A selection of images from “Vitaly’s House,” the recent series by Brooklyn, New York-based photographer Joe Perri. Growing up a natural storyteller, photography became Perri’s vehicle for revealing emotional depth in people and the world around him. “My work explores the nuances of the human condition, finding narrative through light and detail sometimes hidden in plain view,” he explains. Photographed […]
Today we speak with Analí Chanquia and Vanesa Galdeano, who are known professionally together as MEDIANERAS. Today they are based in Barcelona but originally were from Argentina; together they have been traveling around the world together for 10 years creating murals. Together they have developed a vocabulary of kinetic graphics and androgynous, anamorphosed portraits that are jarring, slickly virtual, and […]
A selection of work by London-based Chinese artist Yiwei Xu. Drawing from observation, memories and poems, Xu is interested in the boundaries between the real world and the inner world or, rather, the absence of any such boundary and the possibility that our entire experience of life is a dream. Mysterious and subtle, bizarre yet realistic, Xu’s use of mixed […]
For photographer Simon Martin (previously featured here), the influence of his suburban upbringing in Sittingbourne, UK is a through-line in his practice. “Be it landscape, portraiture, fashion, or long term projects, my eye continues to be drawn back to familiar scenes; of youth trying to find an escape from boredom, boy racers in a McDonalds carpark, or a building estate […]
Just in time for considering Halloween costumery that evokes fantasies of alter ego, BSMT Gallery in the creative hub of North East London gives you a push, encouraging you to explore the possibilities. Perspicere. Alter Ego. BSMT Space Gallery. London, England. (photo courtesy of the artist) The beauty of opening the field of street art up to nearly anyone to […]
A selection of recent work by Vancouver-based artist Kyle Scott. Working as an illustrator and a background painter for animation means time for personal work is precious, serving to counterbalance the hectic production-focused work of the studio. In fact, Scott’s process is centred around being relaxed and finding a rhythm that is uncomplicated but still challenging enough to keep him […]
A selection of recent work by Brooklyn-based Belgian artist, Aglaé Bassens. Describing her paintings as “a collection of glances in which the viewer recognizes his or her own emotional experience,” Bassens strives to make images that are commonplace yet sincere, in hopes that they will function as a vehicle for collective emotion. Working from photographs, both found and from her […]
Welcome to BSA Images of the Week! It’s Fall Ya’ll ! If you know us, it’s a Mexico-Brooklyn fusion. Just one of the endless combinations you discover when you talk about New York, where 700 languages and dialects are spoken. Yes, we said endless. It is no surprise that graffiti, its style and aesthetic, spanned many of the world’s cities […]
Bifido: “Love Will Tear Us Apart” in Mostar, Bosnia HerzogovinaI am inhabited by a cry.Nightly it flaps outLooking, with its hooks, for something to love.Sylvia Plath Street poet and street artist Bifido doesn’t mean to be morose, but here in Mostar he can’t …
Our weekly focus on the moving image and art in the streets. And other oddities. Now screening:1. “Gilded Darkness” Fondazione Nicola Trussardi2. Edoardo Tresoldi. Monumento. Procuratie Vecchie. Venice, Italy.3. How To Make A Concrete Bike. Via DIY4. Britain’s Long Goodbye to Queen Elizabeth II. via The New Yorker “An Omni-comprehensive, multimedia spectacle,” says Massimiliano Gioni of Nari Ward’s ‘Gilded Darkness’ […]