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B-Girl Be: A Celebration of Women in Hip HopJune 28 – September 9, 2007rap . graffiti . dj . dance . panels . fashion . poetry . visual exhibition . film
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NIZ |
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| Niz has been creating skateboard art, stencil
art, and other “object art” for several years. She has used
her art to teach at-risk youth about HIV, hepatitis, and overdoes prevention
and continues to create art that attempts to educate and enlighten. Though
her long-standing focus has been skateboard art, she also experiments with
stencils, vinyl, and other non-traditional surfaces and mediums. Her work
and life have been heavily influenced by hip hop and punk rock culture,
religion, spirituality, civil rights, traveling, skateboarding and urban
culture. I am interested in communicating spiritual, mental, and emotional realities which bind humans together…I am inspired by mundane things, like people’s mannerisms, universal similarities across cultures, and natural occurrences like a beautiful sunset. I have also been intrigued by spirituality/religion (i.e. Zen Buddism and world mythology), supernatural phenomena (i.e. transcendental or profound spiritual experiences and dreams) holistic nutrition (i.e. herbs, meditation, and martial arts) and American subcultures (skateboarding, hip hop, punk rock reggae electronic,etc) since a very young age. In my own daily life and interactions with people, I do my best at getting to the core of an issue-whether it be political, emotional, or intellectual…so that I can translate my experience of that issue through art, in a way that will hopefully help the viewer understand, consciously or unconsciously, my perspective. I am interested in real human experiences; stripped of all the makeup of most every day human interactions…they can be beautiful, offensive, or ugly…as long as they are real and raw… |
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kid & family-friendly . all ages . all genders . all incomes . all ethnic communities |
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