Brooklyn Street Art Newsletter for February 13, 2013

Images of the Week: 02.17.13 Guess it shouldn’t surprise us when we find out that the sticker, wheat-paste, or mural we published of “Street Art” or graffiti actually turns out to be a logo or promotion for someone who is selling sneakers, t-shirts, lip-gloss, tampons, or toe fungus spray. That’s how people pay the rent, yo! After all, we get press [...] Read More

BAST Collection for FALL 2013 Hits The Streets Fashion Week in New York means more models than usual on the subway and on the sidewalk. Poor us. Impossibly thin tall pretty and hunky people with beautiful skin and far-away eyes parading up and down the street in their free designer clothes and accessories, peering into their phones at MTA maps and fashion blogs to [...] Read More

BSA Film Friday: 02.15.13   Our weekly focus on the moving image and art in the streets. And other oddities. Now screening: Miss Van in São Paulo, Ronzo and “Roachio”, and David Gouny: Gouny the Froggy and his Polaroid 1000   BSA Special Feature: Miss Van in São Paulo, Brazil “I’m trying to find a way to do painting the same way I would do a [...] Read More

BSA Loves You More Every Day: Happy Valentines Day Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives. C. S. Lewis The individual wheat-paster or tagger on the streets may not intend it, but they’re writing an open diary, an invitation to conversation, to tell a story. As we continue to record and examine the stories that are [...] Read More

Blue Abstraction from Doug Fogelson in Chicago The new Street Art Abstraction we’ve been talking about continues apace in the public sphere, perhaps buffeted by current shows like MoMA’s Inventing Abstraction and the 100th anniversary of the earth shaking Armory Show that turned modern art on its head. Not quite as earth shaking, but still a marker on the path in the urban forest, [...] Read More

Sheryo and the Dubai Camel You’ve seen her work here for about a year and a half, since Singaporean Street Artist settled in Brooklyn and began painting New York walls in earnest with people like the Australian Yok, Brooklyn’s Bishop 203, and TopDos from Paris. In fact her New York campaign with Yok last year covered so many walls (especially [...] Read More

Street Artist RUBBISH for Le M.U.R. in Paris Rubbish, the French Street Artist who can work for endless hours to finely cut paper as intricately as lace, is taking his turn at the Le M.U.R wall in Paris right now.  Still pretty new to the scene, the Besançon based artist has a meticulous cutting method influenced by painting, mythology, even Art Nouveau. Recent [...] Read More

Images of the Week: 02.10.13 Here’s our weekly interview with the street, this week featuring Allen Ruppersberg, CB23, CYFI, Danielle Mastrion, Elle, False, KO, Left Handed Wave, Matt Siren, Spud, Stikman, and Tomek. Top image > Stikman (photo © Jaime Rojo) Stikman (photo © Jaime Rojo) Allen Ruppersberg “You & Me” at The High Line Park, Manhattan. (photo © Jaime Rojo) CB23 (photo © Jaime Rojo) Matt [...] Read More

Specter in Puerto Escondido, Mexico Today New York and most of the northeast US is completely clobbered and somewhat paralyzed with snow from a giant blizzard so we thought we’d show you photos from a surf town of 26,000 residents in Mexico called Puerto Escondido where their annual Carnaval started yesterday. Brooklyn based Street Artist Specter is working in the [...] Read More

BSA Film Friday 02.08.13   Our weekly focus on the moving image and art in the streets. And other oddities. Now screening: UNO: Forever Young, JR: Blow UP, ABOVE: Blood Diamond and KYLE HUGHES-ODGERS: A Thousand Lights From a Hundred Skies BSA Special Feature: UNO: Forever Young JR: Blow UP ABOVE: Blood Diamond KYLE HUGHES-ODGERS: A Thousand Lights From a Hundred Skies Read More

Remixing The Face in a Stinky Underground Subway Hallway A walk through the neglected and crumbling grime-caked subway stations of New York City, with their epically peeling paint and the smell of smeared human feces rushing you through hallways to your next train, can be a nauseating and dispiriting.  Mayors come and go, but rats and garbage remain, helping New York to “keep it [...] Read More

Cat People and Dog People ; Street Artists Bring Trusted Friends Street Artists are just as attached to their pets as anybody else, and given their reputation for being sort of secretive loners, maybe more. It’s not common but the appearance of cats and dogs on the street without leashes happens once in a while in carefully rendered drawings, illustrations, paintings, stencils, wheatpastes and stickers. C215 (photo [...] Read More

Liqen and Nantu Shipwrecked in Equador: A Girl, The Ocean and Her Hair Street Artists Liqen and Nantu just finished this wall in Tosunpa, Equador on the side of a small storefront. Using primarily black paint and paint brushes, the two create a reposed nymph looking skyward, her head surrounded by rolling waves, a somewhat tumultuous adventure on the high seas with dolphins, a whale, and a troubled [...] Read More

Laura Shechter, Painter of Graffiti

“I particularly feel graffiti beautifies blighted areas, and gives them style and dignity.” ~ Laura Schecter
Brooklyn born contemporary realist painter Laura Schecter takes cityscapes and graffiti into consideration as a formalist and you may even say with an element of romanticism. With abstract painter and “father of minimalism” Ad Rhinehardt as a teacher at Brooklyn [...]

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