January 5, 2022 Artists Ah Florida! So close to heaven, so far from sane. But as New Yorkers, we appreciate this. We just returned from holidays there after a 48-hour Amtrak ride through a snowstorm and can confirm all those adages about the gorgeous sunsets, storks, sandpipers, beach babes, and whacked-out/ semi-menacing sea-creatures that walk the streets and in the […]
Thirza Schaap is an artist based between Cape Town, South Africa, and Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Combining sculpture with photography, her ongoing project, “Plastic Ocean,” examines our changing relationship with plastics and their increasing and overwhelming presence in our lives. Juxtaposing the ugliness of pollution with aesthetically pleasing sculptural compositions, Schaap forces us to consider the implications of our consumption, idolatry, […]
Now on view until January 28th at SC Gallery in Bilbao, street artist/contemporary artist Isaac Cordal’s hapless little men are being subsumed into the machinery of our meaningless times, positioned in perpetual fog, adrift and submissive, unable to resist the march to a digital life that is in never-ending production mode. While the electronic prison walls of everyday existence appear […]
A selection of paintings from the recent series, “Querencia,” by North London-based artist Rex Southwick. Exploring notions of luxury, ownership, and aspiration, Southwick’s highly saturated paintings depict lavish domestic environments under construction, revealing the hidden truths behind the idealized spaces plastered across our digital feeds. Working from images sourced from building contractors and construction sites, he deliberately obscures the identities […]
There must have been many stories and viewpoints you explored that didn’t make the final cut, how did you choose these specific people? As I mentioned above, some subjects needed to drop out as COVID became a risk during shooting. Tiko, of course, is widely known and revered, and it was an honour for him to share his point of […]
It is hard to pinpoint the precise moment a star becomes beloved currency in culture but perhaps one of the flashpoints is the day they become street art. Gilf! homage to Betty White on the streets of NYC from 2011. (photo © Jaime Rojo) For us the realization that Betty White had transcended the realm of popular comedy actress to […]
A selection of paintings by self-taught Nigerian artist Ekene Stanley Emcheta. Living and working in Abuja, Nigeria, Emcheta’s figurative paintings are rendered with oil and acrylic paints on canvas. “My recent works focus more on human energy, personality, and identity,” he explains. “I portray figures mostly of African descent with intentional elimination of skin color, drawing the viewer’s focus to […]
Embracing unique room decor aesthetics with a mashup of personal design features is perfect for Indie Aesthetic Fans. From quirky touches to retro posters, Indie Aesthetics are all about keeping things unapologetically different from anything anyone else has seen before. And yes, we know that in the modern era, different can mean taking inspiration from the 60s and 70s like most […]
When it comes to street art, murals, graffiti, and related events around the world last year, we were running to keep up. You may have missed some of the people, thinkers, artists, projects, and community resources that we shared with BSA readers last year. We’re pleased to share with you some of those stories you may overlooked. Here are some […]
SEE ONE Merges Graffiti and Street Art Abstractly with Flying “Shards”New Video Debut and Interview with the “GEOMETRICKS” artist See One A New York native, See One is a self-taught visual artist with a big imagination which was electrified as a kid in the city seeing … BSA Images Of The Week: 01.03.2021Welcome to the first BSA Images of the […]