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10.14.2010
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Street/Studio
2.0
November 6 - December 18, 2010
David Ellis Shepard
Fairey Swoon José Parlá
Romon Yang
(Rostarr)
Chris Mendoza James Marshall (Dalek)
Gaia
Opening reception with the artists:
Saturday, November 6, 6-9PM
Additional installation
space:
Montserrat House, 9th and U Streets, in collaboration with Eric
Hilton
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Friday, November
5
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Preview and
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6:30pm
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Urban Code: New Categories of
Art
A Conversation with the
Artists
Center for the Study of Modern Art, Phillips
Collection
Klaus Ottman and Martin Irvine,
Moderators
José Parlá, David Ellis, Romon Yang, Chris
Mendoza, Gaia
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9:30pm
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VIP Afterparty, preview of exhibition, premier of David Ellis
video |
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| Saturday, November
6 |
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Opening and
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6pm
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Opening Reception with the
Artists |
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9:30-11pm
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VIP Reception and Afterparty at Eighteenth Street
Lounge
DJ: Rage
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11pm
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Celebration and Afterparty at Eighteenth Street
Lounge
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José Parlá, Layered Days, 2009. Mixed media,
collage, oil, acrylic, plaster on wood panel. 4 x 6 ft. Detail.
Street/Studio 2.0 showcases
the multiple practices of artists who work across a continuum of sites and
mediums that include street mural works, studio works in all mediums, gallery
and museum exhibitions, digital production tools, and documentation and
distribution on the Web. The artists’ works--in any medium and
wherever they appear--form a dialog with the city and engage us with
responses to the energy, conflicts, and joys of urban
life.
Our exhibition last year,
Street/Studio, showed how artists working in this new continuity of
practice understand their works as always being site-specific, made for
the spaces that frame them, regardless of the cultural categories defining where
art should appear.
Artists associated with this movement
have not only broken down walls but have also removed the dichotomy between
the real and digital worlds. With proliferating photo-sharing sites,
artists’ blogs, and aggregators like the Wooster Collective, the Web
has become a documentary virtual wall, a global city, a real-time art
archive, a community studio, and an instant messaging system for artists.
Software tools for composing images to be output in other media have become
as integral to studio practice as the musician’s mixing board and
multiple digital sound sources.
Street/Studio 2.0 further advances a broader view of art today as
artists now develop their work in a continuity of practice spanning works in
all forms and locations, digital media and software, and the Web.
Street/Studio 2.0 presents leading artists who have been innovators in
new categories of art, creatively recoding the recombinant DNA of culture
into new forms that respond to urban
life.
More about Street/Studio
2.0...
About the
Artists
David Ellis is one of the
founders of the Barnstormers collective, and he works in many forms that
extend his background in music and painting. His paintings, murals, and
motion-painting videos capture the rhythms and visual energy of jazz,
hip-hop, and graffiti, and his kinetic sculptures convert found materials
and repurposed acoustic instruments into programmable motion and sound
installations. Street/Studio 2.0 will feature Ellis’s new HD film,
Animal, a 9.5 minute documentation of a six-week motion-painting
performance. David Ellis lives works in Brooklyn, NY. Further
info.
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David Ellis,
Animal, 2010. HD movie,
9 min., 39 sec., color, sound, Blu-ray disc.
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Shepard Fairey is known
internationally as a leader in street art and many forms of post-Pop
composition, graphic design, and printmaking. He gained wide recognition in
the early 1990s with his Obey Giant campaign, and in 2008 he created the
iconic Obama “Hope” image that swept the globe. His
hand-stenciled and collaged version of the Obama Hope portrait is now in the
Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, acquired from Irvine Contemporary in
2008. His traveling Retrospective, Supply and Demand: The Art of Shepard
Fairey ( 2009-2010), originated at the Boston Institute of Contemporary
Art. Further
info.
José Parlá is
internationally known for his multi-layered paintings that combine the direct
hand-work of graffiti and city walls with calligraphy, abstract expressionist
gestures, and collaged fragments city life. His works are urban memory
documents, palimpsests of the layers of time, history, and experience in
dense urban environments. His paintings have appeared in major exhibitions
in London, New York, Tokyo, and Paris. José Parlá lives and
works in Brooklyn, NY. Further
info.
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| Swoon, Three Girls, 2010. Wood block print,
acrylic, paper cut out.
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Shepard Fairey, LP Album Cover, 2010. HPM edition of 8.
12 x 12
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Swoon is known world-wide for her
visually striking woodcut prints placed as interventions on city streets as
well as for her gallery and museum installations that combine printmaking,
3-D cut-outs, paintings, and sculptures from found and repurposed materials.
Major exhibitions include installations at the Yerba Buena Center for the
Arts, San Francisco, Deitch Projects, NY, P.S. 1 and the Museum of Modern
Art, NY. She is a graduate of the Pratt Institute and lives and works in
Brooklyn, NY. Further
info.
Romon Yang (Rostarr) is a
multi-disciplinary artist, painter, calligrapher and filmmaker living and
working in Brooklyn, New York. Early in his career he produced work in both the
art and graphic design spheres, blurring the lines between the two. He has done
collaborative projects with the Barnstormers collective and with musicians and
film makers. His recent film, Kill the Ego, a collaboration with
Soundwalk, has been shown internationally, including the Centre Pompidou Hors
Piste cinema series (2010). Rostarr is a graduate of the School of Visual
Arts in New York, and lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. Further
info.
Romon Yang (Rostarr), Praefectus T.A.R. (Tibetan Autonomous
Region), 2010. Acrylic on canvas, 33 x 66
in.
Chris Mendoza was born in Nicaragua
and combines a love of the folk culture of his native country with the chaos
and complexity of modern cities. His drawings, paintings, and collage
compositions form his own visual index of the rhythms of the city and a
catalog of the fragments of everyday experience. Mendoza has had recent solo
exhibitions in New York and Tokyo, and lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. Further
info.
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| Chris Mendoza, Construction, 2010. Mixed media
and sticker collage on paper. Detail.
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Gaia, Mies Van Der Rohe, 2010. Ink and
acrylic on paper.
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James Marshall (Dalek) has been
been constantly developing his post-Pop painting style that abstracts
graphic lines and color from street art, cartoons and animation, and the
kaleidoscopic visual density of the city. He was a studio assistant for
Takashi Murakami’s in 2001. Marshall has been in many exhibitions in
New York, Paris, London, Los Angeles and with Irvine Contemporary in
Washington, DC. He is a graduate of the School of the Art Institute of
Chicago, and, now lives and works in Raleigh, NC. Further
info.
Gaia has quickly become
recognized for his placement of prints and paintings on the streets in major
cities. Drawing his imagery from archetypal animals, personal portraits, and art
history, Gaia constructs linocut images and drawings that intervene in
urban spaces for reflections on the human condition in nature and history.
His studio projects combine collage, linocut prints, and painting, and have
been exhibited in Brooklyn, New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and
Washington, DC. Gaia lives and works in Baltimore, MD, and Brooklyn, NY, and
is a student at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, MD. Further info.
For further information contact Lauren
Gentile, Director, 202-332-8767 or lauren@irvinecontemporary.com.
IRVINE CONTEMPORARY
Martin Irvine, Proprietor &
Director
Lauren Gentile,
Director
Zac Allard, Mauricio Orantes & Kenneth Pennington II, Gallery
Assistants
1412 14th St., NW, Washington, DC
20005
www.irvinecontemporary.com
Phone: (202) 332-8767
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