The New York Public Library Presents: “Eye on the Wall: Observations on Street Art,” with Luna Park (Manhattan, NY)
[ March 7, 2011; 6:30 pm to 8:00 pm. ] Luna Park
An unruly stepchild of the graffiti era, street art is a global art movement well into its third decade and still going strong. While graffiti is traditionally limited to the aerosol arts, street art knows no such boundaries. Street artists make full use of traditional as well as digital [...]
A New Clown Comes to Town : Clown Soldier in Studio
All the World is a Circus! Says I.
Clown Soldier Silk Screen (photo © Jaime Rojo)
Jugglers, acrobats, trapeze artists, bareback riders, high wire walkers and of course the stern Ringmaster to smartly sharply keep them all on task. Enter the clown, bobbing along on the stage periphery, gamely plumbing audience notions of propriety for absurdity.
Winter sun [...]
Joseph Meloy, “Exactly What The Hell is Vandal Expressionism?”
[ March 3, 2011; 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm. ]
The debut solo exhibition of NYC-based artist Joseph Meloy.
A hieroglyphic graffiti-inflected take on the spirit of abstract expressionism, Vandal Expressionism is a veritable child of New York City, drawing as much from the Abstract Expressionists of the 1940′s and 50′s as from the hordes of graffiti taggers whose scribbles and [...]
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