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Inti is a Chilean urban artist whose influences stem from Latin American socialist murals and graffiti art.

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CHICAGO — «It's a super-interesting moment to be at the National Gallery, where the question of what it means to be an American, and what kind of American are you, has a new kind of resonance,» said Theaster Gates, the sculptor, installation and performance artist and urban interventionist, whose exhibition «The Minor Arts» opened there this month in Washington.

Ballroom Marfa is proud to announced its first group exhibition devoted to emerging artists whose work is informed by their experience of urban and suburban life in contemporary American culture.

Frances Lightbound is an interdisciplinary artist from the UK, whose work explores ideologies and power systems embedded in the urban environment.

Keith Haring (1958 - 90) was one of the most renowned of the young artists, filmmakers, performers and musicians whose work responded to urban street culture of the 1980s.

Jason Urban is an artist, writer, teacher and curator, whose work has been exhibited internationally.

Also included in «Big Spaces and Large Planes» are: the loosely graphic paintings of Cathy Fiorelli who shares studio space with eleven other artists at the Middletown Pendleton Art Center; the perceptive works on femininity of Pattie Byron from West Chester; the Kente Cloth - inspired art quilts by Miami University - educated Linda Kramer; the mixed media of Oxford's Maureen Nimis with her cut paper and photographic work; the small works by Catalog & Slavic Librarian at Miami University, Russian - born Masha Misco; and the jewel - like small photographs of Denver - born Cincinnati resident Brian Luman whose exploration of urban crevices is fueled by his skateboard and camera.

Flux Factory is pleased to present artists and historians whose practice takes root in the exploration and occupation of urban waterways.

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.

Mark Bradford is the first museum survey of the work of the Los Angeles - based artist whose work explores the structures of urban society, often defined by race, gender, and class.

This new Hatje Cantz publication emphasizes the influence of Arte Povera on Rhode's aesthetic, whose creative dialogue also formed during his meeting with the gallery Tucci Russo and his early collaborative efforts with photographer Paolo Mussat Sartor, in which he transformed urban landscapes and interior spaces into imaginary worlds, as two - dimensional renderings become the subject of three - dimensional interactions by a sole protagonist (usually played by the artist or by an actor inhabiting the role of artist).

The Los Angeles — based artist selected locations in the San Francisco Bay Area that are emblematic of distinct urban - redevelopment episodes: Islais Landing, a former tidal bog that once served as a sewage channel and slaughterhouse dumping ground; San Francisco City Hall, a Beaux Arts monument whose harmonious proportions and massive domed rotunda are meant to pique municipal pride (and good civic behavior); and Pacific Shores Center, a 106 - acre, 1.7 - millionsquare - foot corporate complex, planned during the dot - com glut of the late 1990s and built on marshland south of the city.

A global artist collective, an art movement whose members use sketchpads as their canvas; the urban sketchers were founded by the Spanish born illustrator and journalist Gabriel Campanario.

Jane is a licensed architect and artist whose work embraces all scales from sculpture to urban planning.

The group exhibition Abstracting the Seam surveys the ways in which needleworking strategies permeate the painting, collage, video, textile, and installation art by seven contemporary artists whose work addresses the kaleidoscopic urban experience.

Trained as a sculptor and an urban planner, Gates is an artist, urbanist, and curator whose work aims to catalyze social and economic change through direct artistic agency.

Also on view are works by Janieta Eyre, Betty Goodwin, Noel Harding, Tim Lee, Catharine MacTavish, Catherine Opie, and David Urban — all artists whose work provides a larger context for this installation about future directions in the collection.

Erik Benson is an artist whose process - based paintings are informed by architecture and everyday objects found in the urban landscape.

The second is a solo devoted to a single artist, the contemporary Brazilian photographer Caio Reisewitz, whose big color images of threatened tropical rain forests offer a lush antidote to urban grit — Manhattan's included.

ABOUT THE SPEAKERS Erik Benson is an artist whose process - based paintings are informed by architecture and everyday objects found in urban landscape.

The exhibition consists of a series of works by 15 renowned local and international artists whose work gives shape to progressive hybrid aesthetics within the so - called Othercontemporary Urban Art community.

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.

Five steps in, you're hit with the big names: Nan Goldin, an iconic American photographer whose images of urban nightlife in the 1970s and»80s offer a window onto society's darker margins (Goldin is a friend of Berger and one piece bears a personal inscription); Rashid Johnson, a fast - rising conceptual artist whose prismatic work mines the meaning of the black American identity; and, notably, Robert Mapplethorpe, in a rare self - portrait emblematic of the artist's confrontational beauty.

Mennour juxtaposes Morellet, a pioneering minimalist who passed away in 2016 at the age of 90, with Mohamed Bourouissa, a young Algerian - born Parisian artist whose multimedia practice explores contemporary social tensions and cultural idiosyncrasies, especially in urban environments.

About the artist Ian Strange is a multidisciplinary artist whose work explores architecture, space and the home, alongside broader themes of disenfranchisement within the urban environment.

John Monteith is a contemporary Canadian abstract artist whose work is also informed by the interplay of color and the geometric architecture of the urban landscape.

Formally educated as a potter and urban planner, Chicago - based Gates is an artist and curator whose practice is a hybrid of community development, social engagement, object making and performance.

Ashcan School Term used during the 1930s to describe the realist group of artists which evolved from the eight in New York c1908 and whose subject was usually the urban environment.

Other urban landscapes are explored in works by artists Oliver Comerford, whose recently acquired painting Out Here III depicts a night - time scene on the peripherary of the city, and Beat Klein and Hendrijke Kuhne, whose installation Property comments on how our cities expand at an alarming rate, encroaching on the countryside.

In this vein, the Tate show, curated by renowned art historians T. J. Clark and Anne Wagner, seek to reposition Lowry as an artist whose urban scenes recast his contemporaries» sense of the modern — in part through their working - class subject matter but also because of their coupling of realist and Impressionist traits.

Alan Ruiz (b. 1984, Mexico City) is a visual artist whose work explores the intersection of site - reflexivity, architectural discourse, and urban policy.

Its first edition, «Cosmopolis # 1: Collective Intelligence», brings together the work of artist collectives from around the world, whose practices revolve around research and the sharing of knowledge, and who engange in dialogue and discussion with their social, political and urban environs.

Romare Bearden, often referred to as the nation's foremost collagist, was a prolific and innovative artist whose work referenced a variety of artistic heritages — from Mexican muralists and cubist modernism to abstract expressionism, Chinese calligraphy and Eastern philosophy, and African art — and contained many cultural references: music (especially jazz), southern and urban culture, African and Greek art, family, religion, and politics.

Gordon Matta - Clark was an American artist best known for his site - specific artworks he made in the 1970s, whose practice introduced new and radical modes of physically exploring and subverting urban architecture.

She is a true New York artist, a veteran of the still active and productive decades of the New York School whose work demonstrates a predilection not so much for the lyric, gestural abstraction we know so well in the city, but a more uncouth reflection of urban life.

From Poland comes urban artist NeSpoon, whose artistic focus is on the intricate patterns of lace, and breaking its granny stereotype by using it to beautify gritty urban spaces.

Boston, MA About Blog Mikyoung Kim is an award winning international landscape architect and artist whose work focuses on merging sculptural vision with the urban landscape.