STREET CRED ?

Retna getting his mural ready for the support program of outdoor works..

In association with the Pasadena Museum of California Art, Steve Grody and Mid-City Arts present a Street Cred Outdoor Mural Installation at 33third Los Angeles with artists Craola, El Mac, Kofie, Risk, Ewok, Eye One, Atlas, Siner and more.

Lucky California, another show dedicated to painting on walls. Terrible title but no doubt about it, interesting line up and curated in a much more intelligent and thoughtful manner than it's larger LA cousin.

Street Cred: Graffiti Art from Concrete to Canvas. Pasadena Museum of California Art

May 15- Sept 4 2011.

Internationally renowned as one of the most fertile grounds for graffiti art, the City of Angels has its own idiosyncratic graffiti styles created from filtering the innovative New York “wildstyle” through local influences such as gang writing styles. The Los Angeles artists featured in Street Cred currently represent a broad range of genres through their fine art production, from letter-based formalism to Surrealism. Co-curated by Steve Grody and PMCA Exhibition Manager Shirlae Cheng-Lifshin, this exhibition will also include Grody’s photographs from the crucial years of the graffiti scene, providing key insights into the visual “language” of graffiti, its development in Los Angeles, the ways in which the street work informs the canvas work, and how the two worlds interact.

Artists featured in the exhibition include Michael Alvarez, ANGST, AXIS, Chaz Bojórquez, CODAK, CRAOLA, DASH 2000, Ekundayo, EYEONE, HASTE, Paul SKEPT Kanemitsu, Alex Kizu, KOFIE, MAN ONE, MEAR ONE, Juan Carlos Muñoz Hernandez, Jose Lopez, Erick Montenegro, Nicnak, PUSH, RISK, Jeff Soto, Evan Skrederstu, RETNA, REVOK, SABER, SHANDU, Jesse Simon, SINER, and ZES.

This exhibition is curated by PMCA Exhibition Manager Shirlae Cheng-Lifshin and graffiti historian Steve Grody.


Retna Images via Vandalog