Drips, Caps & Flicks Artist Reception & Open Studios

Golden Belt, Building 3, ROOM 100 Gallery
Golden Belt Artist Studios
November 21, 2008
6:00 – 9:00 PM

Admission: Free, Open to public
Parking: Main Parking Lot

In an exhibition partnership with Raleigh's Flanders Art Gallery, Drips, Caps, and Flicks will include works by southeastern artists Tane Addington, Owen Beckmann, Mathew Curran, Bart Cusick, Joseph Giampino, André Leon Gray, Fahamu Pecou, and Derek Toomes. Each of these participants has matured under a society in which hip hop culture – and some of its coordinating elements such as graffiti, break dancing, rapping, and DJing – has long been a mainstream force. These elements have gone on to intimately influence their artmaking sensibilities, and they incorporate the graffiti and hip hop aesthetics and media into their processes.

Stencil art, screenprinting, documentary photography, wheat paste postering, and spraypainted canvases offer a sampling of the many ways in which acts like street tagging continue to evolve into and be adapted by the fine art world. Additionally, conceptual pieces by artists such as Pecou and Gray consider the effects that the legitimization of these cultures has on this new generation of practitioners.