New Brow - The Rise Of Underground Art

03 February 2010

London Miles Gallery is proud to host the premiere UK screening of Contemporary Art documentary, "New Brow - The Rise Of Underground Art".

"New Brow - The Rise Of Underground Art" is a feature film presented by Humble Pictures in association with The Shooting Gallery from San Francisco, California. The documentary features some of today's most influential and groundbreaking artists from the New Contemporary Art movement, such as Shepard Fairey, Ron English, Silvia Ji, Gary Baseman, Shag and many more, who speak openly and enlightening about the growing art movement and its origins. The documentary not only includes first-hand accounts from an impressive list of pioneering artists, but also showcases the important galleries and collectors who adopted, and continue to drive the New Contemporary Art movement today.

Pop Surrealism and Low Brow is a wide spread populist art movement with origins in Low Brow art, underground comix, punk music, hotrod street culture, Kustum culture, Street Art, Graffiti, Graphic Design, Tattoo, Surf Culture, Tiki Culture and other California sub-cultures.

This is not a current version of Modern Pop Art. This a new movement, a new thinking in the art world. These are the artists that will inspire a new generation.

Just as artists from the expressionist, Ab-Ex and Pop Art periods their importance was unrealised until many years after they were "discovered". Most of the public has already seen these new artists through their other work, ad campaigns, tshirts, album covers and graphic design.

"New Brow - The Rise Of Underground Art" contains first hand accounts from the artists, galleries and collectors who started and continue the new american art movement and contains interviews with:

Van Arno
Anthony Ausgang
Shawn Barber
Glenn Barr
Gary Baseman
Tim Biskup
Andrew Brandou
Paul Chatem
Colin Christian
SAS Christian
Mike Davis
Ron English
Shepard Fairey
Erik Foss
Helen Garber
Camille Rose Garcia
Mike Giant
Jim Houser
Silvia Ji
Eric Joyner
Yumiko Kayukawa
Killpixie
Charlie Krafft
Francesco LoCastro
Travis Louie
Carlo McCormick
Liz McGrath
Anne Faith Nicholls
Roq LaRue
Shag
Isabel Samaras

London Miles Gallery will be hosting the screenings of New Brow on Saturday the 20th of February at 4:00pm and on the 27th of February at 2:00pm and 5:30pm.

The film will be shown on in the Project Room of Westbourne studios. Tickets are priced at £8.00 and must be reserved in advance due to limited seating.