PANTHEON : A Photo Essay

March 31, 2011 Artists, Events, Features, Gallery, Manhattan, NYC, Opening

PANTHEON: A history of art from the streets of New York City is a labor of love.

This Saturday the PANTHEON mounts a show seen from the street, bringing visual story from the last 40 years of graffiti and Street Art alive in a space that once housed a city library across from the Museum of Modern Art on 53^rd Street. Like the real shows we follow on the public thoroughfare, this one is also open 24 hours a day.

907 Crew. Sadue, Gen2, Oze108, Droid, Goya, UFO “907 Was an Inside Joke” Detail (Photo © Jaime Rojo)

An ambitious project spearheaded by Daniel Feral and Joyce Manalo, PANTHEON is truly grassroots, an academic and historic presentation by people who love it and study it and create it. Funded by modest personal contributions to their Kickstarter campaign, the show’s mission is to foster future understanding of how graffiti and Street Art has claimed a place as catalyst in the culture through it’s own wild and wooly evolution on the margins and in the mainstream. A small selection of some of the players on this now global scene, the resulting exhibit aims to be an un-hyped insight into the experience by people who are more concerned with the art than who collects it.

As their media partner, BSA got a behind the scenes peek at many of the pieces that will be shown and here is a photo essay by our own Jaime Rojo. These rich and storied detail shots will hopefully incite your imagination and peak your interest to check out the street show in person.

907 Crew. Sadue, Gen2, Oze108, Droid, Goya, UFO “907 Was an Inside Joke” Detail (Photo © Jaime Rojo)

Infinity. Detail (Photo © Jaime Rojo)

Abe Lincoln Jr. Detail (Photo © Jaime Rojo)

Adam VOID. Detail (Photo © Jaime Rojo)

Cake. Detail (Photo © Jaime Rojo)

Cassius Fouler. Detail (Photo © Jaime Rojo)

Darkclouds. Detail (Photo © Jaime Rojo)

Ellis G. Detail (Photo © Jaime Rojo)

Faro. Detail (Photo © Jaime Rojo)

Freedom. Detail (Photo © Jaime Rojo)

Matt Siren. Detail (Photo © Jaime Rojo)

OverUnder. Detail (Photo © Jaime Rojo)

John Ahearn. Detail (Photo © Jaime Rojo)

Rigoberto Torres. Detail (Photo © Jaime Rojo)

Jordan Seiler. Detail (Photo © Jaime Rojo)

NohjColey. Detail (Photo © Jaime Rojo)

Quel Beast Detail (Photo © Jaime Rojo)

Royce Bannon. Detail (Photo © Jaime Rojo)

Stikman. Detail (Photo © Jaime Rojo)

Toofly. Detail (Photo © Jaime Rojo)

http://www.pantheonnyc.com/

PANTHEON:
A history of art from the streets of New York City
Windows exhibition runs April 2-17, 2011
On view 24 hours a day

EXHIBITION LOCATION
chashama at the Donnell
20 West 53rd Street, b/w 5th & 6th Avenue
New York, NY 10019 (across from MoMA)

PRESS EVENT – RSVP ONLY*
Saturday, April 2, 4-5 PM

PRIVATE RECEPTION – RSVP ONLY*

Saturday, April 2, 6-8 PM

* To attend either event, please email rsvp@pantheonnyc.com or call 646-269-9494. Location details will be announced at the latest by Saturday morning.

ARTISTS
Abe Lincoln, Jr., John Ahearn and Rigorberto Torres, Adam VOID, Cassius Fouler, Cake, Darkclouds, Droid, El Celso, Ellis Gallagher, Faro, John Fekner and Don Leicht, Freedom, Gen2, Goya, Groser, Richard Hambleton, infinity, KET, LSD-Om, Matt Siren, NohJColey, OverUnder, Oze 108, Quel Beast, Royce Bannon, Sadue, Jordan Seiler, Stikman, Toofly, UFO, and Vudu.