Street Art to Be Installed at the Museum Tower Construction Wall in the Dallas Arts District and Site in Oak Cliff

Who:             

 

Ben Flynn, a.k.a.  EINE, internationally acclaimed British graffiti artist, will paint two locations in Dallas including the construction wall at the 42-story Museum Tower and on the side of a building in Oak Cliff.               

When/Where:             

          

Tuesday, September 13 and Wednesday, September 14

Beginning at 12:00 noon until…

Museum Tower construction site, located in the heart of the Dallas Arts District

SW corner of Pearl Street and Woodall Rodgers Freeway

2120 Woodall Rodgers Freeway

Dallas, TX 75201

                       

Thursday, September 15 and Friday, September 16

Beginning at 12:00 noon until…

NW corner of Fort Worth Avenue and N. Windomere Avenue

                       

1501 Fort Worth Avenue      

Dallas, TX 75208

What: 

Ben Flynn, a.k.a. EINE, shot to international fame when UK Prime Minister David Cameron presented one of his works to President Barack Obama as a gift on his first official state visit to the UK.  But, he is arguably more famous for “Alphabet Street” – the shutters and murals he painted in his trademark colors and typography in Middlesex Street, London– and is described by The Times of London as “a street now internationally recognized as a living piece of art with direct links to The White House.”

Direct from a sell-out show at Gallery 503 in Tokyo Japan, EINE will be painting two public graffiti installations in the Dallas area, including one at the Museum Tower construction site.  He will reproduce one of these on canvas to be auctioned at the MTV International’s Staying Alive Foundation RE: DEFINE event which will be held at The Goss-Michael Foundation on September 24. 

(http://mtvredefine.com ) A public exhibition of the art will be September 16 through September 24, the night of the auction.

EINE’s graffiti letters transgress the usual stylized image devised to depict form and emotion and through a combination of color, placement and size they become abstract and unique works of art in their own right. 

EINE was included in the first official museum show showcasing street art earlier this year ‘Art in the streets’ at The Museum of Contemporary Art (MoCA) in Los Angeles.

Exhibition Dates:       

September 16 – September 24, 2011

Auction Date:            

Saturday, September 24

http://mtvredefine.com/