NEW YORK, Nov. 29, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Shutterstock,
Inc. (NYSE: SSTK), a leading global creative platform offering
full-service solutions, high-quality content, and applications for
brands, businesses, and media companies, today announced a
collaboration with distinguished global visual artist, Bradley Theodore, for an exclusive and immersive
Art Basel Miami Beach fringe event.
The two-day collaborative exhibition will kick-off with an
exclusive VIP launch party at a private bungalow at the W South
Beach on December 1. The bungalows
will undergo a dramatic high-impact exterior takeover, where
Theodore has created a custom 25 feet high and 33 feet wide mural
wall that sweeps across the exterior, starring diverse global icons
throughout history, such as Freddie
Mercury, Prince, Jimmy
Hendrix and Josephine Baker,
on view through Sunday, December 5.
Additionally, the event will showcase a curation of Theodore's new
work that reimagines Shutterstock Editorial's premium photography,
transformed through the creative vision of his trademark artistic
style.
During the event, the multidisciplinary artist will encourage
guests to participate in a live studio art project in real-time,
where together, they will paint over iconic visuals of Whitney Houston, Andy
Warhol, Marilyn Monroe, and
Albert Einstein.
While sipping cocktails poolside, guests can immerse themselves
in the lawn exhibition decorated with Theodore's six feet tall
sculptures, or be photographed in the portrait studio hosted by
Shutterstock photographer Andrew
Walker. Inside the bungalow, guests can experience the
exclusive gallery of Theodore's diverse art. Theodore will also
perform a DJ set alongside DJette Kiwii, as he prepares for the
launch of his upcoming album with Michael
Moog.
"Shutterstock is renowned for bringing together
best-in-class creators across a variety of art forms, and I'm
thrilled to partner with them for such an extraordinary event,"
said Bradley Theodore, Global
Visual Artist. "It's been an exhilarating experience exploring
Shutterstock's vast archive collection for muses. My imagination is
on fire, and I'm looking forward to celebrating our unique and
exclusive collaboration."
Theodore's instantly recognizable skeletal creations have
featured celebrity royalty and iconic names such as Karl Lagerfeld and Anna
Wintour. By collaborating with Shutterstock for this
project, Theodore accessed the Company's exclusive and diverse
Editorial archival collection, The Vault, providing him with the
creative freedom to choose from millions of muses from stunning
iconic collections.
"Bradley's ability to reinvent art is completely unique, and I'm
eager to see what he's created using Shutterstock's creative
platform and exclusive content. Setting this event up in
Miami, where both the tech and art
scenes are thriving, will bring these two worlds together in a
passionate collaboration, celebrating a new era for Shutterstock,"
commented Jon Oringer, Founder
and Executive Chairman at Shutterstock.
"We're delighted to be launching this limited-edition
collaboration with Bradley Theodore,
whose vibrant street murals and kaleidoscopic paintings have
established him as one of the leading art personalities of our
generation," said Stan Pavlovsky,
Chief Executive Officer at Shutterstock. "In the spirit of what
we do, Shutterstock is always looking to partner with and find
inspiration from those who are trailblazers in the creative
space."
Immerse yourself in the event activities by following the
#shutterstockxbt and #iconstransformed hashtags on social, and use
the custom Instagram filter to transform your face into a
Bradley Theodore work of
art.
Notes to Editors
- Event Strategy / Production: Liberty & Company,
NYC
ABOUT SHUTTERSTOCK
Shutterstock, Inc. (NYSE: SSTK), is
a leading global creative platform offering full-service solutions,
high-quality content, and applications for brands, businesses and
media companies. Directly and through its group subsidiaries,
Shutterstock's comprehensive collection includes high-quality
licensed photographs, vectors, illustrations, videos, 3D models and
music. Working with its growing community of over 1.9 million
contributors, Shutterstock adds hundreds of thousands of images
each week, and currently has more than 390 million images and more
than 23 million video clips available.
Headquartered in New York City,
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than 150 countries. The Company also owns PicMonkey, a leading
online graphic design and image editing platform; Offset, a
high-end image collection; Shutterstock Studios, an end-to-end
custom creative shop; PremiumBeat, a curated royalty-free music
library; Shutterstock Editorial, a premier source of editorial
images and videos for the world's media; TurboSquid, a leading 3D
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media offering.
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ABOUT BRADLEY THEODORE
Based between Miami Beach and
New York City, Bradley Theodore is a multidisciplinary artist
whose iconoclastic approach to art can be found internationally,
from 10 foot murals on the streets of New
York, Tokyo, and
Milan, to sold out solo
exhibitions in London. With roots
in graphic design, Theodore began his artistic career adorning the
streets of New York City with
vibrant, chromatic murals of skeleton crews depicting contemporary
pop culture and fashion "royalty." The artist has become a staple
in the art and fashion scene across the globe.
Born in Turks & Caicos, Bradley
Theodore has been an internationally inclined artist and
collaborator from his very beginnings. Having worked in the tech
and design sector after his graduation from the School of Visual Arts, Theodore moved to
San Francisco for a short period
of time before moving back to New
York where his art career took off after getting involved in
the street art scene of lower Manhattan. He's now known to jet-set from
Miami to New York, to London and Tokyo and back, for public art engagements and
gallery viewings alike.
Theodore utilizes imagery and colors that highlight the fleeting
fame and omnipresent mortality that are often obscured in celebrity
culture, which he makes accessible by exposing the inner structure
of known icons. Particularly focused on depicting "royalty" in this
manner, from Queen Elizabeth and
George Washington to Theodore's
arguably most famous portraits of fashion giants Anna Wintour and Karl
Lagerfeld, viewers are invited to reflect on life, death,
and the beauty within – and to ruminate upon this concept of
memento mori.
For more information visit: https://www.bradleytheodore.com/
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