The museum has commissioned a series of new murals by well -
known urban artists such as Saber, Greg «Craola» Simkins, Jeff Soto, Tristan Eaton and Audrey Kawasaki.
Not exact matches
When big brands steal the work of independent
artists (examples: Zara,
Urban Outfitters, and Forever 21), it's
no longer about inspiration or learning.
«What We Made's strength is derived from its vibrant conversations, balancing the voices of such well -
known artists as Tania Bruguera, Rick Lowe, Mierle Laderman Ukeles, along with
urban planners, educators, philosophers, political scientists, and participants....
The exhibition will include both the portraits and
urban landscapes for which the
artist is so well
known and a new self - portrait in graphite and pastel on paper.
Copied one from his gallery's website (they said it better than I could): The
artist Loren Munk is
known for his cubistic paintings that combine
urban imagery with exhaustive historic research, complex systems of thinking and painterly finesse.
In the 1980s, a decade when
artists commonly appropriated styles or imagery from earlier art historical periods, Mark Innerst became
known for beautifully crafted natural and
urban landscape paintings that gave new life to the American tradition of the romantic sublime.
ABOUT THE
ARTISTS Cecilia Bengolea (b. 1979, Buenos Aires) was trained as a jazz and
urban dancer and studied Eugenio Barba's ancestral dances, also
known as anthropological dances.
One of the most significant young
artists today, Kehinde Wiley (American, b. 1977) is
known for his vibrant, large - scale paintings of black
urban men rendered in the self - confident, empowered poses typical of classical European portrait painting.
Gregory Watin is a French contemporary
artist known for his very unique
urban style.
The
artist is well
known for his
urban and coastal scenes...
Known for
artist - centric projects and collaborations, The Contemporary invites exploration in both its
urban and natural settings - downtown at the Jones Center on Congress Avenue, lakeside at the Laguna Gloria Campus (including the Betty and Edward Marcus Sculpture Park, the Art School, and the historic Driscoll Villa), and around Austin through the Museum Without Walls program.
Taken outside of the
artist's house during a family party, the photograph is evidence of the little
known equestrian culture of Compton and its
urban cowboys.
This exhibition of new photographs signals a departure from the
urban youth culture images for which the
artist is well
known.
Informally
known as the «Bowery School», it also included
artists such as Nate Lowman, Aaron Young, Ryan McGinley, Gardar Eide Einarsson, Banks Violette, Dash Snow, Agathe Snow, Hanna Liden, Lizzie Bougatsos and Adam McEwen, who all in one way or another share an engagement with their city and with
urban culture in general.
Presenters — most of whom
knew Wong personally — are Sean Corcoran (who also moderates), curator of prints and photographs at the Museum of the City of New York, where he organized a major exhibition of Wong's collection of graffiti and street art; Yasmin Ramirez, curator at the Bronx Museum of Art, who contributed to the exhibition catalogue; Barry Blinderman, director of the University Galleries of Illinois State University, who exhibited the
artist's work at his influential Semaphore Gallery on the Lower East Side; and
artist Jane Dickson, a close associate of Wong's whose
urban themes resonate with his.
Shaun Ellison is a South African
artist, best
known for his work inspired by the
urban landscape and graffiti among other things.
1965 - 1975» depicts the energy of the cultural environment of this American city as a center for figurative production, as well as the heterogeneity of the contributions of some
artists known as Chicago Imagists (Roger Brown, Ed Flood, Art Green, Gladys Nilsson, Jim Nutt, Ed Paschke, Christina Ramberg, Suellen Rocca and Karl Wirsum), who had identified the roots of their personal research in Surrealism and Art Brut, in a way that anticipated the new tendencies of the 80's and 90's, from Graffiti to Street Art, from wild cartoons to
urban murals.
The
artist is
known for explosive abstractions that draw heavily on the
urban condition.
Liu Wei (born 1972, Beijing) is one of the most talented Chinese visual
artists, widely
known for his paintings, sculptures and installation works which explore contradictions of modern societies and the transformation of the
urban landscape in developing cities in the post-Mao era of China's rapid urbanization.
About Ralston Crawford Ralston Crawford (1906 - 1978) is predominantly
known for his abstract representations of
urban life and industry, and his early work is frequently associated with Precisionist
artists such as Charles Sheeler and Stuart Davis.
Best
known for his
urban landscapes and his distinctive style of painting the human figure, defined as «matchstick men», the extent of his production was only recognized after the
artist's death.
Carola Bravo is a Miami based
artist well
known for her immersive video - installations, site - specific installations,
urban interventions, and intimate studio artworks that address space, changing territories and their geometry.
Describing himself as an
urban activist, rather than the
artist, Biancoshock is an Italian,
known for producing artworks that are usually ephemeral in space, but limitless in time through the photography, video, exhibition or any other media.
Logan is well -
known for his work as a street
artist and
urban explorer — seeking out and discovering places that few have seen.
Through her collage - based paintings depicting intimate, personal scenes, Nigerian - born, L.A. - based
artist Akunyili Crosby is pulling focus onto a larger trend, what's become
known as «Afropolitanism»: the shifting multicultural identity of African citizens and members of the African diaspora as they move to more
urban centers across the globe.
Red Grooms is an American multimedia
artist best
known for his colorful pop - art constructions depicting frenetic scenes of modern
urban life.
Architectural ruins was a common subject for 18th - and 19th - century
artists and an especially favored theme among the Romanticists; Farm Security Administration photographers such as Walker Evans and Dorothea Lange are
known for documenting the effects of the Great Depression; and most recently, an obsession with photographing
urban decay has sparked an entire genre dubbed «ruin porn.»
Examples include Patio Taller, a performance space and grass - roots educational center in the industrial zone of San Antón that organizes a «theater of the oppressed» to address issues affecting their community; the collective transformation of the hillside town of El Cerro, Naranjito into a living mural that is socially and artistically charged; intergenerational workshops
known as Escuelas Oficios (Trade Schools) that are recuperating artisanal traditions threatened by modernization and colonialism, such as weaving, lace making, and basketry; the revitalization of blighted properties and neighborhoods through participatory
urban design of community centers, public parks,
urban gardens, and food cooperatives; and the aesthetic and physical reclaiming of public space through movement by
artist Noemí Segarra.
A centerpiece sculpture by Ben Wolf is made mostly from
urban junk, and there are several wheat - paste prints by the
artist known as Swoon, who also has paintings on the building's facade.
Though meticulously rendered and featuring strict geometrical shapes, these works have that
Urban Rustic or even Digital Bohemian feel
known among Mission School
artists that she's been associated with.
Swiss
artist Adrian Falkner, also
known in the world of
urban art as Smash137, will be opening next week «Thinking Hand» his new solo show at Galerie Le Feuvre in Paris.
One of the most significant young
artists today, Kehinde Wiley is
known for vibrant, large - scale paintings of young
urban men, rendered in the self - confident, empowered poses typical of classical European portrait painting.
The Affichistes Pioneers of new realism, early pop
artists, street art trailblazers — on their rambles through postwar Paris, the
artists who would become
known as the Affichistes collected fragments of the weathered and tattered posters, they came across that were often peeling and several layers deep, carried them back to their studios and created original artworks from them, in doing so elevating this ubiquitous aspect of everyday
urban life to the status of a fine art.
Known for his seamless digital creations, New York — based
artist Anthony Goicolea «s photographs bring together familiar elements from various locations around the world that have become synonymous with
urban settings.
No matter how skimpy the résumé, a capacious
urban loft said you were a serious
artist....»
Bradford, one of today's leading international
artists, is
known for his work across media inspiring cross-cultural dialogue on social, political, and economic issues facing underserved
urban communities.
Known for large, abstract, mixed - media paintings that often incorporate ephemera and discarded elements of
urban life, the African - American
artist received critical acclaim for his presentation, Tomorrow Is Another Day, in Venice, which will open at The Baltimore Museum of Art in September.
Known as one of the
artists of Beautiful Losers — a bi-coastal collective inspired by various aspects of street culture associated with skateboarding, graffiti, punk, and hip - hop — Campbell's defiantly animated assemblages pay homage to the roguishly creative spirit of
urban signage.
Luke Egan aka Filthy Luker is a mixed media
artist from Bristol, best
known for his unique
urban installations.
The gallery is
known in Miami for presenting a platform for emerging, mid-career, established and master
artists ranging in historical scope from the origins of Post War to the most current evolutions of digital media, conceptual installation and
urban interventionist.
Gordon Matta - Clark was an American
artist best
known for his site - specific artworks he made in the 1970s, whose practice consisted of exploring and subverting
urban architecture.
Renowned street
artist JR is best
known for plastering giant, monochrome photographs of the faces of immigrants and other marginalized groups in
urban centers.
Red Grooms (born Charles Rogers Grooms on June 7, 1937) is an American multimedia
artist best
known for his colorful pop - art constructions depicting frenetic scenes of modern
urban life.
2006 The Downtown Show, The New York Art Scene 1974 - 1984, New York University Grey Art Gallery, New York, US Onestar Shop by Hans Schabus, Art Metropole, Toronto, CA Public Space / Two Audiences, Works and Documents from the Herbert Collection, Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, ES Draft Deceit, Kunstnernes Hus, NO Location Shots, Galerie Erna Hecey, Brussels, BE Pierre Huyghe: Celebration Park, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris / ARC, FR Cerealart, Cerealart Lounge Pier 90, The Armory Show, New York, US
Artists for Chinati, Phillips de Pury & Company, New York, US The Early Show: Video from 1969 - 1979, curated by Constance De Jong, The Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery at Hunter College, New York, US Onestar Press, The First Five Years, The Engholm Engelhorn Gallerie, Vienna, AT Message Personnel, Yvon Lambert, Paris, FR Not Quite Ten Years Without Martin Kippenberger, a project by Chris Hamond, Bar MOT for Kippenberger (MOT), London, UK That Was Then This Is Now, De Appel, Amsterdam, NL Czesław Miłosz / To Allen Ginsberg, Dvir Gallery, Tel - Aviv, IL Mental Image - Wortwerke und Textbilder, Kunstverein St. Gallen Kunstmuseum, CH Conceptual Comics, curated by AA Bronson, Max Schumann, Walter Phillips Gallery at the Banff Centre for the Arts, Banff Alberta, CA Libri Books Bücher, Museo D'Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli (Torino), IT The Shape of Sound, Radio Arte Mobile, Sound Art Museum, Rome, IT Wall Works - Sol LeWitt, C.A. Swintak, Lawrence Weiner, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario, CA I: An Exhibition in Three Acts, Futura Gallery, Prague, CZ I Will Not Make Any More Boring Art, Lithographs, Publications and Ephemera from The Nova Scotia College of Art & Design, Printed Matter, Inc., New York, US On the Ball, Galerie Anselm Dreher, Berlin, DE Group Exhibition, curated by Peter Kogler, Galerie Mezzanin, Vienna, AT The Title As The Curator's Art Piece, A Summer Show by Mathieu Copeland (spoken word exhibition), Blow de la Barra, London, UK Into Me / Out Of Me, curated Klaus Bisenbach, P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, New York, US; KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, DE A Bit Of Matter And A Little Bit More, screening Turtle, curated by Michael Shamberg, Chelsea Space, London, UK Moving On: Motion, Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin, DE The
Known and the Unknown, Gallerie Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, DK As If By Magic, Bethlehem Peace Center, West Bank & Art School Palestine, Palestine, IL The Materialization of Sensibility: Art & Alchemy, Leslie Tonkonow Gallery, New York, US The
Urban Forest Project, Times Square Information Station, Times Square, New York, US Word, curated by L. Brandon Krall, Deborah Colton Gallery, New York, US Printemps de Septembre, Toulouse, curated by Jean - Marc Bustamante, City of Toulouse, FR Contraband, curated by Carolina Grau, Galeria Luisa Strina, São Paulo, BR São Paulo Bienale, Escola São Paulo, São Paulo, BR Busy Going Crazy, collection Sylvio Perlstein, La Maison Rouge, Paris, FR The RxArt Ball, New York, US The Title As The Curator's Art Piece (spoken word exhibition) curated by Matthieu Copeland, Blow de la Barra, London, UK Concrete Language, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, CA Project 2023 - Arteast Collection 2000 +23, Moderna Galerija Ljubljana, SL Break Even, Andrew Roth Gallery, New York, US Open, CCS Bard Hessel Museum, Annandale - on - Hudson, New York, US Wrestle, CCS Bard Hessel Museum, Annadale - on - Hudson, New York, US Ideal City - Invisible Cities, curated by Sabrina von der Ley & Markus Richter, Europe Projects, Zamość, PL Into A Journey, Meyer Riegger, Karlsruhe, DE Magritte and Contemporary Art: The Treachery Of Images, designed by John Baldessari, LACMA, Los Angeles, California, US Art Metropole: The Top 100, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, CA Poster, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, US Pandora's Reisen, Brigitte March Galerie, Stuttgart, DE Dedica - 20 Anni Della Galleria Alfonso Artiaco, curated by Julia Draganovic, Palazzo delle Arti Napoli, Naples, IT Good Riddance, curated by Claire Davies & Sam Gathercole, MOT, London, UK Art in America: 300 Years of Innovation, curated by Susan Davidson, National Art Museum of China (NAMOC), Beijing, CN Not For Sale, curated by Alanna Heiss, P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, US Il Faut Rendre À Cézanne, The Collection Lambert, Avignon, FR
Widewalls: Do you believe that the
Urban Art Fair will be an opportunity for young and / or emerging urban artists to promote their own art or you want to put the focus on more established and well - known art
Urban Art Fair will be an opportunity for young and / or emerging
urban artists to promote their own art or you want to put the focus on more established and well - known art
urban artists to promote their own art or you want to put the focus on more established and well -
known artists?
Lee Ann Norman: You've been working as an
artist for quite some time now, but most people who
know your work are familiar with the iconic images of mostly black and brown people in
urban settings.
He is
known for expressing his thoughts on the accelerated development of cities and
urban landscapes, and «Exotic Lands No. 21» highlights the beauty in basic commercial elements as the
artist reuses industrial doors to create the piece.
Peter Regli is a Swiss multi-medium
urban artist best
known for his Reality Hacking project that has been ongoing for over 20 years.
C is an England - born Australian
artist best
known for his
urban narrative paintings and for his drip painting style.
Allan McCollum, an
artist featured in
Urban Theater: New York Art in the 1980s, became well
known in the late 1970s for his series Surrogate Paintings and continues to be recognized for utilizing methods of mass production to render countless unique forms.