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Crewest 10 Year Anniversary Show (May 5, 2012)
Crewest Gallery Celebrates its 10 Year Anniversary with its Newest
Exhibit
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED
Los Angeles, CA – This year is the 10 year anniversary of Crewest
Gallery and to commemorate this special occasion, Crewest is proud to present
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED as their 10 year anniversary exhibit. Opening in May,
Crewest’s MISSION ACCOMPLISHED will showcase the work from many of the amazing
artists it helped to promote, legitimize and make graffiti art the mainstream
zeitgeist it is today. Also, as part of Crewest's 10 Year Anniversary
exhibition, Man One will be featuring a mini-solo exhibit A DECADE OF GRAFFITI
SPIRITS in the Front Room of the gallery showing the direction of his newest
body of work.
In the Main Gallery MISSION ACCOMPLISHED:
Ten
years ago renowned graffiti artist and Los Angeles native Man One founded
Crewest Gallery in Alhambra, CA, just a few minutes east of Downtown. Man One
founded Crewest with the mission to legitimatize graffiti art by giving talented
graffiti artists a professional forum in which to showcase their art while
simultaneously educating the broader art community and general public about the
richness, complexity and technicality of graffiti art.
Now, in 2012,
graffiti art is hot. Graffiti art is showing in museums and on television.
Graffiti art is on fashion and architecture. Graffiti artists are having gallery
shows and being collected all over the world. In fact, last year, one of the
largest and most attended shows in the history of MOCA in Los Angeles was a
graffiti art exhibit called ART IN THE STREETS, which ran from April through
August in 2011 and made news worldwide. Man One and Crewest Gallery blazed the
trails that helped to make things like this possible for graffiti artists and
their art form.
In the book Graffiti L.A., street art documentarian
Steve Grody listed the opening of Crewest Gallery as a milestone event in the
history of graffiti art in Los Angeles.
The evidence is clear. Over the
last ten years, Crewest has helped many great artists gain notoriety and a
bigger audience. These artists include Patrick Martinez, Marka27, Siner, Victor
Sepulveda, Sacred194, Syndrome, Cope2, Greg "Craola" Simkins, Kofie Augustine,
WERC, Mear One, Asylm, Vyal One, T-Kid, Ces and on and on.
Established
and renowned artists who have exhibited at Crewest over the years include Chaz
Bojorquez, George Yepes, Syd Mead, Estevan Oriol, Eriberto Oriol, Gusmano
Cesaretti and international artists such as Daim & Seak (Germany), SOT &
ICY (Iranian street artists), Dabs & Myla (Australia) had their first U.S.
showings at Crewest.
Artists that will show at MISSION ACCOMPLISHED in
May include:
AISE, ALEX "DEFER" KIZU, BRANDED, BRON THERON, CAB, CHAZ
BOJORQUEZ, DAVE KAWANO, DCYPHER, EDGAR HOILL, ERIBERTO ORIOL, EVAN ESK, EYE ONE,
FLYCAT, GEORGE CLINTON, GEORGE YEPES, GONZO247, GREGG STONE, GUSTAVO ALBERTO
GARCIA VACA, HASTE, HEX, HUIT, JOHN CARR, JUAN CARLOS "HEAVEN" MUNOZ, KOFIE, MAX
NEUTRA, MEAR ONE, MICHAEL PIZARRO, MR PUPPET, MR.WANY, OSCAR MAGALLANES, OVERTON
LOYD, RAPTUZ, RITZY PERIWINKLE, ROME, SAHL, SANDONE, SCOTCH, SHERM, SKET, SLOKE,
CRISTIAN “SMEAR” GHEORGHIU, STEVE GRODY, STEVE MARTINEZ, STREET PHANTOM,
SYNDROME AND MORE...
In the Front Room Man One "A DECADE OF GRAFFITI
SPIRITS":
As the founder and creative director for Crewest since its
inception, Man One has predicted the rise of graffiti art as a viable and
collectible art form.
As part of Crewest's 10 Year Anniversary
exhibition, Man One will be featuring a mini-solo exhibit in the Front Room of
the gallery showing the direction of his newest body of work.
In his
10th solo exhibit in 10 years, "A Decade of Graffiti Spirits" focuses on
figurative acrylic and aerosol paintings on wooden panels. These paintings
involve his colorful and bold trademark character creations coined, "Graffiti
Spirits" as they are super imposed onto fields of spray painted tags and layers
of paint. The underlying tags in the paintings are negative statements of
culture, politics, and overall social angst.
The characters painted are
meant to be a positive force of creation overcoming the negativity behind them.
These characters depict the spirit of the artist as he pulls himself out of the
negative environment by means of his graffiti background.
Show runs
alongside "Mission Accomplished!" from May 5th - 27th, 2012
Important
Date Info:
Mission Accomplished and A Decade of Graffiti Spirits opens
to the public Saturday, May 5, 2012 from 7-10pm. Artwalk event takes place
Thursday, May 10, 2012. Exhibits close on May 27, 2012
Location
Info:
Exhibits and events to take place at Crewest Gallery, 110 Winston St.,
Los Angeles, CA 90013, 213-627-8272, info@crewest.com.
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