Alison Blickle is an artist based in Los Angeles, California. Featuring women engaged in mysterious ceremonies, each of Blickle’s exhibitions is presented as a narrative, exploring powerful female archetypes found in mythology. Her recent work reimagines ancient myths, setting the stories in our modern world, and weaving their themes into our current social and political happenings. Blickle’s latest exhibitions, “Killer” […]
Quel Beast: Street Art, Hip Hop, and Cross-UndressingI headed to Bushwick’s Wreck Room last week to talk to Quel Beast about art and see how he’s doing. He’s pasting up some work indoors this week, at Kings County, and a new street piece was almost rea…
A selection of recent work from one of our favs, Tokyo-born, Brooklyn-based artist Kenichi Hoshine (previously featured here). Characterized by an abstract blend of figural elements and free-form gestures, Hoshine’s paintings take from a wide range of inspiration including theatre sets, the occult, found imagery, and experiences from daily life. Kenichi Hoshine is one of the 50 artists featured in […]
May 2, 2022 Artists Layer Cake vs Layer Cake. The Versus Project 2. Urban Nation Berlin. (photo © Jaime Rojo) “I didn’t know Christian and Patrick personally at the beginning of the project,” says graffiti writer/artist EGS, “but then we met and went spraying together.” So many relationships on the street begin as easily, but this one is in service […]
Based between Toronto and Maui, Brendan George Ko (previously featured here) describes himself as a “document-based storyteller.” At the end of each year since 2014, Ko has put together a virtual “scrapbook” capturing the essence of the year in a collection of images and videos. His latest scrapbook, “lonersong,” is a quiet and atmospheric ode to the people, places, animals, […]
Welcome to BSA Images of the Week! Happy International Workers Day! It has been a somewhat delirious spring week in Berlin-town as we cope with that special blend of bliss and dysphoria that envelopes you – mixing intercontinental jet lag, blooming cherry blossoms, birds chirping, aerosol spraying, and the chaos and grief of war at the doorstep. The shadow of […]