Always a pleasure to talk with someone as talented as such so sit back and enjoy this exchange between a street artist and a girl who can barely handle a stick figure. Street art ain’t what it used to be and because of that artists like Martin Whatson are able to bring imagination to cityscapes taking basic buildings and transforming them into colorful centerpieces for passersby to enjoy.
While some graffiti is still revered as nonsense, there has been an upswing in the art community when it comes to acceptance. Just imagining those artists reaching incredible heights with nothing more than paint in their hands? It’s quite well, incredible. The group exhibition includes works by 1010, Aaron Nagel, Alex Garant, Alexis, Diaz, Allison Sommers, Amy Sol, Bec Winnel, Benjamin Garcia, Cinta Vidal, Craig ‘Skibs’ Barker, Curiot, Daniel Bilodeau, David Cooley, David Rice, Derek Gores, Dulk, Erik Siador, Ernest Zacharevic, Fernando Chamarelli, Frank Gonzales, Ian Francis, Icy and Sot, James Bullough, Joel Daniel Phillips, Jolene Lai, Juan Travieso, Kelly Vivanco, Kevin Peterson, Lauren Brevner, Linnea Strid, Liz Brizzi, Marco Mazzoni, Martin Whatson, Mary Iverson, Meggs, Michael Reeder, Molly Gruninger, Rodrigo Luff, Sarah Joncas, Sepe, Sergio Garcia, Stephanie Buer, Telmo Miel, Tran Nguyen, Wiley Wallace, and Yosuke Ueno.Anyone who grew up in a city can tell you there’s as much beauty in a piece of well-done graffiti as there is in a piece hanging in The Louvre. The potential of representation inspires these artists to draw from popular and countercultural sources like music, illustration, comics, design, tattoo culture, skate culture and the like, looking to the outside world rather than to the more selfreferential gestures that typify that of fine art.įlourish features a project room installation by Felipe Pantone, and site-specific murals by Esao Andrews and Nosego. Inclusive and diverse, several styles, media, and exhibition platforms fall within the Movement's now widely cast net. Largely self-supported and community-driven since the 90s, the New Contemporary Art Movement has been steadily gaining in international recognition over the past decade and is now widely recognized as both the largest and longest running art movement in history. The Movement is loosely defined by its shared interest in the social rather than the abstract or conceptual. Though seemingly disparate, these genres are all linked by a vibrant community, multiple stylistic allegiances, and a return to the expressive possibilities of figurative and representational content, driven by a more populist sensibility. Working in a variety of stylistic veins, New Contemporary Art includes everything from Pop Surrealism, Muralism, Installation and Street Art, to Graffiti, Hyperrealism, Illustration, and Portraiture.
Flourish, a group exhibition featuring works by artists belonging to the New Contemporary Art Movement, will be curated by Thinkspace gallery and showed at Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum.
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