Artist Spotlight: Yu Maeda

Influenced by American lowbrow artists like Jim Woodring, Ed Roth, and others in Japan, Japanese painter Yu Maeda started out with a strong yearning for Western culture. However, after moving to Los Angeles in 2013, his interest turned back toward his roots, with a focus on the Japanese and Asian cultures that had shaped him. His painting practice grew to […]

Merry Christmas 2022 From BSA

December 25, 2022 Artists Happy Holidays! We’re celebrating the end of one year and the beginning of the next by thanking BSA readers, friends, and family for all of your support in 2022. We have selected some of our favorite shots by our Editor of Photography, Jaime Rojo, and we’re sharing a new one every day to celebrate all our […]

Artist Spotlight: Joe Nix

Artist Joe Nix grew up steeped in Maritime culture around the Seattle area. At a young age, he was exposed to his father’s life as an engineer and illustrator, as well as his hobby projects outside of work: fixing giant tug boat motors and working on cars. The influences of his upbringing are apparent in Nix’s painting practice—with a similar […]

“American Honey” by Photographer Julien Sage

Working as a tour manager for rock and roll bands, photographer Julien Sage (previously featured here) managed three different US tours between 2019 and 2022, taking him from his home state of California to the Northeastern edges of the country and back again. “During these trips I would enter into a certain mode of existence that is extremely temporary and, […]

“Vantage Point” by Mårten Lange & Daniel Everett

A selection of images from a serendipitous collaboration between Swedish artist Mårten Lange and American artist Daniel Everett. In 2016, while looking through Everett’s book, Throughout the Universe in Perpetuity (Études, 2015), Lange stumbled across an image of City Tower in Shinjuku, Tokyo that looked almost identical to one he had taken years before. The two photos not only feature […]