For East London artist RYCA, you could say all the world is his toy chest. Drawing inspiration from Pop Art and London’s street and stencil art movement, he’s managed to create a playful, light-hearted world revolving around a few of his favorite things, comic books, sci-fi movies and most importantly, Star Wars. Embracing the Digital Age’s devaluation of original works due to the easily reproduced and proliferated nature of imagery on the Internet, RYCA’s work riffs on iconic pop culture images, […]
Posts categorized: Movies
May 23
2013
2013
Daily Dose: Tropic Cinema, Key West
There’s something kind of magical about living on a small island and riding your bike to a tiny, uncrowded movie theater in the middle of the day to watch a movie you’ve never heard of all by yourself. I come from a moviegoing family, and sitting down in a dark theater to watch a story unfold on a big screen has always made me happy. The Tropic Cinema is a great art house cinema dedicated to independent, foreign, documentary, and […]
Apr 23
2013
2013
A Miamian’s Guide To Key West
Thanks to an invitation from Robert Fontaine of the Robert Fontaine Gallery in Miami’s Wynwood Arts District, I spent last weekend in Key West. Along with a group of about 20 people, we were there to celebrate the opening of Nick Gentry’s solo show XCHANGE–running now through May 4. Having lived in Key West for about four years before moving to Miami, it was sort of like two worlds colliding. We spent much of the long, leisurely weekend relaxing around […]
