January 27th, 2016
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| Showing at Sacramento State University January 27th - February 26th, 2016 Else Gallery in Kadema Hall Visiting Hours: Monday-Friday 12pm-4:30pm |
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Pump Up the Volume! is an exhibition showing the works of artists Jane Dickson and Joe Lewis. It is described on the flyers as a celebration of different "aspects of the global hip-hop culture movement from the earliest moments they shared in the South Bronx," which is a remarkably cool story I heard during their talk after the reception.
Before going to the reception and artists' talk, I decided to check out the gallery exhibition before class that day. . .
When you first walk into the gallery space, you're senses are first exposed to the hip hop/rap music playing. It's not too loud, but it provides enough to welcome yourself into a different space. You then see the different portraits, images, and vinyls hanging around the room. It's very urban. Something I'm very comfortable in since I really enjoy rap and hip hop at this point in my life. You don't feel like you're in the Bronx, but you definitely feel like you're in a hardcore, cool ass, funky place.
Pump Up the Volume! really does give off the feeling of an evolution of hip hop and the music really does help move that along if you stay there long enough to listen to a few songs that are playing there while being accompanied by the works. There really isn't a coherence in an evolution while you move through the space, but that really shouldn't matter. They all go together and present this feeling of--ALL THIS. IT IS HIP HOP CULTURE.
I loved how the space just looked.
Now, when I arrived in the afternoon, none. NONE of the works had titles somewhere in the room, which I was okay with in some ways. It should be presented in that way. When I arrived in the evening, they were bunched in awkwardly in stacks.
