Detour Gallery, New Jersey’s premier center for the arts is pleased to announce group exhibition Clash: An Urban Collective featuring works by Ashleigh Sumner, Atle Østrem, BNS, Cat King, Cleon Peterson, Dain, Elle, Fru. Bugge, Max Wiedemann, Ron Haywood Jones, Stikki Peaches & Zevi G.

Clash pushes the boundaries of sensibility while maintaining its order in the commonality that all of the works root themselves frmly in the grit of the urban art spirit.

The exhibit places a combination of both emerging and established urban artists together in the spirit of a happy accident. Place the best representation of works conceived by artists who hail from such diverse sections of the world as Brooklyn and LA to Oslo and Germany and see what happens. Their work shouts loud colors, iconic images, and bold lines. The artwork emulates an urban city landscape through its multifaceted layers of expression consisting of layers of spray paint, photography, ink, silkscreen acrylic and pop culture characters.

From Dain’s homage to great actresses of the forties and ffties with his trademark, one eye accentuated with spray paint. To early BNS showing his direct from streets of the city grafti infuence to the dry humor of his more recent works showing alongside Cleon Petersons black and white acrylic on panel push the viewer to have to make a decision. Where do I look frst? Each work is a stand-alone testament to the draw of this continually evolving art form, assembled in one space the exhibition highlights the pure force of Urban Art.