There was a special era
in underground art, right before blogs and social media took hold and that monthly magazine that came to your doorstep was your only window into culture.
D * Face has long been synonymous with street art's rise from cult
underground art form to one of the most beloved and famed genres in the world.
We went to
underground art shows, out to great local bars, live music, and cooked big family style dinners!
He spent his formative years immersed in the thriving
underground art scene of Miami, Florida's, where the multicultural environment and social processes deeply impacted his perception of urban space.
Martin Kippenberger's reputation as an organizer
of underground art and music events and general provocateur has at times overshadowed his own output.
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José Parlá spent his formative years immersed in the
thriving underground art scenes of Miami, while frequently traveling to other cities, including Beijing, Havana, Istanbul, New York, Paris, Sydney, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Tokyo, London, and San Juan, as well as to many other countries in which the multicultural environment and social processes deeply impacted his perception of urban space.
In 1993, Alexander Floresnky, founder of the infamous Russian
underground art group Mitki, nearly turned down the opportunity to illustrate the collected works of the great Russian humorist Sergei Dovlatov — thankfully, he did not.
Robert Longo (born 1953) is a New York - born and raised painter and sculptor, who was part of the New York
City underground art scene of the 1970's.
While other exhibitions have presented
Russian underground art or Chinese post-Cultural Revolution art, Figurative Diaspora will be the first exhibition to trace the direct artistic influences of the USSR on the artists of the People's Republic of China.
On returning to America in 1966 he settled in New York, becoming part of a small but enduringly
influential underground art scene that included Eva Hesse, Chuck Close, Joan Jonas, the writer Spalding Gray and the composers Steve Reich and Philip Glass.
That's the setting for this documentary from longtime Jim Jarmusch collaborator Sara Driver, which contrasts the city's socioeconomic despair of the time with the rise of a
vibrant underground art scene.
Unfortunately, once you
travel underground the art style takes a big hit, delving into strangely lit caverns populated with dull scenery and the apocalyptic sepia colour tone we know all too well.
One of the most significant painters of the 20th century, Basquiat came of age in the late 1970s in the
post-punk underground art scene in downtown New York.
IN 1991, at «SPEW: The Homographic Convergence» — a showcase of queer zines, T - shirts, videotapes, and performance that took place at the Randolph Street Gallery in Chicago — Robert Ford described Thing as a «black gay and
lesbian underground arts journal and magazine kind of thing.»
«Over the past 22 years, Juxtapoz Art & Culture Magazine has documented the creative life
through underground art and street culture,» remarks Evan Pricco.
During the past few years, New York has seen the restaging of two
groundbreaking underground art exhibitions, originally organized in 1980 by Lower East Side - based collective Colab: The Real Estate Show and The Times Square Show.
The visitors hail from Shanghai, Detroit and Los Angeles and cities in Latin America and Europe — a kind of art gallery Airbnb or a
decentralized underground art fair.
Ōyama first encountered the visual language of graffiti in Italy around 2000 (and later in Tokyo and New York in 2011), which became a principal influence in establishing his signature style in the
Tokyo underground art scene of the mid-2000s.
Lamarche - Vadel began her curatorial life in Berlin, where her interest in experimental modes of exhibition - making led her to collaborate
with underground art projects, such as the «Forgotten Bar Project» in Kreuzberg.
Ilya Kabakov was a leader of Moscow's
unofficial underground art scene from the late 1950s on, and widely recognized as some of the most important artists of our time.
In mid-to-late Sixties New York, Serra became part of a small but enduringly influential
downtown underground art scene that included Chuck Close, the writer Spalding Gray and the minimalist composers Philip Glass and Steve Reich.
Most of all, he's a famous documenter of the once -
lively underground art scene in the meatpacking district in the 80s and 90s, one that extinguished around the arrival of Chelsea galleries.
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Downtown Los Angeles has been cultivating a
thriving underground art scene for years, but l was unaware that DTLA is the home of the world's largest Art Colony.
Mapplethorpe, a genuine pioneer and a true star of the New York
City underground art scene of the 1980s, shaped the modern photography of the twentieth century with his groundbreaking works, never before seen in the medium.
He then immersed himself in
the underground art and music scenes making short films, album covers and music videos with a burgeoning group of influential and groundbreaking artists.
Way back in 1986, out of Reagan - era conservatism where drugs, crime and gang warfare reigned over South Central L.A. and adjacent areas sprang a group that forever changed the face of music — N.W.A. Eazy - E, Dr. Dre, Ice Cube, DJ Yella, and MC Ren cranked out hit after hit, taking
an underground art form mainstream.
As young starting artist Jorn co-founded during the war period in Danmark (during the German occupation)
the underground art group, «Helhesten» (hell - horse) and became active contributor to its journal.
Pop Art Paintings, portraits, funky red dog, Pop Art Dog Pictures, Stencil art,
underground art, spraypaint, stencils, stencil print, spraycan art, FRD, vinyl, 12 inch, records, art on vinyl,
But it led me to do some exploration of what these things might mean and where they come from; and their connection to film, mainly, because underground film is probably a little bit better understood than
underground art, for example.
In colours veering from neon pink to swimming - pool turquoise and car - bonnet red, he conjures dancing abstractions, demonic spikes and angry mouths, with references bouncing from Juxtapoz magazine's tripped - out
underground art to Francis Bacon's monstrous bodies.
The east side of Leipzig has also become a central hub for emerging artists and subsequently,
an underground art scene.
Photographers who documented
the underground art scene of the 1980s is yet another specialization; the gallery represents the work of Henry Chalfant and Tseng Kwong Chi.
Written for an informal theatre company, the plays offered a sort of community theatre for New York's
underground art scene.
A trailblazing figure on New York's
underground art scene, she organised political protests, wild outdoor happenings and body - painting «orgies» — a true radical who led the charge for immersive installation work.
A New York phenomenon emerging from
the underground art, fiercely criticized by the art establishments, was given several names, and among the ones that stuck the most was Neo-Dada.