Urban Folk Art© is pleased to present the inaugural exhibition of the work of Jason Mitchell. Race, drinking, the trials of a working class lifestyle, relationships, plays on words, portraits of obscure and well known music icons, illustrated lyrics are all topics Jason tackles in his comics, paintings and silkscreens. He has amassed a huge body of work over the years, and this exhibition is a cross section of his work, including paintings, silkscreen prints, sketchbook drawings, Underground comic books, branded merchandise, and punk rock flyers from over the years of shows he's seen and played in.Jason Mitchell spent his youth going to punk rock shows, hanging around record stores, and drawing. During his senior year at the Rhode Island School of Design, he spent a semester interning at Urban Folk Art© studios- also the first year of the collective's inception. When he graduated in 1992 with a BFA in Printmaking, he moved to Brooklyn and became a full-fledged member of UFA©. By day, his work helped shape the studio's image in graphics, stickers, t-shirt designs, underground comics, printmaking and paintings. By night, he was also immersed in the NY punk rock scene, fronting a few bands including Asstroland, and currently Miscegenator. Playing in clubs that exemplified the Punk Rock ethos such as CBGB's, ABC NO Rio, C-Squat, Coney Island High and The Continental gave him material for his drawings.
Curated by Adam Suerte
For Further Information please contact – Urban Folk Art, Adam Suerte 718 643 1610 or adam@adamsuerte.com urbanfolkartstudios.commidasimages.net
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About Urban Folk Art© Urban Folk Art© is an artist collective headed by Adam Suerte. The first studio was in Bushwick Brooklyn in the early 90's. They set up a silkscreen studio printing for small businesses, bands and artists, not-for profits, these jobs would fund the collective’s other endeavors. These endeavors included Guerilla art projects, curating their own art shows, self publishing underground comic books, a line of tshirts that sold at style purveyors of the time such as Union, Patricia Fields, and 99X, and teaching art to kids at schools and organizations. In the late 90’s the studio had moved to Williamsburg, feeling as they were becoming too much of a commercial print shop, the collective shut down its physical presence, but continued their fine art projects for years including curating art shows all over Brooklyn, mural projects, teaching art, the ongoing tshirt line, and publishing the underground comic books all under the title of "Urban Folk Art© Presents" The Urban Folk Art© Gallery was opened in January 2011 and the physical manifestation of the collective was reborn. The gallery exhibits various genres of work from contemporary painting, drawing, printmaking and photography, legendary graffiti artists to comic art. The gallery exhibits a range of undiscovered, emerging, and established artists. The collective’s belief is that cross marketing each other and the gallery as a whole as a mutually supportive resource is a valuable way for emerging artists to gain a wider audience for members, the group, and the artists the gallery supports.
