B.O.S [highlights]

This months cover by Aleksandar Ares,
with layout by K.K.W.
The design is for a current project
Rise Of The Young Ones.

Bushwick Open Studios [B.O.S].

Photos & text by K.K.W

Despite the fact that I don't live, or as an artist operate in Bushwick(or Williamsburg), I still look forward to B.O.S & other events there. And though I didn't get to see all of it this year, what I did see,  was amazing.

The Modernism of Curiosity
@ Fuchs Project

Entitled "The Modernism Of Curiosity" Fuchs Project (Raphael Fuchs) had a stunning display of photographs. Not just beautiful or skillful, but moments captured that convey something wonderful. 

@ Fuchs Project

@ Fuchs Project. Noah Xifr - visual artist -
 helping out for the day.

@ Fuchs Project

Juan Miguel Palacios' work is truly amazing, and was arguably one of the best this year, as last year. His large-scale 3 dimensional pieces are beautiful as they are disturbing. They surge with the power of frozen energy.  

Juan Miguel Palacios

@ Juan Miguel Palacios'

@ Juan Miguel Palacios'

Juan Miguel Palacios

Seung Mo Park

Seung Mo Park's creations are outstanding for there realism, the passion they evoke & exude, not to mention the level of detail. His portraits display a depth of feeling unlike others, while his sculptures are bold and delicately composed - they resonate life. All of this made fascinating by his choice of medium (wire-mesh & aluminum).  

Seung Mo Park

Seung Mo Park. This was a large screen
visitors went behind to look at a sculpture,
& themselves became part of his artwork.

Seung Mo Park

At Slag contemporary Gallery Paul McLeans 

"Dim Tim" showed the viewer something striking, provocative and odd all at the same time. He first created his cyclops figure in 1984 into the wet black ink on a silkscreen support board. And with this he became, in his own right, a "4D artist" long before it achieved the aesthetic currency it enjoys today.     

Paul McLean

Paul McLean - "Dim Tim"

@ Slag contemporary gallery

@ Slag contemporary gallery,
operated by Irina Protopopescu 

Young Min Choi's creativity certainly stood apart from the rest, with his bold line work, powerful simplicity and excellent use of color. Part of me wants to say his work is "Pop-Art", but that would be to small a category for Choi's art.    

Young Min Choi

Young Min Choi

Mike Schreiber is one of the best artists around, immersing himself in the world of Hip-Hop, photographing saw greats as Mos-Def. His work is powerful in its composition, beauty and intensity.  

Mike Schreiber

Mike Schreiber

@ []Nothing Space there was definitely something. An interesting group of avant-garde artists fairly new to the area, but eagerly working to make a serious impact on the Bushwick art scene.   

@ []Nothing Space

@ []Nothing Space

@ []Nothing Space

Cair Crawford's artwork seems simple at first glance, until you really look at it, and suddenly your hypnotized. The subtle lines are almost blurred creating a slight distortion thats playful and intense.    

Cair Crawford,
next to the gentleman in blue.

@ Cair Crawford

Cair Crawford

@ Cair Crawford

@ Cair Crawford

Jung Ah Kim (stripe shirt)

Jung Ah Kim is one of those artists whose work runs more on emotion & abstract thought (at least to me), which produces eye-catching patterns. There's an individual quality to her work making it stand apart from most others. 

Jung Ah Kim 

@ the shared studio of Jung Ah Kim, Chika Yoshii
& Chioma Ebinama.

When I first saw Chika Yoshii's work, I thought of the "engineers" from Sir Ridley Scott's "Prometheus", which evoked wonder & fear (although I'm sure thats not what the artist intended). Her creations have a sublime warmth and appeal thats haunting. It exits somewhere between illustration and impressionism. The muted colors and delicate blending of conveys almost too much. 

Chika Yoshii

Chika Yoshii

Chioma Ebinama (left)

Chioma Ebinama has a really playful, surrealist, and at times erotic theme to her art. Her illustrative style is matched only by her vivid imagination and obvious skill. The image below is from a series called "Ways to exit a vagina".   

From the series
"Ways to exit a vagina"

Chioma Ebinama

Kaz Ooka work isn't just paintings but an intense form of social & political commentary, at times adding himself (if I'm not mistaken) in his artwork. It has the feeling of the impressionists with a slight illustrative look. Most of his paintings had the theme of war, religion and aspects of pop-culture although often with a vivid sense of fantasy.    

Kaz Ooka

Kaz Ooka

Kaz Ooka

Orianne Cosentino seems to exist in two world; abstract-expression & a moody realism. In her landscapes there's a rich sense of emotions lingers amongst the light and shadows. Its as if you want to walk into them. Her abstract work gives a strong sense of sustained moments of impulse, with creative control. Her pieces incorporating parking tickets is as stunning as it is clever. 

Orianne Cosentino

Orianne Cosentino

Orianne Cosentino

@ Orianne Cosentino's

Orianne Cosentino

A good screen-print studio is hard to find, so I'm guessing Bushwick should count its blessings that the "Polluted Eyeball" is there. Covering a fair amount of the wall-space were examples of amazing work you don't come across too often. One could place an order, or be apart of a workshop. At this studio if they can't do it, odds are no one else can. 

@ Polluted Eyeball

@ Polluted Eyeball

@ Polluted Eyeball

If you would like to know more, go to:www.artsinbushwick.com, www.fuchsprojects.com, www.juanmiguelpalacios.com, www.seungmopark.com, www.slaggallery.com, www.youngminchoi.com, www.mikeschreiber.com, www.nothingspace.org, www.caircrawford.com, www.jungahkimm.com, www.chikayoshii.com, www.thevirgindress.com, www.soymonk.com, www.ocosentino.com, www.pollutedeyeball.com "Art is the reason, art is the way"