#ASAP- Vandalog x Amazon Street Art Project launches today

Amazon’s fine art program had already recruited seasoned curators — Dexter Wimberly, The Jealous Curator’s Danielle Krysa, and Cristina Salmastrelli from the Affordable Art Fair NYC — before turning its attention to street art. For its first Amazon Street Art Project (#ASAP), the retailer brought in Vandalog’s RJ Rushmore as curator. The lineup is a credible cross-section of the genre: AIKO, Ron English, Faith47, Logan Hicks, Ganzeer, stikman, and Gaia — each contributing a limited-edition signed and numbered print.

Faith47

Rushmore’s involvement matters. Vandalog built its reputation as an opinionated, investigative, and critical space for street art and graffiti — not a hype machine. Having someone with that credibility sit between a mega-corporation and a community with deeply ambivalent feelings about commercialization is exactly the kind of editorial judgment the project needed.

Logan Hicks

Street art has spent roughly 30 years evolving from illegal walls to museum shows, mural festivals, and ad campaigns — and the community has been arguing about what that means the entire time. The tension between seeking institutional legitimacy and resisting co-optation is genuine, but at this point in the genre’s history, that argument is decades overdue for retirement.

Ron English

The seven prints — by Aiko, Ron English, Faith47, Gaia, Ganzeer, Logan Hicks, and stikman — were available in editions of 50, priced between $200 and $550, and sold exclusively through Amazon from December 7–13, 2015 (or until sold out). Amazon Art also sponsored the inaugural Art on Paper Miami, where a VIP preview featured digital versions of the #ASAP prints.

Gaia

Ganzeer

Stikman

AIKO