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UP5 Preview – The Irony of Becoming Iconic: An Afternoon with Ron English
Famed artist Ron English got his start with a punk-rock attitude, eschewing the traditional gallery world in favor hard-hitting billboard takeovers and a DIY ethic, as Alexandria discovers in her interview with him for Issue 5.
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UP Magazine 2021 Editor’s Choice
Our year end Editor’s Choice list of our favorite articles and artists.
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Queering Self-Love, Community, and Love Letters: Q&A with ggggrimes
25-year-old Philadelphia based artist ggggrimes, known for their digitally paintings of PoC queer individuals and couples in intimate moments, discusses their queer community, 2020, and discovering themselves through the love of their fiancé. “My artwork is shaped by my life and experiences,” they expressed.
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Weaponization of Coby Kennedy’s Parallel Consequential World: Jimmy Crow and the Imaginary Thug
Coby Kennedy’s Jimmy Crow and the Imaginary Thug, on view at Superchief Gallery NY, takes the tenets of Afrofuturism to its most imaginative and sublime extreme through Kennedy’s parallel world. Kennedy makes clear that continually residing in our current racist society leads to the need for a violent and complete revolution.
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Choreographed Cause, Planned Effect – JM Rizzi at WallWorks New York
On view in the South Bronx, JM Rizzi Cause and Effect, a solo exhibition at the acclaimed gallery WallWorks New York. Bright street art assemblage works, while concurrent keeping the idealism of Abstract Expressionism in mind.
