Remi Rough and Crash (photo © Jaime Rojo)
A Bronx-born bomber of the past teams up with a graffuturist from South London in this small gallery show in Manhattan’s East Village entitled “Flow”.
John “Crash” Matos has been a student and pioneer in pop, graffiti and Street Art over his 30+ years as an artist and here he takes his inspiration from the next generation Remi Rough when coupling his distinctive style with the abstract and the third dimension.
Now considered part of the geometric school of graffiti and Street Artists in Europe and the US sometimes referred to as graffuturism, the graffiti roots of Remi enable him to bend his forms to intersect and ride with the more curvilinear and cartoon inspired Crash.
While it is a side by side hanging collaboration of individual styles for much of the show, the vibrational strength arises from the union when the two are able to do as the show title suggests, creating an intersection through seamless collisions and sheer layering that complement the visual vocabulary of both.
Remi Rough (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Crash (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Crash and Remi Rough (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Crash and Remi Rough (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Remi Rough (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Crash (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Remi Rough and Crash (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Remi Rough and Crash (photo © Jaime Rojo)
“Flow” is currently on view at the Dorian Grey Gallery at 437 East 9th Street in New York City until February 23rd, 2014.
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