PUMP UP THE VOLUME! |
Jane Dickson |
Pump Up The Volume: An Exhibition of Art by Jane Dickson and Joe Lewis
January 25
to March 3, 2016
Robert Else Gallery
Art
Department, Kadema Hall
Sacramento
State
Pump Up the Volume is Jane Dickson and
Joe Lewis’ celebration of hip-hop’s ascension into a global movement from its
earliest moments that they witnessed in the South Bronx. The exhibition
consists of approximately 60+ discrete pieces, including portraits of important
genre artists, dating from 1979 - 2015. There is also an audio component
overlay of 278 songs (18 hours of music) tracing the history of hip-hop music
from the Bronx.
Jane Dickson
arrived in Times Square in 1978 and began working on projects at Fashion Moda
in the South Bronx in 1979. She created City Maze there in 1980 with Graffiti
artists Crash and Noc and began collaborating with her future husband, Charlie
Ahearn on the first hip hop movie "Wild Style" in 1981. Often working
on industrial materials, her paintings examine the conventions and disjunctions
of contemporary American life, from the crowded theatricality of street life in
New York. More than 30 museums including the Metropolitan Museum, the Whitney,
MoMA, and the Brooklyn Museum own her work.
Joe Lewis |
Joe Lewis’s
works are reflections of his introduction to hip-hop and street culture. He
grew up on B’way during the golden age of the pop music business and
subsequently wound up in the South Bronx at Fashion Moda curating and producing
art, performance and music. Primarily using text, his focus is on “the Word”;
its influence on animate and inanimate ideas, places and things like
"revolution." He also considers ways one might get out of the ghetto
for good. Sometimes, he muses on the mystical and supernatural meaning of
everyday things when taken out of context, like a prep school boys dressing and
acting like a “gangsters.” Lewis has exhibited widely in the US and abroad. His
work is in collections at the Studio Museum in Harlem, Los Angeles County
Museum of Art, and Deutsche Bank.
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