Green Day gallery  (Events - Art Exhibition)

Music and art find creative expression this month with an exhibition featuring 21 original pieces of art inspired by Green Day's new album 21st Century Breakdown. The paintings will be portrayed exclusively at the StolenSpace Gallery in Shoreditch, London.                   

Bethany Hutton-Stigga  (7 Oct'09)

The exhibition will be staged from 23rd of October until 1st of November to coincide with Green Day’s own stage play the day before the band’s two sold out performances at London's O2 Arena.

"We‘re really excited to be associated with this incredible show," said lead singer Billie Joe Armstrong. "Seeing the pieces that our new album has inspired is very exciting. We feel a strong connection to that type of creative expression; we think the fans coming out will love it."

(Above ) Green Day's Mike Dirnt and Tré Cool by Logan Hicks

The show's curator, artist, Logan Hicks, has announced that the gallery will feature contributions from an international pool of artisans, such as world renowned New York-based painter Ron English, Amsterdam-based street artists The London Police, French stencil artist C215, British illustrator Will Barras along with artists Eelus, Chris Stain, Sixten, Adam 5100 and more.

Each of the collaborating artists were each sent through a lyric sheet and asked to produce a piece of art that reflected that song, to highlight the connection between music and art.

"I chose artists whom I felt had a similar visual approach to art as Green Day does to its music," said Logan Hicks, a stencil artist and stalwart punk rock fan, whose portraits of band members Billie Joe Armstrong, Tre Cool and Mike Dirnt will also be on display.

                                                                       Broken Crow, "Song of the Century"

C215, "Viva La Gloria!"                          

"Although most of the artists represented are well-established in their careers, they embrace the same emotional rawness with their art, which speaks from the heart and swings with the fist,"added Hicks. “Their subject matter is struggle and injustice - they shoot from the hip and their art is their weapon."

A number of the participating artists were featured with Hicks in Banksy’s “Cans Festival” which took place last year in an abandoned taxi tunnel behind Waterloo Station and attracted over 120,000 people on opening weekend.

StolenSpace Gallery - Dray Walk, The Old Truman Brewery, 91 Brick Lane, London E1 

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