Wow, what can I say? This was one of the best shows I have ever seen in person. Needless to say the artwork was amazing. The time, thought, and effort the participating artists put into the exhibition was pretty impressive. I think the Street Market install from ESPO, Barry McGee, and REAS stole the show for me. I’ll let you look at the artwork on the main Arrested Motion site here, but I think the most cool thing was seeing all these legends at the same place at the same time (like Futura and Saber above). It was pretty surreal.
I think although there are some gripes about the show and politics behind the whole thing, in the end, they couldn’t fit every single artist in there. And to be sure, there were a lot of important artists missing, some that we cover on AM like Phil Frost, Vhils, David Choe, Faile, Know Hope, Ericailcane, Doze Green, Dan Witz, Armsrock, Nick Walker, Sam3, Saner, D*Face, Zevs, Blek Le Rat, Mark Jenkins, WK Interact, Titifreak, Mike Giant, Bast, Herbert Baglione, Judith Supine, C215, the list goes on and on. That said, this was a very very important and impressive show and you definitely don’t want to miss it. Maybe when it moves to Brooklyn next year, they will invite some different artists that they missed to join it. We will see.
Oh, on a side note, met an actor from one of my favorite series on TV… pic after the jump…
