Push It Curated by Melissa McCaig-Welles With new work by: AIKO, Alice Mizrachi, Alison Mosshart, Amanda Reily, Christina Neener, ELLE, GILF, INDIE 184, Katrina Del Mar, LADY PINK, Laura Mylott Manning, Maya Hayuk, Mia Tyler, Monique Mantell, QUEEN ANDREA, SHERYO, Sophie Alexia de Lobtienere, Sofia Bachvarova, SWOON, Tracy Piper, VEXTA  Exhibition Dates: April 3rd-26th, 2014 Opening Reception: April 3rd, 2014 | 6-9 PM After Party featuring DJ set by Alison Mosshart of The Kills: 11pm, April 3rd | at The Electric Room at Dream Downtown | RSVP: info@aopublic March 18, 2014 (New York, NY) -- ArtNowNY is pleased to present Push It, a group exhibition featuring 21 New York and California based artists. The show of 42 works in mixed-media, painting and photography highlights a bold urban aesthetic from a group of emerging and established artists, some of whom combine Street Art with their existing studio practices. The gallery will host a reception for the artists on Thursday, April 3rd, 2014 from 6 to 9 PM, at ArtNowNY (548 W 28th Street 2nd Floor, New York, NY 10001). An after party will be hosted at 11pm by Nur Khan and ArtNowNY and featuring a DJ set by Alison Mosshart (The Kills) at The Electric Room at Dream Downtown (355 W 16th Street). RSVP essential by April 2nd: info@aopublic Push It seeks to further a conversation on how the contemporary art sub-genre, Street Art, is influencing fine art studio practice. Viewed as a signature movement of artists immersed in subversive or Low Brow culture, Street Art is increasingly making its way into fine art practice. Identified as art that is eye-catching or confrontational, Street Art is considered any work placed in a public venue in the form of wheat pasted graphics, wall stencils, paintings, object interventions or 3-dimensional installations. This aesthetic is reimagined in the work of Maya Hayuk, a New York based mid-career artist who was recently commissioned to create a mural for the infamous Bowery wall in NYC. Established artists like SWOON, reimagine the Street Art aesthetic, offering sophisticated commentary on economic and environmental issues through work that includes intricately cut wheat paste stencils, floating sculptures and installations made of scavenged, found and low-fi materials. Other veterans of the Street Art scene, like LADY PINK and GILF, use their work to advance and promote social and political examination. Push It is a show meant to survey the current influence of the Street Art movement on the contemporary art world outside of the archaic and rigid binaries of high and low art and artist stereotypes and in keeping with the fluid, transdisciplinary approach of many artists working today. About the Artists AIKO was born in Tokyo, Japan and has lived and worked in New York City since the mid-90s. Her large scale works indoors and outdoors are installed in many cities, including the Wynwood Wall Project (curated by Jeffrey Deitch) in Miami, commissioned pieces for the Standard on both coasts and the commission to re-paint the historic ‘Keith Haring Wall’ on Bowery and Houston, in 2012. For the season of spring and summer in 2013, Louis Vuitton released an AIKO silk scarf as a collaborative accessory line of FOULARDS D’ARTISTES. Her work has been exhibited at the MACRO Future, Rome, Italy;; Shanghai MOCA, China;; Brooklyn Museum, New York;; and PS1/MOMA, New York;; as well as other major museums and galleries globally. Alice Mizrachi is a painter and teaching artist in New York, she co-founded YOUNITY in 2006, a women’s art collective that has provided a professional platform for hundreds of women in the arts. Her artwork has been exhibited at Washington DC’s Museum of Contemporary Art and The National Women’s Museum. She is represented by Mighty Tanaka Gallery in New York and Bazel Gallery in Tel Aviv, and her work has also been shown in galleries around the world including Colette, Causey Contemporary, Fifty 24LA and Intermedia Arts. Alison Mosshart is an artist and musician, best known as lead vocalist of indie rock band, “The Kills.” A self taught artist, her work is held in several collections, with a forthcoming solo show in Nashville, TN. Amanda Reily is an illustrator living and working in Long Island, NY. Christina Neener is originally from Albany, NY and lives and works in North Admas, MA. ELLE is a New York based artist that blurs the lines of Street Art and Graffiti. She has put up work on streets in cities across the world, including Berlin, Paris, LA, Chicago, Miami, SF, and New Delhi, including Centrifuge Art Walls in conjunction with YouTh*ink and the New Museum, 1st Ave and 1st Street, NY and is slated for an installation in the forthcoming Street Art Museum in Berlin, opening in 2015. She has shown in group exhibitions at Allegra La Viola Gallery, New York, NY;; Bushwick Art and Shipping, Brooklyn, NY;; Scope Art Fair, Miami, FL;; the Modern Museum of Art in the Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, and the Armory Satelite Fountain Art Fair at the Armory Building, New York, NY;; among others. GILF is a conceptual artist living and working in Brooklyn, New York. She graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a BS in Fine Art. Recognized as a strong voice of the current street art scene GILF had her first solo show in New York with Arcilesi Homberg Fine Art in 2013. She has also participated in various group and two person shows in New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Bern, Munich, and Montreal. INDIE 184 was born in Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico by way of the Dominican Republic, was raised and lives in NYC. She is known for her classic New York simple yet playful feminine graffiti style infused with exuberant bold colors bursting with hearts, stars and bubbles. You can find her graffiti pieces in the streets from the South Bronx to Oslo. She has shown in solo and group exhibitions at TT-Underground Gallery, New York, NY;; Galerie MathGoth, Paris, France;; the URBAN ART BIENNIAL, Völklingen Ironworks, Saarbrücken, Germany;; Guerrero Gallery, San Francisco, CA;; and Philips De Pury & Company, New York, NY;; among others.  Katrina Del Mar is a New York based photographer as well as an award winning filmmaker and video artist. She has exhibited her work at The Museum for Contemporary Art in Bordeaux, France;; Deitch Projects, New York, NY;; Binz 39, Switzerland;; the Bass Museum of Art in Miami, FL;; and P.S. 122 in New York City, NY;; among others. LADY PINK was born in Ecuador, and raised in NYC. She started writing graffiti in 1979 and is recognized as a leading figure in the rise of graffiti-based art. Her work is held in collections including the Whitney Museum, the MET in New York City, the Brooklyn Museum and the Groningen Museum of Holland. Laura Mylott Manning is a New York based fine artist. She studied at Rhode Island School of Design, 2001 BFA Sculpture, and holds a MFA, Interdisciplinary Arts, from Vermont College of Fine Arts. She has exhibited in solo and group shows at Balzer Art Projects, Basel, Switzerland;; Dag Hammarskjold Plaza, New York;; Baur Au Lac, Zurich, Switzerland;; Brooklyn Arts Council (BAC) Gallery, Dumbo, Brooklyn, New York;; and Art Basel Miami Beach, Convention Center, Florida;; among others. Maya Hayuk lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. She earned a BFA in Interrelated Media from Massachusetts College of Art and has studied at V.C.U., Richmond, VA, Ontario College of Art and Design, Toronto, Canada, the University of Odessa, Odessa, Ukraine and at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, Maine. Hayuk’s work has been the subject of one person exhibitions and commissions at venues including The Bowery Wall, New York, NY;; The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA;; The Museum Of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto, Canada;; Bonnefanten Museum, Maastricht, The Netherlands;; Socrates Sculpture Park, Queens, New York;; among others. Mia Tyler is an artist, photographer, writer and model. Her debut photography show was at Andy Hilfiger’s rock clothing and art boutique, RIFF, and she has since exhibited at Lambert Fine Arts. Monique Mantell lives and works in New York. QUEEN ANDREA is a native New Yorker raised in SoHo. Andrea attended Parsons School of Design where she earned her BFA in Graphic Design. She has curated and exhibited in numerous exhibitions in NYC and is currently preparing for her solo show debut. SHERYO has exhibited in solo and group shows and projects including The Yok Turner Galleries, Perth, Australia;; Women on the Walls, Wynwood Walls, Miami, FL;; Temp Gallery, New York, NY;; White Canvas Project London, UK;; and SCOPE Art Fair, New York, USA;; among others. Sophie Alexia de Lobtienere lives and works in New York. She trained in the traditional methods of academic portrait and figurative painting in Florence, Italy at Charles H. Cecil Studios and graduated from the dual degree program at The School of the Museum of Fine Arts and Tufts University, from which she received both a BA in Fine Art and BFA in Art History in 2008. She completed her MA in Art Business at Sotheby’s Institute in London, 2009. Sofia Bachvarova is a New York based artist. She received her MFA in Painting from New York Academy of Art, NYC, and a BA in Printmaking Montclair University, NJ. She has exhibied at Chelsea Art Museum, New York, NY;; 224 Grand Street in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY;; and the NYAA Summer Exhibition juried by Eric Fischl, Matthew Flowers and Anne Strauss;; among others. SWOON is a notable Street Artist, who has contributed to the Pop Art movement. She was born in New London, CT, and raised in Daytona Beach, FL. The artist’s real name is Caledonia Dance Curry. In 1997, Swoon moved to New York, where she obtained a BA in Fine Arts from the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY. She crashed the 2009 Venice Biennale with the Swimming Cities of Serenissima, and contributed to the Konbit Shelter, 2013, and the collective Transformazium. Tracy Piper is a San Francisco, CA based artist. She graduated from the Illustration program at California College of the Arts. She has shown in SCOPE, Miami, FL and Bunnycutlet Gallery, Brooklyn, NY. VEXTA is a fine artist from Australia, currently living and working in New York. She has work held in major collections, including The National Gallery of Australia and recently she was included in the definitive Thames & Hudson World of Art: Street Art & Graffiti book (2012) as one of only 4 female street artists. She has exhibited in solo and group exhibitions at Edwina Corlette Gallery, Brisbane, Australia;; Blackartprojects, Melbourne, Australia;; White Walls Gallery, San Francisco, CA;; and Comodaa London, UK;; among others.
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