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Graffiti art3/10/2023 ![]() The show’s title comes from the early 1980s, when graffiti artists, who had gotten their start painting illegally on walls and subway cars, first began migrating into the galleries. It’s prepared ahead of time in the artist’s studio, with imagery that is often more identifiable, versus a name that’s written very stylistically.” “Often with street art,” he added, “it’s just instantly much more acceptable to the general public. Sometimes it looks like vandalism, sometimes it looks beautiful,” Gastman said. It’s writing on the walls, it’s writing on the trains, it’s writing on the rooftops. “At its core, graffiti is writing your name over and over again for the sake of fame. The space will launch on September 24 with “ Post Graffiti,” an exhibition tracking the evolution of graffiti, from the scene’s living legends such as CRASH, Eric HAZE, and Lady Pink, to younger artists such as POSE, Othelo Gervacio, and Nehemiah Cisneros. “This is an area that I love, that’s so central and convenient for everything-and there are so many galleries on this block.” Within a week we had signed a lease,” Gastman said. It boats tall ceilings, skylights, and-crucially-its own parking lot. When he decided it was finally time to move forward with the idea, Gastman scoured the city’s rental properties before falling in love with a 6,000-square-foot building on La Brea Avenue. “Here we can focus on one theme or on individual artists for six to eight weeks, and then we can do it again a few weeks later-and it’s free for visitors.” It’s hard to give all of the artists the attention we want to give them,” he said. “When we do these massive Beyond the Street shows, they’re incredible and we love them, but we’re focusing on 100-plus artists at a time. (There was also a virtual Beyond the Streets art fair in late 2020.)īut for Gastman, a smaller, more nimble space that would operate on an on-going basis always stuck in the back of his mind. ![]() In 2018, he took over a 40,000-square-foot Los Angeles warehouse to stage the first “Beyond the Streets” show.Ī New York edition followed in 2019, and London and Shanghai versions, delayed by the pandemic, are both currently in the pipeline. The roots of the project go back to 2011, when Gastman curated the hit exhibition “Art in the Streets” at the Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles. ![]() Photo by Yubo Dong/ofstudio photography, courtesy of Beyond the Streets. The new “Post-Graffiti” show at Beyond the Streets gallery in Los Angeles.
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