Opening Reception

URBAN WILD

Folk and Street Art in the South

This exhibition looks at the range of creativity that is practiced throughout the streets, highways, and dirt roads of the South. Engagement with public space is a binding thread between a diverse range of practices. These artists draw from graffiti, tattoo flash, skate culture, hip-hop culture, as well as comic book illustration, pop art, and even old-fashioned sign painting to make objects, images, and environments.

Here are visionaries and vandals, taking old categories and re-making/un-making them in a Southern dialect. Urban Wild is a snapshot of Southern art that makes public place its forum, where Southern streets become a stage and canvas all their own.

Join us Friday, May 10th:

6 PM- 9PM | FIRST FLOOR: MAIN GALLERIES |  OPENING RECEPTION/ MEET THE ARTISTS / DJ CLICCBAIT AND DJ SCANTRON

7 PM | FIRST FLOOR: VIDEO GALLERY | CURATOR’S WELCOME followed by MUSICAL CHAIRS MOSH PIT WITH THE DEAD BUGGS