Urban Landscapes

My goal with these diptychs was to explore the thin, often arbitrary line between museum and street art. I was heavily inspired by a photograph of graffiti that read, “concrete is the poor man’s canvas.” It made me realize that what distinguishes street art from gallery art is often nothing more than its surface: a brick wall or concrete rather than a canvas. I’m not arguing that all street art belongs in exhibits or that high art should be less idolized. Instead, I’m interested in the dialogue between the two: how similarities in color, form, and subject appear between the two. How high art draws from low, and low draws from high. With these pieces, I wanted to question where art belongs and who gets to decide that boundary.