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Bianca Burrows
"KINDNESS IS SO GANGSTER"
Visual Artist
BB ART
biancaburrows.com
Bianca Burrows is originally a New Yorker but
after transferring to UT as a sophomore, Tampa
has been her home for seven years. After
graduating she took a position working in a sign
shop and quickly grasped the skills to design
and install vinyl. With art being a passion Bianca
took advantage of working in the sign shop and
started renting a room in the back so she could
paint in between work.
Bianca’s artistic inspiration is drawn from social
culture, music, movies and other art and artists.
Her technique is best described as mixed
media pop art. “Someone once described my
art as clean street art which I really liked,” said
Burrows. Her art can be seen throughout Tampa
Bay. BB Art, the name she creates under, is
commissioned by both private art enthusiasts
and businesses owners from large murals to
smaller canvas pieces. Each piece is methodically
well thought out with her clients in mind but with
the unique BB Art twist. “Even if commissioned
for someone's home, I like to pick their brain.
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They will be the ones looking at it every day, so
I want it to have meaning to them as well,” says
Burrows. “If it's for myself or a show - I have a
sketchbook I write down ideas as they come
to me, or if I see or hear something intriguing/
inspirational, I’ll write it down and go back to it
before I’m about to get my art on.”
Bianca completed an outside mural recently
in Downtown Tampa’s Channel District at what
is famously known as the glasshouse titled,
‘Kindness is so Gangster.' The inspiration
came about after designing a tee shirt concept
with CAMP, a studio she is involved with in
South Tampa. The shirt design took off, so she
transformed the idea into a mixed media canvas
which displayed during her recent BB Art show
with Landrover.
If you had to choose three colors and could only
create one final piece of art, what colors would you
want and what would you create?
Mars BLACK, GOLD, and NEWSPAPER (let’s count that
as a color)
BIGGIE BUDDHA always and forever. He is kind and so
gangster :)