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BSA Images Of The Week: 04.26.20 / Dispatch From Isolation # 35

April 26, 2020 Artists, BSA Images Of The Week

Welcome to BSA Images of the Week and Ramadan Mubarak for all our Muslim brothers and sisters this week. We all know that we have to keep a safe distance and wash our hands, even during holy days – science is science whether its Jesus or Mohammed or Timothy Leary whom you worship.

As you quarantine in place and find that your financial hardships are hovering, you may wonder why your government is not jumping into action to keep us all afloat – for one thing, they are on vacation until May 4. They rapidly have spent 3 trillion to bolster select industries and wealthy individuals, yet we have 26 million out of work, many people waiting in line for food. For you and the people in line for food, the national leader of the Democrats says “Let them eat chocolate ice cream” at 12$ a pint. Trump recommends you may want to inject yourself with light or bleach. Top economist Joseph Stiglitz says: US coronavirus response is like ‘third world’ country .

Overall this pandemic is disproportionately affecting the most vulnerable around the world. If you are okay, please share what you have. This week we recommend The International Rescue Committee.

If you, or someone you care about, are feeling overwhelmed with emotions like sadness, depression, or anxiety, or feel like you want to harm yourself or others

Call 911
Visit the Disaster Distress Helpline, call 1-800-985-5990, or text TalkWithUs to 66746
Visit the National Domestic Violence Hotline or call 1-800-799-7233 and TTY 1-800-787-3224
Call National Suicide Prevention Hotline at 1-800-273-8255.

The Marshall Plan, also known as the European Recovery Program, was a U.S. program providing aid to Western Europe following the devastation of World War II. We need a Marshall Plan for everyday people right now and the next year. Instead, we have a circus.

In other news, we’re still quarantining inside so we thought you would enjoy these cool instant classics shot in Miami recently. Please send us your art in the streets! We love to hear from you. Spread love!

So here’s our weekly interview with the streets, this week featuring Bubblegum, Carolina, Dicesar Love, Friks84, Inphiltrate, Jodi Cox, Joshila Dhaby, Le Doers Club, Outrank Brand, Oz Fua, Ric Azevedo, Roger Peet, Smogeone, The Suited Racer, Toosphexy, Tomer Linaje, and Toysnobs.

Friks84, Toysnobs, Le Doers Club, Outrank Brand in Miami say: START DOING (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Bublegum in Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Unidentified artitst in Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Joshila Dhaby in Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Dicesar Love in Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

SmogOne Art, Oz Fua in Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Tomer Linaje in Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Carolina in Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

The Suited Racer in Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Ric Azevedo in Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Inphltrate in NYC (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Print maker Roger Peet @toosphexy for Justseeds.org

Jodi Cox. Trump-Tinis. Please don’t attempt this at home…or anywhere else for that matter…(photo © Jodi Cox)

Three Madonnas In the Gritty Garden: A Hidden Wynwood Triptych

February 1, 2020 Artists

Adriana Vila. Pixel Pancho. Uriginal.

A Street Art mural triptych in the thick of Wynwood, without flourish, with guile.

From Bosch to Beckmann to Bacon the multi-paneled presentation of the barnacled and beatific has commanded the attention of art fans for centuries. Here on a backlot in the swampy section of Miami that’s now known for public painting, we find a trio of uniquely stylized female sitters, one slightly more robotic than her flanks. In a darkly storied and neglected neighborhood now painfully clamoring for attention, it was this partially obscured wall that adroitly captured ours.

Adriana Vila. Wynwood, Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Commanding your eyes, and then your heart, these three hold court in the scruffy sod with complementary hues, blinkered by a tree that blocks and reveals according to the breeze and the sun. Calling to mind altar paintings from the Middle Ages as well as pensively poetic video panels at the Venice Biennale, this maximizing of an easily overlooked opportunity skillfully attracts the discerning art fan, leaving you satiated, slightly stirred.

Pixel Pancho. Wynwood, Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Uriginal. Wynwood, Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

BSA Images Of The Week: 01.26.20

January 26, 2020 Artists, BSA Images Of The Week

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The city is in mid-winter “blah” mode. We suffered a fire at the New York City’s Museum of Chinese in America this week, and the Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams used his Martin Luther King Day speech to tell recent arrivals to ‘Go back to Iowa,’ Things can be tough out here people.

In Street Art and graffiti news, New York has had some “whole car” pieces on the subway line recently, including one that looked like a whole train! Old timers were rubbing their eyes. According to a local media outlet, legendary graffiti artist Chris “Freedom” Pape gave his assessment; “..based on the artist’s philosophy, he gives it an “A” but based on the quality of the graffiti on old subways, he gives it a “C”. Also a new film about New York octogenarian Street Artist Robert Janz opened this week at the Anthology Film Archives. Janz in the Moment is the passion project of Filmmaker Joanna Kiernan that features many corners and crazy details of New York’s streets that are familiar to us – and probably to you.

Here’s our weekly interview with the street, this week from Miami, and this time featuring Add Fuel, Atomik, Bisco Smith, CRKSHNK, Dal East, Feik, Hysterical Men, Jilly Ballistic, Kai, Mr. June, Pure Genius, Rick Azevedo, WCKT, What Will You Leave Behind, Will Power, and Winston Tseng.

London Kaye gives a shout out to the Australian’s wildlife, and of course to the people as well. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Feik. Wynwood. Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Bisco Smith. Wynwood. Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Add Fuel. Wynwood. Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Atomik. Wynwood. Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Kai. Wynwood. Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

What Will You Leave Behind (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Mr. June. Wynwood. Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Ric Azevedo. Wynwood. Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Untitled. NYC Subway. January 2020. Manhattan, NY.(photo © Jaime Rojo)

Wild Animals Run in the Streets: Wynwood Is A Zoo

January 23, 2020 Artists

Yes, Wynwood was a zoo this year.

Martin Whatson. Wynwood, Miami. December 2019. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Maybe its because animals are safe subjects to paint and make it past the neighborhood censors, maybe its because they are handily metaphoric when it comes to communicating a complicated or difficult idea. Maybe it is just because they are cute and everybody on Instagram is going to offer a clever rejoinder on your new painting in Miami, you cool dude/dudette.

Ernesto Maranje. Wynwood, Miami. December 2019. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

From unicorns to hippos to lions and alligators, the street is full of them right now around every corner in the Wynwood District and you can still enjoy them until the neighborhood becomes so developed that they kill them all. Well not all of them. One or two will still be creeping up on you in the occasional abandoned lot that has a high tax bill or a hefty remediation of toxic soil that still makes it too pricey for potential investors.

All of that wild conjuring aside, here is a selection of currently running creatures of the gritty urban jungle in this humid and hot southern city for you to marvel at.

Woes. Wynwood, Miami. December 2019. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Telmo & Miel. Wynwood, Miami. December 2019. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Sonny Sundancer. Wynwood, Miami. December 2019. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

SkyOne. Wynwood, Miami. December 2019. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Feik. Wynwood, Miami. December 2019. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Bublegum Sr. Wynwood, Miami. December 2019. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Saturno. Wynwood, Miami. December 2019. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Ron English. Wynwood, Miami. December 2019. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Mr. Dheo. Wynwood, Miami. December 2019. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

A Fabulously Baroque Reptile by Saturno In Wynwood

January 18, 2020 Artists

Miguel Ángel Sánchez AKA SATURNO is an artist from a small town near Barcelona in Spain. A self-taught painter and illustrator, he’s become a recognized name in the European graffiti scene since he began in 1995, biting off a bigger piece of fame with each project.

Since 2012 he’s developed his own, unmistakable style that frightens and thrills in equal measure, and he has been painting his fantastical creations on walls big and small across Europe. With an illustration style that boasts ultra-real monsters and characters of exaggerated proportions and serious high gloss, he’s led and collaborated on many commercial projects and brands in the last few years with fire-breathing success.

The 2019 edition of Art Basel/Wynwood this past December allowed him to showcase his imagination and skills in quite remarkable ways on a couple of murals in Wynwood, Miami. One, in particular, is this astoundingly baroque beast dressed in the finest regal threads, dripping jewels, and saliva with bulging eyes and a voracious appetite for consumption.

Fans say Saturno examines the subconscious and darker aspects of people and behaviors with his work – which may lead one to conclude that this epic character is a thinly veiled metaphor for opportunist alligators whom you may meet here who are trolling flamboyantly through this rapidly gentrifying neighborhood, regaling themselves with so many shiny baubles. Certainly this reptilian socialite is audacious and confidently showy, and Saturno has hit gold with a likeness that is both repulsive and compelling.

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This is the second wall I painted for Art Basel 2019. I’ve had a spectacular first time visiting Miami and participating in Art Basel. I was able to do what I like most in life, and that is to paint, specifically with sprays, in the street on a large wall. It has been a hard month without rest, but it was worth the final result. Thanks to the people of @superchiefgallery for thinking of me for Art Basel this year, and to the people of @manacontemporary and @manawynwood for giving me the opportunity and an incredible spot in the huge Mana Convention Center. Finally, thanks to my friend @drone_exelbierd for the incredible images he took with his drone, the work and connection and no doubt a great work-team brother #thanks 🙏✨ soundtrack by Jamie xx – Gosh 🎧 #artbaselmiami #saturnoart

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1UP Crew Represents in Wynwood, Miami

January 7, 2020 Artists

The ever-morphing conglomerate crew called 1UP appears and disappears in cities and countries across the world today, their tag aesthetics drawn from a smorgasbord of styles, rather than just one or two. On the radar, yet skillfully under it, the membership of this large team includes the raw and the polished, the illustrative and the calligraphic.

1UP Crew. Wynwood, Miami. December 2019. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

During Art Basel in December, it appears that a few writers of One United Power were in Miami outputting the simple one-color tags, tight bubbles and sparkling throw-ups, as well as full-blown productions that conjure other worlds and childhood fantasy-scapes.

1UP Crew. Detail. Wynwood, Miami. December 2019. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

El Mac and Saints In Wynwood, Miami

January 6, 2020 Artists

You can see Wynwood from Miami Beach now, thanks to new multi-story buildings sprouting up in this art-washed neighborhood, transforming its former glory into something far above you. Soaring upward a few stories are these three, painted by the west coast street artist Miles MacGregor, known as El Mac, who elevates the everyday hero once again on a large scale.

El Mac. Detail.Wynwood, Miami. December 2019. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

The new apartment complexes like these are replacing the charming one story high stucco “bodegas” and warehouses selling Chinese manufactured goods in bulk. The young sitters appear to be of African and Latin ancestry and you are reminded of America’s professed love of inclusivity and equality – not the class/wealth-based exclusivity that is constantly hammered into our collective consciousness by the relentless ads of luxury brands and lifestyle marketing that only a very small fraction of the populous will ever own.

These are soft-faced, serene-looking children; two of them holding a single rose and one of them with his hands extended as if offering a prayer or beckoning you to step into his world. Perhaps they are saints, but it is difficult to discern what their role is. El Mac asks us to turn our attention to the experimental novel ‘Beautiful Losers,” by Leonard Cohen.

“What is a saint? A saint is someone who has achieved a remote human possibility. It is impossible to say what that possibility is. I think it has something to do with the energy of love. Contact with this energy results in the exercise of a kind of balance in the chaos of existence. A saint does not dissolve the chaos; if he did the world would have changed long ago. I do not think that a saint dissolves the chaos even for himself, for there is something arrogant and warlike in the notion of a man setting the universe in order. It is a kind of balance that is his glory. …

Something in him so loves the world that he gives himself to the laws of gravity and chance. Far from flying with the angels, he traces with the fidelity of a seismograph needle the state of the solid bloody landscape.”

~ Leonard Cohen, ‘Beautiful Losers’, 1965

El Mac. Wynwood, Miami. December 2019. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

BSA Images Of The Week: 01.05.20- Wynwood Walls/Miami

January 5, 2020 Artists, BSA Images Of The Week

Welcome to Wynwood! – A little piece of chaotic urban paradise and real estate development that has blossomed into a mini-holy city for fans of murals.

The convergence of three events during the 2010’s – cheap digital camera phones, social media, and mural festivals – have created this intense and colorful tourist neighborhood in Miami during the same time. The sheer number of happy extended families, groups of friends, and couples in love all were converging on the evolving neighborhood to see art in the streets. They also take pictures with it, pose in front of it, buy refrigerator magnets of it, and listen to tour guides speak about it.

During a recent day in the Wynwood Walls compound, which is surrounded on neighboring streets with a plethora of other murals, unsanctioned Street Art, and graffiti, we saw a number of newly painted murals that have replaced others there. We also saw that a few of the old favorites have been reinvigorated. Here is just a handful of images of the action.

Here’s our weekly interview with the street, this week from Miami, and this time featuring Dasic Fernandez, Ernesto Maranje, Faile, Michael Vasquez, Buff Monster, Futura, Dan Kitchener, and Tats Cru.

Dasic Fernandez. Detail. Wynwood Walls 2019. Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Dasic Fernandez. Wynwood Walls 2019. Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Ernesto Maranje. Detail. Wynwood Walls 2019. Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Faile. Wynwood Walls 2019. Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Michael Vasquez. Wynwood Walls 2019. Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Buff Monster. Wynwood Walls 2019. Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Futura updated his previous mural on the same spot. Wynwood Walls 2019. Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Dan Kitchener. This is only a detail of his large wall. It was practically impossible to shoot this wall due to a large number of visitors in front of it. Wynwood Walls 2019. Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Tats Cru. Wynwood Walls 2019. Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

BSA Images Of The Week: 02.10.19

February 10, 2019 Artists, BSA Images Of The Week

BK Foxx celebrates the Chinese New Year and The Year Of The Pig in NYC Chinatown in collaboration with East Village Walls. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Congratulations to everyone celebrating the Lunar New Year this week – It’s Year of the Pig! Ready to stuff yourself with dumplings? Check out BK Foxx’s new mural in Chinatown heralding its arrival. Although truthfully when you look at everyone lining up to the public trough it seems like we’ve had a few consecutive years of the Pig at least. To add insult to insult, you’re probably getting a higher tax bill this year thanks to Trump n Co, because that’s how grifting works kids.

Here’s our weekly interview with the street, this time featuring Buff Monster, Case Ma’Claim, Crash, HAKS 180, Invader, Loomit, Madsteez, Space Invader, and Speedy Graphito.

BK Foxx. how do you know what’s real anymore? East Village Walls. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Woody comes to play with Crash and The L.I.S.A. Project NYC. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Madsteez makes waves in the LES with ST.ART Now. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Case Maclaim in Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Loomit for East Village Walls. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Speedy Graphito in Miami. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Unidentified artist (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Untitled. Chinatown, NYC. February 2019. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

BSA Images Of The Week: 02.03.19

February 3, 2019 Artists, BSA Images Of The Week, Graffiti, Mural Art, Street Art, Urban Art

“Man, what’s with this cough that never goes away?” you ask your boy Tre, who’s laying on the moss green living room rug by the radiator drawing in his black book with an extra fine tip paint pen, listening to Wu Tang. “Could be January,” he offers. “Or maybe its asbestos from that work they’re doing in the elevator shaft.”

Right. “Never mind, lets watch some Beer Bowl!”

Meanwhile on the streets the ideas never stop. We were pretty excited to get up to 167th Street station to see the new mosaics by Brooklyn artist Rico Gatson, who does painting, video, sculpture and installation. These portraits of important contributors to the culture make us all proud. Here are just a handful but there are more and you should go and see them yourself.

Here’s our weekly interview with the street, this time featuring Atomik, Captain Eyeliner, Deih XLF, finDAC, Go Vegan, Hoxxoh, Kai, Kevin Ledo, Lefty Out There, Mastrocola, My Dog Sighs, Pez, Rico Gaston, The Revolution Artists, Uninhibited, and What is Adam.