Street/Studio 2.0 at Irvine Contemporary

Washington D.C. has gone full swing into the street art gallery movement with the latest exhibition at Irvine Contemporary. Street/Studio 2.0 (which is Irvine’s second major street art show) brings work by Shepard Fairey, José Parlá, Swoon, Romon Yang (Rostarr), David Ellis, Chris Mendoza, James Marshall (Dalek), and Gaia to the District. The exhibition is hosted at both Irvine Contemporary’s primary space (1412 14th Street) and the Montserrat House (2016 9th Street).

From the gallery -

Street/Studio 2.0 showcases the multiple practices of artists who work across a continuum of sites and mediums that include street mural works, studio works in all mediums, gallery and museum exhibitions, digital production tools, and documentation and distribution on the Web. The artists works–in any medium and wherever they appear–form a dialog with the city and engage us with responses to the energy, conflicts, and joys of urban life.

Our exhibition last year, Street/Studio, showed how artists working in this new continuity of practice understand their works as always being site-specific, made for the spaces that frame them, regardless of the cultural categories defining where art should appear.

Street/Studio 2.0 further advances a broader view of art today as artists now develop their work in a continuity of practice spanning works in all forms and locations, digital media and software, and the Web. Street/Studio 2.0 presents leading artists who have been innovators in new categories of art, creatively recoding the recombinant DNA of culture into new forms that respond to urban life.

On view through December 18, 2010.

Work from the exhibition follows after the jump. All images are courtesy of Irvine Contemporary and the associated artist.

Rostarr (New York, NY). Tibetan Diamond, 2010. Acrylic on canvas, 42 x 42 inches.

Swoon (New York, NY). 3 Girls (detail), 2010. Lino-block print and hand-embellished cut paper, 62 x 80 inches.

Shepard Fairey (Los Angeles, CA). Script, 2010. HPM on album cover, ed. of 8, 12 x 12 inches.

David Ellis (New York, NY). Animal (film still), 2010. HD movie, color, sound, Blu-ray disc. Edition of 6, 9 min., 39 seconds.