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Above Image: Paint Paste Sticker – Chicago Street Art [at Chicago Cultural Center]
Temporary Exhibition: Paint Paste Sticker: Chicago Street Art
Location: Exhibit Hall, 4th Floor of Chicago Cultural Center
October 19, 2013 – January 12, 2014
PART II : Photo Gallery
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Curator: Nathan Mason [Paint Paste Sticker – Chicago Street Art]
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Keith Haring, Banksy and Jean-Michel Basquiat have been some of the most successful proponents of graffiti as urban street art.
The city has long maintained, No community in Chicago has to tolerate graffiti. Please join us in eliminating graffiti and maintaining the beauty of Chicago. [as stated in its website, click here..]..
Graffiti : Vandalism or Art?
Graffiti reflects a Run-Down Neighborhood, or, a Vibrant-Healthy-Exciting neighborhood?
Making a case for graffiti as Urban Art reflecting vibrant exciting neighborhood is the ongoing exhibit..
Paint, Paste Sticker: Chicago Street Art
Featuring works by some prominent Chicago Street Artists..
Zore, ZorZorZor, Jeff Zimmerman, You Are Beautiful, Uneek, Tselone, Traz, Trane & Shaggy, Thor, Teel, Secret Sticker Club, Stef, Statik, Chris Silva, Slang, Risk, Cartoon Da Pharo, Pawn Works, Orange Walls, Nick, Fury, Nice One, Lake Effect, Kane One, Ish Muhammad, International Meeting of Styles, The Grocer, Brooks Golden, G.P., Galerie F, Flex, Flash ABC, Erik DeBat, Don’t Fret, Chicago Urban Art Society, The Champ, Casper, C3PO, Hebru Brantley, Beloved, Oscar Arriola, Ruben Aguirre, Nick Adam, 83ism.
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Group of Art Students at the exhibition Paint-Paste-Sticker
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Chicago is an artful construct. A city grown from an onion-infested swamp, burnt to the ground and rebuilt. A city shaped by industry and railroads, then shaped by urban renewal and interstate highway construction. A city shaped by segregation and neighborhoods seemingly transported whole from some distant motherland. The parks and lakefronts, lovely meadows and beaches, coyly looking natural but all designed in some workshop and built on landfill, over railroad tracks and on the site of defunct factories. The city with its miles of walls and rolling stock challenges artists to create.
Graffiti writing began proliferating in the 70s as spray can technology improved not only the quality of the paint but also refined the nozzle, and the ability to control the paint flow. In the 80s and 90s graffiti, primarily an art centered on the letter, blossomed further and image based Street Art entered the scene. The works in this exhibition are by a multi-ethnic, intergenerational gathering of Chicago artists, many of whom were first connected by the “L”, and whose disciplines are Graffiti and Street Art. Most of these artists started their careers, simply as youth looking for creative outlets. For some graffiti writing was a way to participate in community and stay out of gangs. Several of these artists now run small businesses, are veterans, teach in public schools, or colleges. Some support their families solely from their artwork, and are showing in galleries and museums internationally. Today, as evidenced by the support of local business, associations and aldermen, artist creating graffiti and street art are embraced as signs of healthy and exciting neighborhoods.
This post is continued from my earlier post on Paint Paste Sticker.. click here..
PHOTO GALLERY
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- Paint, Paste, Sticker: Chicago Street Art
- You Are Beautiful
- Paint, Paste, Sticker: Chicago Street Art
- Paint, Paste, Sticker: Chicago Street Art
- Thor
- Secret Sticker Club
- Secret Sticker Club
- Secret Sticker Club
- Paint, Paste, Sticker: Chicago Street Art
- Paint, Paste, Sticker: Chicago Street Art
- Paint, Paste, Sticker: Chicago Street Art
- Brooks Blair Golden – Nesting II / 2013
- Liz “BELOVED” lazdins – Back Watch / 2013
- Nino “Tselone” Rodriguez – Tsel and the Serpent / 2013
- Stephanie “Stefskills” Garland
- Zor Zor Zor : Bag Lady, 2013/ Spooky Jookie, 2013/ Like it or not, 2013
- C3PO Early men 2010
- Miguel “Kane One” Aguilar
- Trane & Shaggy
- Hebru Brantley
- nice-one Untitled from the installation “Tax Free” 2-11
- Ruben Aguirre – Imaginary Boundaries/ Keep Reaching, 2013
- Jeff Zimmerman
- Erik DeBat
- Paint, Paste, Sticker: Chicago Street Art
- Rahmaan Statik
- James “Casper” Jankowiak – Drift 2011/2012
- Francisco “The Champ” Radah
- Teel – The Thrown
- Tyrue “Slang” Jones – The Sprited Dancer, 2013
- Tyrue “Slang” Jones – The Slave Shoe, 2006
- Tyrue “Slang” Jones – The Slave Shoe, 2006
- Paint, Paste, Sticker: Chicago Street Art
- Paint, Paste, Sticker: Chicago Street Art
- Paint, Paste, Sticker: Chicago Street Art
- Paint, Paste, Sticker: Chicago Street Art
- Cartoon The Pharo
- Paint, Paste, Sticker: Chicago Street Art
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RELATED LINKS
Exhibitions at Chicago Cultural Center.. click here..
Temporary Exhibitions.. click here..
Home: Public Art in Chicago.. click here..
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