Darius & Downey's "We're on it" opening today!

Posted September 7, 2005 by in Events

NYC based artists Darius and Downey have their debut gallery opening, today at the Jen Bekman Gallery, 6 Spring St, from 6-8pm.

Darius & Downey create street installations parodying street signs, somtimes as "fine art," while other times using well known traffic symbols that are often overlooked.

We're on It uses humor to underscore institutional regulation of public behavior and to provoke awareness of how this control affects the evaluation of art, self, and social status. Subtle, comic and often provocative, Darius + Downey surprise their viewers with their reactions to how property, space and personal experience overlap in an era of privatization. Using found and forgotten remnants of urban architecture, Darius + Downey reinvent public objects and reinsert them into the every-day landscape. Street signs, cement bricks and public telephones in unexpected places are manipulated to create personal relationships with each other and with passersby. These temporary disruptions � persisting as little as minutes and as long as months � toy with interrelations between individuals as they inhabit public and private space.

I really appreciate and enjoy how beautiful and provocative their work can be, and get excited every time I discover a new peice on the street. Some of the VR collective have expressed sadness when their neighborhood Darius & Downey pieces were destroyed. So not only engage the viewer to question their surroundings, they become a welcome part of the visual landscape.

Congratulations to the both of them, they are hard working fellas and have totally earned this opportunity! The show will be up from September 7th to October 22nd, for those that can make it at a later date.

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