SURVIV’N UNDER PRESSURE | SKATE DEMO

Come see Studio Inc’s resident artist JT Daniels’ solo exhibition, “Surviv’n Under Pressure”, one final time with a skate demonstration open to public viewing within the exhibition.

Closing reception will take place on March 6th from 5-8 pm, with the skate demo live from 6:30 - 7:30 pm.

** NO PUBLIC SKATING. This demonstration will be done by professional skaters in collaboration with Man Made x Pack of Strays.

JT’s work weaves together various elements into streamlined designs that represent the heartbeat of the urban community. Overlapping faces and figures within the illustrations are visual representations of the people he encounters. These conversations and interactions become the compositions that signify the complexity of the human experience. In his work, he takes the opportunity to add phrases or words that have personal meaning. One of his favorite phrases is ‘SUP’, which stands for “Surviving Under Pressure”. The idea of ‘SUP’ encompasses the concept of what it is to be human and how we survive. He takes that embodiment of what surviving under pressure means and gives it life through art.

“My art is an extension of the way I learned to see the world through skateboarding. Skating taught me that nothing is fixed: a staircase isn’t just a staircase, a curb isn’t just a curb. They became opportunities for movement, expression, and transformation. That perspective carries over into my current work, where I reimagine discarded items as ways of reconstructing identity.” - JT Daniels