BEYOND THE STREETS and CONTROL Gallery Los Angeles announce EXHIBITION 010: GRAFFITI ARCHIVE 1972/73

BEYOND THE STREETS & CONTROL Gallery are presenting a major exhibition curated by Roger Gastman from the photographic archives of the late artist Gordon Matta-Clark: EXHIBITION 010: GRAFFITI ARCHIVE 1972/73 offers an unprecedented glimpse into the raw, untamed world of New York City’s graffiti scene during the pivotal years of 1972 and 1973. The exhibition features more than 200 carefully selected photographs, many of which are on the display for the first time publicly. Gordon Matta-Clark was aged 29 In the summer of 1972, when he began to photograph the burgeoning graffiti movement in New York City. As a lifelong downtown New Yorker, he had seen the city before graffiti, something that was not the case for the many artists who as young adults flocked to New York in the early 1970s. Matta-Clark’s native New Yorker artistic bohemian pedigree was strong. He may have been the only artist at the time who had an artistic aim rather than an aim to document the movement. His lens was that of an artist, not of a scholar. With a kind view of graffiti at the time, he felt it was a kind of people’s art revolution that took back the city and...