Seen: From the Streets of Brooklyn

January 10th, 2009 — by Jack in Shows

Reaffirming that LA loves street art , Thinkspace drew a constant crowd for tonight’s (10.9) opening of From the Streets of Brooklyn. The lure was strong with the inclusion of NYC standouts such as Gaia, Faile, BAST, Swoon, Chris Stain and many more. Curated by Ad Hoc Gallery, the show featured a broad cross-section of street art styles from over 40 Brooklyn based artists. If you are even slightly drawn to street art, this show is for you. From the electric light style of the Graffiti Research Lab to the small infectious 2.5D figures of Stikman, this show challenges simplistic definitions of street art.

The front room featured the next installation in the Uroboros project from Gaia and Rachel Lowing – a wood bridge featuring a pig creature on one-end, a fish being on the other side, with a civilization on a glowing hilltop. The striking installation explores relationships with the urban landscape.

In the back Project Room, Imminent Disaster transformed nearly the entire space with her massively intricate faux dilapidated wall featuring vintage photos, large wall paste-ups as well as fewer small pieces. She also found the time to create two large circular pieces suspended from the ceiling. The front and back room installs are reason enough to make the trip out to the gallery.

Street art is in a very real sense about the public from spaces to the people that inhabit them. So its fitting that Peripheral Media Projects & Grow Your Own Media were on-hand doing live screen paintings for anyone with some blank clothing and time.

From The Streets of Brooklyn runs through February 9th 2009, so if you’re in SoCal definitely makes plans to check it out.

Thinkspace Art Gallery
4210 Santa Monica Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90029
323.913.3375