Date attended: February 22nd, 2017
From M5 arts, and covering over 65,000 square feet, Art Street is the next community art collaborative project after Art Hotel, and is a new venue for showcasing the local and divergent creative styles not in a traditional setting. Housed in a warehouse, this free event showcases over 100 artist's works installed in a colorful and diverse arrangements. Not only are you an onlooker of the art, but the aspect of being this close and personal with the art, makes it more like you are part of it. Installations that evoke social commentary and have people interacting with each other, like a giant kaleidoscope for one to view, and another to actively rotate it, expressing its true focus in motion.As you walk own the figurative "street' within the building, you are exposed to a miniature city of color, lights, and expression, with every nook and cranny a shop for a different expressive experience. Artists even actively at work can be seen working, their creative process concurrently coinciding with your viewing, looking as a view into the mind of someone else. Installations grab your attention and let you step into another world like Trent Dean's minimalistic and geometric room of pure whiteness and shape, not unlike Robert Morris. At times, there was involvement with the onlookers with different projects like collaborative clay sculpture, creating unique sculptures of amalgamating so many people's thoughts and visual ideas, much like the entire show itself.
We've made it.
Waiting around and posing in front of the wall canvases.
Watching the creative process at work is always fascinating to witness.
Fusing technology and color.
An audio and visual sensory experience that resonates through you entire being.
It's a team effort to view this piece...
...But the payoff is fantastic.
And, as we leave, we see his piece has advanced even further, but still in-progress.
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