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Midnight Moment: A Decade of Artists in Times SquareThe first and only book on Times Square’s iconic Midnight Moment series, the world’s largest and longest-running digital public art program. A celebration of this monumental platform for public art, this eponymous retrospective memorializes ten years of the more than 130 artists that have participated in the program. The complex and immersive experience of public art in Times Square is brilliantly captured in this book with reflections from some of the program’s most notable artists; and behind-the-scenes information about how it’s coordinated, executed, and commemorated. read more

Vicki DaSilva: Running with LightPhotoED: THE LIGHT ISSUE, Spring/Summer 2024Vicki DaSilva creates time exposure photographs using light as her drawing tool. Based in Inverness, Nova Scotia, her practice includes text-based light graffiti works, urban and rural light painting landscapes, and “light tartans” created with tube lamps patterned with colour filters. Vicki’s work has been featured in exhibitions internationally and has been published in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, HuffPost, The Guardian, among man others. Vicki is represented by Katzman Art Projects in Halifax. read more

Art From LightCape Breton PostElizabeth Patterson This is the billboard in Los Angeles that features the work, “Four Isms” by Inverness artist Vicki DaSilva. DaSilva is one of 30 North American artists chosen to have their art featured on billboards in the U.S. city. The barn shown in each of the four photos is located in Mabou. read more

The Billboard CreativeCurated by Victoria BurnsVicki DaSilva is an artist based in Canada, who uses a unique method of long-exposure photography to generate images. These images are perhaps more akin to ‘light-drawing’ or graffiti than photography. This process is time based, by nature, but also incorporates performance, intervention, and activism. At the same time, there is no physical trace of this work, which adheres to DaSilva’s core message of sustainability in the work. read morePress release

Plan Your Vote: how artists are using their work to spread a vital messageThe GuardianA new initiative between artists and museums aims to ensure Americans get their voices heard in time for the November election.With just weeks until an election, more than 60 artists have joined forced with some of America’s most prestigious museums and galleries for an urgent new social media project. read more

Donald Trump 'Loser,' by Artist Vicki Da Silva, in Front of His BuildingHuffington PostIf you ask the Republican frontrunner what the race is about he'll reduce it down to a contest of winners and losers. Artist Vicki da Silva would agree. The artist did her own ode to The Donald in front of his 40 Wall Street building in New York to illustrate her sentiment. read more

Protest!: A History of Social and Political Protest GraphicsLiz McQuistonThroughout history, artists and citizens have turned to protest art as a means of demonstrating social and political discontent. From the earliest broadsheets in the 1500s to engravings, photolithographs, prints, posters, murals, graffiti, and political cartoons, these endlessly inventive graphic forms have symbolized and spurred on power struggles, rebellions, spirited causes, and calls to arms. Spanning continents and centuries, Protest! presents a major new chronological look at protest graphics. read more

Exhibition Review: Vicki DaSilva - Lumen LineationMusée MagazineUsually, taking a photo preserves the instantaneous and the language around it reflects that; “a snapshot”, “capturing a moment”, etc. Even something as brief as the blink of an eye can be recorded by the camera lens. Vicki DaSilva’s work in Lumen Lineation at SL Gallery subverts this dynamic entirely and seamlessly collapses multiple moments of time into a single frame for all to see. read more

Photographic Alphabet: V is for Vicki DaSilvaMusee MagazineVicki DaSilva is a light graffiti and light painting pioneer. She has been making single frame time exposure photographs at night since 1980. DaSilva is the first artist to make deliberate text light graffiti photographs and is credited with creating the term “light graffiti”. She continued these light graffiti photographs throughout the 1980s and eventually started using four-foot fluorescent bulbs hooked up to pulley systems to create sheets of light. read more

Women respond to ancient Arabic poems in new showDAZEDDuring a time when one of the world’s most powerful leaders is able to ban migrants entering from Muslim-majority countries, it’s increasingly vital we hear the varied voices of Arab and Muslim women and their supporters. Luckily, this is exactly what upcoming revolutionary art show Radical Love: Female Lust is all about. read more

BSA Images of The Week: 01.22.17Brooklyn Street ArtInauguration week was just as bumpy as you could have expected with an incredibly divided country discussing the outgoing president, the incoming president, the foreign interference and weird circumstances around the actual election, the nearly all white all billionaire cabinet nominees, and the Women’s March‘s that vastly overwhelmed Trumps ceremony attendee numbers while “sister” marches took place in nearly 700 cities around the world. read more

The Best Anti-Trump Art from Around the WorldPaper MagazineA demented clown in a fright wig, a dangerous demagogue playing to the lowest common denominator, a carnie-barker reality showman who magnifies greed, fear, ignorance and arrogance to grotesque caricature; something about Donald Trump's foolish and dangerous parade across the media landscape has inspired artist unlike any other political figure in recent history. read more

Artists to Watch: Holiday Window Editionartnet newsThe Big Apple is an iconic location during the winter months. Every year, New Yorkers and tourists alike crowd midtown to get a glimpse of the iconic department store holiday window displays, and are treated to each store’s distinctive style, ranging from the classically Christmas-y to some very abstract contemporary designs. read more

Going PublicHedge, 37, The Mayfair Issue At 10pm on a cold, dark March night, dressed head-to-toe in black and carrying an eight-foot fluorescent lamp, American light artist Vicki DaSilva danced and looped between people in Trafalgar Square. The moving light, transported gracefully by DaSilva, was captured as a long-exposure single-frame photograph, producing the beautiful and ethereal Trafalgar.

NYC’s Newest Outdoor Art: A Mirrored Maze, A Treetop MirageWall Street JournalWhen seven large-scale sculptures go on view in Riverside Park South later this week, they will be the latest in this season’s growing gallery of outdoor art claiming turf in city parks and green spaces. read more

New York’s 15 Can’t-Miss Summer Public Art Installationsartnet newsWhen you’re in the mood to see art, but still want to enjoy the summer sun, New York has got you covered. With public art popping up all over the city, artnet News has rounded up the best on view in all five boroughs—in addition to our favorites from this spring. read more

Art in the Parks, Vicki DaSilva, East River FlowsNYC ParksDaSilva is a light graffiti and light painting pioneer. Since 1980, she has been making single frame time exposure photographs at night. DaSilva is credited with creating the term “light graffiti”, as well as being the first artist to make deliberate text light graffiti photographs. read more

Vicki DaSilva’s Light Graffiti Promotes Campaign for Syriaartnet newsSince the Syrian crisis began on March 13, 2011, 83 percent of the country’s electric lines have been cut, leaving the Syrian people in darkness. To promote awareness of the country’s suffering, OxFam International enlisted light artist Vicki DaSilva to create one of her signature ephemeral light graffiti works to highlight the #withSyria campaign and their Syrian Refugee Crisis Fund. read more

Artist Renders East River Flows in Light Graffitiartnet newsPioneering light graffiti artist Vicki DaSilva brought her ephemeral work to the Upper East Side’s East River Esplanade last weekend, shooting her signature single-frame, long exposure photographs, tracing colored beams of light amid pedestrians enjoying a nighttime stroll along the river. read more

Q&A with Light Graffiti Artist Vicki DaSilvaAmsterdam NewsVicki DaSilva’s signature light photography is inspired by graffiti, one of the four elements of hip-hop culture, but you’re most likely to find her with 4 and 8-foot fluorescent bulbs in her hands than spray paint. read more

Interviews from Yale University Radio WYBCXWYBCX Yale RadioVicki DaSilva is a light graffiti and light painting pioneer. She has been making single frame time exposure photographs at night since 1980. She is credited with the term ‘light graffiti’ as well as being the first artist to make deliberate text light graffiti photographs beginning in 1980 with her photograph titled Cash. read more

Snap! - Motion to Light Paramotoring - Red Bull Illume 2013Red Bull & Snap! OrlandoIn part 2 of the "Motion to Light" collaboration between Red Bull and Snap! Orlando, light painter Vicki DaSilva asks pilot Chris Santacroce to fly at night with an 8' light bulb strapped to his chest. Check out the amazing results. watch video

Vicki DaSilva Shines the LightPhoto District News Edu Fall 2013As if the magic inherent in a still image weren't powerful enough, there is light painting - fine art photographer Vicki DaSilva's medium of choice, which shatters the confines of conventional photography by incorporating performance, sculpture, technology and imagination. read more

Making Her Mark with LightLehigh Valley StyleVicki DaSilva of Allentown is one of the world’s most prolific pioneers of light painting and light graffiti. The dynamic luminous shapes she creates cleverly explore a fascinating frontier where installation, performance, painting, sculpture and intervention art converge in a singular spectacular photograph. read more

Snap! presents : Vicki DaSilva, behind the scenes - Miami Beach December 2012Snap! Orlandowatch video

Web Sites Illuminate Unknown ArtistsThe New York TimesAt twilight on Monday, something new will light up a Times Square billboard. An original work of art, 23 stories high, will replace a bright yellow ad for Sprint. The artist whose work now gets a canvas Rembrandt could never have imagined is a substitute teacher from Allentown, Pa., who has made art for over 30 years but never had the backing of a major museum or gallery. read more

Times Square ArtsVicki DaSilva is an American light graffiti and photographer who has been making single frame time exposure photographs at night since 1980. She was heavily influenced by the convergence of street and graffiti art during the birth of hip-hop that created a lasting graffiti love affair with light replacing spray paint. read more

Artists Wanted | Art Takes Times Square VideoSee MeWorking in concert with Chashama and the Times Square Alliance, we hosted an international competition with the goal of discovering creative talent and exposing it to the world at one of the most iconic locations on the planet : Times Square NYC. Tens of thousands of artists participated. Hundreds of thousands of votes were cast. One artist was chosen. watch video

Art Contest Winner Gets Times Square "Screening"Time Warner Cable NY News 1A new piece of art is now hanging in Times Square. The multimedia piece created by artist Vicki DaSilva hangs 23 stories above the famed "Crossroads of the World". The work features digital graffiti of the words "Never Sorry", written in homage to Chinese artist Ai Weiwei. read more

In Lieu Of Advertising, Substitute Teacher's Art Brightens Times SquareGuest of a GuestLast night in Times Square, one might have noticed a different kind of sign amidst the bright lights of advertising: "Jasmine Never Sorry (for Ai Weiwei)," a 23-story work of luminescent grafitti art by Vicki DaSilva. read more

Times Square billboards answer a high-brow calling: ArtPolitico New YorkAn artsy crowd filtered into Times Square last night, bathed along with the tourists in the weird Blade Runner light of the usually baldly-consumerist electronic billboards there. read more

Allentown artist's work will light up Times SquareThe Morning CallAfter 30 years using light to paint amid shadows, Allentown artist Vicki DaSilva has finally attracted the spotlight on her art. One of her pieces was selected by online voting out of 35,000 entries as the winner of this year's "Art Takes Times Square" contest, sponsored by the group Artists Wanted. read more

August 2011, Vicki DaSilva at Able Fine Art NY Gallery Whitehot MagazineLight painter and graffiti artist, Vicki DaSilva conquers two aesthetic discourses, both recently re-emerging onto the art world’s “preferred list.” Her solo show REVERB, at Able Fine Art NY, awakens the static photograph and illuminates iconography that normally only “goes bump” in the night. read more

Armory Picks, Fun Friday March 4, 2011Brooklyn Street ArtArmory Madness this weekend. Light graffiti artist Vicki DaSilva blesses the art proceedings with Tiger Blood, an homage to someone famous allegedly. read more