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How Street Art is Taking its Seat at the Table of High Culture

How Street Art is Taking its Seat at the...

By Randy Gladman. Originally published in the Financial Times of London’s How To Spend It, February 7, 2011. The website of the Southeastern Centre for Contemporary Art (SECCA) in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, recently posted a six-minute long time-lapse video of the production of an onsite mural painted by the artist Dalek (James Marshall) and his team of assistants. Created for the exhibition North Carolina New Contemporary, Dalek’s vibrant and kaleidoscopic abstraction of video-game aesthetics slowly assembles in front of the camera lens to the beat of a jazzy...
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Rewind:  Dalek

Rewind: Dalek

By Randy Gladman. Originally published in Canadian Art Magazine, Winter 2005 Review of exhibibition at both le. gallery and Magic Pony Gallery, Toronto Dalek’s first solo exhibition in Canada introduced Toronto audiences to a Brooklyn-based member of a large underground urban art movement that is attracting attention in New York, Los Angeles and Tokyo. While the group is still effectively unnamed, the members of this loose affiliation—Shepard Fairey, KAWS, Twist (Barry McGee), Phil Frost, Evan Hecox, Ryan McGinness and others—have exhibited together on many...