Fresh Start to the New Year!
POP is proud to have such wonder bodies of work created by such talented artists!
We wanted to share a little sneak peak of the continued progress of hanging the POP Gallery.
Doors are open we would love to see you all!
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“CONNECT THE DOTS” at Pop International Galleries
FINAL CALL!!!
Pop International Galleries Presents
“CONNECT THE DOTS…”
FERNANDO “SKI” ROMERO @ski_mystresstherapy AND CHRIS BOSS @hossman33
A Two Person Show Featuring A Beautifully Curated Collection Of Paintings And Prints By Two Well Loved Pop Gallery Artists
Please Join Us At The POP Gallery
On December 5th, 2024
7:00pm to 9:00pm
RSVP REQUIRED
Both Artists Will Be In Attendance
212-533-4262 | [email protected]
Pop International Galleries 195 Bowery, New York NY 10002
“The Artist”
Hand Painted acrylic on Canvas
96” x 62”
Behind The Scenes with Artist Fernando “SKI” Romero @ski
“Rush Hour”
Mixed Media on Canvas
36” x 67”
Fernando “Ski” Romero is a New York based graffiti muralist and overall artist who was born in Astoria, Queens. He attended Parsons School of design where he earned his degree in Marketing/Advertising communication.
Background:
Romero’s career began in 1990 painting trains in New York and quickly graduating to trucks and streets once the crackdown started. New York was the mecca of graffiti, and the birthplace of a special culture which many knew little about. It started with the art of repetition, and quickly expanded to something larger than life. He sold his art in the streets of Soho New York from 2005 to 2009, which is where he learned different techniques and was able to put his marketing education to the test.
Fernando “Ski” Romero Art:
Just like the layers of a city or the human body, he has been able to create the same feeling through photography, mixed mediums, and silk-screening. Painting large scale interior/exterior murals of art that tell a story of where he has been and his experiences. To understand the work you must pull it apart layer by layer. The first being an abstract masterpiece which is then overlaid with building, graphical elements, and graffiti that mask the walls. Creating is a race against time, because in due time, all that we see now will be a distant memory, but in his work, it will all exist. His desire is to inspire those who see his work to look more carefully at the world around them, to discover beauty in unusual places, even in Graffiti.
Present:
Fernando’s art has been featured on House of Lies, Californication, and The Ray Donovan show along with countless group shows in the U.S. and internationally. His collection has been exclusively represented at Pop International Galleries in New York City for the past 7 yrs.….
Per the BBC this evening following our artist Michael Forbes who has very clear views on AI plagiarism the owner of Pop International Galleries wrote this…
As an artist and art dealer who has owned a globally renowned art gallery in New York City for decades, it is “patently” clear that AI, which has taken the world by storm, did not happen in a vacuum. There are coders and engineers and developers behind the scenes who set the whole thing in motion, and as it grows, so do their assets in countless ways.
As opposed to artists being influenced by other artists or art movements, AI has no moral or legal authority to take images created by visual artists and refer to the original artist in the creation of derived AI imagery without those artists’ consent, or without remuneration in one form or another with which the artists or all parties involved are completely comfortable.
Copyright laws in the art world are complicated in nature, but unique original works (paintings etc.) referring to other art or commercial brands are generally considered to be unique - free speech etal - and hence license fees or some form of compensation tend not to be enforced, which still doesn’t prevent legal ramifications if those works are considered disparaging or harmful to the source artist or brand/s.
However, works that are “mechanically reproduced” using such art or brands, are generally not permitted without permission from the original source, and license fees or other accepted remuneration that is agreed upon by the parties is easily enforceable. I believe that AI is indeed a form of mechanical reproduction or manipulation and as it develops in the astonishing manner that it clearly is developing, so should the moral compass of its developers.
Again, to be clear, AI is not something that just happened. It is a human made “mechanical” process that gleans information and imagery that already exists having been created by artists in many forms, and therefore
Pop International specializes in Pop Art, Urban Art and art and photography that is derived from, or influenced by, popular culture.
