PHOTOS: What Happens When a Rebel Turns Graffiti Art Upside Down
Artist Evan Roth's award-winning work puts the action in interaction
- By Leah Binkovitz
- Smithsonian magazine, October 2012
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(© Evan Roth 2012)
Among the more down-to-earth projects Roth has done are his “propulsion paintings,” which use the energy from clamped-open spray-paint cans to turn a bicycle wheel or levitate a Ping-Pong ball while the paint flies.“I’m a fan of zip-ties and steel plates and duct tape and these really simple technologies that elevate you to be able to say something that you weren’t able to say before.”
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Anyone remember how John Philip Sousa took ragtime off the streets, out of the gutter and bars, and put it on the pedestal of art? What a valuable facet of human creative expression we would have missed out on, otherwise. The whole development of music throughout history could have been completely altered. I postulate that Mr. Roth is the Sousa of street art, picking graffiti up, teaching it some manners, and putting it in the gallery, textbook and museum where it belongs. Not to be imprisoned, but to proudly display a newly earned legitimacy.
Posted by Gwen Simonalle on September 20,2012 | 03:26 PM