What symbols live within us? When given form through words and pictures, what do these symbols say about our lived experience? Does the human impulse toward symbolism produce a loss or gain in meaning?

The work of Jean-Michel Basquiat, rooted in the downtown New York art scene of the late 1970s and ’80s and now central to the contemporary art canon, speaks beyond his time. Even today, his use of iconography reaches us as a provocation: “What did he mean with this image?”

In this Study we will take a page from Basquiat's book by creating personal symbologies and attempting to dialogue with one another’s shapes.

Text: Phillip Auction House’s depiction of Jean-Michel Basquiat “The Icons of an Icon”

Date: Thursday, June 18th at 7pm

Location: Museum of Street Art with Anha and Richard

If you are interested in attending this Study, email strotherschool@sustainedattention.net