On the other side of the tracks, they were also ignored by the fine arts establishment because of their association
with graffiti culture and for unabashedly continuing their gallery - related practices under the term Graffiti, which they still did not entirely leave behind.
On the other side of the tracks, they were also ignored by the fine arts establishment because of their association
with graffiti culture and for unabashedly continuing their gallery - related practices under the term Graffiti.
Focusing their program on artists who are pushing the limits of contemporary art while having a strong connection
with graffiti culture, the British and Dutch artists» abstracted compositions were the perfect fit for the gallery's summer 2017 show.
Not exact matches
When debate about an artist's merit no longer seems to have any point, one is left either
with an icon of
culture, too sacred to enjoy, or
with a target of satire, brought down to our more humdrum level by a vaudeville lampooning of the unapproachable totem, as when
graffiti artists paint a moustache on reproductions of the Mona Lisa.
With funding from the Austrian Ministry for Science and Research and the
Culture Division of the City of Vienna, Norbert Siegl spent months studying the «gender - specific differences in frequency and thematic content» of the
graffiti in the toilets at the University of Vienna.
by Jefferson Robbins The skeleton key to George Lucas's American
Graffiti isn't in its setting — the cruising
culture of exurban southern California, 1962, as witnessed by young participants
with the»50s at their back and Vietnam ahead.
Creator George Lucas was the same guy who made 1973's «American
Graffiti»: keenly attuned to car
culture and nostalgia, in love
with the horizon, a tinkerer
with gears.
Captivate your imagination on the vintage savoir vivre
with a modern twist and discover Pop
Culture graffiti pieces by urban artist Bàlu.
«
With roots firmly planted in illustration, pop
culture, comics, street art and
graffiti, put quite simply the New Contemporary Art Movement is art for the people,» Thinkspace co-founder Andrew Hosner said.
Taking up the iconography and subject matter inherent to Western
culture and making use of crude painting techniques blended
with the vandalistic language of
graffiti, Lister appropriates and reformats codes and languages in order to create a new proposal of grotesque contours brimming
with creative energy.
The exhibition will feature paintings, mixed media sculptures, and interactive installations by 50 of the most dynamic artists and will emphasize Los Angeles's role in the evolution of
graffiti and street art,
with special sections dedicated to seminal local movements such as cholo
graffiti and Dogtown skateboard
culture.
A small side room of the exhibition is devoted to a new VR piece by KATSU that is an «homage» to the Tenderloin area of San Francisco, a region «
with deep roots in
graffiti culture» that is slowly being sanitized and gentrified.
Considering Andy Warhol's and Keith Haring's artistry, the New York - based artist Brian Donnelly, or internationally known as Kaws, is a prolific contemporary artist who has pushed the art of appropriation significant steps forward embracing pop
culture with a wide range of influential artistic projects from toys, to clothings,
graffiti, paintings, sneakers and videos.
Emerging
with the New York City
graffiti and street art movement of the 1980s, Scharf's imagery draws upon pop icons, media advertising and consumer
culture of the 1960s, including TV cartoon characters such as the Flintstones and the Jetsons.
Graffiti is also intertwined
with pop
culture and politics as a means to deliver messages quickly and to a wide public audience.
The artists work
with impressions from contemporary
culture such as cartoon series and
graffiti, yet when doing so, also engage
with art historical traditions such as Surrealism, Abstract Expressionism, Neorealism, Pop Art or 1960s Performance Art.
I particularly enjoyed the floating geometry of a gold rectangle against broad blue swathes of action painting, vocalizing on top of power chords, even as I wish he had abstained from the
graffiti culture's obligation to tag everything
with his initials right when the surface of the painting was shimmering
with a certain delicacy.
Coming up in the Bay Area pre-Dot com boom, McCarthy alongside Chris Johanson, Margaret Kilgallen, Ruby Neri, and Barry McGee embody the urban street and
graffiti culture with its rustic aesthetic.
With diverse influences from
graffiti, street
culture, and outsider art, she has produced commercial and non-commercial work in various media.
-- Nikolay Oleynikov, Tsaplya Olga Egorova, Dmitry Vilensky, and others Claire Fontaine (fictional conceptual artist)-- A Paris - based collective including Fulvia Carnevale and James Thornhill CPLY — William N. Copley Diane Pruis (pseudonymous Los Angeles gallerist)-- Untitled gallery's Joel Mesler Donelle Woolford (black female artist)-- Actors hired to impersonate said fictional artist by white artist Joe Scanlan Dr. Lakra (Mexican artist inspired by tattoo
culture)-- Jeronimo Lopez Ramirez Dr. Videovich (a «specialist in curing television addiction»)-- The Argentine - American conceptual artist Jaime Davidovich Dzine — Carlos Rolon George Hartigan — The male pseudonym that the Abstract Expressionist painter Grace Hartigan adopted early in her career Frog King Kwok (Hong Kong performance artist who uses Chinese food as a frequent medium)-- Conceptualist Kwok Mang Ho The Guerrilla Girls — A still - anonymous group of feminist artists who made critical agit - prop work exposing the gender biases in the art world Hennessy Youngman (hip - hop - styled YouTube advice dispenser), Franklin Vivray (increasingly unhinged Bob Ross - like TV painting instructor)-- Jayson Musson Henry Codax (mysterious monochrome artist)-- Jacob Kassay and Olivier Mosset JR — Not the shot villain of «Dallas» but the still - incognito street artist of global post-TED fame John Dogg (artist), Fulton Ryder (Upper East Side gallerist)-- Richard Prince KAWS — Brian Donnelly The King of Kowloon (calligraphic Hong Kong
graffiti artist)-- Tsang Tsou - choi Klaus von Nichtssagend (fictitious Lower East Side dealer)-- Ingrid Bromberg Kennedy, Rob Hult, and Sam Wilson Leo Gabin — Ghent - based collective composed of Gaëtan Begerem, Robin De Vooght, and Lieven Deconinck Lucie Fontaine (art and curatorial collective)-- The writer / curator Nicola Trezzi and artist Alice Tomaselli MadeIn Corporation — Xu Zhen Man Ray — Emmanuel Radnitzky Marvin Gaye Chetwynd (Turner Prize - nominated artist formerly known as Spartacus Chetwynd)-- Alalia Chetwynd Maurizio Cattelan — Massimiliano Gioni, at least in many interviews the New Museum curator did in the famed Italian artist's stead in the»90s Mr. Brainwash (Banksy - idolizing street artist)-- Thierry Guetta MURK FLUID, Mike Lood — The artist Mark Flood R. Mutt, Rrose Sélavy — Marcel Duchamp Rammellzee — Legendary New York street artist and multimedia visionary, whose real name «is not to be told... that is forbidden,» according to his widow Reena Spaulings (Lower East Side gallery)-- Artist Emily Sundblad and writer John Kelsey Regina Rex (fictional Brooklyn gallerist)-- The artists Eli Ping (who now has opened Eli Ping Gallery on the Lower East Side), Theresa Ganz, Yevgenia Baras, Aylssa Gorelick, Angelina Gualdoni, Max Warsh, and Lauren Portada Retna — Marquis Lewis Rod Bianco (fictional Oslo galleris)-- Bjarne Melgaard RodForce (performance artist who explored the eroticized associations of black culture)-- Sherman Flemming Rudy Bust — Canadian artist Jon Pylypchuk Sacer, Sace (different spellings of a 1990s New York graffiti tag)-- Dash Snow SAMO (1980s New York Graffiti Tag)-- Jean - Michel Basquiat Shoji Yamaguchi (Japanese ceramicist who fled Hiroshima and settled in the American South with a black civil - rights activist, then died in a car crash in 1991)-- Theaster Gates Vern Blosum — A fictional Pop painter of odd image - and - word combinations who was invented by a still - unnamed Abstract Expressionist artist in an attempt to satirize the Pop movement (and whose work is now sought - after in its own right) Weegee — Arthur Fellig What, How and for Whom (curators of 2009 Istanbul Biennial)-- Ana Dević, Nataša Ilić, Sabina Sabolović, Dejan Kršić, and Ivet Curlin The Yes Men — A group of «culture - jamming» media interventionists led by Jacques Servin and Ig
graffiti artist)-- Tsang Tsou - choi Klaus von Nichtssagend (fictitious Lower East Side dealer)-- Ingrid Bromberg Kennedy, Rob Hult, and Sam Wilson Leo Gabin — Ghent - based collective composed of Gaëtan Begerem, Robin De Vooght, and Lieven Deconinck Lucie Fontaine (art and curatorial collective)-- The writer / curator Nicola Trezzi and artist Alice Tomaselli MadeIn Corporation — Xu Zhen Man Ray — Emmanuel Radnitzky Marvin Gaye Chetwynd (Turner Prize - nominated artist formerly known as Spartacus Chetwynd)-- Alalia Chetwynd Maurizio Cattelan — Massimiliano Gioni, at least in many interviews the New Museum curator did in the famed Italian artist's stead in the»90s Mr. Brainwash (Banksy - idolizing street artist)-- Thierry Guetta MURK FLUID, Mike Lood — The artist Mark Flood R. Mutt, Rrose Sélavy — Marcel Duchamp Rammellzee — Legendary New York street artist and multimedia visionary, whose real name «is not to be told... that is forbidden,» according to his widow Reena Spaulings (Lower East Side gallery)-- Artist Emily Sundblad and writer John Kelsey Regina Rex (fictional Brooklyn gallerist)-- The artists Eli Ping (who now has opened Eli Ping Gallery on the Lower East Side), Theresa Ganz, Yevgenia Baras, Aylssa Gorelick, Angelina Gualdoni, Max Warsh, and Lauren Portada Retna — Marquis Lewis Rod Bianco (fictional Oslo galleris)-- Bjarne Melgaard RodForce (performance artist who explored the eroticized associations of black
culture)-- Sherman Flemming Rudy Bust — Canadian artist Jon Pylypchuk Sacer, Sace (different spellings of a 1990s New York
graffiti tag)-- Dash Snow SAMO (1980s New York Graffiti Tag)-- Jean - Michel Basquiat Shoji Yamaguchi (Japanese ceramicist who fled Hiroshima and settled in the American South with a black civil - rights activist, then died in a car crash in 1991)-- Theaster Gates Vern Blosum — A fictional Pop painter of odd image - and - word combinations who was invented by a still - unnamed Abstract Expressionist artist in an attempt to satirize the Pop movement (and whose work is now sought - after in its own right) Weegee — Arthur Fellig What, How and for Whom (curators of 2009 Istanbul Biennial)-- Ana Dević, Nataša Ilić, Sabina Sabolović, Dejan Kršić, and Ivet Curlin The Yes Men — A group of «culture - jamming» media interventionists led by Jacques Servin and Ig
graffiti tag)-- Dash Snow SAMO (1980s New York
Graffiti Tag)-- Jean - Michel Basquiat Shoji Yamaguchi (Japanese ceramicist who fled Hiroshima and settled in the American South with a black civil - rights activist, then died in a car crash in 1991)-- Theaster Gates Vern Blosum — A fictional Pop painter of odd image - and - word combinations who was invented by a still - unnamed Abstract Expressionist artist in an attempt to satirize the Pop movement (and whose work is now sought - after in its own right) Weegee — Arthur Fellig What, How and for Whom (curators of 2009 Istanbul Biennial)-- Ana Dević, Nataša Ilić, Sabina Sabolović, Dejan Kršić, and Ivet Curlin The Yes Men — A group of «culture - jamming» media interventionists led by Jacques Servin and Ig
Graffiti Tag)-- Jean - Michel Basquiat Shoji Yamaguchi (Japanese ceramicist who fled Hiroshima and settled in the American South
with a black civil - rights activist, then died in a car crash in 1991)-- Theaster Gates Vern Blosum — A fictional Pop painter of odd image - and - word combinations who was invented by a still - unnamed Abstract Expressionist artist in an attempt to satirize the Pop movement (and whose work is now sought - after in its own right) Weegee — Arthur Fellig What, How and for Whom (curators of 2009 Istanbul Biennial)-- Ana Dević, Nataša Ilić, Sabina Sabolović, Dejan Kršić, and Ivet Curlin The Yes Men — A group of «
culture - jamming» media interventionists led by Jacques Servin and Igor Vamos
Juxtapoz x Superflat was conceived by the renowned Japanese artist Takashi Murakami and co-curated
with Evan Pricco, Editor - in - Chief of Juxtapoz Art &
Culture, a legendary San Francisco - based magazine committed to contemporary art, design, fashion and
graffiti.
Joanne Howard's installation lines the walls of Glyndor's restroom, pairing Wave Hill's history and ecology
with contemporary
graffiti culture.
He often merges the codes of street
culture (stickers,
graffiti)
with the codes of high traditional art (the round canvas: the tondo) in works expressing a loss of any fixed definition.
He is most well known for his large paintings populated
with scribbled marks, calligraphic or
graffiti - like words, letters, numbers, and references to Classical
culture.
The combined forces of his formal training, quick
graffiti chops, and expert skills as a draftsman, along
with multiple artistic influences (Mexican Muralists, tramp art, surfer
culture,
graffiti from the 1970s and 1980s, the beat poets, geometric abstraction, op art, early video and site - specific works, graphic design, typography, and cartoons) have factored into his unwieldy, yet unmistakable visual lexicon.
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.
Eschewing formalism, Dahn's work favored experimentation and unexpected combinations of seemingly random imagery such as
graffiti with Oceania; album cover art recycled
with appropriated images drawn from popular
culture; snapshots of friends juxtaposed
with landscapes and architecture.
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.
This metamorphosis done from series that overlapped in time,
with contributions from Kitsch, from
graffiti,
with evocations from Pop and employing popular
culture colours, led him to some sort of baroque from which he later escaped when he worked on monumental scale works, to which polished, rusted or burnt steel gave a much more austere aspect.
While this exhibition takes its starting point from hip hop, it branches out to include artists who use pop
culture,
graffiti, fashion and other signifiers of urban life in combination
with more traditional forms of Aboriginal identity.
«Visionary»
graffiti artist and entrepreneur, Montreal based artist Chris Dyer has crafted a style that synthesizes influences from astrology, spirituality,
graffiti, Street Art, skater
culture, and folk art into a modern representational style you may associate
with glowing barefoot and shirtless celebrants at Burning Man or similar transformational / experiential festivals around the globe.
Fujita blends Eastern techniques (anime, partitioned screens, ukiyo - e), and elements (geishas, warriors, demons),
with Western, urban imagery (Latino
graffiti, U.S. pop
culture imagery) in a way that is stunning and vibrant, yet harmonious.
Klughaus showcases a diverse roster of talented artists
with roots in
graffiti and street
culture including JURNE, Seb GOREY, RIME, Aaron OBLVN, Martha Cooper, Jesse Edwards, Tom Gould, and Ricky Powell.
His work often uses the street as his canvas or his backdrop, alluding to hip - hop and the role of
graffiti artists, and he often operates within the gritty aesthetic associated
with that
culture.
Combining traditional, folkloric, and contemporary elements of Brazilian
culture with graffiti, hip - hop, and international youth
culture, the artists have created an expansive body of work that includes murals, paintings, sculpture, site - specific installations, and video.
With roots firmly planted in illustration, pop
culture imagery, comics, street art and
graffiti, put quite simply the New Contemporary Art Movement is art for the people.