Nationally recognized street artists Klutch of Vinyl Killers and Hotel des Arts; and Josh MacPhee, author of Stencil Pirates; show with Barrett Gordon, a Chicago based collage artist who prints rubbings from the street into his work.
Josh MacPhee is an artist, curator and activist currently living in Brooklyn, NY. His work often revolves around themes of radical politics, privatization and public space. Lately he has focused on creating a large series of silkscreen prints which draw, in both aesthetics and content, from 19th Century labor graphics, the history of street writing and art, and 1960s political posters.
He is the author/editor of a number of books, his most recent is Reproduce & Revolt: A Graphic Toolbox for the 21st Century (Soft Skull Press, 2007, co-edited with Favianna Rodriguez). MacPhee also organizes the Celebrate People's History Poster Series and is part of the political art cooperative Justseeds.org.
Portland artist Klutch has been continually creating visual mischief
since his involvement in the early 1980's punk and skateboard scenes
and shows no signs of letting up anytime soon. His work has been
published in Time magazine, “F*cked Up and Photocopied”, “The Art of
Modern Rock”, and “The Art of Rebellion 2.” In 2008 his work will
appear in “PEEL; The Art Of The Sticker”, “Graffiti Now”, “400ml”, and
“Stencil Nation”. These days he is best known for being the mastermind
behind Vinyl Killers, an international collective of artists who
repurpose old vinyl records into new original artwork.
Barrett Gordon lives in Chicago and created a collage series
compounding found building drawings and their printed research. For
the last work in the series, he performed a garbological investigation
of the City of Buffalo. More recently his work has engaged crayons,
paper, clay, & paint, with the urban surface, creating rubbed and
stamped compositions directly from the streets.
As a member of the Language Arts Publishing Collective, House Press,
he co-edits a string of small magazines with Luke Daly & Eric Unger, &
also publishes his & his collaborators own works. Two books, one his
own, and one in collaboration with milwaukee artist david
baptiste-chirot, are forthcoming.
Matthew Adamson grew up outside of Washington D.C. and was heavily
influence by the street art that was plaguing the streets of the
nation's capitol in the 1990's. This is where his interest in art
became an obsession, an obsession that would take him out of his high
school art classes, away from canvases and onto the unfamiliar
streets. He later went on to receive his B.F.A. in painting and
printmaking at Virginia Commonwealth University. Still focused on
street art, he has spent several years in New York City as a bike
messenger and artist.
