SALOMON ARTS GALLERY presents Richard Hambleton and His Contemporaries: Al Diaz, Ken Hiratsuka, Scot Borofsky on view from Saturday, July 10th through Friday, July 30th, 2021 in the Atrium at Ideal Glass Studios.
This art exhibition explores the flourishing of the illegal street art movement in New York City in the 1980s through four of its most important and influential early creators and conceptualists. Whilst each artist is a maverick with a highly distinctive vision and manner of working, this exhibition will demonstrate how the street art movement threaded together the strands of Modern Art in this period— political art; performance art; earthworks; site-specific installation; neo-expressionism—and created a radical new world of artistic creation.
By denying the commercial world of the gallery and the academic world of the museum and instead plowing art back into the streets and public environment, (often at night and under high risk of arrest) these artists harkened back to the earliest and most fundamental impulses of human expression; creating art that merged with its environment, changed it, challenged it, created through destruction and made the urban wastes of 1980s New York fecund again. In 2021, as the City re-forms after the ravages of the pandemic, the vision of these artists has become particularly potent once again.
NOW ON VIEW
Dates: July 10th — 30th, 2021
Hours: 2 to 6 PM
Location: Ideal Glass Studios, Atrium
Address: 9 W 8th Street New York, NY, 10011
For viewings all other times, please contact Salomon Arts Gallery at (212) 966-1997 to book an appointment.
