The Adams State University Visual Art Building is currently displaying skateboard decks, with serigraph prints, by many of the foremost contemporary street artists active today including Cryptik, Ron English, Barry McGee, Cleon Peterson, Mars1, Os Gemeos, Cope 2, D*face, Shepard Fairey, and Banksy.
As the newly appointed art gallery director, Anthony Guntren, assistant professor of art, shares a personal collection for the summer exhibit. He believes street art genre has its place among art movements and styles. “For myself, as well as many of street artist of today, skate culture of the ‘80s and ‘90s plays an influential role in the creative endeavors happening today. The graphics were fresh and cool, and thrusted low brow art in a new direction with fervent support of the youthful mindset of this time. Using bright acrylic-based paints, fiery imagery and stencil techniques; the skateboard print is quite literally an artifact of the street.”
The Visual Art Building is open from 8 a.m. until 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. The skateboard deck exhibit continues through August 8, 2024.
