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The Barnstormers at Joshua Liner

About an hour south as the crow flies down from Chapel Hill lies the small town of Cameron, North Carolina. Now, when we say "small town", we mean Small Town; in the year 2000, US Census takers counted a population of just 155 residents, with almost a quarter of these folks living below the national poverty line. Here, in an area that was "Born of a plank road and a railroad and spurred on by the turpentine and dewberry industries", lies an ongoing and transient legacy of the most unlikely kind: cutting-edge trans-continental contemporary street art. Over ten years ago twenty five young and relatively unknown artists from New York City and Japan descended upon the sleepy town's abandoned tobacco barns, creating murals and "motion paintings", collaborations and music; basically redefining a genre that hadn't even yet begun to be defined, writing their own chapter in the history of American Street Art six hundred miles away from its epicenter. A decade later, following several returns to Cameron, shows in Japan, Hawaii, Canada and Puerto Rico, the Barnstormers old and new have reunited in New York City at the Joshua Liner Gallery for their latest exposition, which, sadly enough will end this Saturday, April 17th. View more installation pictures here...

If you’d like to check out the Barnstormers in action, check out this video here.

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