September, 2009

The expression “New York Minute” refers to the speed with which New Yorkers react to stimuli - with a mixture of impatience, ingenuity and amazing alacrity. The 60 artists represented here, show a rapid and inspired response to the particular issues their generation has to face up to. Their work explores some of the latest trends in New York art: up-dating action painting and abstraction with the toughness of street life, synthesizing pop culture into hand-made and honest artefacts, taking conceptualism to new and absurd heights, organizing themselves into collectives, taking inter-disciplinary art on tour and introducing a punk attitude to assemblage, collage and sculpture.
Dash Snow, Terence Koh, Nate Lowman, Aurel Schmidt, Agathe Snow, Hanna Liden are just some of the many artists who typify the “street punk” trend, transforming dark energy into heartfelt confrontational projects that include collage, performance, music and sculpture. They are attracted to the danger and anarchy of the urban environment and produce down-to-earth works that reflect this attraction.

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