Crewest 10 Year Anniversary Show (May 5, 2012)



Crewest Gallery Celebrates its 10 Year Anniversary with its Newest Exhibit

MISSION ACCOMPLISHED



Los Angeles, CA – This year is the 10 year anniversary of Crewest Gallery and to commemorate this special occasion, Crewest is proud to present MISSION ACCOMPLISHED as their 10 year anniversary exhibit. Opening in May, Crewest’s MISSION ACCOMPLISHED will showcase the work from many of the amazing artists it helped to promote, legitimize and make graffiti art the mainstream zeitgeist it is today. Also, as part of Crewest's 10 Year Anniversary exhibition, Man One will be featuring a mini-solo exhibit A DECADE OF GRAFFITI SPIRITS in the Front Room of the gallery showing the direction of his newest body of work.

In the Main Gallery MISSION ACCOMPLISHED:

Ten years ago renowned graffiti artist and Los Angeles native Man One founded Crewest Gallery in Alhambra, CA, just a few minutes east of Downtown. Man One founded Crewest with the mission to legitimatize graffiti art by giving talented graffiti artists a professional forum in which to showcase their art while simultaneously educating the broader art community and general public about the richness, complexity and technicality of graffiti art.

Now, in 2012, graffiti art is hot. Graffiti art is showing in museums and on television. Graffiti art is on fashion and architecture. Graffiti artists are having gallery shows and being collected all over the world. In fact, last year, one of the largest and most attended shows in the history of MOCA in Los Angeles was a graffiti art exhibit called ART IN THE STREETS, which ran from April through August in 2011 and made news worldwide. Man One and Crewest Gallery blazed the trails that helped to make things like this possible for graffiti artists and their art form.

In the book Graffiti L.A., street art documentarian Steve Grody listed the opening of Crewest Gallery as a milestone event in the history of graffiti art in Los Angeles.

The evidence is clear. Over the last ten years, Crewest has helped many great artists gain notoriety and a bigger audience. These artists include Patrick Martinez, Marka27, Siner, Victor Sepulveda, Sacred194, Syndrome, Cope2, Greg "Craola" Simkins, Kofie Augustine, WERC, Mear One, Asylm, Vyal One, T-Kid, Ces and on and on.

Established and renowned artists who have exhibited at Crewest over the years include Chaz Bojorquez, George Yepes, Syd Mead, Estevan Oriol, Eriberto Oriol, Gusmano Cesaretti and international artists such as Daim & Seak (Germany), SOT & ICY (Iranian street artists), Dabs & Myla (Australia) had their first U.S. showings at Crewest.

Artists that will show at MISSION ACCOMPLISHED in May include:

AISE, ALEX "DEFER" KIZU, BRANDED, BRON THERON, CAB, CHAZ BOJORQUEZ, DAVE KAWANO, DCYPHER, EDGAR HOILL, ERIBERTO ORIOL, EVAN ESK, EYE ONE, FLYCAT, GEORGE CLINTON, GEORGE YEPES, GONZO247, GREGG STONE, GUSTAVO ALBERTO GARCIA VACA, HASTE, HEX, HUIT, JOHN CARR, JUAN CARLOS "HEAVEN" MUNOZ, KOFIE, MAX NEUTRA, MEAR ONE, MICHAEL PIZARRO, MR PUPPET, MR.WANY, OSCAR MAGALLANES, OVERTON LOYD, RAPTUZ, RITZY PERIWINKLE, ROME, SAHL, SANDONE, SCOTCH, SHERM, SKET, SLOKE, CRISTIAN “SMEAR” GHEORGHIU, STEVE GRODY, STEVE MARTINEZ, STREET PHANTOM, SYNDROME AND MORE...

In the Front Room Man One "A DECADE OF GRAFFITI SPIRITS":

As the founder and creative director for Crewest since its inception, Man One has predicted the rise of graffiti art as a viable and collectible art form.

As part of Crewest's 10 Year Anniversary exhibition, Man One will be featuring a mini-solo exhibit in the Front Room of the gallery showing the direction of his newest body of work.

In his 10th solo exhibit in 10 years, "A Decade of Graffiti Spirits" focuses on figurative acrylic and aerosol paintings on wooden panels. These paintings involve his colorful and bold trademark character creations coined, "Graffiti Spirits" as they are super imposed onto fields of spray painted tags and layers of paint. The underlying tags in the paintings are negative statements of culture, politics, and overall social angst.

The characters painted are meant to be a positive force of creation overcoming the negativity behind them. These characters depict the spirit of the artist as he pulls himself out of the negative environment by means of his graffiti background.

Show runs alongside "Mission Accomplished!" from May 5th - 27th, 2012

Important Date Info:

Mission Accomplished and A Decade of Graffiti Spirits opens to the public Saturday, May 5, 2012 from 7-10pm. Artwalk event takes place Thursday, May 10, 2012. Exhibits close on May 27, 2012

Location Info:
Exhibits and events to take place at Crewest Gallery, 110 Winston St., Los Angeles, CA 90013, 213-627-8272, info@crewest.com.



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