The framing option for this RUN includes a 1 inch white wood frame with UV-glass foam core backing and ready to hang hardware.
Note: Each order will be limited to 1 per customer.
A portion of the proceeds from this release will benefit the
Flint Child Health & Development Fund and the
Michigan ACLU. Click to donate to each organization directly and learn more.
"Since this project is to help people who are suffering from water in
Flint, I wanted to use this image of a girl with spirit of water. Like
the angel of water; she is chilling in the glass of water. Water should
be free and clean for everyone, we are all part of nature. I was working
on this print throughout February hand coloring one by one, and it was
period of Aquarius, zodiac sign, which is the symbol of the water
server. I also discovered that the word Aquarius actually referred to
the public water system in ancient Rome. When I discovered what happened
with the Flint Water Crisis I couldn’t believe that it was happening
now, and I am very furious about how government cannot do anything with
it. Shame, why people in ancient times were able to provide clean water
to everyone but not in Michigan in 2018?" - Aiko
Read more from Aiko + learn about the Flint Water Crisis Print Suite at News.1xRUN.com . . .
ABOUT THE ARTIST:
AIKO was born and raised in Tokyo before moving to New York City in the mid-90s.
Already creating art since a young age, her art career in NYC began when she started working for Takashi Murakami. She apprenticed in Murakami’s studio in Brooklyn and worked for him until the late 90?s going on to a direct a digital biography on the artist (“Superflat” 1998). AIKO continued to practice her own art and after leaving Murakami’s studio graduated from The New School University where she finished her MFA Media Studies and later met up with two American artists, the three of them would come to establish the group now known as FAILE. Creating work within the collective locally and abroad for a number of years, she moved on and established herself as Lady AIKO in 2006.
AIKO continues to create work in the studio as well as public space. She is acclaimed in the contemporary art world and well-respected within the international graffiti and street art scene. She had a two-person show “Brick Ladies” with Lady Pink in Brooklyn in 2008, and she worked with Banksy on “Exit Through the Gift Shop” in 2010. Her large scale works indoors and outdoors are installed in many cities, including Miami’s Wynwood Walls in 2009, New York City’s Bowery Wall in 2013, and Coney Art Walls in 2015, all three curated by Jeffrey Deitch. AIKO has also been involved in a large collection of group shows, from “AnimamixBiennale” at Shanghai’s MoCA in 2009 to “Edo Pop” at Japan Society NYC in 2013, ‘Some Place Like Home” at Rumney Guggenheim Gallery NY in 2015 to her more recent solo show, “Sweet Heart” at The Outsiders Gallery in the UK in 2014.
AIKO has also been commissioned to create works in collaboration with Louis Vuitton, Coach, The Standard, W Hotel, Hello Kitty, Isetan and Warner Bros. etc.
Find more by AIKO at ladyaiko.com.
Follow Aiko on Instagram @ladyaiko_nyc
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