A selection of images by photographer William Mark Sommer (previously featured here). Having grown up in the small town of Loomis, California, Sommer has a deep appreciation for overlooked or forgotten places and the complexities of American life. His artistic practice often engages in themes of human nature, preservation, empathy, and time. “Black Thumb” is a series documenting the daily […]
A great project has just emerged from the collaboration between Urban Nation Museum and the dynamic Berlin-based street art duo Various and Gould. This new addition to the ONE WALL series has been expertly curated by Michelle C. Houston, with valuable production support from YAP. The project bears the name ‘We all belong to this community’ (Wir alle hier gehören […]
Los Angeles-based artist David Emanuel Mordechai Torres, better known as RABI, has a new show opening at the new Urban Nation Museum Satellite Gallery, in Neukölln, during Berlin Art Week. “_gen+esc” is a series of short art films featuring contemporary artists discussing their work and their relationship to theme of escapism. The interviewees each wear a green suit which RABI […]
A selection of work from Toronto-based illustrator and painter Holly Stapleton. Bathed in golden hour light, Stapleton is interested in themes of selfhood, relationships, and nostalgia. She works primarily as an editorial illustrator for clients such as The New York Times and The Washington Post. Her personal paintings, usually done in oil and gouache, often explore the personification of textiles […]
September 10, 2023 Artists, BSA Images Of The Week Welcome to BSA Images of the Week! This week we see a few new walls in New York mixed with images from Stavanger and Utsira, Norway that we caught a few weeks ago. Speaking of Stavanger, last night we had a Nuart reunion of sorts in New York as we saw […]
Lapiz, the Hamburg-based street artist whose practice involves handmade stencils to convey his message to the public, and which he places in many cities around Germany and all over the world has finally found a way to convey something that has been in his mind since China hosted the Winter Olympics Games in 2022. His preoccupation with being a part […]
A series examining notions of solitude, despair, loss, and temporality by Toronto-based photographer Ben Dickey. As the grandson of Holocaust survivors, Dickey has long been interested in legacies of trauma and how that relates to social structures of alienation. His current project is inspired by these histories. “The Voice That Does Not Ring” is an exploration of colonized and wild […]
Drawings from artist and designer Jim Chen-Hsiang Hu from Taiwan. Hu’s work explores the idea of “problematic reality” and depicts what the world actually feels like to him. While things may appear normal or familiar when viewed in isolation, something problematic or strange is likely to appear when taken together. As a motif, this version of reality leans toward more […]
A masterful curatorial vision lies in this collaborative endeavor, one that unites two generations of Stavanger artists in creating a dynamic canvas in public space – while the newest generation of onlookers engages in the joyful spectacle of football nearby and around them. The convergence of these two artists, separated by a half-century, in creating something novel is a rare […]
September 3, 2023 Artists, BSA Images Of The Week Welcome to BSA Images of the Week! It’s our Labor Day weekend special for you this week featuring some fresh old school styles popping up again in a bid for capturing your nostalgic feelings for early graffiti and hip hop. And of course, we have some of the new stuff as […]