NYAB Event - “Push It” Exhibition

“Push It” Exhibition

Joseph Gross Gallery

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ArtNowNY presents Push It, a group exhibition featuring 21 New York and California based artists. The show of 42 works in mixed-media, painting and photography highlights a bold urban aesthetic from a group of emerging and established artists, some of whom combine Street Art with their existing studio practices.
Push It seeks to further a conversation on how the contemporary art sub-genre, Street Art, is influencing fine art studio practice. Viewed as a signature movement of artists immersed in subversive or Low Brow culture, Street Art is increasingly making its way into fine art practice. Identified as art that is eye-catching or confrontational, Street Art is considered any work placed in a public venue in the form of wheat pasted graphics, wall stencils, paintings, object interventions or 3-dimensional installations.
This aesthetic is reimagined in the work of Maya Hayuk, a New York based mid-career artist who was recently commissioned to create a mural for the infamous Bowery wall in NYC. Established artists like SWOON, reimagine the Street Art aesthetic, offering sophisticated commentary on economic and environmental issues through work that includes intricately cut wheat paste stencils, floating sculptures and installations made of scavenged, found and low-fi materials. Other veterans of the Street Art scene, like LADY PINK and GILF, use their work to advance and promote social and political examination.
Push It is a show meant to survey the current influence of the Street Art movement on the contemporary art world outside of the archaic and rigid binaries of high and low art and artist stereotypes and in keeping with the fluid, transdisciplinary approach of many artists working today.

Media

• Painting
• Photography
• Other

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