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'I'm celebrating the urban experience',[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]
The golden years,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], from the early 1980s and extending into the 1990s,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], were marked by graffiti artists who subway walls with colorful spray-painted signatures. Breakdancers, rappers and beatboxers transformed Brooklyn street corners into crowded performance venues. Music and poetry addressed issues pertaining to sexuality, poverty and the drug culture.
Ghetto blasters amplified Message by Grandmaster Flash: It like a jungle sometimes / It makes me wonder / How I keep from going under.
was gritty and raw and real and to this day, it still reeks of that,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], said Bua, who will sign copies of his new art book, Beat of Urban Art, Saturday at the Distinction Gallery in Escondido.
in the day,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], there was a lot of texture and there was a message in the music, a message of social inequality and injustice. That was the world I navigated and understood. All the elements of hip-hop were part of my everyday vocabulary. was danger. Bua lived next to a welfare hotel and drug dealing was a common occurrence. When he was 12,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Bua sneakers were stolen. After he walked 20 blocks in the snow in stocking feet,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], he was mugged a second time as he entered his house. In those days, Bua said, one survived by fighting or by being witty enough to talk yourself out of situation. got beat up more than anybody. They would get me in a headlock and say, like you know me. I would say, don you act like you know me and remove the gun from my head. earning a bachelor degree in illustration from the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, Bua became an in-demand commercial artist. He designed and illustrated everything from skateboards and CD covers to a limited edition line of sneakers and video games.
But painting portraits of the day-to-day characters that came in and out of Bua life while he lived in New York became, and remains, his first love.
By melding his New York memories,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], fine art training and the colorful distorted graffiti techniques of the hip-hop age,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Bua developed a contemporary painting style that evokes the creativity and sense of danger he grew up with.
The canvas titled shows a crowd gathered around a gravity-defying breakdancer, balanced upside-down with his feet in the air and his face pressed against a cardboard square taped to the sidewalk. Elongated brownstone buildings curve toward the festive scene,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], with rows of windows that seem to stare down at the show.
In the portrait No, we see a close-up of a stoned man with bloodshot vacant eyes. Smoke from the cigarette dangling from his lips trails like an umbilical cord, connecting him to the backdrop of the Manhattan skyline.
Man is a long rectangular painting of a musician blowing his horn against the jagged horizon of the city.
trumpet man is playing for the love of it,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Bua explained. born from the loins of the city he is the city. I celebrating the urban experience, whether sad or celebratory. He as iconic as the Brooklyn Bridge and he cool. He damn cool. celebrities have purchased Bua paintings, including former President Bill Clinton,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Tony Parker, Eva Longoria, Will Smith and Christina Ricci.
Now 39, Bua said that although compiling a book of his images was an exercise in self-discovery, millions of people can relate to a hip-hop-inspired world and his work speaks to that.
The of Urban Art exhibit will show at Distinction Gallery through Aug,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]. 4,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]. The five-piece Los Angeles-based band Upstart will perform at Saturday book signing,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych].
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