Poster Boy is a decentralized troublemaker group. From the beginning, Poster Boy remains anonymous and refuses to sell or sign any original works. The collective work focuses on the Hip Hop principle, especially the Graffiti element, by limiting almost any work to improvisation. Using only a razor blade, Poster Boy creates satirical collage works created by cutting off the adhesive self-adhesive portions on the platform of the New York City Subway station, and reattaching it to a different position. Poster Boy is also called the 'Poster Boy movement' where others produce unmarked works similar to the New York City subway mimicking the original artist. Even after their first arrest, Brooklyn residents, Henry Matyjewicz, collectively remain active online and on the streets.
One of Poster Boy's works featured in the Banksy 2010 documentary Exit Through the Gift Shop .
Poster Boy's work is also included in the retrospective street art performance "10 Years of Wooster Collective" at the Jonathan Levine Gallery in 2013.
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Work
"At first, it was just something that kept me busy while waiting on the subway." "I played with the poster, cut it off" (he brought a razor used at work) and found that unlike the cardboard posters on the subway, the advertising posters on the subway platform were printed on self-adhesive materials that could be trapped back after tearing or cut. He started playing with the images and text available to create funny "mash-ups" ads. In 2008 alone, he has created more than 200 underground posters manipulated on NYC trains. He compared the creation of a "mash-up" poster with hip hop "freestyling" on the microphone. He has no prejudice about what his job is ("I do not have any plans... go there, see something, get inspired and do the job"), but use the images available, often in a way related to current events. One commentator noted: "The pieces generally have a critical edge for them, making comments about the state of society and on the ads themselves." It can be explicitly political (such as his works in Sean Bell, "IRAN = NAM", "Obama Drama," and Gaza), or more commonly sending celebrities and corporate culture.
Poster Boy has been called "Matisse of subway-ad mash-ups," "a kind of anti-consumerist Zorro with a razor blade," and "an anti-consumerist guerrilla artist." Cultural reporter Ben Walters says of his work "Job Poster Boy straddles two lively artistic subcultures: street art and cultural distractions." Poster Boy has said the technique, "No matter what I do to the work, as long as I do something about the ads and the saturation, it's political, it's an anti-media media, an unruly art world."
Poster Boy calls the work "A social thing, instead of being an artist who makes something to make rich people bored to hang on their couches." In addition to messages from individual works, aspects of creating anonymous public art that others can do are part of the job. In a video interview, he has said about his work, "I want it to be free from copyright and free of authorship, as much as possible." "The overall goal for Poster Boy is to inspire others, I want to see people take Poster Boy models and create changes in their environment." When his fame has grown, others have begun to imitate the technique. Whether these are unrelated people who copied an original artist, or part of the "Poster Boy model" or "movement" has not been publicly confirmed.
Poster Boy's works are transitive (usually undermined by MTA employees) but recorded in photos. Photographs of his work are loaded in Poster Boy's photostream on the Flickr photo sharing website.
Poster Boy has collaborated with Aakash Nihalani, a street artist who uses brightly colored electric bands to create geometric patterns, and has worked on a large outdoor monochrome section that includes an illegal NPA billboard with Jordan Seiler from Public Advertising Campaigns.
Poster Boy's work has recently grown on a scale and he has applied his technique to large billboards. He did not seem to notice the somewhat similar and earlier billboard work of the Cutup British group.
In March 2009, a major installation of a subway ad by the Museum of Modern Art at an Atlantic/Pacific subway stop in Brooklyn, which consisted only of the reproductions of the works shown at MOMA, was manipulated by what was claimed to be the "Collective Poster Boy mysterious "With Doug Jaeger from thehappycorp. The cover included a part of the seemingly floating Goodyear tire with the waterlily monet .
Early Poster Boy jobs are all off limits, and he claims "I do not want to make any money from it." I do not want to take him to the gallery. However, after his arrest in January 2009 his work has been featured in the gallery, including a one-man show in the Eastern Conference of Brooklyn, April 3-26, 2009. He is also included in the group show, Razors, Tape, Glass, at Jajo Gallery in Newark New Jersey. This move has been criticized on street art blogs.
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Legal issues
Poster Boy cutting off and sticking to subway ads is illegal. Previously their work has been recorded by the MTA police, but it does not seem to be a top priority for them. "Our property vandalism is illegal, and we are fully prosecuting the law," spokeswoman Aaron Donovan told reporter Brian Raftery. "As said, the problem to date has been minimal." He has some brushes with the law, but sometimes transit police have let him go. On January 30, 2009, while attending a charity event for the film video documentary â € Å"We We Loveâ €, a person who is considered Poster Boy was arrested by an undercover police agent awaiting him. "Poster Boy" was charged with two criminal offenses and tried before a judge on Monday, February 9, 2009.
At the hearing, Poster Boy member Henry Matyjewicz, 27, rejected a defense bid, in which he would plead guilty to criminal charges, and perform 100 hours of "community service." His lawyer, Kerry Gotlib, said that Mr Matyjewicz was "innocent of the charge". Mr. Matyjewicz is scheduled to reappear in court in April. If the case is brought to justice, the penalty for indictment can be incarcerated for up to a year. However, on December 16, 2009, Matyjewicz pleaded guilty to the breach. Instead, the judge agreed to empty the crime as long as Matyjewicz served 210 hours of community service. Once done, he will get a three-year probation.
Sometime around January 2009, Poster Boy's underground fame became such that there appeared to be some impersonators, and his idea of ​​getting others to "take the poster boy" model seemed to be popular. In fact there seems to be some confusion as to whether the Poster Boy, who was arrested on January 30, 2009, was the same Poster Boy who started a subway collage, or "legal" on standing ground. The New York Times reported a call from Poster Boy saying the man who was arrested "is one of many people who believe in the Poster Boy movement" "AdBusters website notes that" The source close to the artist maintains that there are some 'Poster Boys' currently involved in this project. "In an interview after the arrest, Henry Matyjewicz said that" Henry is an artist inspired by what happened with the Poster Boy movement. "
Whatever the case, Matyjewicz (whose lawyer, Kerry Gotlib, has been accepted in court and to the media as THE "Poster Boy") continues to have run-ins with the law. On December 16, 2009, on the day he pleaded guilty in exchange for community service, Matyjewicz was arrested for allegedly suspected for illegally using a MetroCard student to be discounted. Then, on January 22, 2010, while still in probation, Matyjewicz was once again arrested for slicing up posters. While the Prosecutor urged prison time for the arrest, due to technical problems, Matyjewicz only received probation. On May 10, 2010, after leaving on May 6, Matyjewicz (who had been expected to be placed on probation again due to a previous court ruling) appeared in Brooklyn court and was sentenced to 11 months in prison on Rikers Island. Matyjewicz got out of jail by appealing the sentence after 13 days. In the opinion of January 25, 2011, the Second Department of the Supreme Court Appeals Division of NY retained an appeal and vacated a court decision and a detention order. The appellate court filed the case to court (but before the judge the difference) because of irritation in accordance with the original agreement, negotiations were negotiated only on probation and community service.
See also
- Posterchild, Toronto-based street artist
- List of urban artists in the United States
- Street art
References
External links
Articles and interviews:
- Edward Winkleman. "Search for Truthless Compassion in Art Creation", October 8, 2008.
- Randy Kennedy. "Boy's Poster Trapped, or Is It Stand-In?" New York Times , February 4, 2009.
- "Boy's Poster, Street Artist" (interview). The Gothamist . January 23, 2009.
- "Poster Boy Informal Interview" with Jordan Seiler, Public Ad Campaign. October 2008.
- "Art Space Talk: Poster Boy" interviews with Brian Sherwin on MyArtSpace Bolg. January 29, 2009.
Video:
- We LoveÃ, Friends: 120 Seconds w/Poster Boy NYC "video monologue, 2:00.
- "Poster Boy NYC Art" Video compilation fans, 3:12.
- "Posterboy NYC Subway Art" Videos compilation fans, 1:46.
- "Poster Boy In Action" Video by AnimalMagazine, 1:25. Posted on Vimeo, December 2008.
- Jacqueline Lewis, Editor of Chief Magazine, speaks to Poster Boy in a video about his work
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