Work samples
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1 Final Still Here Straight On From Aerial Lift Gaia.jpg“Still Here”, with The Avenue Concept for their mural residency. The Piece is a portrait of Lynsea Montanari, Narragansett educator and artist, holding a portrait of Princess Redwing, Narragansett and Wampanoag elder, historian, folklorist and curator surrounded by native flora. The strawberry, sunflower and blackbird Redwing are featured prominently and an endemic cattail springs into the foreground while the invasive phragmite is cast to the margin.
About Andrew
Gaia grew up in New York City and is a 2011 graduate of the Maryland Institute College of Art with a Bachelor in Fine Arts. His studio work, installations and gallery projects have been exhibited throughout the world most notably The Baltimore Museum of Art, Rice Gallery in Houston, the Palazzo Collicola Arti Visive in Spoleto and the Civil and Human Rights Museum in Atlanta. His street work has been documented and featured in several books on urban art, including Beyond the Street… more
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Imagined Communities Show, 37PK Haarlem, Netherlands
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1 Tadema, the Fang Mask and the End of History.jpg60cm x 70cm Arcylic on Canvas
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2 Sophia Schliemann née Engastromenos and the Mask of Agamemnon.jpg60cm x 70cm Acrylic on Canvas
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3 Jeuvens and the birth of Archeology copy.jpg60cm x 70cm Acrylic on Canvas
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4 Benedict Anderson and Sukarno.jpg91cm x 121 cm Acrylic on Canvas
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7 Willem the Silent and Martin Luther.jpg91cm x 121 cm Acrylic on Canvas
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9 Final Photo of Butch Dawson Painting.jpg121 x 141 Acrylic on Canvas
Curated Projects: Open Walls Baltimore
Open Walls Baltimore is an unparalleled street art project managed by and located in the Station North Arts & Entertainment District and curated by Gaia. The finest and most widely recognized street artists from around the world are mounting an outdoor exhibition of extraordinary murals that enlivens public spaces, stimulates community revitalization and national dialogue, and attracts visitors and investors to Station North. Open Walls Baltimore will build through April and May with the installation of more than twenty additional murals in time for a Final Friday celebration on May 25th.
Artists include:
Gaia (Baltimore) - 1 W North Ave
Momo (New Orleans) - CIty Arts, 440 E Oliver St
Doodles (Port Townsend, WA) - 1539 N Calvert
Maya Hayuk (New York City) - 1715 N Charles Street
Ever (Buenos Aires, Argentina) - 10 E North Avenue
Overunder (Reno, NV) - 329 E Lafayette Street
John Ahearn (New York City) - Installation at Station North Arts Cafe
Specter (Montreal) - Joe Squared (North Avenue and Howard)
Mata Ruda (Baltimore) - 1700 Latrobe
Josh Van Horn (Baltimore) - Guilford and North Avenue
Jessie Unterhalter & Katey Truhn (Baltimore) - St Paul St at Lafayette Ave
Freddy Sam (Capetown, South Africa) - Lafayette Ave at Charles St
Intersni Kazki (Kiev, Ukraine) - Complete (Maryland Ave at North Ave)
Gary Kachadourian (Baltimore) - Barclay St at Lanvale Street, St Paul and North Avenue
Chris Stain (New York City) - 1701 Latrobe
Jetsonorama (New York City) - Barclay and Bowen Alley
Swoon (New York City) - Pittman Place
Sten and Lex (Italy) - Barclay and McAllister
Nanook (Baltimore) - Barclay and Lanvale
Jaz (Buenos Aires, Argentina) - Barclay St at E Oliver St
Vhils (Portugal) - 1539 N Calvert St
Open Walls Baltimore is curated by Gaia and managed by Station North Arts & Entertainment, Inc.
Artists include:
Gaia (Baltimore) - 1 W North Ave
Momo (New Orleans) - CIty Arts, 440 E Oliver St
Doodles (Port Townsend, WA) - 1539 N Calvert
Maya Hayuk (New York City) - 1715 N Charles Street
Ever (Buenos Aires, Argentina) - 10 E North Avenue
Overunder (Reno, NV) - 329 E Lafayette Street
John Ahearn (New York City) - Installation at Station North Arts Cafe
Specter (Montreal) - Joe Squared (North Avenue and Howard)
Mata Ruda (Baltimore) - 1700 Latrobe
Josh Van Horn (Baltimore) - Guilford and North Avenue
Jessie Unterhalter & Katey Truhn (Baltimore) - St Paul St at Lafayette Ave
Freddy Sam (Capetown, South Africa) - Lafayette Ave at Charles St
Intersni Kazki (Kiev, Ukraine) - Complete (Maryland Ave at North Ave)
Gary Kachadourian (Baltimore) - Barclay St at Lanvale Street, St Paul and North Avenue
Chris Stain (New York City) - 1701 Latrobe
Jetsonorama (New York City) - Barclay and Bowen Alley
Swoon (New York City) - Pittman Place
Sten and Lex (Italy) - Barclay and McAllister
Nanook (Baltimore) - Barclay and Lanvale
Jaz (Buenos Aires, Argentina) - Barclay St at E Oliver St
Vhils (Portugal) - 1539 N Calvert St
Open Walls Baltimore is curated by Gaia and managed by Station North Arts & Entertainment, Inc.
Murals 2012
Murals commissioned by various parties, clients, individuals, establishments, communities all over the world in the year of 2012. All completed with full permission.
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Sunrise of EdgewoodCollaboration with Nanook, Atlanta, 2012
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7896765760_06b69fe29a_b.jpgZim Zum Collaboration with Michael Owen and Momo, Baltimore, 2012
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Four Generations of ArabbersFremont Ave, Baltimore, 2012
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Imagining a Modern PhiladelphiaMuralArts, Center City, Philadelphia, 2012
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Blue Bird DinerPainted Desert , Navajo Reservation, AZ, 2012
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Jan van RiebeeckCollaboration with Freddy Sam, Johannesburg, South Africa, 2012
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7361995134_ecf8dd2d40_b.jpgOpen Walls Baltimore, Balitmore, 2012
Murals 2013
Murals all over the world painted with various organizations, festivals and institutions
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Legacy Project
The Legacy Project
The Legacy Project is a basic attempt to reinscribe the figures that have shaped our urban landscape back onto the surface of their legacy. The infrastructure and policies that we have inherited and must navigate are publicly reexamined in this body of work. The imposing portraits of these prodigious identities are given context in the space of their own design by accompanying quotes explaining the reasoning behind the plan. Robert Moses, the preeminent power broker of New York and propagator of modernist design is superimposed back onto Route 40, Baltimore’s beloved James Rouse, the innovator of American downtown reinvigoration, is installed onto the Waverly Development, one of the first Urban Renewal sites in America. Such street pieces are intended to reanimate the past in an effort to reveal the invisible mechanisms of urban planning and to locate a responsibility.
The Legacy Project is a basic attempt to reinscribe the figures that have shaped our urban landscape back onto the surface of their legacy. The infrastructure and policies that we have inherited and must navigate are publicly reexamined in this body of work. The imposing portraits of these prodigious identities are given context in the space of their own design by accompanying quotes explaining the reasoning behind the plan. Robert Moses, the preeminent power broker of New York and propagator of modernist design is superimposed back onto Route 40, Baltimore’s beloved James Rouse, the innovator of American downtown reinvigoration, is installed onto the Waverly Development, one of the first Urban Renewal sites in America. Such street pieces are intended to reanimate the past in an effort to reveal the invisible mechanisms of urban planning and to locate a responsibility.
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5495275434_b6b6365a05_b.jpgMies Van Der Rohe at Charles One Center, Baltimore.
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5021125084_fb6e92af19_b.jpgRobert Moses on the Franklin Expressway, Baltimore.
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5187536864_aa2fe8a62e_b.jpgJames Rouse on the Waverly Development, Baltimore. http://vimeo.com/16966051
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p2010001small.jpgA portrait of Weinberg on the west side of the 500 block of Howard Street.
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6334412133_500f51444f_b.jpgExcerpt from a pamphlet regarding Le Corbusier's lecture series situated in a housing estate in Vitry, France. 2011
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4989664065_d39048c2e3_b.jpgJames Rouse on Barclay and 20th St, Baltimore
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5585886670_d117ea350a_b.jpgThe Eyes of Yamasaki, Cass Ave and Jefferson, St Louis (Across from the original site of Pruitt Igoe)
Gallery Work 2015
Miscellaneous gallery work and commissions from exhibitions outside of solo show endeavors
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FrontiersAirbrush and Acrylic on Canvas, 2 x 2 meters (6x6ft)
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Black JesusPrivate Commission, Acrylic and Airbrush on Mylar, 50 x 60 cm
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The Starts Can Wait If There Is Something Painful in Your EyeThinkspace Group Show, Hawaii, Acrylic and Airbrush on Mylar, 50 x 60cm
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KongoRainforestFoundation UK Fundraiser, acrylic and airbrush on mylar, 50 x 60cm
Murals 2015
An Overview of Murals created in 2015
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NativeMural in Jersey City on Christopher Columbus Blvd with the Jersey City Mural Project
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PhenotypeMural in Newark for the ModelNeighorhoodsInitiative
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The Aesthetics of ReinvestmentMural in Gainesville for 352 Walls
Antiquesto Antiquello
Solo Exhibition at 999contemporary in Rome
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SOLITUDE 3 CASTEL SANTANGELOAcrylic on canvas 100X70 cm, 2015
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COMMONPLACES (WITH LEMONS)Acrylic and airbrush on mylar 53x61cm, 2015
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SOME COME BY PLANE, SOME COME BY BOATAcrylic and airbrush on mylar 53x61cm, 2015
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Installation ShotInstallation Shot with AEROSPACE WITH AUGUSTUS Acrylic, spraycan and airbrush on canvas 200x200 cm, 2015
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Installation ShotInstallation shot with 2 canvases COMPRESSION ARTIFACT 1 (SELF PORTRAIT) Acrylic, spraycan and airbrush on canvas 200x200 cm, 2015 and COMPRESSION ARTIFACT 2 (WITH EYES) Acrylic, spraycan and airbrush on canvas 200x200 cm, 2015
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