Hip Pop Art

Hip Pop Art is a movement that I formed in 2004 that documents the transition of Hip hop from a sub culture to a pop culture. The inaugural exhibit consisted of four bodies of work, each crafted in a different medium. The first body entitled, Hip Pop terminology is an installation of trucker hats sculpted from clay, each hat bearing a word that has come to define the vocabulary of the hip hop culture. Hip Pop Environment, makes a general observation of the life style, through a series of original paintings and digitally altered drawings. The third, an installation called Wearable Hip Pop Art is four pair of “remixed kicks” or one-of-a-kind customized sneakers. This series illustrates the need of the Hip hop culture to create art in a wearable context, something it has consistently done from the very beginning. The fourth is the signature series Portraits in Hip Pop, which begins to compile a visual record of the innovators and contributors of the culture. The acrylic paintings do this with a clean, graphic aesthetic that is often mistaken for digitally altered photography or illustration.