Some of the world's leading
urban artists such as iHeart, Joe Iurato, London Police, Mad Steez, Martin Whatson, Mau Mau, Millo, Myneandyours, Nafir and Word To Mother created for this exhibition a series of brand new works reflecting their views and thoughts on «The Social Paradox» theme.
Some of the world's leading
urban artists such as iHeart, Joe Iurato, London Police, Mad Steez,
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
Visual effects
artist turned director Stewart played around with the casting (Brad Dourif and
Urban share a scene, a mini «Lord of the Rings» reunion) and indulges himself in Western iconography to
such a degree that you kind of wish he'd designed this movie, then found a better script to go with it.
Opened at the end of 2012, it prides itself on being an «
urban art hostel», having collaborated with a street
artist from Hong Kong and playing host partner to events
such as International Cosplay Day.
Each of the 77 guestrooms and suites feature high ceilings and
urban elements similar to high - end
artist lofts, along with luxury amenities
such as fully loaded iPads ® and laptops, complimentary WiFi, and spectacular views of NYC.
I'm pulling together a group of
artists Boulder County Colorado to plan and develop an
urban - ish
artists cohousing community with live / work spaces, a common house including community outreach / inreach
such as gallery and performance space, teaching, etc..
«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....
Eyeballing (2005), by London - based
artist Rosalind Nashashibi (b. 1973, England) anthropomorphizes everyday objects and architecture of an
urban landscape,
such as toothbrushes and manhole covers.
Taking on an even darker tone than usual, Gilbert & George hone in on the scandalous side of
urban culture with images
such as Sweet Air Sweet Air where the
artists have decorated the image with nitrous oxide canisters.
Their self - defined curriculum provides opportunities for one - on - one studies with
artists such as Rachel Rosenthal, L.A.
Urban Rangers, and others across the Southern California region.
Highlights include a focus on «experimental» drawing with individual displays by
artists such as Eduardo Basualdo, from Argentina; Mateo López and Nicolás Paris from Colombia; deconstructed painting and sculpture with largescale displays by Brazilian
artists Leda Catunda, Adriano Costa, Maria Nepomuceno, Erika Verzutti and Cuban
artists Los Carpinteros, among others; and a strong emphasis on street art and
urban culture, with largescale participative installations by Os Gêmeos and Paulo Nazareth from Brazil, and individual displays by Mexican
artists Pedro Reyes, Moris, and Edgardo Aragón.
Including Pilar Albarracin, Karen Finley, Pearl C. Hsiung, Glenn Kaino, Mike Kelley, Martin Kersels, Daniel Joseph Martinez, Rodney McMillian, and Robin Rhode, these
artists reference subjects
such as war and terror, social and racial tension,
urban and environmental disaster, psychological break - down, and criminal behavior in a range of mixed media and video installations.
In 1959, Mallary took a teaching position at Pratt and moved to New York, where he would combine the brooding weight and density of the New Mexico abstractions with ephemeral
urban detritus, creating works that established him among the core
artists exploring junk art,
such as John Chamberlain, Richard Stankiewicz, Claes Oldenburg and Lee Bontecou.
New York - based
artist Kevin Beasley (b. 1985) transforms personal and familial artifacts into sculpture and sound performances, influenced by house music, hip hop sampling, and the post-industrial decay of once prosperous
urban centers,
such as Detroit, where Beasley lived for a number of years.
Alumni from Pratt's M.F.A. program have received
such prestigious awards as the Joan Mitchell Foundation M.F.A. Grant, New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship,
Artist Trust Grant for
Artist Projects, Tides Foundation Lambent Fellowship, and
Urban Artist Initiative Fellowship, among others.
The participating
artists address themes
such as memory and self - reflection, social and political issues
such as discrimination, racism, the failure of the modern utopia,
urban violence and exploitation of the Amazon rain forest.
It may be somewhat significant that most of these Midwest
artists are teachers in various institutions, an indication that
such support is vital to
artists who don't live in large
urban centers.
Alumni from Pratt's M.F.A. programs have received
such prestigious awards as the Joan Mitchell Foundation M.F.A. Grant, New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship,
Artist Trust Grant for
Artist Projects, Tides Foundation Lambent Fellowship, and
Urban Artist Initiative Fellowship, among many others.
Highly respectable list of gallery's
artists includes great
urban and street art names
such as Shepard Fairey, Futura, JR, JonOne, Vhils and Zhang Dali.
Together representing the cutting edge of international photography, the four
artists engage with broad historical and cultural forces
such as war, colonialism,
urban planning and advertising.
One
such project, initiated during the Autumn of 2015, features
artists Abigail Doan (@lostinfiber) and Brece Honeycutt (@onacolonialfarm) who began a parallel process of collecting, diagramming, and altering select materials in an
urban to rural dialogue intended to examine modern and historic connections in their daily lives.
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.
Emphasizing the importance of African American migration, as well as Los Angeles» housing and employment politics, Jones shows how the work of black Angeleno
artists such as Betye Saar, Charles White, Noah Purifoy, and Senga Nengudi spoke to the dislocation of migration, Los Angeles»
urban renewal, and restrictions on black mobility.
Through a series of conversations with the city's leading
artists and intellectuals, Maltzan explores
such issues as real - estate speculation and future
urban development, infrastructure, resources, site density,
urban experience, political structure, commerce and community, attempting to transform our understanding of how each affects present - day Los Angeles.
The changes mostly highlight the fair's strengths, with
such alternative spaces as
Artists Space and White Columns alongside
such urban pioneers as Paula Cooper — and often provocative art.
Alumni from Pratt's M.F.A. programs have received
such prestigious awards as the Joan Mitchell Foundation M.F.A. Grant, New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship,
Artist Trust Grant for
Artist Projects, Tides Foundation Lambent Fellowship, and
Urban Artist Initiative Fellowship, among others.
Keeping close tabs on
urban art, she has also interviewed
such influential
artists as Shepard Fairey and Erik Foss.
Through economical and invasive means, the
artist transforms
urban detritus
such as found cardboard, police barricades, and carpet remnants into bunker - like structures that retain a semblance of solidity yet convey a feeling of melancholy and gloom.
Working with other
artists, collaboratives, and groups,
such as The Center for
Urban Pedagogy (New York), rum46 (Denmark), Think Tank (Philadelphia), Artlink (UK), and AREA Chicago Art, Research, -LSB-...]
For Triple Point, the
artist uses elements from the
urban landscape of Venice
such as photographs of stone, leaves from the Giardini, tickets from the Vaporetto.
Although as early as 1979, graffiti
artists Lee Quinones and Fab 5 Freddy were exhibiting in galleries, it was not until the 1980s that
artists such as Keith Haring and Jean - Michel Basquiat began to be widely recognized by institutions, critics, and collectors, creating work that applied the styles they had cultivated on the
urban fabric onto canvases and prints.
This interest may seem a tad anachronistic, not just because this was postwar America and not the 19th century, but because she's
such an
urban, and urbane,
artist.
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.
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.
Filming with a hand - held camera and narrating the film herself, Varda travelled around France, profiling gleaners, from those who follow the country harvests, through to
urban scavengers,
such as the bricoleur
artist who finds objects and transforms them into sculpture, and Varda herself, who ponders the gleaning nature of digital filmmaking.
But recently, younger
artists like Yang [Yong] have created something of a southern school, which, in its open examination of modern
urban life, has begun to attract attention in places
such as Finland and Switzerland.
The original Black Mountain College functioned as an incubator for American
artists such as John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Robert Creeley, Anni and Josef Albers and many others escaping Hitler in Nazi - occupied Europe, seeking refuge from mainstream educational institutions or the poverty of
urban centers.
In the early twentieth century,
artists such as Robert Henri, George Luks, John Sloan, and others were interested in the gritty details of modern
urban life.
Palestinian
artist Harb, who shuttles between Dubai and Rome, in his sculptural installation titled Unlimited Progress, presents the interplay between time and
urban change in a fast - developing city
such as Dubai, where large tracts of desert give way to
urban expansion.
The
artist says of his work, «Most of my work is structured around ideas of relationships or pairings (
such as memory / history, man / woman,
urban / rural, past / present)... how these pairings are simultaneously opposite and complement.»
Painters
such as Rogers Naylor or Steven S. Walker investigate the warmth and familiarity of an
urban coffee shop or street scene, while
artists like Leslie Nolan portray the potential bleak reality of
urban corporate business.
Artists created charged works by juxtaposing disparate images sourced largely from popular media,
such as Hannah Höch's 1930 photomontage Untitled (Large Hand Over Woman's Head), a work of layered images from magazines that speaks to the representation of women in popular culture, and Kurt Schwitters» Mz 426 Figures (1922), an assemblage of discarded newspaper and printed detritus, which evokes the
urban environment in which he lived.
Born and raised south of San Francisco, Norling hails from a recent generation of
artists raised on the fun and gun ethos of graffiti and the mark - making of
urban street culture; from stickers to wheat - pasted posters, it is from this street aesthetic; one that is in dialogue with Norling's teacher Raymond Saunders, as well as younger
artists such as Barry McGee and the late Margaret Kilgallen, that Norling's paintings, sculptures and installations derive much of their impact.
The industrial monument is now a UNESCO World Heritage Site and is regularly used for events and exhibitions
such as the 2013
Urban Art Biennial, which sees a number of artworks by high - profile street
artists dotted throughout the site.
The
artist and KM Fine Arts have joined with the Rush Philanthropic Arts Foundation and Russell Simmons to redirect a portion of the proceeds from the show toward providing exposure to the arts for
urban communities where
such opportunities may be scarce, as well as support for exhibitions by under - represented
artists.
Encompassing the various forms in which Ibrahim works, this survey traces the aesthetic and conceptual concerns that run throughout the
artist's practice,
such as his use of permutations and his disquiet about the demise of nature that accompanies
urban development.
VanDerBeek's most recent bodies of work relate to cities,
such as Detroit and Baltimore, which have personal, historical, or political meaning for the
artist, as well as distinct
urban features.
Maps,
urban models and small objects
such as tin toys, soda bottle caps, albums that Cosentino collected during his residency at Zilberman Gallery Berlin's
artist - in - residence program in the summer of 2017, become the tools of storytelling for the narrator - protagonist.