Photographer Spotlight: Alan Nakkash

Alan Nakkash (previously featured here) is a first generation Iraqi-American photographer from San Diego, California. Since graduating with a degree in fine art from the University of California, Riverside, Nakkash has established himself as a freelance photographer in Southern California. Splitting his time between personal projects and editorial assignments, he is interested in work that wrestles with the unique identity […]

“Eight Artworks” by Artist Kohshin Finley

Los Angeles-based artist Kohshin Finley’s solo exhibition, Eight Artworks, features portraits of significant people from his community, including family and close friends. Equipped with a camera in hand, Finley captures candid snapshots of his subjects to use as source material for expressive works on canvas. He translates these moments of everyday life into scenes that suggest the heroic and monumental. […]

Photographer Spotlight: Alana Celii

Alana Celii (previously featured here) is a photo editor and photographer based in New York. Dividing her time between personal projects and work as a photo editor at The New York Times, Celii’s editorial skills are put to good use in the careful curation and sequencing of her personal work. Exploring the beauty and banality of the everyday, her images […]

Artist Spotlight: Dave Bowers

A selection of recent work by Los Angeles-based illustrator Dave Bowers, a.k.a. Oldsweaty. Focused on primary colors, psychedelic beings, and spatial relationships, Bowers’ illustrations draw inspiration from nature, 70s Japanese poster design, and mid century paperback covers. Someone recently asked him how he would describe his work. “I never have a good response to these kinds of things, so I […]

Artist Spotlight: Santiago Galeas

A selection of recent paintings by Queens, NY-based artist Santiago Galeas. Primarily focused on making portraits of queer people in his community, Galeas describes the intimacy between him and his subjects: “So much of the content of the work relies on how much the subject is willing to give me in our conversations and when they pose for me. And […]

BSA Images Of The Week: 10.16.22

Welcome to BSA Images of the Week! The hits just keep on coming! The mark-making on the streets accompanies us through the rain and sun and turning leaves and a flood of new migrants arriving and attacks on the subway. Not to say that crime is up, but inflation is robbing people’s buying power everywhere right now, and the poor […]

So Much More Than Style: “Chile Estyle” Tells a People’s History at World Premiere in NYC

Making its World Premiere in New York at the Urban World Film Festival this month (Oct 26-30), Chile Estyle testifies to the powerful role street art, graffiti, and political muralism have had on city citizens for decades. Santiago de Chile has been cited for years as an international progenitor of political and consequential street art – owing perhaps to its […]

Call to Submit: Booooooom 20~20 Art Print Editions

We’re very excited to announce a new open call for our 20~20 Art Editions for artists! In the past, we’ve selected works from artists such as Hanna Lee Joshi, Cory Feder, Andrew Tavukciyan, Alina-Ondine Slimovschi, and Peter Gehrman. For this edition, we are once again offering an opportunity for artists and illustrators looking to have prints produced of their own […]