Calicho Art, David Puck, Mort Art, Le Crue, Andaluz the Artist, Humble, Miki Mu, Blanco, SEF, J. Novik, Hu, Carnivorous Flora, Mue Bon, Girlty, Manuel Alejandro, and Al Ruiz.

SEF portrait of Jean-Michel Basquiat for The Bushwick Collective. Detail. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
SEF portrait of Jean-Michel Basquiat for The Bushwick Collective. Detail. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
SEF portrait of Jean-Michel Basquiat for The Bushwick Collective. Detail. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Al Ruiz portrait of Maya Angelou for Underhill Walls. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Andaluz The Artist. “Abuelita” for The Bushwick Collective. Detail. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Manuel Alejandro for Underhill Walls. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Unidentified artist (photo © Jaime Rojo)
David Puck. Detail (photo © Jaime Rojo)
David Puck (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Girlty for Underhill Walls. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Mue Bon for Underhill Walls. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Calicho Art for Underhill Walls. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Carnivorous Flora for Underhill Walls. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Therapeutic Murals for Underhill Walls. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Humble for Underhill Walls. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Miki Mu quotes John Lennon for Underhill Walls. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Le Crue Eye for Underhill Walls. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Mort for Underhill Walls. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Bianco for Underhill Walls. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
J. Novik. Work in progress. Some artists are real lambs. Underhill Walls. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Untitled. MTA. New York City. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
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BSA Images Of The Week: 02.19.23

BSA Images Of The Week: 02.19.23

Welcome to BSA Images of the Week! We’re in the middle of a long weekend thanks to tomorrow’s President’s Day. Usually, its a good weekend for some people to get out of the city to go skiing, but seriously there has been no snow here this year, which is troubling. We might as well stay at home and get to know our friend ChatGPT. Maybe make some comfort food and play board games with it. What? Why did you make a face?

Big things are happening in the Bronx right now, thanks to Tats Cru and the cultural ecosystem surrounding them and the community of Hunts Point in the Boogie Down. See some new images below and look out for some new serious Hip Hop & graffiti collaborations this year.

Here’s our weekly interview with the street, this week featuring: Praxis, Tats Cru, Dmote, Bio, Ribs, Andaluz the Artist, BG183, Qzar, Anahu, R. Flores, XSM, OTL, Skemes, Sheek Louch, The Lox, and YesOne.

Anahu & R. Flores. Detail. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Anahu & R. Flores. Detail. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Anahu & R. Flores. Detail. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Anahu & R. Flores. Detail. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Welcome to Bronxlandia, a marketplace, with local vendors, symposia, events and performances in Hunts Point. Unidentified artist (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Welcome To…The Bronx. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Memorial wall by Tats Cru to celebrate life and in memory of Djay. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Memorial wall by Tats Cru to celebrate the life and in memory of BIG PUN who passed away in 2000. Christopher “Big Pun” Rios was a Hip Hop artist and a master lyricist. His two classic albums “Capital Punishment” and “Yeeahh Baby” are among the most revered among the Hip Hop community and fans. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
XSM QZAR (photo © Jaime Rojo)
DMOTE (photo © Jaime Rojo)
OTL SKEMES (photo © Jaime Rojo)
BIO TATS CRU (photo © Jaime Rojo)
BG183 TATS CRU (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Andaluz The Artist mural in celebration of the 50th anniversary of Hip Hop turns the spotlight to Sheek Louch, Mr. David Styles, Jada Kiss, and The Lox. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Yes0ne, Ribs, and BG183 wish you a Happy New Year 2023 with the help of Frank Sinatra, “New York, New York”. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Yes0ne. Detail. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Ribs. Detail. (photo © Jaime Rojo)
BG183 (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Praxis (photo © Jaime Rojo)
A constellation of graffiti writers gathered at Hunts Point in The Bronx to hear KRS ONE The Teacha’s proposal for a project celebrating the 50 years of Hip Hop. KRS ONE and Tats Cru will create an exhibition with 50 graffiti writers to mark this momentous milestone in Hip Hop. BSA will keep you in the loop as the project continues to develop. (photo © Jaime Roj

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BSA Film Friday: 08.12.16

BSA Film Friday: 08.12.16

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

Now screening :

1. Brad Robson in Rural Spain
2.”Inflateable Refugee” by Artist Collective Schellekens & Peleman
3. MIRA! ABCDEF Style Writing Part 3 from Bergerstrasse
4. Andaluz The Artist Creates all the Pokemon

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BSA Special Feature: Brad Robson in Rural Spain.

Graffiti/Urban Art/ Street Art supercharged the mural scene, which rightly means this kind of work must be necessarily urban. Right?

We’ve documented so many anomalies in the Street Art scene over the last few years that extend to rural examples of the architecture that everyone must now admit that our labels are not keeping pace with the change.

Fine artist and painter Brad Robson from Australia did one of his interrupted portraits in rural Spain recently, and frankly, he likes it. “It makes me want to do more like this around the world….I think the art has more impact in the remote areas, in the rural areas,” he says.

“Inflateable Refugee” by Artist Collective Schellekens & Peleman

Wearing a life jacket and clutching his knees, this inflatable art project created by the collective of Schellekens & Peleman continues to be exhibited in high profile waterways to speak about the hundreds of thousands of people escaping war and economic catastrophe. These few images of the 6 meter tall “Inflatable Refugee” this summer in Copenhagen demonstrate the strong effect that a large figure on a flattened horizon has, and the impact it can have on city dwellers.

Following that is a news story of the installation’s local significance.


Drone video by filmbureauet.dk

ABCDEF Style Writing Part 3 from Bergerstrasse

 It just seems to get better. So here again is MIRA!

Andaluz The Artist Creates all the Pokemon

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BSA Film Friday: 06.27.14

BSA Film Friday: 06.27.14

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

Now screening :

1. Miss Van, Glamorous Darkness
2. Andaluz The Artist re-works “Nah I’m Talkin Bout”- G-Unit
3. Urban Calligraphy “Lucid Dream,” by Simon Silaidis
4. JR & José Parlá: Wrinkles of the City

BSA Special Feature: Miss Van, Glamorous Darkness

“I like it a little disturbing. As long as they are wearing masks I think it gives them the necessary strength I want them to express. I don’t necessarily need to dress them,” so explains Miss Van in studio in this rose colored atelier of the feminine form. For years the Street Artist has put forward a new definition of the female and the fantasy, and her newer works only invite. Lest you become too confident, Miss Van makes it clear that they also may bite. “I’m not coy in my paintings.”

One tasty bit of irony revealed here is that her own visual research of photography and the female form from a century ago alerted her to her own perceptions of what idealized feminine beauty is.

 

Andaluz The Artist re-works “Nah I’m Talkin Bout”- G-Unit

Andaluz tells you what it is all about, son, in this new painting/music video. While he looks suspiciously over his shoulder at you he continues with his aerosol portrait tributes to one of his favorite recently re-united Hip-Hop groups, G-Unit.

The real surprise is that mid-way through the jam the artist takes off his mask and starts laying down the lyrics himself which are witty and autobiographical.

Ed note: Wish people didn’t have to say n*****, hoe, and b****h.  Otherwise it’s a great piece of creativity and ingenuity we can respect.

Urban Calligraphy “Lucid Dream,” by Simon Silaidis

“Simon Silaidis is a designer, a thinker, a vision-er, a pioneer,” says his autobiography that accompanies this video. He also loves calligraphy, part of a growing number of graffitti / Street Art based adherents to the gestural and decorative lettering of traditional language arts. Sit here with him in his reverie…

 

JR & José Parlá: Wrinkles of the City

A teaser for the full length piece, here is a gentle and rich introduction to “Wrinkles of the City”, the dual project in Havana, Cuba, completed by JR & José Parlá a couple of years ago.

 

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