Betting On Our Muses is an exhibition demonstrating the artistic mastery to be found within the style known as graffiti.  Gallery Domingo invited more than 100 artists, and most of them submitted a new drawing for this exhibition.  The large number of artists is both strategic and critical to impress upon those attending the show of the continued strength and vitality and innovation of the graffiti movement and form. The high-caliber of these renderings, the depth of skill and color and execution, and the strength of subject, will awaken even the most cynical viewer to the level of pure talent found within the graffiti community.

Betting On Our Muses brings together artists far and near, and includes respected members of the graffiti community such as Natoe, Man, Make, Retna, The Mac, Asylm, Emit and many more.   The critic, Shana Nys Dambrot, was selected as the juror for her impartial, outsider status relative to the artists and their movement. She has been instructed to assess the drawings as she would any work of art.

Kim Leerdam, Curator and Director

Gallery Domingo

You have to wait until it

Hurts, until it clangs in

Your ears like the bells

Of hell, until nothing

Else counts but it, until it is everything,

Until you can’t do any-

Thing else

But.

Then sit down and write

Or stand up and

Write

But write

No matter what

The other people are

Doing,

No matter what they will do to

You.

Lay the line down,

A party of one, what a party,

Swarmed by the

Light,

The time of the

Times,

Out of the tips of

Your fingers.

(betting on the muse, charles bukowski)