August 2011 | Gallery4Culture
no touching ground, dan hawkins, nko
no touching ground (ntg) is a street and installation artist. His life sized graphics of animals transported from the wilds of Alaska to the urban maze of Seattle and other national and international cities are haunting reminders of our distance from nature. The pure, imagistic quality of ntg's work exists outside the traditional graffiti paradigm and focus on producing moments of pure transcendence - capturing a casual viewer in a grizzly's gaze for a moment. ntg's installation work continues this practice by creating monumental structures of found materials with hand colored printed graphics.
nko is a street/installation artist and curator. His artistic practice involves meditations on collective memory and urbanism, often manifest as memorials for dying buildings, or artistic interventions in unconventional spaces. With events like the Bridge Motel, the Belmont, the Corner: 23rd & Union, and the FSF 2400 Battery project, nko has sought to coalesce marginalized groups through creative expression and play, and to give emerging and established artists venues for experimental work. His generative work focuses on the interplay of 2 and 3 dimensional space in architecture and painting.
Dan Hawkins has spent the better part of 20 years exploring and photographing marginal spaces locally, nationally, and internationally. His practice as an urban explorer has led him to create haunting images of urban decay. His work comments on the life and death of cities, reflecting on the stories that these decaying buildings hold silently within them. Dan has published a book, "This Empty City", of his photographs from Detroit.
© 2010 Dan Hawkins, 'tomb' interior, archival inkjet print