Thinkspace presents:

 

(Los Angeles, CA) "From The Streets of Brooklyn" is a wide survey of the
street and graffiti artists who call Brooklyn their home.  From
internationally renowned street artists such as Bast and Swoon to hardcore
graf writers such as Kuma and Rate, this show features almost 50 artists
from every walk of street art and graf art life.  Wheat pastes, stencils,
murals, installs and of course tags and piece ups are all recognized and
included in this once in a lifetime examination of what is currently going
up and staying up in the streets of Brooklyn, New York.  A photo montage by
street art photographer Luna Park is included in the show as well as great
installations in the gallery by Gaia with Rachel Lowing (front entry area)
and Imminent Disaster (project room area).  Also, be sure to check the area
around the gallery for the incredible chalk shadows of Ellis G. dotting the
sidewalks and enhancing the mundane city landscape, even if only until the
next rain.

"We've been huge admirers of the art scene in Brooklyn, from the streets to
the underground galleries, for some time now. When it came time to put
together our 2009 exhibition schedule we had the idea to bring a lil' bit of
Brooklyn to Los Angeles. A show of this magnitude has never been attempted
and upon further talks, we thought it best to go to the source, and hit up
the Ad Hoc Art crew to curate the definitive Brooklyn group show."

-       Andrew Hosner, co-owner/co-curator, Thinkspace

"We here at Ad Hoc Art have continued to be impressed with the quality of
work being shown over the last few years at Thinkspace Gallery.  The idea to
bring Brooklyn artists to LA had been floating around in our heads for quite
some time, but when Thinkspace showed interest in being the gallery to host
such an event, we knew it was time to make it happen!"

-       Andrew Michael Ford, director, Ad Hoc Art


With featured installations from:

. Gaia + Rachel Lowing (front entry installation area)

. Imminent Disaster (project room installation)

. Ellis G. (special street installation in surrounding area)

. Luna Park (special photo collage install)

 

Over 40 Brooklyn, NY based artists in the main gallery, including:

Abe Lincoln Jr. / Acne / AIKO (aka Aiko Nakagawa) / AnerA / Avoid Pi / avone
/ Bast / Bloke / c.damage / Celso / Chris Stain / Dan Witz / Dark Clouds /
Dennis McNett / ELBOW-TOE / Ellis G. / ELC (aka Endless Love Crew) / Faro /
Gaia / Graffiti Research Lab (G.R.L.) / Imminent Disaster / infinity / jm
rizzi / Josh MacPhee / Juse One / Kuma / Matt Siren / Maya Hayuk / Michael
DeFeo (aka The Flower Guy) / MOMO / Peru Ana Ana Peru / PMP (aka Peripheral
Media Projects) / Rate / Robots Will Kill / Royce Bannon / Skewville / Slept
/ Sometimes / Sonet / Stikman / Swoon / Thundercut / UFO / Unplate


Sneak Peek of From the Streets of Brooklyn:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/thinkspace/sets/72157607658942787/

 

Sneak Peek of From the Streets of Brooklyn presented by noted 
photographer Luna Park here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lunapark/sets/72157608363833285/show/ 


Gaia and Rachel Lowing statement on 'The Uroboros Project' 
installation:

Gaia is a young street artist from NYC who is currently based in Charm City,
Baltimore. In less than a year, he has established a strong presence on the
streets of both these cities. His subject matter combines personal
experience with the expression of the emotional relationship between animals
and humanity. 

"The Uroboros Project is a collaborative effort between artist Rachel Lowing
and I. Spawned from a mutual interest in articulating the inexorably
intertwined relationship between people and nature; we examine the act of
consumption and its implications on contemporary life. The urban environment
is an organism whose growth is dictated by the symbiotic relationship
between the city and its inhabitants. It is the ideology and laws of society
manifest, yet simultaneously it obeys basic, natural properties of formation
and development that is shared by all sentient creatures.

By considering our connection and correspondence with the city, we come
closer to understanding the purgatory between nature and culture that
defines our internal struggle as human beings. 

The project's title, Uroboros, is derived from a circular symbol depicting a
snake, or less commonly a dragon, swallowing its tail as an emblem of
wholeness, totality, or infinity." - Gaia

Blog chronicling the progress leading up to the final stage of the project
at our gallery: http://www.uroborosproject.blogspot.com/

 

Gaia's Flickr: 

http://www.flickr.com/photos/gaiastreetart/ 

 

Rachel Lowing Flickr:

http://flickr.com/photos/radsitl 


Imminent Disaster bio:

Imminent Disaster is an emerging Brooklyn-based artist creating in a variety
of mediums including wheat pasted prints pulled from linoleum block cuts,
silk screening, collage and assemblage. Disaster is inspired by the street
as an environment: a place with people, structures and history that are
constantly being destroyed and rebuilt. Combining carefully researched fact
and legend, she creates figurative images and historically inspired
broadsides that are glimpses of a world that has fallen through the cracks
of time. Disaster has participated in the Miss Rockaway Armada and Wooster
on Spring, amongst other high profile group and featured exhibitions,
including showing at this past December's Art Basel as part of the GenArt
Vanguard Fair.

Imminent Disaster's Flickr: 

http://www.flickr.com/photos/disasterstrikes/ 



Ellis G. bio:

Ellis Gallagher is a native New Yorker. As a former graffiti writer, his
work can be found in New York City and beyond, in Autograf: New York City's
Graffiti Writers by Peter Sutherland (Powerhouse Books 2004), as well as in
numerous newspapers, magazines, on television and in films. Currently a
Contemporary/Street Artist known as (C)ELLIS G., Gallagher's work has
appeared on the cover of Time Out New York, in the New York Daily News, The
New York Times, New York Magazine, The Village Voice, The Brooklyn Paper,
Mass Appeal Magazine, Artnet Magazine, Overspray Magazine, Der Spiegel
Germany, The Area Revue France, H Magazine Spain, as well as on NY 1, RAI TV
Italy, Chinese News Network, NYCTV, The Hallmark Channel, Current T.V., WPIX
11 (NYC), NBC 4 (NYC), WNET 13 PBS (NYC) and the streets of New York City
and beyond. Gallagher will soon publish his first book "Adhesives," the
ultimate compendium of graffiti, graphic design and street art stickers with
Miss Rosen Editions for Powerhouse Books.