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More Shots from “The Grassy Lot”

August 25, 2011 Artists, Manhattan, NYC, On the Street

More artists stopped by to put up pieces for “The Grassy Lot” show, an impromptu little get-together of 15 artists in a little bit of heaven on the Lower East Side. Jaime Rojo gives us some more shots of the lot.

Read more about the project and opening HERE.

XAM’s Feeder Unit near YOK’s Traveling Man Foot (photo © Jaime Rojo)

QRST installing his piece (photo © Joe Franquinha)

QRST Rat Tea Party (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Joe Franquinha, life long New Yorker, told us how he assisted Street Artist QRST with his decision of subject matter for this installation: “I told QRST – Rats have lived in this lot for years so rats should be represented here. Because we have the best f*cking rats and no one is going to take that away from us.”

QRST Rat Tea Party (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Veng from RWK and Overunder on the back wall (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Veng and Overunder working on their collaboration (photo © Joe Franquinha)

Night shot of Veng and Overunder piece. (photo © Joe Franquinha)

Jake Klotz installing his piece. (photo © Joe Franquinha)

Jake Klotz shares a wall with Gaia and Nanook (photo © Jaime Rojo)

For more information about this event please click on the link below:

http://www.brooklynstreetart.com/theblog/?p=23784

To view images from The Grassy Lot Part I click on the link below:

http://www.brooklynstreetart.com/theblog/?p=23726

Crest Arts in Collaboration with BSA and MaNY Present: The Grassy Lot Show (Manhattan, NY)

August 24, 2011 Artists, Events, Manhattan, NYC, On the Street, Opening

Grassy Lot

We’re proud to announce the “Grassy Lot Show” coming this Thursday presented by Crest Arts at the Timeshare Backyard. It’s been a little whirlwind of activity with 15 artists putting up brand new work on the walls of this oasis on the Lower East Side for you to come visit. With Keith Schwietzer and us helping Crest out here and there, and of course with Franklin doing lawn roomba duties, it is a bit of a community event. All it is missing is you! What are you doing Thursday?

Crest Arts invites you to the TimeShare Backyard for
“The Grassy Lot Show”

Thursday August 25, from 6-8 pm
145 Ludlow Street between Stanton and Rivington

Admission is free.

Take off your shoes and walk in the grass and do a cartwheel while looking at brand new outside work on the walls by Bishop 203, Creepy, Gaia, General Howe, Jake Klotz, Laura Meyers, Nanook, Over Under, QRST, Quel Beast, Shandor Hassan, Travis Simon, Veng, XAM, and Yok.

Check the event out on Facebook

The project is made possible with the help and support of partners Brooklyn Street Art and the MaNY Project.

“Grassy Lot Show” Announcement : This Thursday

August 23, 2011 Artists

Crest Arts invites you to the TimeShare Backyard for
“The Grassy Lot Show”

Thursday August 25, from 6-8 pm
145 Ludlow Street between Stanton and Rivington

Admission is free.

Take off your shoes and walk in the grass and do a cartwheel while looking at brand new outside work on the walls by Bishop 203, Creepy, Gaia, General Howe, Jake Klotz, Laura Meyers, Nanook, Over Under, QRST, Quel Beast, Shandor Hassan, Travis Simon, Veng, XAM, and Yok.

Check the event out on Facebook

The project is made possible with the help and support of partners Brooklyn Street Art and the MaNY Project.

Crest Has a Posse in an Empty Lot on L.E.S.

August 22, 2011 Artists, Manhattan, NYC, On the Street

Joe Franquinha and his executive personal manager Liza brought their pet pig Franklin to check out the abandoned lot on Ludlow Street on Manhattan’s Lower East side. Franklin surveyed the new sod while Yok put up a new piece.

Yok and Franklin (photo © Mike Pearce)

Invited by a couple of entrepreneurs who have rented the open space for two months to make the outdoor location a little more welcoming, Joe looked at the ground, then up at the walls. Decaying, unfinished, rough, full of New York character, the walls immediately brought his mind to the many Street Artists busy in the city right now.

Nanook working on his collaboration with Gaia (photo © Jaime Rojo)

With help from Keith Schweitzer, Joe has mobilized a handful of Street Art talent to convert the lot into an impromptu outdoor gallery installation – calling it Timeshare Backyard. With an NYC theme honoring his favorite city, the artists have been getting up here for a week. In Gotham, no story surprises you, so it’s unclear what the fate of this lot will be; New York is always knocking down and building up, the cycle of destruction and renewal never stops. By next spring this could be a new glass and steel condo, who knows. In this brief interlude in this grassy lot, why not mount a momentary show, a commentary on life here right now?

Gaia working on his collaboration with Nanook (photo © Jaime Rojo)

As the owner of Crest Hardware in Brooklyn with his dad, stylishly moustachioed Joe celebrates the local community of artists that has boomed in BK and he’s known for opening the doors to any number of creative types – providing materials, suggestions, conversation, and great opportunities like these to show their stuff. As summer’s long days melt into the firey New York autumn these (mainly) street artists relished the opportunity to paste or paint just one more wall, at their leisure, while Joe and Liza put down giant garden plants and a wood-chip perimeter. If you get invited to some barbecue or bar or fashion show or something on the LES in the next 60 days, keep your eyes up above the gate to see these pieces peeking at you.

Upper East Side represents in the Lower East Side. Gaia working on his collaboration with Nanook (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Gaia, Nanook (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Gaia in the background (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Gaia sortin’ out (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Gaia, Nanook (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Nanook (photo © Jaime Rojo)

“Too much art. Not enough grass,” thinks Franklin as he surveys his lunch options on the Lower East Side. (photo © Mike Pearce)

Gaia (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Nanook (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Creepy was invited by Gaia and Nanook to add some of his organic patterns to their collab (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Gaia, Nanook with Creepy’s subtle additions to the finish wall (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Bishop 203 (photo © Jaime Rojo)

“You have many ways to look at New York back here – love, anger, faith in the city,” remarks Joe while looking at the wheatpastes in the back of the lot.

General Howe (photo © Jaime Rojo)

This is a very unusual wheatpaste by Street Artist General Howe, who is making some important decisions in life. “General Howe is physically coming up on a crossroads, and looking at this kid who may be a younger him,” says Joe.

General Howe (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Creepy (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Looking skyward at Creepy’s integrated installation (photo © Mike Pearce)

Creepy (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Creepy checking the sketch (photo © Mike Pearce)

Creepy (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Laura Mayers (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Joe explains, “Laura Myers said she started sketching it and she started seeing the sacred heart, like the picture her grandmother used to have in her house. I love it! I love the way the heart is the apple, with the city coming out. “

Yok (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Yok, Travis W. Simon (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Yok (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Yok, Travis W. Simon (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Creepy, Yok (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Quel Beast (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Special thanks to photographer Mike Pearce for his contributions to this piece. See Mikes photos on Flickr at Pearce_Pics

BSA at LA MOCA for “Street Art Stories” Presentation and Panel

August 18, 2011 Artists

HuffPost Arts and The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA) hosted a presentation and panel discussion presented by Brooklyn Street Art founders Steven P. Harrington and Jaime Rojo this past Saturday at the Ahmanson Auditorium with 150 guests. Five days after the closing of the record breaking “Art in the Streets” show at LA MOCA, which was seen by over 200,000 visitors, BSA charted some new ground going forward in the ever evolving graffiti and street art movement.

Panelists having a lively discussion at “Street Art Stories” hosted by HuffPost Arts and LA MOCA at Ahmanson Auditorium at MOCA Grand in downtown Los Angeles. (photo © Carlos Gonzalez)

The panelists, who included HuffPost Arts Editor Kimberly Brooks and Street Art phenom Shepard Fairey, watched a presentation by Harrington and Rojo about a new storytelling direction that artists are bringing to the streets of New York and other cities around the world. With examples of relative newcomers not seen by many in the audience, they pointed to precursors from the last 40 years to this storytelling practice and questioned how its sudden growth may be evolving what we have been calling “Street Art” for the last decade.

Steven P. Harrington talks about community murals and memorial walls to illustrate antecedents to the new movement of storytellers who engage passersby on a greater level than in the recent past. Shown is a community mural by New York’s Tats Cru shot by and © of Martha Cooper. (photo © Carlos Gonzalez)

After a conversation with panelists Brooks, Fairey, Marsea Goldberg, Ken Harman, and Ethel Seno that covered topics like the paucity of females in the street art scene, the influence of the Internet on “getting up”, and the significance of personal engagement in the work of many of today’s new street artists, Harrington and Rojo opened the discussion up the auditorium. Here topics ranged from LA’s evolving approach to Street Art to include public and permanent art, the influence of money on street artists, and how a show like “Art in the Streets” effectively influences the next generations’ perception of street art.

BSA’s Steven P. Harrington gestures toward the screen while panelists look on in the front row. (photo © Carlos Gonzalez)

The packed event was interesting enough to bring many audience members down to the stage after the show to continue the conversation and meet the panelists and LA MOCA Director Jeffrey Deitch, who took great interest in the presentation, talked with a number of people before taking off. Fairey, with his wife Amanda at his side and a healing black eye from his recent trip to Copenhagen (see his account for HuffPost Arts here) gamely took on questions from many and posed for pictures after the event and at the reception which HuffPost hosted afterward.

During the presentation, Brooklyn Street Art talked about the use of Street Art as a way of addressing a variety of social and political issues, including this example of Shepard Fairey and the topic of peace. (photo © Carlos Gonzalez)

BSA co-founder and Director of Photography Jaime Rojo introduces the panelists. (photo © Carlos Gonzalez)

(photo © Carlos Gonzalez)

Brooklyn Street Art Co-founders Jaime Rojo and Steven P. Harrington converse with esteemed panelists at “Street Art Stories”, hosted by HuffPost Arts and LA MOCA.

Contemporary American Painter and the Founding Arts Editor of the Huffington Post, Kimberly Brooks next to street artist Shepard Fairey at “Street Art Stories” Panel at LA MOCA. (photo © Carlos Gonzalez)

(photo © Carlos Gonzalez)

Shepard Fairey, Marsea Goldberg, Ken Harman, and Ethel Seno. (photo © Carlos Gonzalez)

Marsea Goldberg, Director of New Image Art Gallery in West Hollywood, who since 1994 has launched or mobilized the careers of artists such as Shepard Fairey, Ed Templeton, Neckface, Faile, the Date Farmers, Judith Supine, and Bäst just to name a few. Next to Ms. Goldberg is Ken Harman, Managing Online Editor at Hi-Fructose Magazine, the owner and curator at Spoke Art Gallery in San Francisco, and the creator and editor of the the “Art of Obama” website. (photo © Carlos Gonzalez)

Ethel Seno, Curatorial Coordinator for the MOCA exhibition “Art in the Streets” at the Geffen Contemporary at MOCA and the Editor of the book “Trespass: A History of Uncommissioned Urban Art” published by Taschen. (photo © Carlos Gonzalez)

Shepard Fairey at “Street Art Stories” Panel at LA MOCA. (photo © Carlos Gonzalez)

(photo © Carlos Gonzalez)

Street art photographer Jaime Rojo of Brooklyn Street Art. (photo © Carlos Gonzalez)

Edward Goldman, LA art critic, Huffpost blogger, and host of KCRW’s “Art Talk” for 20 years, poses a question on the effect of a big museum show like “Art in the Streets” on the new generation of would be street artists. (photo © Carlos Gonzalez)

Seno and Harman (photo © Carlos Gonzalez)

The Ahmanson Auditorium for “Street Art Stories” at LA MOCA (photo © Carlos Gonzalez)

Thank you to Kimberly Brooks and our great panel. (photo © Carlos Gonzalez)

Director of LA MOCA and co-curator of “Art in the Streets”, Jeffrey Deitch, talks with Shepard Fairey after the presentation and panel (photo © Carlos Gonzalez)

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SPECIAL THANKS TO:

MONICA ROACHE, JESSICA YOUN, CHRIS RICHMOND, DAVID BRADSHAW, JEFFREY DEITCH, LYN WINTER, PATRICK IACONIS, TANYA PATSAOURUS, TRAVIS KORTE, MELINDA BROCKA, TINA SOIKKELI, EUTH, ANDREW
HOSNER, CARLOS GONZALEZ, KIMBERLY BROOKS, MARSEA GOLDBERG, KEN HARMAN,SHEPARD FAIREY, ETHEL SENO, THE MOCA MUSEUM STAFF AND SECURITY,

THE HUFFINGTON POST, THE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART, LOS ANGELES (MOCA), BROOKLYNSTREETART.COM, HI-FRUCTOSE, JUXTAPOZ,

IMAGES IN PRESENTATION BY JAIME ROJO WITH ADDITIONAL PHOTOS BY MARTHA COOPER, REVS PHOTO BY BECKI FULLER, and FAUXREEL PHOTOS BY DAN BERGERON

Images of the Week 07.03.11

July 3, 2011 Artists, Brooklyn, Manhattan, NYC, On the Street

As you scan the skies this weekend for bright lights at night you are likely to see a lot of new Street Art in NYC that has suddenly exploded.

At a steady march French Street Artist JR and company is taking over walls in New York during his campaign of installations culminating in multiples in the Bronx this weekend, bursting like the crescendo of fireworks at the end of a show. Similarly Shepard Fairey is in town for a few more days getting up with some new aesthetic and political stuff he’s been working on around the city. In time for this weekends celebrations and commemorations, Street Artist General Howe has put up a brand new hand carved print (his first?) of the skeletal remains of a soldier, expanding on his themes of war and Brooklyn’s historical connection to America’s bloody founding. If anyone thought that Spring had given us a deluge of Street Art in New York City, it looks like Summer 2011 is going to set some records, and not just on thermometers.

Here is our weekly interview with the street, this week featuring Billi Kid, General Howe, Infinity, JR, Obey, Olek, and Stikman.

JR (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Unknown artist minimalist painting on ceramic tile beautifully placed. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

An Unknown artist’s interpretation of the original King Kong in NYC ( (photo © Jaime Rojo)

OBEY (photo © Jaime Rojo)

General Howe first lino-cut ever! (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Infinity (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Artist Unknown (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Billi Kid (photo © Jaime Rojo)

A toddler sized Olek (photo © Jaime Rojo)

An Unknown artist’s re-interpretation of a Banksy piece, possibly an advertisement (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Stikman continues to place his character in new contexts (photo © Jaime Rojo)

This sculpture is on a wall of a private residence. We don’t know the artist. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Untitled (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Sneak Peek of Hardware Inspired Crest Fest, Opening Today

June 18, 2011 Artists

No you haven’t.

Wayne Heller and Ceder Mannan (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Seen this before.

Joe Franquinha is creating an operetta of hardware-inspired art by 150 artists in his store before your eyes, and even the jaded cannot claim to have experience such a rich, relevant and comedic art show. “Joe, did you see the cat in the middle of the plants?” his mom asks about a sculpture during the last rush of installations that has run late into the wee hours every night this week.

In a Wiliamsburg hardware store opened by Joe’s dad and his uncle in 1962, even the curating of a 200-piece art show is a family affair. A light opera of jazz and syncopated rhythms and even burlesque, as you roll through the aisles the mostly local art sings arias and raps rhymes of the working people from every hook and particle board, dangled from the ceiling, and, in the case of Street Artist Olek, crocheted entirely around a shopping cart and hand truck.

Olek (photo © Jaime Rojo)

For a decade Manny and his young son Joe, now in his late twenties, have thrown open the doors of the store to invite the artistic newcomers in this neighborhood to bring their creativity inside. What may be seen as a sly marketing maneuver to court a changing demographic actually morphed into a celebration of community, and comedy, with little tragedy. Cast on this leveling stage, Joe’s own passion for the arts enables a rare harmonic volley, where new talents never shown in a gallery before are hanging in the same aisle as more established performers with a global audience. As a participant in this real time interactive play, it’s up to you to discover them among the flat latex paint and gardening gloves.

BSA gives our thanks to Joe as a partner in provoking and invoking the creative spirit, and with this little sneak preview, encourages you to hop on the L train to Lorimer today and check it out. Follow the sound of bands and DJs and the smell of food vendors and walk past Jon Burgerman doodling all over a car on the sidewalk and you’ll be at the front door of Brooklyn’s own curious ode to hardware.

Aakash Nihalani (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Bert Shuck (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Erwin Sanchez (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Chris Stain (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Street Artist General Howe has been manufacturing arms to sell on the open market. What you do with them is your business. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Mike Graves creates this horny monk-like flasher installed on the aerosol cage. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Mike Graves (photo © Jaime Rojo)

A hardware tiara by Josh Cote (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Rachel Farmer (photo © Jaime Rojo)

New on the scene Street Artist Radical! gets his hand in the cookie jar. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

A depiction of the historic first space buff by Steve Browning (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Street Artist Veng of RWK has a lot on his head these days (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Street Artist XAM hangs one of his sophisticated birdhouses on a sign in Crest. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Click on the link below for more details about CrestFest and The Crest Hardware Art Show:

http://www.brooklynstreetart.com/theblog/?p=21765

Fun Friday 06.17.11

June 17, 2011 Artists, Brooklyn, California, Events, Los Angeles, NYC, On the Street, Opening, Performance

How YOU Doin’ ?

North of Grand Street – that’s how you know it’s NORTHSIDE. Shooting for SXSW status soon, Northside Festival already has tons of live free music in bars, clubs, and on the street – including ticketed gigs like BEIRUT tonight in McCarren Park. Did we mention there will be approximately 270 bands?

Now L Magazine is extending the offerings with a huge visual art component, replete with open studios and panel discussions and, this is where we come in, art in the streets.

This weekend the streets of Williamsburg will be alive and buzzing with an array of all sorts of visual and musical exhibitions and shows to mark NorthSide Open Studios and the very popular annual event CrestFest which includes the famous Crest Hardware Art Show, now pushing a decade.

This festival includes 175 events and participating galleries and artists’ studios. For additional information regarding the complete list of events, schedules and locations click on the link below:

http://www.northsideopenstudios.org/

“Sick” photographer Jim Kiernan Solo Show at 17 Frost Tonight

A combination of Brooklyn Street Art and Brooklyn Street photography, Jim is having his first show tonight. Stop by and say hi and have some refreshments.

17 Frost Gallery Here

“Last Exit to Skewville”

Skewville, the revered Street Art duo, are going LARGE this weekend on a 100′ long wall across from the Brooklyn Brewery and around the corner from the Brooklyn Bowl. Can’t get more Brooklyn than that, baby. The progress all week has been promising.

Skewville will be painting live on Saturday beginning at Noon to complete the 100 feet long mural on the corner of N. 11 and Wythe Streets. Special thanks to Crest Hardware and Montana Colors for their generous help. Read more about the project here.

Skewville mural in progress (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Crest Fest 2011

A neighborhood favorite, this art show in a hardware store has grown into a festival of it’s own, with bands and food and crafts. You have to see it to believe it, so put it on your list. Street Artists are well represented in the collection too with Olek crocheting covers for some garden equipment and Aakash doing some installations in the actual garden out back. Our short list includes Skewville, Jon Burgerman, Olek, Aakash Nilhalani, Haze, General Howe, Royce Bannon, Celso, and Laura Lee Guilledge.

For more a complete list of events and schedules click on the link below:

http://cresthardwareartshow.com/wordpress/

“Racing Lines” : Jon Burgerman Scrawls on a Car (Which is Usually Not Allowed)

CrestFest and BSA invited internationally renowned artist Jon Burgerman to do his trade mark doodling and drawing on a ZipCar right in front of Crest on the sidewalk, and with arms full of Posca markers at the ready, he’s going to be out there doodling LIVE!. A little more about it here.

Brooklyn Street Art and Crest Fest invite you to attend the Launch Party for NorthSide Open Studios

After Jon mucks up the car, we’re piling a bunch of monkeys in it and taking it for a drive around the hood, probably fighting over who gets to control the radio. We’re hoping to entice people on the street to go to the afterparty we’re co-hosting with Crest for the Northside Open Studios Launch party. We’ll drink a toast to Skewville and Jon and all the artists who make this gorgeously ugly borough a hotbed of creative activity. All sales benefit Northside Open Studios.

BOX HOCKEY at Pandemic Saturday

Pandemic Gallery invites you to come and play BOXHOCKEY!!!
The greatest game you probably haven’t played yet! We’ve been lucky enough to play it, and nearly poked an eye out, but that’s just because we have very little athletic skill. You’ll probably ace it like a pro.

Plus it has custom art based on the Box Hockey game by some of the kool kids on the Street Art scene among the list of participating artists;

AV
Dirty Deeks
Don Pablo Pedro
Keely
Matt Siren
Scott Chasse
Stikman
Tony Bones
Vor138
Wrona

Los Angeles based visual artist Patrick Martinez and his dialogue with the Streets of Los Angeles.

Hail to the Street : Presidents Day Street Art

February 21, 2011 Artists, Brooklyn, Manhattan, NYC, On the Street

Happy Presidents Day! In the US this is a holiday, officially to celebrate the birthdays of Washington and Lincoln, whose birthdays were commemorated separately until about a decade ago when they were merged. A lot of New Yorkers think today about skiing, since it’s really the last 3 day weekend of the winter – and it’s snowing this morning so a lot of kids will be shoved outside by their parents to go play in it. Or they may take them to the Met , Guggenheim, or MOMA, which are all open today.

George Washington by the Street Artist named Senator (photo © Jaime Rojo)

But back to the gallery of the street, which is always open, we can get a little history lesson too. Everybody knows that Shepard Fairey nailed it with his Obama posters a couple of years ago, but did you realize that Street Artists have been putting up many presidential portraits over the last decade? One artist, Senator, sometimes confused people with wheat-pasted pieces in the late 2000s because his name signed to the image lead you to think it was about the subject, like the George Washington image above. His black and white coloring-book style depicted many presidents – Lincoln, Adams, Jefferson, Kennedy, Nixon, Reagan. As you can see below, Senator is not the only Street Artists to find US presidents a worthy topic.

Senator (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Abraham Lincoln by Visual Resistance (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Smoking Jack Kennedy by Dain (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Richard Nixon by Faile (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Senator (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Ronnie talk to Keith; The Gipper shaking the hand of a Photoshopped Keith Hernandez from a street art viral campaign a couple of years ago. Photo © Jaime Rojo

Sever focuses on the the Bush Cheney duo. Primary Flight Miami 2008 (photo © Jaime Rojo)

The simple placement of a dollar sign was all this Street Artist needed to complete their portrait of George W. Bush. Photo © Jaime Rojo

President Obama’s image next to Iraq war veteran Tammy Duckworth is appropriated by Street Artist General Howe (photo © Jaime Rojo)

One of the many Obama street art pieces from 2008, this one is similar to the ubiquitous Shepard Fairey images around at that time. © Jaime Rojo

Images of the Week 01.23.11

January 23, 2011 Artists, Brooklyn, Miami, NYC, On the Street, Primary Flight

Tonight it will be 7 degrees farenheit in Brooklyn, and the wind will blow down the East River to the Verrazano, around Coney Island and the Rockaways in a bashing fashion. New York City in January can be an inhospitable and unfriendly city, especially if you are a new arrival. “Where are all the people?” New Yorkers, all clad in blacks and grays pile out from the subway tunnels in droves and scurry fast down the sidewalk, like ants whose mound has been disturbed. The puffy fashions often mute gender, causing a great many otherwise fashionable or sexy dudes and dudettes to look like large tubers. Outside is a place to pass through as you stomp toward your dwelling without looking around or upward. Exhausted by layers of fabrics and zippers and buttons and laces and pulling on, over, and off – dropping bags and backpacks, the peeling off wet socks and salty boots are the final salvo before collapse. Depressed yet?

The flip side of this is that a lot of Street Artists are working in their kitchen/toolshed/studio right now and really putting a lot of effort into it – some are even stockpiling like squirrels for spring. If it is sunny for a minute in the afternoon, and you can peer over your scarf on the icy snow piled sidewalks of Brooklyn for a second you’ll see there is some new Street Art here and there. There is one reason to go outside and it’s encouraging to see that some street artists that call New York their home have been getting up despite the elements. It’s not really surprising to find that Street Artists are a scrappy lot; it kind of goes with the territory. Nonetheless it can bring a smile to your frozen face. Happy Winter.

And now our weekly interview with the street, this week featuring AVOne, AWR, BAST, DAIN, General Howe, Jim Darling, Katsu, Nasa, Nohj Coley, Rae, Skewville, Sofia Maldonado, Surge, and the Witness

Rae (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Nohj Coley’s first interactive piece on the streets (photo © Jaime Rojo)

“Mucho Gusto!” Nohj Coley First interactive piece on the streets (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Nohj Coley detail (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Wanna see a movie? Nohj Coley detail (photo © Jaime Rojo)

A big new Dain about town looking quite continental. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Double the pleasure with Dain (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Dain (photo © Jaime Rojo)

AVOne (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Katsu (photo © Jaime Rojo)

“Oh, fine thanks, except that I had to kill my boss.” Bast (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Bast (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Skewville shows you to your entrance (photo © Jaime Rojo)

General Howe commentarty on past and present events in our still young Nation (photo © Jaime Rojo)

On to warmer climates…. and here are some more images from the glut of new work in Miami that we’ve been showing you this month.

Sofia Maldonado. Primary Flight Miami 2010 (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Jim Darling created this expansive sculpture made entirely from found objects. We learned that the owner of the lot was at first pretty disturbed by the accumulation of junk until the piece began to take shape. Now of course they love it and the streets are a little cleaner too. Primary Flight Miami 2010 (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Jim Darling. Detail Primary Flight Miami 2010 (photo © Jaime Rojo)

The Witness AWR NASA (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Happy New Year! BSA Highlights of 2010

December 31, 2010 Artists

As we start a new year, we say thank you for the last one.

And Thank You to the artists who shared their 11 Wishes for 2011 with Brooklyn Street Art; Conor Harrington, Eli Cook, Indigo, Gilf, Todd Mazer, Vasco Mucci, Kimberly Brooks, Rusty Rehl, Tip Toe, Samson, and Ludo. You each contributed a very cool gift to the BSA family, and we’re grateful.

We looked over the last year to take in all the great projects we were in and fascinating people we had the pleasure to work with. It was a helluva year, and please take a look at the highlights to get an idea what a rich cultural explosion we are all a part of at this moment.

The new year already has some amazing new opportunities to celebrate Street Art and artists. We are looking forward to meeting you and playing with you and working with you in 2011.

A very special thanks to Kimberly Brooks and the team at Huffington Post for seeing the value of Street Art and for encouraging us to be a part of the HuffPost Arts coverage in 2010. It has been a great honor and we look forward to more great stuff in ’11.

Fauxreel (photo courtesy the artist)

Trusto Corp was lovin it.

BSA’s Auction for Free Arts NYC

Interview on the street with Shepard Fairey doing tribute to Martha Cooper
BSA & Street Artists Give to NYC KIDS: A gift of Art and Self-Confidence
With 60 artists, 73 artworks, over 600 guests, and a happy vibe created by the mad-scientists Sifunk & Garmunkle at music mission control, the Street Art New York Silent Auction Benefit for Free Arts NYC raised $20K.

See the art from BSA’s Auction on Flickr
Banksy Hits San Francisco
BSA Review; New York preview of Opening of Banky’s “Exit Through the Giftshop” – Review

Pop Surrealism? Aisle 2. French Realism? – Check the Shovels Art Show in a Hardware Store: If you are not too suspicious or jaded, this may be one of the best shows of the season. (Crest Hardware Store)
Phun Phactory 10 Years Later, a Reunion on The Street
NohJColey Advances The New Guard of Street Art
Street Artist Gaia: An “Urban Romantic” Re-combines History and Myth
Apolo Torres – “Tempestade” in Sao Paulo
New York is a Zoo! Street Art and the Animal Kingdom
Street Artists Faile Talk About the Social & Political
A Visit to Stroke02 Festival in Munich, Germany
“Know Hope” Depicts Conflict in Israel

Sarah Palin by Billi Kid

“Bienvenidos” campaign

Sure. Photo courtesy Faust

and on the Huffington Post:

10 Best Street Art Moments of the Decade (PHOTOS)

Best Brooklyn Street Art of 2010 (SLIDESHOW)

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Brooklyn Street Art: 2010 Year In Images (VIDEO)

December 20, 2010 Artists, Brooklyn, Florida, Manhattan, Miami, NYC, On the Street, Queens

We’re very grateful for a wildly prolific year of Street Art as it continued to explode all over New York (and a lot of other places too). For one full year we’ve been granted the gift of seeing art on the streets and countless moments of inspiration. Whether you are rich or poor in your pocket, the creative spirit on the street in New York makes you rich in your heart and mind.

To the New York City artists that make this city a lot more alive every day we say thank you.

To the artists from all over world that passed through we say thank you.

To our colleagues and peers for their support and enthusiasm we say thank you.

To the gallery owners and curators for providing the artists a place to show their stuff and for providing all of us a safe place to gather, talk, share art, laugh, enjoy great music and free booze we say thank you.

To our project collaborators for sharing your talents and insights and opinions and for keeping the flame alive we say thank you.

And finally to our friends, readers and fans; Our hearts go out to you for lighting the way and for cheering us on. Thank you.

Each Sunday we featured Images of the Week, and we painfully narrowed that field to about 100 pieces in this quick video. It’s not an encyclopedia, it’s collage of our own. We remember the moment of discovery, the mood, the light and the day when we photographed them. For us it’s inspiration in this whacked out city that is always on the move.

The following artists are featured in the video and are listed here in alphabetical order:

Aakash Nihalani,Bansky, Barry McGee, Bask ,Bast, Beau, MBW, Bishop ,Boxi, Cake, The Dude Company, Chris RWK, Chris Stain, Dain, Dan Witz ,Dolk ,El Mac, El Sol 25, Elbow Toe, Faile, Feral, Overunder, Gaia, General Howe, Hellbent, Hush, Imminent Disaster, Jeff Aerosol, Jeff Soto, JMR ,Judith Supine ,K-Guy ,Labrona, Lister, Lucy McLauchlan, Ludo, Armsrock, MCity, Miso, Momo, Nick Walker, Nina Pandolfo, NohjColey, Nosm, Ariz, How, Tats Cru, Os Gemeos, Futura, Pisa 73, Poster Boy, QRST, Remi Rough, Stormie Mills, Retna, Roa, Ron English, Sever, She 155, Shepard Fairey ,Specter, Sten & Lex, Samson, Surge I, Sweet Toof, Swoon, Tes One, Tip Toe, Tristan Eaton, Trusto Corp, Typo, Various and Gould, Veng RWK, ECB, White Cocoa, Wing, WK Interact, Yote.

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XAM’s Feeder Unit near YOK’s Traveling Man Foot (photo © Jaime Rojo)

XAM’s Feeder Unit near YOK’s Traveling Man Foot (photo © Jaime Rojo)

QRST installing his piece (photo © Joe Franquinha)

QRST Rat Tea Party (photo © Jaime Rojo)

QRST Rat Tea Party (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Veng from RWK and Overunder on the back wall (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Veng from RWK and Overunder on the back wall (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Veng and Overunder working on their collaboration (photo © Joe Franquinha)

Night shot of Veng and Overunder piece. (photo © Joe Franquinha)

Jake Klotz installing his piece. (photo © Joe Franquinha)

Jake Klotz shares a wall with Gaia and Nanook (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Crest Arts invites you to the TimeShare Backyard for “The Grassy Lot Show”

Crest Arts invites you to the TimeShare Backyard for “The Grassy Lot Show”

Yok and Franklin (photo © Mike Pearce)

Nanook working on his collaboration with Gaia (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Gaia working on his collaboration with Nanook (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Upper East Side represents in the Lower East Side. Gaia working on his collaboration with Nanook (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Gaia, Nanook (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Gaia, Nanook (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Gaia in the background (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Gaia sortin’ out (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Gaia, Nanook (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Nanook (photo © Jaime Rojo)

“Too much art. Not enough grass,” thinks Franklin as he surveys his lunch options on the Lower East Side. (photo © Mike Pearce)

Gaia (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Nanook (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Creepy was invited by Gaia and Nanook to add some of his organic patterns to their collab (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Gaia, Nanook with Creepy’s subtle additions to the finish wall (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Bishop 203 (photo © Jaime Rojo)

General Howe (photo © Jaime Rojo)

General Howe (photo © Jaime Rojo)

General Howe (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Creepy (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Creepy (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Looking skyward at Creepy’s integrated installation (photo © Mike Pearce)

Creepy (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Creepy (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Laura Mayers (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Yok (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Yok, Travis W. Simon (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Yok (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Yok (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Yok, Travis W. Simon (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Creepy, Yok (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Quel Beast (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Panelists having a lively discussion at “Street Art Stories” hosted by HuffPost Arts and LA MOCA at Ahmanson Auditorium at MOCA Grand in downtown Los Angeles. (photo © Carlos Gonzalez)

During the presentation, Brooklyn Street Art talked about the use of Street Art as a way of addressing a variety of social and political issues, including this example of Shepard Fairey and the topic of peace. (photo © Carlos Gonzalez)

BSA co-founder and Director of Photography Jaime Rojo introduces the panelists. (photo © Carlos Gonzalez)

(photo © Carlos Gonzalez)

(photo © Carlos Gonzalez)

Brooklyn Street Art Co-founders Jaime Rojo and Steven P. Harrington converse with esteemed panelists at “Street Art Stories”, hosted by HuffPost Arts and LA MOCA.

Contemporary American Painter and the Founding Arts Editor of the Huffington Post, Kimberly Brooks next to street artist Shepard Fairey at “Street Art Stories” Panel at LA MOCA. (photo © Carlos Gonzalez)

(photo © Carlos Gonzalez)

Shepard Fairey, Marsea Goldberg, Ken Harman, and Ethel Seno. (photo © Carlos Gonzalez)

Ethel Seno, Curatorial Coordinator for the MOCA exhibition “Art in the Streets” at the Geffen Contemporary at MOCA and the Editor of the book “Trespass: A History of Uncommissioned Urban Art” published by Taschen. (photo © Carlos Gonzalez)

Shepard Fairey at “Street Art Stories” Panel at LA MOCA. (photo © Carlos Gonzalez)

(photo © Carlos Gonzalez)

Street art photographer Jaime Rojo of Brooklyn Street Art. (photo © Carlos Gonzalez)

Edward Goldman, LA art critic, Huffpost blogger, and host of KCRW’s “Art Talk” for 20 years, poses a question on the effect of a big museum show like “Art in the Streets” on the new generation of would be street artists. (photo © Carlos Gonzalez)

Seno and Harman (photo © Carlos Gonzalez)

The Ahmanson Auditorium for “Street Art Stories” at LA MOCA (photo © Carlos Gonzalez)

Thank you to Kimberly Brooks and our great panel. (photo © Carlos Gonzalez)

Director of LA MOCA and co-curator of “Art in the Streets”, Jeffrey Deitch, talks with Shepard Fairey after the presentation and panel (photo © Carlos Gonzalez)

JR (photo © Jaime Rojo)

JR (photo © Jaime Rojo)

JR (photo © Jaime Rojo)

JR (photo © Jaime Rojo)

JR (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Unknown artist minimalist painting on ceramic tile beautifully placed. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

An Unknown artist’s interpretation of the original King Kong in NYC ( (photo © Jaime Rojo)

OBEY (photo © Jaime Rojo)

OBEY (photo © Jaime Rojo)

General Howe first lino-cut ever! (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Infinity (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Artist Unknown (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Billi Kid (photo © Jaime Rojo)

A toddler sized Olek (photo © Jaime Rojo)

An Unknown artist’s re-interpretation of a Banksy piece, possibly an advertisement (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Stikman continues to place his character in new contexts (photo © Jaime Rojo)

This sculpture is on a wall of a private residence. We don’t know the artist. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Crest Arts invites you to the TimeShare Backyard for
“The Grassy Lot Show”

Crest Arts invites you to the TimeShare Backyard for
“The Grassy Lot Show”