Artist Spotlight: Sharona Eliassaf

Splitting her time since childhood between Israel and New York City, Sharona Eliassaf is deeply affected by the changeable notion of place: Her canvases are stage-like spaces where she manipulates her own sublime, weaving cryptic narratives from the collected experiences of overlapping countries, languages, identities, markets, anxieties, and technologies experienced in the everyday. Like in a dream, nothing is excluded […]

On The Spot: Plasticpeco

Their soft and vibrant touch is hard to resist, but there’s something eerie tucked in this cozy blanket. Peco’s artworks are puzzling and mesmerizing, like dreams that stick with you long after you’re awake.  Though she’s still in her beginner’s phase (Peco’s words, not ours!), this Chinese artist already strikes us as someone with a unique voice. Let’s hear it […]

“Don’t Forget to Wave” by Photographer Tommy Keith

In his series, “Don’t Forget to Wave,” Toronto-based photographer Tommy Keith (previously featured here) grapples with a newfound awareness of his parents’ mortality following his father’s heart surgery. Set against the backdrop of the landscapes around his homeland of Huntsville, Ontario, the images were made over the course of eight years, “through the eyes of someone scared to lose the […]

Artist Spotlight: Lucile Gauvain

A selection of recent work by Paris-based artist Lucile Gauvain. A graphic designer and illustrator in the film industry, Gauvain’s personal drawing practice is influenced by her career. “I have always been attracted to the fakeness of studio sets; to make viewers believe in the realism of a set built from scratch that exists only in a certain context, for […]

Booooooom Shop: Circles Photo Book

Full list of contributing photographers: Aaron WebberAdrian DénomméAdrian WongAlan NakkashAlana CeliiAlexandre SilbermanAmethyst DavisAndrew McGillAntonio SantosBen P WardBenjamin WillisBrendan George KoBrian KaiserBrittsenseCharles CerroneCharles-Henry BéduéChristian LeducChristopher Edward RodriguezCody CobbCooper DoddsDaniel RibarDanny KleinDavid Nana Opoku AnsahDrew LeventhalDylan AndersonEmily BarresiEnoch KuErik ÖstenssonFrank LucaFrank MarshalGrade SolomonGrant HarderGreg C. HollandHope MoraIan DeveauJacob Herrera WachalJanice ChungJeanne Castonguay-CarrièreJennifer Timmer TrailJennilee MarigomenJenny KimJeremy KoreskiJiageng LinJorge Fabian CastilloJosé CastrellónJoshua PoehleinLaurent […]

PEST for Art Azoï in Paris

Artmossphere Dispatch 3: Remi, Luka, Ito and the Move Toward ContemporaryThis week BSA is in Moscow with you and Urban Nation for Artmossphere 2016, the 2nd Street Art Biennale, a group exposition introducing 26 Russian and 42 foreign artists who were shaped by street …

Artist Spotlight: Nevena Prijic

Nevena Prijic is a Serbian artist based in Los Angeles. With an interest in the transformation of life forms, Prijic finds comfort in the interconnectedness of plants, human animals, and machines, explaining: “in this space age, we are searching for answers, where did we come from, and what the future holds, and in that shared loneliness, I’m finding more in […]

Photographer Spotlight: Michele Mobley

Photographer Michele Mobley is currently nomadic, traveling the United States in a van. Centering upon herself and those closest to her, Mobley’s photographs feature illusionistic, staged happenings. She uses the process of image-making as a performance piece of sorts, capturing what she describes as “passive bodies subtly aware of a voyeuristic gaze just outside the frame.”  “The act of photographing […]