We’re starting the week off by announcing a new Street Art and graffiti inspired exhibition opening May 6th in Los Angeles called Beyond The Streets. Curated by author and graffiti historian Roger Gastman, the show is said to be a dynamic follow-up to Art in the Streets, the graffiti and street art retrospective at MoCA Los Angeles in 2011.

Martha Cooper’s classic photo of Lil Crazy Legs during the shoot for “Wild Style” in 1983 NYC (photo ©Martha Cooper)

That one was supposed to come to Brooklyn but was cancelled and Gastman tells us that he is planning to bring this new show to New York, possibly elsewhere, as a sort of traveling exhibition. Running in LA for about 10 weeks, the success of that show will most likely help determine how far it can go.

With a footprint that requires an estimated 40,000 square feet in LA, the exhibition sounds expansive and able to give ample space to the expanse of styles and disciplines indicated by the eclectic artist list. The possible locations for moving the show to New York is a list we’d like to see as pop-up shows this size can be an appreciable undertaking. In any event we’ll be happy to see the Faile Temple here again – as it has already been exhibited in the Brooklyn Museum. But we are getting ahead of ourselves!

FAILE. Temple. “Faile: Savage/Sacred Young Minds” Brooklyn Museum, July 2015. (photo © Jaime Rojo)

Beyond The Streets is said to showcase paintings, sculpture, photography, installations, and performances indoor and outdoors, and will include works by an array of artists that may not have a lot in common except that they come from the streets or have interacted meaningfully with street culture sometime in the last five decades.

The mission statement says in part that it, “celebrates the global movement of graffiti and street art, exploring fundamental human themes: mark making and rule breaking.” It will be interesting to see how their works and scenes are tied to one another cohesively to help tell a complex story – one that now more readily acknowledges the contributions of conceptualists, muralists and even art school kids than it did only a decade ago. Onward!

Organizers are saying there will be over 100 artist included, and here’s the artist list so far:

AIKO
Al Diaz
Alicia McCarthy
André Saraiva
Andrew Schoultz
Anthony Lister
BANDO
Barry McGee
BAST
Ben Jones
Bill Barminski
Bill Daniel
BLADE
buZ blurr
Charlie Ahearn
CHAZ Bojórquez
Claudia Gold
COCO 144
CORNBREAD
Craig Costello
C.R. Stecyk III
CRASH
DABSMYLA
Dan Witz
Dash Snow
DAZE
DELTA
Dennis Hopper
Eddie Martinez
EINE
Estevan Oriol
FAILE
FAITH XLVII
Felipe Pantone
FREEDOM
FUTURA 2000
Gajin Fujita
Globe Poster
Gordon Matta-Clark
Greg “CRAOLA” Simkins
Guerrilla Girls
HACER
HAZE
Henry Chalfant
Herbert Migdoll
HuskMitNavn
INVADER
Jean-Michel Basquiat
Jenny Holzer
Jim Prigoff
John Ahearn
KATSU
KC Ortiz
Keith Haring
Kenny Scharf
Kilroy Was Here
Kristofferson San Pablo
LADY PINK
LAZAR
Lee Quiñones
Maripol
Mark Mothersbaugh
Martha Cooper
Maya Hayuk
Michael Lawrence
Mister Cartoon
MODE 2
Pat Riot
Patrick Martinez
Paul Insect
POSE PRAY
Randall Harrington
RETNA
Jason REVOK
Richard Colman
RIMERISK
Ron English
Ron Finley
Ruby Neri
SABER
Sam Friedman
SANE
SMITH
Sayre Gomez
SEEN
Shepard Fairey
SHOE
SJK 171
SLICK
SNAKE 1
Stephen Powers
SWOON
Takashi Murakami
TAKI 183
Tim Conlon
Timothy Curtis
Todd James
VHILS
Victor REYES
ZESER

---

Beyond the Streets will charge $25 a ticket and will open to the public in Los Angeles on May 6, 2018. Tickets for the event will be available for purchase in advance at BEYONDTHESTREETS.COM.

 

238

138

45