Dave Persue “Liminal Space”

GR Gallery

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GR Gallery presents “Liminal Space”, Dave Persue first solo exhibition with the gallery. The show will present a new body of works, expressly designed for this event, it will showcase 20 new pieces including works on paper, large canvases and collaborative projects. For this occasion, Persue will also create an unrevealed site specific installation in the gallery hallway and will launch a new print and display classical merchandise.

A doorway, a stretching hallway, an empty bus stop, being between jobs,
relationships, or homes, liminal space is the emptiness that is punctuated
by arrivals, departures, and events in our lives.
Persue found himself in a liminal state in 2014. Having ended his career as
a commercial artist, he moved to Brooklyn in search of a clearer path for
his fine art. A well respected artist in the worldwide graffiti scene,
Persue’s characters and illustrative approach carried over into multiple
projects. One project was a children’s book he authored featuring
BunnyKitty, an iconic character he often paints in murals and graffiti. In
the process of painting the illustrations for the book, Persue was forced to
find other ways to supplement his income before the upcoming release. It
was while riding New York’s subway trains that he found a solution.
It could be argued that New York City is one enormous Liminal Space. The
city itself is in a perpetual state of change, and the majority of its
physical makeup also serves as transitional space for nearly 9 million
inhabitants to move through. It’s public parks, sidewalks, tunnels,
hallways, and subway stations, are all by definition, Liminal Spaces.
Persue pays homage to this sacred space in his latest series of paintings
inspired by iconography found in New York City’s most utilized Liminal
Space: Subway Stations. Using MTA Wet Paint signs as a canvas, Persue
honors one of the world’s busiest transit systems, a sprawling liminal space where
millions of New Yorkers spend hours of their precious time, daily.

-Alli Bautista


DAVE ROSS PERSUE (pronounced “per-SWAY”) is a west coast graffiti and urban culture pioneer. His design resume pre-dates almost any example of street aesthetics being paired with the skateboarding industry, making his earliest designs the catalyst that created modern day youth culture as we know it. Much of his work is in plain sight and yet his name is rarely attached to it. However his skill and evident talent in the realm of painting characters and letters put him in the spotlight and he quickly became a household name in the worldwide graffiti community.
Persue eventually started a project for fun that would inadvertently become a phenomenon all its own: Bunny Kitty. His most ambitious and creation to date, Bunny Kitty is a whole world unto itself.
His animated and fun-loving demeanor, as well as an intense imaginative way of looking at the world around him, are the building blocks of his work. As a traditionalist, he paints on the streets, but has meshed that background with a rough-edged illustration style to create works for galleries and museums, where he exhibited worldwide during the past decades. Persue also did many collaborations with popular brands such as Microsoft, Osiris, DC Shoes, Eightball, FourSquare, C1rca, Vox

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Schedule

from February 07, 2019 to March 10, 2019

Opening Reception on 2019-02-06 from 18:00 to 21:00

Artist(s)

Dave Persue

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