The Art Center College of Design’s “OutsideIn: The Ascendance of Street Art in Visual Culture” continues through January 10, 2016 at multiple venues in Pasadena.

“OutsideIn” is an expansive indoor and outdoor exhibition focusing on the insurgent quality of graffiti-based mural painting and its cross-cultural references, resulting in the establishment of a “new porous mainstream in design, fashion and advertising,” according to an Art Center press release.

More than 10 famous street artists and pop culture icons started installing original art when the exhibit opened October with a reception at the Williamson Gallery at the Hillside Campus. Sherwin-Williams Paint Store in Pasadena is donating supplies and materials to the artists.

The exhibition spans both of ArtCenter’s campuses, appearing in the Williamson at Hillside and five miles away at the South Campus, on the rooftop and on an exterior wall at 950 S. Raymond and inside the Hutto-Patterson Exhibition Hall at 870 South Raymond.
Initiated by Ann Field, ArtCenter’s Illustration Department Chair, the curatorial team also includes author G. James Daichendt and Williamson Gallery Director Stephen Nowlin.

“Like many artistic insurgencies, street art has had to navigate around pitfalls of its own commercial success to remain possessed of raw and vital meanings,” Nowlin said. “That tension, along with the breadth of street art’s current influence in contemporary design and visual culture, is what we set out to explore in ‘OutsideIn’.”

Featured artists in the show are Olivia Bevilacqua and David Flores, Chase, Robbie Conal, Cryptik, Jeanne Detallante, Shepard Fairey, James Jean, Geoff McFetridge, Risk, Kenny Scharf and Jeff Soto.

“OutsideIn” was inspired in part by the mural Keith Haring painted at the ArtCenter’s Hillside Campus in 1989, commemorating the World Health Organization’s second annual AIDS Awareness Day.

That piece, which took two days to paint, was Haring’s last completed work. Three months later he died of AIDS.

For more information, visit www.williamsongallery.net/outsidein.