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Gaia (born 1988) is a Baltimore-based street artist, who is receiving significant museum showings and critical recognition.〔http://travel.nytimes.com/2008/03/09/travel/09weekend.html〕〔http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2011-07-11/entertainment/bal-unmasked-gaia-the-street-artist-specializing-in-leatherclad-roosters-cradling-john-the-baptists-head-20110708_1_gaia-roosters-mica-student〕 Born in New York City, his name derives from the Greek designation for "earth goddess," and early in his career he used animal imagery to underscore his interest in bringing nature to urban landscapes.〔http://www.grist.org/cities/2011-10-11-street-artists-see-the-city-as-their-canvas〕 Over the last several years he has been creating large-scale murals worldwide to engage the community where he works in a dialogue by using historical and sociological references to these neighborhoods.〔http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-04-09/perth-street-art-festival/5377540〕 ==Early work== In 2007, while still in high school in New York, Gaia started wheat-pasting prints of his linoleum blocks in Bushwick, Williamsburg and Chelsea.〔http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/26/nyregion/26posters.html〕 His images included children, whose features gave them an other-worldly quality.〔http://travel.nytimes.com/2008/03/09/travel/09weekend.html〕 His animals included a horse and boar, both endowed with human hands and torsos. He participated in several successful shows in Bushwick at Ad Hoc Art. According to the artist himself, much of his early work was inspired by a sense of looming environmental calamity. In 2011, he stated that "I wanted to express this strange un-locatable feeling of fear about the end of the world - my generation’s zeitgeist of global warming."〔http://www.grist.org/cities/2011-10-11-street-artists-see-the-city-as-their-canvas〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Gaia (artist)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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