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Push It
Curated by Melissa McCaig-Welles
With new work by: AIKO, Alice
Mizrachi, Alison Mosshart, Amanda Reilly, Christina Neener, ELLE, GILF,
INDIE 184, Katrina Del Mar, LADY PINK, Laura Mylott Manning, Maya
Hayuk,
Mia Tyler, Monique Mantell, QUEEN ANDREA, SHERYO, Sophie
Alexia de Lobtienere, Sofia Bachvarova, SWOON, Tracy Piper,
VEXTA
Exhibition Dates: April 3rd-26th, 2014 Opening Reception:
April 3rd, 2014 | 6-9 PM
After Party featuring DJ set by Alison Mosshart of The Kills: 11pm, April 3rd |
at The Electric Room at Dream Downtown | RSVP: info@aopublic.com
March 18, 2014 (New York, NY) -- ArtNowNY is pleased to present Push It,
a group exhibition featuring 21 New York and California based artists. The
show of 42 works in mixed-media, painting and photography highlights a bold
urban aesthetic from a group of emerging and established artists, some of
whom combine Street Art with their existing studio practices. The gallery will
host a reception for the artists on Thursday, April 3rd, 2014 from 6 to 9 PM, at
ArtNowNY (548 W 28th Street 2nd Floor, New York, NY 10001). An after
party will be hosted at 11pm by Nur Khan and ArtNowNY and featuring a DJ
set by Alison Mosshart (The Kills) at The Electric Room at Dream Downtown
(355 W 16th Street). RSVP essential by April 2nd: info@aopublic.com
Push It seeks to further a conversation on how the contemporary art subgenre, Street Art, is influencing fine art studio practice. Viewed as a signature
movement of artists immersed in subversive or Low Brow culture, Street Art is
increasingly making its way into fine art practice. Identified as art that is eyecatching or confrontational, Street Art is considered any work placed in a
public venue in the form of wheat pasted graphics, wall stencils, paintings,
object interventions or 3-dimensional installations.
This aesthetic is reimagined in the work of Maya Hayuk, a New York based
mid-career artist who was recently commissioned to create a mural for the
infamous Bowery wall in NYC. Established artists like SWOON, reimagine the
Street Art aesthetic, offering sophisticated commentary on economic and
environmental issues through work that includes intricately cut wheat paste
stencils, floating sculptures and installations made of scavenged, found and
low-fi materials. Other veterans of the Street Art scene, like LADY PINK and
GILF, use their work to advance and promote social and political
examination.
Push It is a show meant to survey the current influence of the
Street Art movement on the contemporary art world outside of the archaic and
rigid binaries of high and low art and artist stereotypes and in keeping with the
fluid, transdisciplinary approach of many artists working today.
About the Artists
AIKO was born in Tokyo, Japan and has lived and worked in New York City
since the mid-90s. Her large scale works indoors and outdoors are installed in
many cities, including the Wynwood Wall Project (curated by Jeffrey Deitch) in
Miami, commissioned pieces for the Standard on both coasts and the
commission to re-paint the historic ‘Keith Haring Wall’ on Bowery and
Houston, in
2012. For the season of spring and summer in 2013, Louis
Vuitton released an AIKO silk scarf as a collaborative accessory line of
FOULARDS D’ARTISTES. Her work has been exhibited at the MACRO
Future, Rome, Italy;; Shanghai MOCA, China;; Brooklyn Museum, New
York;; and PS1/MOMA, New York;; as well as other major museums and
galleries globally.
Alice Mizrachi is a painter and teaching artist in New York, she co-founded
YOUNITY in 2006, a women’s art collective that has provided a professional
platform for hundreds of women in the arts. Her artwork has been exhibited at
Washington DC’s Museum of Contemporary Art and The National Women’s
Museum. She is represented by Mighty Tanaka Gallery in New York and Bazel
Gallery in Tel Aviv, and her work has also been shown in galleries around the
world including Colette, Causey Contemporary, Fifty 24LA and Intermedia
Arts.
Alison Mosshart is an artist and musician, best known as lead vocalist of indie
rock band, “The Kills.” A self taught artist, her work is held in several
collections, with a forthcoming solo show in Nashville, TN.
Amanda Reilly is an illustrator living and working in Long Island, NY.
Christina Neener is originally from Albany, NY and lives and works in North
Admas, MA.
ELLE is a New York based artist that blurs the lines of Street Art and Graffiti.
She has put up work on streets in cities across the world, including Berlin,
Paris, LA, Chicago, Miami, SF, and New Delhi, including Centrifuge Art Walls
in conjunction with YouTh*ink and the New Museum, 1st Ave and 1st Street,
NY and is slated for an installation in the forthcoming Street Art Museum in
Berlin, opening in 2015. She has shown in group exhibitions at Allegra La Viola
Gallery, New York, NY;; Bushwick Art and Shipping, Brooklyn, NY;; Scope
Art Fair, Miami, FL;; the Modern Museum of Art in the Santo Domingo,
Dominican Republic, and the Armory Satelite Fountain Art Fair at the Armory
Building, New York, NY;; among others.
GILF is a conceptual artist living and working in Brooklyn, New York. She
graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a BS in Fine Art.
Recognized as a strong voice of the current street art scene GILF had her first
solo show in New York with Arcilesi Homberg Fine Art in 2013. She has also
participated in various group and two person shows in New York, San
Francisco, Los Angeles, Bern, Munich, and Montreal.
INDIE 184 was born in Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico by way of the Dominican
Republic, was raised and lives in NYC. She is known for her classic New York
simple yet playful feminine graffiti style infused with exuberant bold colors
bursting with hearts, stars and bubbles. You can find her graffiti pieces in the
streets from the South Bronx to Oslo. She has shown in solo and group
exhibitions at TT-Underground Gallery, New York, NY;; Galerie MathGoth,
Paris, France;; the URBAN ART BIENNIAL, Völklingen Ironworks,
Saarbrücken, Germany;; Guerrero Gallery, San Francisco, CA;; and Philips De
Pury & Company, New York, NY;; among others.
Katrina Del Mar is a New York based photographer as well as an award
winning filmmaker and video artist. She has exhibited her work at The Museum
for Contemporary Art in Bordeaux, France;; Deitch Projects, New York, NY;;
Binz 39, Switzerland;; the Bass Museum of Art in Miami, FL;; and P.S. 122 in
New York City, NY;; among others.
LADY PINK was born in Ecuador, and raised in NYC. She started writing
graffiti in 1979 and is recognized as a leading figure in the rise of graffiti-based
art. Her work is held in collections including the Whitney Museum, the MET in
New York City, the Brooklyn Museum and the Groningen Museum of
Holland.
Laura Mylott Manning is a New York based fine artist. She studied at Rhode
Island School of Design, 2001 BFA Sculpture, and holds a MFA,
Interdisciplinary Arts, from Vermont College of Fine Arts. She has exhibited in
solo and group shows at Balzer Art Projects, Basel, Switzerland;; Dag
Hammarskjold Plaza, New York;; Baur Au Lac, Zurich, Switzerland;;
Brooklyn Arts Council (BAC) Gallery, Dumbo, Brooklyn, New York;; and Art
Basel Miami Beach, Convention Center, Florida;; among others.
Maya Hayuk lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. She earned a BFA in
Interrelated Media from Massachusetts College of Art and has studied at
V.C.U., Richmond, VA, Ontario College of Art and Design, Toronto, Canada,
the University of Odessa, Odessa, Ukraine and at Skowhegan School of
Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, Maine. Hayuk’s work has been the subject
of one person exhibitions and commissions at venues including The Bowery
Wall, New York, NY;; The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA;; The
Museum Of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto, Canada;; Bonnefanten
Museum, Maastricht, The Netherlands;; Socrates Sculpture Park, Queens, New
York;; among others.
Mia Tyler is an artist, photographer, writer and model. Her debut photography
show was at Andy Hilfiger’s rock clothing and art boutique, RIFF, and she has
since exhibited at Lambert Fine Arts.
Monique Mantell lives and works in New York.
QUEEN ANDREA is a native New Yorker raised in SoHo. Andrea attended
Parsons School of Design where she earned her BFA in Graphic Design. She
has curated and exhibited in numerous exhibitions in NYC and is currently
preparing for her solo show debut.
SHERYO has exhibited in solo and group shows and projects including The
Yok Turner Galleries, Perth, Australia;; "Women on the Walls", Wynwood
Walls, Miami, FL;; Temp Gallery, New York, NY;; "White Canvas Project"
London, UK;; and SCOPE Art Fair, New York, USA;; among others.
Sophie Alexia de Lobtienere lives and works in New York. She trained in the
traditional methods of academic portrait and figurative painting in Florence,
Italy at Charles H. Cecil Studios and graduated from the dual degree program at
The School of the Museum of Fine Arts and Tufts
University, from which she
received both a BA in Fine Art and BFA in Art History in 2008. She completed
her MA in Art Business at Sotheby’s Institute in London, 2009.
Sofia Bachvarova is a New York based artist. She received her MFA in Painting
from New York Academy of Art, NYC, and a BA in Printmaking Montclair
University, NJ. She has exhibied at Chelsea Art Museum, New York, NY;; 224
Grand Street in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY;; and the NYAA Summer
Exhibition juried by Eric Fischl, Matthew
Flowers and Anne Strauss;; among
others.
SWOON is a notable Street Artist, who has contributed to the Pop Art
movement. She was born in New London, CT, and raised in Daytona Beach,
FL. The artist’s real name is Caledonia Dance Curry. In 1997, Swoon moved
to New York, where she obtained a BA in Fine Arts from the Pratt Institute in
Brooklyn, NY. She crashed the 2009 Venice Biennale with "the Swimming
Cities of Serenissima," and contributed to the Konbit Shelter, 2013, and the
collective Transformazium.
Tracy Piper is a San Francisco, CA based artist. She graduated from the
Illustration program at California College of the Arts. She has shown in
SCOPE, Miami, FL and Bunnycutlet Gallery, Brooklyn, NY.
VEXTA is a fine artist from Australia, currently living and working in New
York. She has work held in major collections, including The National Gallery
of Australia and recently she was included in the definitive Thames & Hudson
World of Art: Street Art & Graffiti book (2012) as one of only 4 female street
artists. She has exhibited in solo and group exhibitions at Edwina Corlette
Gallery, Brisbane, Australia;; Blackartprojects, Melbourne, Australia;; White
Walls Gallery, San Francisco, CA;; and Comodaa London, UK;; among
others.
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