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Read more about Angel's feature in
The Guardian Newspaper HERE.
Presented by SVA Galleries
UNDERGROUND IMAGES: A HISTORY
August 29-October 14, 2023
SVA Chelsea Gallery
601 West 26th Street, 15th floor
New York, NY 10001
Artists Reception - September 7th, 2023
Chelsea Gallery SVA Exhibition
Feat. in photo., Angel R. Ibañez
Feat. in photo, Angel R. Ibañez,
@dearsommer Chief Curator @mixtapemuseum
Jarvis Watson, Dir. of Diversity SVA
SVA Celebrates 50 Years of Hip-Hop
Subway Poster, 2023
Photographer Angel R. Ibañez
Executive Creative Director
Anthony P. Rhodes
Poster featuring, Jalil Hutchins performing as a member of Whodini, an early Hip-Hop collective that successfully built a prominent fan base across the nation.
Music Video
Funky Beat
1986
Kodak, Color Film
Photographed and developed by A.R.Ibañez
Feat. SVA artists and staff
Celebrating 50 years of Hip-Hop
Underground art surfaces at Chelsea exhibit
NY1 Spectrum News
Sept. 06, 2023
It's the first-ever comprehensive retrospective for the subway posters collection to be exhibited in New York City.
By Roger Clark Manhattan
The exhibition brings together the complete series of works from 93 artists, including Milton Glaser, who created the “I Love New York” logo and the post-9/11 follow-up on one of the posters which says, “I Love NY More Than Ever,” with a stain covering part of the familiar heart logo.
"They function, certainly, in a way as public art in the subways, but also for the community, for the students, they are actually something that we look up to, to a kind of possibility in the art world, whether you are a designer, an illustrator, a fine artist or photographer," Hristoff said.
Visitors can check out every one of them at the gallery through Oct. 14, and admission is free.
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SVA’s Fall Subway Poster Celebrates 50 Years of Hip-Hop
The College’s latest poster features a 1986 photograph by longtime staffer and alumnus Angel R. Ibañez, capturing a pivotal moment in hip-hop history.
September 12, 2023 by Rodrigo Perez
Tell me the story behind the photo used in the new SVA poster.
My good friend told me about a huge music video shoot at the time and said, “Grab your camera and come get some shots.” I was one of the photographers at this video shoot, which was shot over the course of five days. Some great images came of it, including this one of Whodini leaning enthusiastically into the audience, and that’s featured on the subway poster. [Whodini’s founding member and lead MC Jalil Hutchins] seemed like a nice kid and played with a talented group. The entire video was energetic, a 1980s hip-hop street-fashion explosion, a real good time.
What does the 50th anniversary of hip-hop mean to you?
My family comes from Cuba, where the music is defined by “the prominence of Afro-Cuban themes and rhythms, blended with European-style harmonies.” Hip-hop draws parallels in that the rhythms have themes and the verbal rhymes have a certain cadence in their delivery. Drums are the definitive instruments in Cuban music and it makes you naturally want to dance. Hip-hop consists of stylized rhythmic music, usually built around drum beats that someone raps over and it’s made to dance, too.
Hip-hop is an artistic expression! Grab your big boom box to hang out on the stoop with your friends, dance on the sidewalks and breakdance on pieces of cardboard boxes in your neighborhood. The 50th anniversary of hip-hop celebrates another American art form that started from humble beginnings and now has a worldwide audience, global reach and influence. It’s a real human connection.
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