"Beyond Fresh: Art based in the Sounds, Rythms, and Forms of the city"
September 3 - 6, 2004
In the Olympic Room at
Bumbershoot , The Seattle Arts Festival
Seattle , Wa
featuring the work of....
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KEL1st
SnekeOne
Nhon Nguyen
George Estrada
Hews
Virus
JD Davis
Konscious Arts Collective
PARS
Iosefatu Sua
Kenichi Yamaguchi
Zeta B
CRO
Angel179
Cause B
DREWAD
Damon Minaey
Peter Rentz/Graphic Havoc
Carolina Chavez
Michael [SPECS ONE] Hall
Jesse Edwards
Victor Pantet/ Laura Seymore
Chuck Dong
BRUNO
Cut Kulture United and Bumbershoot are
proud to present
"Beyond Fresh: Art based in the Sounds, Rythms, and Forms of the city"
"Beyond Fresh" is a unique look at the
empowering self expression of modern "Street"
art. Featuring over 20 artists exploring their individual
relationship with Graffiti/"Street" art whether it be
social commentary, myth making, personal
expression, mass marketing, fine art or kitsch,
this show will offer new insights into a
controversial form of expression.
Since the mid 1990's Graffiti/Street art has
increasingly become THE visual art form of
global urban culture. Note the considerable impact
it has had in "High" fashion with collaborative
projects like Japanese street artist Takeshi
Murakami's work with Louis Vuitton, and Calvin
Kleins' use of Futura, ESPO, and Delta for his
CK One fragrance. Even with all of this new found
fame and fortune the Street art subculture may
be the only art form that truly transcends social
boundaries. The only thing that one is judged by
is artistic skill and attitude. Race, gender, social
class, and age are unimportant as long as you
can rock with style.
The artists participating in "Beyond Fresh" have
all distinguished themselves with their personal
images. They illustrate the diversity and character
of the "Street" rooted art movement. The images
they create are powerful, humorous, aggressive,
beautiful, naive, and elegant. Some of the artists
are legends in the Graffiti world while others are
in the avante garde of a developing new use of
the formal language, tools, and location of what
is considered street art. Every artists relationship
to Graffiti is unique and it is this quality that keeps
this art movement from stagnating.
"There is no real history of Graffiti. Everybody has
their own history, there are thousands of individual
histories" HAZE, NYC Graffiti Legend
- One of America's largest urban arts festivals,
Bumbershoot takes place in the heart of Seattle at
the
glorious 74 acre park built to house the 1962
World's Fair, Seattle Center. Bumbershoot
showcases the work of over 2,500 artists every
Labor Day weekend - from regional favorites to
international super-stars. Thousands of artists,
including poets, painters, dancers, divas,
comedians, filmmakers, musicians, clowns,
acrobats, DJs, and more perform at the Festival in
a four-day feast of music and art.
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