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Vicki DaSilva: Running with Light
PhotoED: THE LIGHT ISSUE, Spring/Summer 2024
Vicki 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 Light
Cape Breton Post
Elizabeth 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
Curated by Victoria Burns
Vicki 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 more
Plan Your Vote: how artists are using their work to spread a vital message
The Guardian
A 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
Protest!: A History of Social and Political Protest Graphics
Liz McQuiston
An authoritative, richly illustrated history of six centuries of global protest art.
Throughout history, artists and citizens have turned to protest art as a means of demonstrating social and political discontent. (page 256) read more
Donald Trump 'Loser,' by Artist Vicki Da Silva, in Front of His Building
Huffington Post
If 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
Exhibition Review: Vicki DaSilva - Lumen Lineation
Musée Magazine
Usually, 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 DaSilva
Musee Magazine
Vicki 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 show
DAZED
During 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: 01.22.17
Brooklyn Street Art
Inauguration 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 World
Paper Magazine
A 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 Edition
artnet news
The 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 Public
Hedge, 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 Mirage
Wall Street Journal
When 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 Installations
artnet news
When 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 Flows
NYC Parks
DaSilva 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 Syria
artnet news
Since 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 Graffiti
artnet news
Pioneering 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 DaSilva
Amsterdam News
Vicki 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 WYBCX
WYBCX Yale Radio
Vicki 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 2013
Red Bull & Snap! Orlando
In 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 Light
Photo District News Edu Fall 2013
As 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
Lehigh Valley Style
Vicki 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
Web Sites Illuminate Unknown Artists
The New York Times
At 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
Vicki 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 Video
See Me
Working 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 1
A 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 Square
Guest of a Guest
Last 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: Art
Politico New York
An 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