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This piece of original artwork comes ready to hang.

Opening Friday, June 30th at Detroit’s Inner State Gallery “LAX/DTW” will feature over 80 local and international artists curated by Los Angeles-based gallery Thinkspace. The massive group exhibition serves as introduction to the burgeoning New Contemporary art movement for art lovers in the Midwest, handpicked by one of the scene’s most prolific galleries.

“With roots firmly planted in illustration, pop culture, comics, street art and graffiti, put quite simply the New Contemporary Art Movement is art for the people,” Thinkspace co-founder Andrew Hosner said.

For the eleventh iteration of Thinkspace’s traveling group exhibitions, co-owners Andrew and Shawn Hosner hand picked Detroit to showcase one of their most ambitious collections to date. As part of the exhibition, the Hosners have also picked two featured artist, James Bullough for his unique cross cut portraits.

Oscar San Miguel Erice .Nacido the November 19, 1980 in Santander, based in Madrid since 2000. Licenciado in Fine Arts from the Complutense University of Madrid. Since its inception in 1997, its work on roads and abandoned factories Santander were clearly recognizable. Parallel to the road also begins to produce more intimate works in his studio, with which from 2009 evolves into a more personal way.

Multicolored geometric patterns and structures blend with gray bodies and organic forms. These could be classified as Pop Surrealism with a clear essence of the street.

The work raises contradictions about existentialism, the universe, the infinite, the meaning of life, the false freedom of capitalism, and show a clear conflict between modernity and our roots, ultimately, between human beings and the same.

Multicolored geometric architecture blend with organic forms, bodies without identity, headless animals, faced many symbols that encourage reflection, iconographic language ... a unique and very special. His works can be seen in streets and galleries worldwide. Countries like India, Mali, Mozambique, USA, Japan, Chile, Brazil, Peru, South Africa, Mexico...also in Europe.