The Peel Here Art Show is an Adhesive Art exhibition focused on the evolving art of STICKERS, and their affect on the urban landscape. Each year we showcase work by talented street artists, illustrators and designers; AKA "Sticker-Heads". Each artist possesses a unique approach to the art form. "Sticker-Heads" are producing stickers in their bedrooms, garages and studios - freehand, stencils, silkscreens, digitals. They are young and old on every continent and linked into a global network, trading tangable commodities - STICKERS. Sticker-trades turn at a remarkable rate worldwide - from places like Berlin to Phoenix, Los Angeles to Tel-Aviv, or Capetown to Vancouver. You see these creations slapped on bus benches, telephone poles, newspaper stands, electrical power boxes, etc. What you may not realize is, a good amount of those stickers on your street corner were probably made by someone on the other side of the world.
Today's sticker-trading can be compared to the 'pen pal' era of the 20th century. Sticker-heads around the world make stickers and mail them to friends they met on blogger websites. Nothing more elating than receiving an envelope full of hand make stickers made by a friend from another country, OR better yet, to see a photo on the web of your sticker on a street sign in a foreign city. The internet and digital photography have catapulted this subculture to where it is today.
Just recently during the presidential campain, we witnessed how stickers affect the way we communicate. Shepard Fairey's - Barak Obama "HOPE" image, was very effective in conveying a message to the masses. It communicated that the 2008 presidential campaign was important and that young people could really make a difference by participating. It reminded the masses of their discontentment with the exisiting administration and change was personified by the image of the Jr Senator from Illinois. Truely, this image will be a key reference for art historians, if not already.
Sticky Rick's is proud to acknowledge the celebrity of this years featured artists and thier affect on the urban landscape. All are welcome to join us at the PEEL HERE ART SHOW 2008.
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