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2018, 'Beyond the Streets' exhibition poster, offset lithograph, 59cm x 84cm (unframed)
The exhibition "Beyond the Streets" focused on the studio work street artists created later in their careers. It had more 40,000-square feet of paintings, murals, photos, installations and even old video games. "This is vandalism as contemporary art, or contemporary art as vandalism, depending on how you want to look at it," says curator Roger Gastman, co-author of The History of American Graffiti. "Street art has become such a buzzword, and lot of the motivation for doing a show like this was to show who the true artists respected by people inside the culture are."
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