The Adams State University Visual Art Building is hosting a display of skateboard decks. , with serigraph prints, by many of the foremost contemporary street artists active today including Cryptik, Ron English, Barry McGee, Cleon Peterson, Mars1, Os Gemeos, Cope 2, D*face, Shepard Fairey, and Banksy.
The summer exhibit is from the personal collection of Anthony Guntren, the newly appointed gallery director and an assistant professor of art. He said he believes the street art genre has its place among art movements and styles.
“For myself, as well as many street artists of today, skate culture of the ’80s and ’90s plays an influential role in the creative endeavors happening today. The graphics were fresh and cool, and thrusted lowbrow art in a new direction with fervent support of the youthful mindset of this time. Using bright acrylic-based paints, fiery imagery and stencil techniques; the skateboard print is quite literally an artifact of the street.”
The Visual Art Building is open from 8 a.m. until 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. The skateboard deck exhibit continues through Aug. 8.
Related
