BLADE (Steven Ogburn)
New York
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We Were Here: East Coast x West Coast
Chase Contemporary is pleased to announce We Were Here: East Coast x West Coast, a group exhibition of graffiti and street art from New York and California. The exhibition will chronicle the development of street art from the early 1970s graffiti writers to the global presence of today’s street artists. Artists include Blade, Chor Boogie, Crash, Cope2, Shepard Fairey, Richard Hambleton, Keith Haring, LA2, Greg Miller, Retna, Risk, Kenny Scharf, Seen, Swoon, and Twist. The show will be concurrent with the major street art survey Beyond the Streets in Brooklyn curated by Roger Gatsman, which showcases over 150 artists from around the world. We Were Here will run from June 27th through July 21st, 2019.
Street art- both uncommissioned and interventionist- has been around since the beginning of Modernism. However it was the graffiti writers of New York’s South Bronx who unleashed the arena of public art in the early 1970s. The movement was pioneered by the young writers “tagging” (spray painting their names) on New York City subway cars, a time when urban creativity was exploding.
At the same time that graffiti was booming and street artists like Basquiat and Haring were becoming international stars, the enigma that was Richard Hambleton was using the urban landscape as a canvas to create conceptual work. Along with his close friends and contemporaries Haring and Basquiat, Hambleton created a sensation in the 1980s art scene. Hambleton was considered the Godfather of this conceptual urban painting. His energetic gestural works were positioned in dark alleys and walls, startling New Yorkers already on the edge in the 1980s. Featured in the show are early Shadowman paintings, along with a Shadow Head stop sign and construction sign.
Swoon and Shepard Fairey demonstrate the ways in which street art is used as a form of activism and humanitarianism, creating artwork to promote awareness of social issues and contributing directly to those issues. Shepard Fairey’s Peace Guard 2 is one of his iconic anti-ware compositions, recalling images of 1960s and ‘70s flower power ideology. This mixed media canvas painting is the largest format of this image, which was also created in limited edition silkscreen runs. Peace Guard 2 is a reconfiguration of raised arms brandishing guns. The rose in the gun barrel- a symbol of peace- is also used in his 2006 work Guns and Roses, a composition with motifs from Chinese Communist propaganda.
Street art culture—which was started by youths writing their names over and over again for fun and notoriety—has ballooned into a worldwide cultural phenomenon. Many street and graffiti artists were able to develop their style to a point where it could be painted on canvas and elsewhere to be exhibited, sold, and legitimized to the public. Collectors are increasingly interested in the acquisition of urban works, and in particular these early works which have become so coveted in the art world.
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Artist
Various Artists
Date
Jun 27 - Jul 21, 2019
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Installation view of We Were Here: East Coast x West Coast
Chase Contemporary, New York (521 W 23rd Street)
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We Were Here: East Coast x West Coast
2019
Chase Contemporary, New York
We Were Here: East Coast x West Coast
2019
Chase Contemporary, New York
We Were Here: East Coast x West Coast
2019
Chase Contemporary, New York
We Were Here: East Coast x West Coast
2019
Chase Contemporary, New York
We Were Here: East Coast x West Coast
2019
Chase Contemporary, New York
Installation view of We Were Here: East Coast x West Coast
Chase Contemporary, New York (521 W 23rd Street)
Artworks
BLADE (Steven Ogburn) > <
Dancing Ladies' Train x Joint Man Train
Double Block-Buster Top to Bottom
Swinging Letters Train x Deep!
Jointman
Mr. Partytime
Chor Boogie (Joaquin Lamar Hailey) > <
Playing a Game of Chess on a Rollercoaster Ride
Con$umr > <
Love Spray Tiffany Blue
Cope2 (Fernando Carlo) > <
Groove me
CRASH (John Matos) > <
Run for the Roses
Hopeless Romantic
Greg Miller > <
Attack
Keith Haring > <
Eastern Parkway
Freeman St
219th St
Kenny Scharf > <
Untitled
LA II (Angel Ortiz) > <
Untitled (Mask)
Martha Cooper > <
Mario character from Nintendo’s early Donkey Kong video game
Memorial Car to Caine I passing through Astoria, Queens, 1982
United Artists by SEEN
BLADE top to bottom whole car passing through South Bronx
180th Street platform, Bronx, NY
Rammellzee > <
Untitled "Scoobie smoker"
Mettroppostyrsizer out of the yellow
Retna (Marquis Lewis) > <
Study of
Eye See You Coming
Untitled
Symphony Chelo 1
Mid City Drifters
Richard Hambleton > <
3 and 1/2 Heads
Open Trench
Stop Sign
Untitled (Torso)
Untitled (Shadowman on Steel)
Seen (Richard Mirando) > <
Batman
Dick Tracy
SHARP (Aaron Goodstone) > <
Untitled (42nd Street)
Shepard Fairey > <
Peace Guard 2
Global Warning
Swoon (Caledonia Dance Curry) > <
Cairo
TWIST (Barry McGee) > <
Honduras
U.S. Media / The Truth
BLADE (Steven Ogburn) > <
Dancing Ladies' Train x Joint Man Train
Double Block-Buster Top to Bottom
Swinging Letters Train x Deep!
Jointman
Mr. Partytime
Chor Boogie (Joaquin Lamar Hailey) > <
Playing a Game of Chess on a Rollercoaster Ride
Con$umr > <
Love Spray Tiffany Blue
Cope2 (Fernando Carlo) > <
Groove me
CRASH (John Matos) > <
Run for the Roses
Hopeless Romantic
Greg Miller > <
Attack
Keith Haring > <
Eastern Parkway
Freeman St
219th St
Kenny Scharf > <
Untitled
LA II (Angel Ortiz) > <
Untitled (Mask)
Martha Cooper > <
Mario character from Nintendo’s early Donkey Kong video game
Memorial Car to Caine I passing through Astoria, Queens, 1982
United Artists by SEEN
BLADE top to bottom whole car passing through South Bronx
180th Street platform, Bronx, NY
Rammellzee > <
Untitled "Scoobie smoker"
Mettroppostyrsizer out of the yellow
Retna (Marquis Lewis) > <
Study of
Eye See You Coming
Untitled
Symphony Chelo 1
Mid City Drifters
Richard Hambleton > <
3 and 1/2 Heads
Open Trench
Stop Sign
Untitled (Torso)
Untitled (Shadowman on Steel)
Seen (Richard Mirando) > <
Batman
Dick Tracy
SHARP (Aaron Goodstone) > <
Untitled (42nd Street)
Shepard Fairey > <
Peace Guard 2
Global Warning
Swoon (Caledonia Dance Curry) > <
Cairo
TWIST (Barry McGee) > <
Honduras
U.S. Media / The Truth
BLADE (Steven Ogburn)
Chor Boogie (Joaquin Lamar Hailey)
Con$umr
Cope2 (Fernando Carlo)
CRASH (John Matos)
Greg Miller
Keith Haring
Kenny Scharf
LA II (Angel Ortiz)
Martha Cooper
Rammellzee
Retna (Marquis Lewis)
Richard Hambleton
Seen (Richard Mirando)
SHARP (Aaron Goodstone)
Shepard Fairey
Swoon (Caledonia Dance Curry)
TWIST (Barry McGee)
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Dancing Ladies' Train x Joint Man Train
2019
Aerosol and acrylic paint pen on canvas
13h x 36w in
Courtesy of the artist and Chase Contemporary, New York
Double Block-Buster Top to Bottom
2019
Aerosol and acrylic paint pen on canvas
14.25h x 37.50w in
Courtesy of the artist and Chase Contemporary, New York
Swinging Letters Train x Deep!
2019
Aerosol and acrylic paint pen on canvas
18h x 48w in
Courtesy of the artist and Chase Contemporary, New York
Jointman
2015
Aerosol and acrylic paint pen on canvas
80 x 48"
Courtesy of the artist and Chase Contemporary, New York
Mr. Partytime
2014
Aerosol and acrylic paint pen on canvas
68 x 40"
Courtesy of the artist and Chase Contemporary, New York
Playing a Game of Chess on a Rollercoaster Ride
Aerosol paint on canvas
48h x 60w in
Courtesy of the artist and Chase Contemporary, New York
Love Spray Tiffany Blue
2019
72h x 36w in
Courtesy of the artist and Chase Contemporary, New York
Groove me
Aerosol and acrylic paint on canvas with collaged elements
60h x 48w in
Courtesy of the artist and Chase Contemporary, New York
Run for the Roses
2018
Aerosol paint on canvas
24h x 24w in
Courtesy of the artist and Chase Contemporary, New York
Hopeless Romantic
2018
Aerosol paint on canvas
36h x 18w in
Courtesy of the artist and Chase Contemporary, New York
Attack
2017
Acrylic, collage paper on panel
48h x 60w in
Courtesy of the artist and Chase Contemporary, New York
Eastern Parkway
circa 1980s
Oil marker paint on subway sign
13.75h x 12w in
Courtesy of the artist and Chase Contemporary, New York
Freeman St
circa 1980s
Oil marker paint on subway sign
12h x 7w in
Courtesy of the artist and Chase Contemporary, New York
219th St
circa 1980s
Oil marker paint on subway sign
12h x 7w in
Courtesy of the artist and Chase Contemporary, New York
Untitled
1983
Oil on wood
28h x 36w x 1d in
Courtesy of the artist and Chase Contemporary, New York
Untitled (Mask)
circa 2000
Acrylic paint pen on wooden mask
36.5h x 11.5w x 8d in
Courtesy of the artist and Chase Contemporary, New York
Mario character from Nintendo’s early Donkey Kong video game
1983
Photograph
18.50h x 12w in
Edition of 15 (2/15)
Courtesy of the artist and Chase Contemporary, New York
Memorial Car to Caine I passing through Astoria, Queens, 1982
1982
Photograph
12h x 18.50w in
Edition of 15 (2/15)
Courtesy of the artist and Chase Contemporary, New York
United Artists by SEEN
1982
Photograph
12h x 18.50w in
Edition of 15 (3/15)
Courtesy of the artist and Chase Contemporary, New York
BLADE top to bottom whole car passing through South Bronx
1980
Photograph
12h x 18.50w in
Edition of 15 (2/15)
Courtesy of the artist and Chase Contemporary, New York
180th Street platform, Bronx, NY
1980
Photograph
12h x 18.50w in
Edition of 15 (4/15)
Courtesy of the artist and Chase Contemporary, New York
Untitled "Scoobie smoker"
1988
Collage, marker and paint on board
15h x 20w in
Courtesy of the artist and Chase Contemporary, New York
Mettroppostyrsizer out of the yellow
1985
Ink and spray paint on board
31 1/4h x 43 1/4w in
Courtesy of the artist and Chase Contemporary, New York
Study of
2017
Acrylic on canvas
40h x 40w in
Courtesy of the artist and Chase Contemporary, New York
Eye See You Coming
2016
Acrylic on canvas
60h x 116w in
Courtesy of the artist and Chase Contemporary, New York
Untitled
2016
Mixed media on board
71h x 48w in
Courtesy of the artist and Chase Contemporary, New York
Symphony Chelo 1
2015
Enamel and acrylic on canvas
84h x 60w in
Courtesy of the artist and Chase Contemporary, New York
Mid City Drifters
2010
Acrylic on panel
34h x 36w in
Courtesy of the artist and Chase Contemporary, New York
3 and 1/2 Heads
2009
Oil on canvas
27h x 69w in
Courtesy of the artist and Chase Contemporary, New York
Open Trench
2007
Acrylic on construction sign
32.75h x 32.75w in
Courtesy of the artist and Chase Contemporary, New York
Stop Sign
1999
Acrylic on metal traffic sign
30h x 30w in
Courtesy of the artist and Chase Contemporary, New York
Untitled (Torso)
circa 1984
Ink wash on found/ discarded paper
49h x 33w in
Courtesy of the artist and Chase Contemporary, New York
Untitled (Shadowman on Steel)
circa mid-1980s
Oil on galvanized steel
81h x 36.50w in
Courtesy of the artist and Chase Contemporary, New York
Batman
2016
Aerosol paint on canvas
56h x 56w in
Courtesy of the artist and Chase Contemporary, New York
Dick Tracy
2016
Aerosol paint on canvas
72h x 72w in
Courtesy of the artist and Chase Contemporary, New York
Untitled (42nd Street)
late 1990s
Aerosol paint on a Times Square subway sign
12h x 71.50w x 1.50d in
Courtesy of the artist and Chase Contemporary, New York
Peace Guard 2
2016
Mixed media on canvas
60h x 44w in
Courtesy of the artist and Chase Contemporary, New York
Global Warning
2010
Screenprint on metal
Courtesy of the artist and Chase Contemporary, New York
Cairo
2010
Linoleum block print on wood
67h x 39w in
Courtesy of the artist and Chase Contemporary, New York
Honduras
circa 1990
Aerosol paint on plywood
96h x 48w in
Courtesy of the artist and Chase Contemporary, New York
U.S. Media / The Truth
circa 1990
Aerosol paint on plywood
96h x 48w in
Courtesy of the artist and Chase Contemporary, New York
Artists
BLADE (Steven Ogburn)
New York
Chor Boogie (Joaquin Lamar Hailey)
San Francisco
Con$umr
New York
Cope2 (Fernando Carlo)
New York
CRASH (John Matos)
New York
Greg Miller
Sacramento
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