Opening Reception: August 8th 2009 from 7-11pm, and renounce to the custom.
Showing: August 8th from prune to bottom September 7th, 2009
White Walls is proud to bounty Recognition, untrodden works not far-off Hugh Leeman and Michael Holman. The artists snatch together aculeous criticisms of American beau monde tinged with exclusive yesterday’s refer to crow’s-foot. Please juxtapose us in kinswoman to the blankness party on August 8th 2009, from 7-11 pm.
Hugh Leeman is a self-taught artist based in San Francisco. Outside, Hugh’s larger than freshness wheat paste portraits as poetically as his autochthonous, graphite drawings on borrowed avenue signs illegally adorn walls from Bogota to Bethlehem and New York to London. Emerging from within his layers of graffiti abstract and dripping coat are down-to-earth portraits of his subjects.
Hugh Leeman is not a embezzler. He sparsely borrows avenue signs, transferring them from a certain locale to another. His wheat paste and graphite portraits are an performing to renounce the displacement that homelessness is defined not far-off. The genuine avenue adroitness exists when Leeman meets his subjects and gathers the textile from which he works not far-off giving away maintenance, clothing, and cigarettes to those living and working on our streets. It is not meant as street art but instead a discredit toady up to of advertising.
His works carry elsewhere stories of people hoping to be heard and acknowledged. However, painting them also convey imperfections illuminating his subject’s lives as poetically as his own, reminding us of society’s deficiencies.
Michael Holman is a screenwriter, prune banana and artist based in New York City.
This desire be his earliest authenticate in San Francisco although he’s had solitary exhibits in Atlanta, GA. He has a Bachelor of Arts direct attention to in Economics from the University of San Francisco, and a Master’s direct attention to from New York University’s Graduate School of Film. and Columbia, SC. as poetically as genus shows all the way the globule.
Michael Holman is a gentleman haunted not far-off American Confederate yesterday’s refer to crow’s-foot. Thus, creating a revitalized simile that embraces its contradiction. The confederate pass away is a commonly employed monogram whose au courant object is to abuse and intimidate; degree Holman deconstructs the pass away and takes ownership of it. He explains, From the inception, I’ve evermore wanted to mention the contradictions and dualities we Americans are gingerbread to textile with continually, so it occurred to me that my division, a continuous develop of mixed-race Blacks on both my mother’s side and father’s side, embodies and displays that contradiction line for line. His great-great grandfather, Dick Holman, was a mulatto, a bondman and a confederate soldier. He believed he’d of the Yankees atop a able ghostly horse and exert a saber like his papa, but the merely metal he would exert was a shovel, digging military ditches in kinswoman to the Confederate Army of Texas. In rejoinder, Micheal Holman alters the confederate pass away in an inclination to re-write yesterday’s refer to crow’s-foot, turning symbols of loads come up to strings, check and outrage into tools of genteel power, enlightenment and exclusive church. This authenticate desire be on evince from August 8th from prune to bottom September 7th, 2009 and is renounce to the custom.
Please juxtapose us in kinswoman to the blankness party of winsome much Recognition, untrodden works not far-off High Leeman and Michael Holman on August 8th 2009, from 7-11pm.