This Thursday night, Gallery ONE Three presents a special show curated by our good friend Hamishi. In a decade where low is becoming fine, where fine is becoming street, and where street is becoming contemporary, Hamishi has assembled a range of artists to explore the cracks and crevasses in between – and, we have to say, he’s done a damn fine job of it.

“Where is the middle ground between high and lowbrow art in Australia’s regressive commercial contemporary art scene?

“Sup Brow?” is an exhibition presenting an informed discussion on the relevance of “Juxtapoz Art” in contemporary art and the border between Lowbrow and Mainstream Australian painting through the lens of Australian and international painters, illustrators and mixed practice artists.”

There is a continual trend in art, as in music and other “creative industries” to continually genre-fy, label and categorise. The reference and casted eye to “Juxtapoz art” (where Hamishi himself was, hilariously, once labelled as an “erotic artist”) is not lost in us – the press, blogs and other mediums dealing with the dissemination of this terminology are a huge part of the progression of the types of art we love, and yet it feels like naming the various forms of emerging art these days is a constant square peg/round hole battle. We’re guilty of it, you’re guilty of it, and yet at the end of the day it is what it is – pure expression, and the diversity of creation.

Hamishi sent us a bunch of preview images as well, and the quality of the shit that we can see below is testament to the shifting perceptions in art today. We’re really looking forward to this.

Who: Tom O’Hern, Hiroyasu Tsuri (TwoOne), Dylan Martorell, Miso, Henry Gunderson, Lola Dupre, Sean Morris, Hamishi
What: Sup Brow?
Where: Gallery ONE Three, 13 Somerset Place, Melbourne
When: Thursday 27th September, 6pm til 9pm – show runs for two weeks

Check out Gallery ONE Three as well as the Facebook event page for more info.