Season 1
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Ibrahim lives and works in Ghana. For his latest work he has hired migrant workers to help him construct a new giant tapestry to cover dilapidated buildings in an impoverished township out of the jute sacks which the workers use to transport coffee and other commodities. Hannes Wingate is a Swedish artist working in Portland where he is creating a larger than life bird nest on an empty lot near the Burnside skatepark and city overpass - the nest is woven together without nails from material he collects - the idea of the nest is to make people question what's valuable.
The "Godfather" of street art does some reverse shoplifting, placing his art into a supermarket for others to "steal" and also creates his own fake storefront supermarket full of fake products all of which are quite polemic. He gives away his art in return for donations to a women's shelter. Blake Shaw rose to prominence for his video paintings, which were featured in the New York Times. His latest project finds him working in Israel, collaborating with young artists on both sides of the separation barrier and projecting their works on each side of the wall.
Controversial English artist and model Millie Brown rose to prominence with her innovative technique of ingesting milk based colored paint and regurgitating it onto a canvas. Her next project involves suspending herself from the roof of an abandoned warehouse as her assistants pour paint over her naked body as Millie becomes the paintbrush itself. Baltimore based street artist Gaia has recently been recognized as one of the art world's rising stars. His iconographic mural portraiture features hyper intensive detail. For his latest project, we are following Gaia to Hawaii where he will be a featured artist at POW WOW, street art's version of Art Basel.
Controversial English artist and model Millie Brown rose to prominence with her innovative technique of ingesting milk based colored paint and regurgitating it onto a canvas. Her next project involves suspending herself from the roof of an abandoned warehouse as her assistants pour paint over her naked body as Millie becomes the paintbrush itself. Gaia: Baltimore based street artist Gaia has recently been recognized as one of the art world's rising stars. His iconographic mural portraiture features hyper intensive detail. For his latest project, we are following Gaia to Hawaii where he will be a featured artist at POW WOW, street art's version of Art Basel.
Ebon Heath is a Berlin based artist who gives new meaning to the way we think about communication by creating large-scale highly intricate sculptures of words and letters. For his latest project he will be creating a sculpture using metal cutouts for the first time for a project commissioned by a restaurant in Dubai. Modern Dance Troupe Diavolo create astonishing choreography that combines gymnastics and dance with architectural shapes and constructions. Diavolo will be debuting their latest piece at the famed Greek Theater of Los Angeles for our program.
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