MOM & POPISM NYC

New York City: Gawker Artists presents MOM & POPism, an exhibition curated by Billi Kid reinterpreting James and Karla Murray’s latest book, Store Front: The Disappearing Face of New York, in unique collaboration with many of today’s hottest graffiti and street artists.




Store Front: The Disappearing Face of New York is a breathtaking visual guide to New York City’s cultural heritage, with special emphasis on the historic streets and ethnic shops that have defined its many neighborhoods. Meticulously photographed, its powerful images of time-worn institutions will be printed at close to life-size scale and installed on the Gawker Media roof, becoming canvases on which select graffiti and street artists are invited to leave their indelible marks.




The result will be a unique impression of a New York City that seems to be fading with each passing day. Our cultural and economic landscape will be called into question, the role of art, particularly graffiti and street art, will be subject to reinterpretation.





Curated by Gawker Artist Billi Kid, MOM & POPism brings together graffiti and street artists to create new artworks on top of the Murray’s photographs. The collaborating graffiti and street artists represent some of the most notable artists in the street art community and the media at large.




These include CROME MSG (above), Blanco, Buildmore, Cake, Celso, Cern, Chris (RWK), Cycle, David Cooper, Destroy & Rebuild, Enamel Kingdom, Goldenstash, Infinity, Kngee, Lady Pink, Matt Siren, Morgan Thomas, Peru Ana Ana Peru, Plasma Slugs, Royce Bannon, Shai R. Dahan, Shiro, The Dude Company, Tikcy, Under Water Pirates, Veng (RWK), Zoltron and Billi Kid.








MOM & POPism will be open to public on Saturday, August 15th from noon to 4 p.m. Additional exhibition viewings are available by appointment throughout August.




For more information or to request a viewing appointment please contact artists@gawker.com.

Prints from STORE FRONT: The Disappearing Face Of New York currently on display and for sale at the Clic Gallery

http://clicgallery.com/pressrelease/09-07-murray/







Gawker Artists and MOM & POPISM artists BILLIKID, CROME, LADY PINK, CYCLE and SHIRO’s work will be traveling with us to our GRAFFITI GONE GLOBAL presented by SUSHI SAMBA event at this years Art Basel in Miami, as well as displaying and selling their work. Other artists that will be featured in the event we are curating include DOZE GREEN, AIKO, EWOK, GHOST, PEST and introducing ARMOGEDON.