Current print subscribers can create a free account by clicking here
Otherwise, follow the link below to join.
To Our Valued Readers –
Visitors to our website will be limited to five stories per month unless they opt to subscribe. The five stories do not include our exclusive content written by our journalists.
For $6.99, less than 20 cents a day, digital subscribers will receive unlimited access to YourValley.net, including exclusive content from our newsroom and access to our Daily Independent e-edition.
Our commitment to balanced, fair reporting and local coverage provides insight and perspective not found anywhere else.
Your financial commitment will help to preserve the kind of honest journalism produced by our reporters and editors. We trust you agree that independent journalism is an essential component of our democracy. Please click here to subscribe.
Need to set up your free e-Newspaper all-access account? click here.
Non-subscribers
Click here to see your options for becoming a subscriber.
Register to comment
Click here create a free account for posting comments.
Note that free accounts do not include access to premium content on this site.
I am anchor
Walter Art Gallery showcases ‘Subway Rush’ through June 17
Posted
The Walter Art Gallery, 6425 E. Thomas Road, Scottsdale, presents “Subway Rush,” the solo show of Charles Giglia also known as SAR.
“Subway Rush” from the renowned artist opened on May 20, according to a press release, detailing the artist’s background and works.
Giglia was born in Brooklyn, New York and raised in south Queens. He adopted the graffiti name SAR in 1977 and began writing in true graffiti form inside and outside of New York City trains.
His raw subway style is transformed onto canvas, paper, and metal in works capturing the color, energy, and style of art permeated through the New York City subway system from the late 1970s to the 1990s, the release said.
Using the preferred term for graffiti artists, SAR was in the famous crews “The Master Blasters” and “Rolling Thunder Writers.” Considered a historian of Brooklyn mass transit graffiti from his Queens neighborhood, his work has been published in numerous magazines and books.
In 1991, SAR was featured in a Rap video by The Lords of Brooklyn titled "Bombing the System." In the 1990s, SAR was also featured in the graffiti documentaries, "Video Graff 2" and "Video Graff 3." He also worked on set graffiti for the movie, “Sleepers.”
SAR’s recent works have sold at the prestigious Art Curial and Tajan Auctions in Paris. His work was also featured in New York City this year at the Queens Graffiti Legends show at the Village Works Gallery.
His artwork can be found in the private collection of the Groninger Museum in Holland and Galerie Salvador in France. The Galerie Salvador collection was presented at the Halle Saint Pierre Museum in Paris, France, February 2022.
“Subway Rush” will run through June 17, with a closing reception from 6:30 to 9 p.m, the release noted. The show can also be viewed by appointment by emailing gallery@thewalterhive.org.
Information about The Walter Art Gallery: walter-art.com AZ