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BAST Collection for FALL 2013 Hits The Streets

February 16, 2013

Fashion Week in New York means more models than usual on the subway and on the sidewalk. Poor us.

Impossibly thin tall pretty and hunky people with beautiful skin and far-away eyes parading up and down the street in their free designer clothes and accessories, peering into their phones at MTA maps and fashion blogs to see if they have shown up somewhere… it’s one of the more glamorous part of the conversation on the street.

Just like most art on the street, these scenes are ethereal. Brooklyn Street Artist BAST takes a turn at the runway this week by installing a new series of saucy models for the street too, and here are a couple of shots from the collection.

Bast (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Bast (photo © Jaime Rojo)

 

Favorite song from a fashion show this week – “Girls” by Beastie Boys, which accompanied the 80s/90s inspired Fall 2013 show by Jeremy Scott, who studied fashion design at Brooklyn’s Pratt.

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BSA Film Friday: 02.15.13

February 15, 2013

 

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

Now screening: Miss Van in São Paulo, Ronzo and “Roachio”, and David Gouny: Gouny the Froggy and his Polaroid 1000

 

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Miss Van in São Paulo, Brazil

“I’m trying to find a way to do painting the same way I would do a throw up.”

“I’m over sensitive and I have to use it somehow.”

In this film by Dscreet the Street Artist and fine artist Miss Van shares some insight of her personal approach to her fwork, her roots in graffiti, and her feelings about getting up in the street.

Ronzo and “Roachio”

A short time-lapse of Ronzo on a rooftop in East London doing a painting of his cockroach character “Roachio”.

David Gouny: Gouny the Froggy and his Polaroid 1000

Parisian Street Artist and performance artist David Gouny also creates a bloated form of sculpture and costume – mirroring the full-figured roundness of his ladies on the street. In this brief vignette we see him as frog, taking his polaroid camera to the park to do some photography.

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BSA Loves You More Every Day: Happy Valentines Day

February 14, 2013

Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.
C. S. Lewis

The individual wheat-paster or tagger on the streets may not intend it, but they’re writing an open diary, an invitation to conversation, to tell a story. As we continue to record and examine the stories that are written on the street, we get some powerful insights regularly. How Street Artists express the topic of love is as individual as it is universal.

This is a love letter to the BSA readers who have shown real support to us along the way and with it comes our continued promise to love you more every day.

Love Me (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Chris Uphues (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Chris Uphues (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Untitled (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Cake and The Dude Company (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Artist Unknown (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Dan Witz “Two Hoodies Kissing” (photo © Jaime Rojo)

L.E.T. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Untitled (photo © Jaime Rojo)

A street Jesus with arms wide open.  (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Blue Abstraction from Doug Fogelson in Chicago

February 13, 2013

The new Street Art Abstraction we’ve been talking about continues apace in the public sphere, perhaps buffeted by current shows like MoMA’s Inventing Abstraction and the 100th anniversary of the earth shaking Armory Show that turned modern art on its head.

Not quite as earth shaking, but still a marker on the path in the urban forest, fine artist Doug Fogelson wheat pasted this mural in the Wicker Park neighborhood of Chicago over the weekend. Ecological and environmental intersects the geometry in the photographed patterning – the same sort of study that launched many a cubist and modernist, stripping the angles, lines, and forms to their fundamentals.

 Doug Fogelson (photo © Doug Fogelson)

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Sheryo and the Dubai Camel

February 12, 2013

You’ve seen her work here for about a year and a half, since Singaporean Street Artist settled in Brooklyn and began painting New York walls in earnest with people like the Australian Yok, Brooklyn’s Bishop 203, and TopDos from Paris. In fact her New York campaign with Yok last year covered so many walls (especially in the summer) that we began to wonder if the twosome had inherited an aerosol factory.

Here we have some new images of the illustrator at work on a large mural with the humble camel as muse at an event sponsored by the cultural arts organization Tiger Translate. Also involved were Auckland street stencillist Enforce One, fine artists and performances.

Sheryo working on her installation. (photo for BSA courtesy © Shadow Professional Photography)

Sheryo working on her installation. (photo for BSA courtesy © Freeflow)

The Dubai Camel by Sheryo.  (photo for BSA courtesy © Freeflow)

Sheryo (photo for BSA courtesy © Custard)

A collaborative wall in Brooklyn from 2012 by TopDos, Sheryo, Bishop 203, and The Yok. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

To learn more about Tiger Translate click here.
See Sheryo in a computer chip makers’ commercial aired in Asia here.

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Street Artist RUBBISH for Le M.U.R. in Paris

February 11, 2013 ,

Rubbish, the French Street Artist who can work for endless hours to finely cut paper as intricately as lace, is taking his turn at the Le M.U.R wall in Paris right now.  Still pretty new to the scene, the Besançon based artist has a meticulous cutting method influenced by painting, mythology, even Art Nouveau. Recent portraiture subjects have been poets from the Beat Generation like Burroughs, Kerouac, Ginsberg, but he is more of an emotional romantic than they were.

Rubbish (photo © Laurence Pierrain-Mateudi)

With his first solo show in November at Le Cabinet d’Amateur, this guys’ work may remind you of Swoon’s paper cutting in the late 2000s and his portraits have a forlorn quality found in the subjects of French stencilist C215.  Whatever his influences, he is clearly still exploring and he happily covered selected regions of this 8 meter x 3 meter wall with with a certain organic symmetry in placing these large works of cut paper on a cold late January day. According to Jean Emmanuel Voltz, who curated this choice, this kind of Rubbish is a “Good discovery”.

Rubbish. Detail. (photo © Laurence Pierrain-Mateudi)

Rubbish. Detail. (photo © Laurence Pierrain-Mateudi)

Rubbish (photo © Laurence Pierrain-Mateudi)

Rubbish. Detail. (photo © Laurence Pierrain-Mateudi)

Rubbish (photo © Laurence Pierrain-Mateudi)

To learn more about RUBBISH’s work click here.

To learn more about Le M.U.R. click here.

 

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Images of the Week: 02.10.13

February 10, 2013

Here’s our weekly interview with the street, this week featuring Allen Ruppersberg, CB23, CYFI, Danielle Mastrion, Elle, False, KO, Left Handed Wave, Matt Siren, Spud, Stikman, and Tomek.

Top image > Stikman (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Stikman (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Allen Ruppersberg “You & Me” at The High Line Park, Manhattan. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

CB23 (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Matt Siren . Elle (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Blood Money (Artist Unknown) (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Left Handed Wave (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Spud at 5Pointz, Queens. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Danielle Mastrion at 5Pointz, Queens with a portrait of Adam Yauch of the Beastie Boys. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

CYFI.KO at 5Pointz, Queens. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Tomek and False in the snow. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

A tribute to the recently passed. RIP Nekst (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Wings of Desire (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Untitled. Manhattan, February 2013. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Specter in Puerto Escondido, Mexico

February 9, 2013

Today New York and most of the northeast US is completely clobbered and somewhat paralyzed with snow from a giant blizzard so we thought we’d show you photos from a surf town of 26,000 residents in Mexico called Puerto Escondido where their annual Carnaval started yesterday. Brooklyn based Street Artist Specter is working in the 85 degree temperature in blasting sun to put up the occasional piece and here he is stencilling on a rectangular outcropping on the side of modernist building.

Says photographer Lauren Besser, Specter is not far from the surf in these shots from the west coast Oaxacan town. “He installed a painting on the home of local artists in La Punta where the best waves come in. The piece is a nod at traditional cultures that are often forgotten by beach-side tourists,” she says. This new one looks similar to one he did recently in Mexico City featured in a recent “Images of the Week”.

Specter (photo © Lauren Besser)

Specter laying out the stencil pieces (photo © Lauren Besser)

Specter (photo © Lauren Besser)

Specter (photo © Lauren Besser)

Specter (photo © Lauren Besser)

Specter (photo © Lauren Besser)

 

 

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BSA Film Friday 02.08.13

BSA Film Friday 02.08.13

February 8, 2013

 

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

Now screening: UNO: Forever Young, JR: Blow UP, ABOVE: Blood Diamond and KYLE HUGHES-ODGERS: A Thousand Lights From a Hundred Skies

BSA Special Feature:

UNO: Forever Young

JR: Blow UP

ABOVE: Blood Diamond

KYLE HUGHES-ODGERS: A Thousand Lights From a Hundred Skies

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Remixing The Face in a Stinky Underground Subway Hallway

February 7, 2013

A walk through the neglected and crumbling grime-caked subway stations of New York City, with their epically peeling paint and the smell of smeared human feces rushing you through hallways to your next train, can be a nauseating and dispiriting.  Mayors come and go, but rats and garbage remain, helping New York to “keep it real”.

Poster Boy (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Thankfully, despite continually rising Metrocard rates you are now treated to ever more advertisements on ever more walls, and the occasional ad-remixing prankster appears to keep things in focus, or disarray.  You may not have money for the admission to museums, but here you can take in this publicly curated interactive aspect of the expanding commercial gallery, and even affect the conversation.

In the connecting walkway between 6th and 7th Avenue on 14th Street you can usually hear some good music because of the enclosed reverberating tunnel effect that is free of of train disruption. Right now on display are a series of promotional posters for another TV program involving attractive people judging  others on their attractiveness.

In this locally targeted remix of the campaign, a blade-wielding passerby has given them a facelift. It’s a simple matter of switching selected portions of sticky vinyl, a technique that was popularized by a Street Artist/collective named Posterboy a couple of years ago. Sometimes it is effective. Other times, it fails. Either way, it catches your eye as you hold your nose.

Poster Boy (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Poster Boy (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Poster Boy (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Poster Boy (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Poster Boy (photo © Jaime Rojo)

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Cat People and Dog People ; Street Artists Bring Trusted Friends

February 6, 2013

Street Artists are just as attached to their pets as anybody else, and given their reputation for being sort of secretive loners, maybe more. It’s not common but the appearance of cats and dogs on the street without leashes happens once in a while in carefully rendered drawings, illustrations, paintings, stencils, wheatpastes and stickers.

C215 (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Whether it’s the formal portrait studio quality of C215’s cat stencils, Tazz’s red-nosed glowering dog stickers, or the plump and wide eyed feline hunter wheat-pastes of QRST, these animals are an important aspect of the autobiographical nature of today’s Street Art scene.  It is said that observing a pet gives you a good idea about an owners disposition. If so, what would you say about the artist who uses an animal, whether as portrait, amulet, or metaphor – to tell their story on the public thoroughfare?

C215 wiht lil’ brother on the bottom by LMNOP. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Artist Unknown (photo © Jaime Rojo)

P. S. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Jaz and Cern collab. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Artist Unknown (photo © Jaime Rojo)

QRST (photo © Jaime Rojo)

QRST. Detail. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Blu Dog (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Raemann (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Elbow Toe cat got some company from KUMA. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Elbow Toe (photo © Jaime Rojo)

C215 (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Artist Unknown (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Le Raoul (photo © Jaime Rojo)

LNY (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Faile. Detail (photo © Jaime Rojo)

A happy flying kitty at the High Line Park. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

W (photo © Jaime Rojo)

WK  Interact. Detail. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Red Nose aka Tazz (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Red Nose aka Tazz (photo © Jaime Rojo)

 

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Liqen and Nantu Shipwrecked in Equador: A Girl, The Ocean and Her Hair

February 5, 2013

Street Artists Liqen and Nantu just finished this wall in Tosunpa, Equador on the side of a small storefront. Using primarily black paint and paint brushes, the two create a reposed nymph looking skyward, her head surrounded by rolling waves, a somewhat tumultuous adventure on the high seas with dolphins, a whale, and a troubled vessel. For a necklace she wears a short string of small heads. Liquen says it is “an aperitif; an abstract idea about the ocean, a female, and the shipwreck in her hair.”

Liqen in collaboration with Raul Ayala AKA Nantu. “Oceangirl” Tosunpa, Ecuador.  January 2013. (photo © Liqen)

Liqen in collaboration with Raul Ayala AKA Nantu. “Oceangirl” Detail. Tosunpa, Ecuador.  January 2013. (photo © Liqen)

Liqen in collaboration with Raul Ayala AKA Nantu. “Oceangirl” Tosunpa, Ecuador.  January 2013. (photo © Liqen)

Liqen in collaboration with Raul Ayala AKA Nantu. “Oceangirl”. Detail. Tosunpa, Ecuador.  January 2013. (photo © Liqen)

Liqen in collaboration with Raul Ayala AKA Nantu. “Oceangirl” Tosunpa, Ecuador.  January 2013. (photo © Liqen)

Liqen in collaboration with Raul Ayala AKA Nantu. “Oceangirl”. Detail. Tosunpa, Ecuador.  January 2013. (photo © Liqen)

Liqen in collaboration with Raul Ayala AKA Nantu. “Oceangirl” Tosunpa, Ecuador.  January 2013. (photo © Liqen)

To view more of Liqen art click here

To view more of Raul Ayala art click here

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