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Hanksy’s Adam Lucas’s “Some Grow Up, Others Grow Down.”

For years now Adam Lucas has existed as pop-culture art phenom Hanksy, whose pun-tastic, quick-witted wheat pastes and paintings have tantalized, beguiled, angered and delighted countless passer-by’s, myself included.

But now, as Lucas’s exhibition title suggests, it’s time for him to the name to bed.  “Some Grow Up, Others Grow Down” is the artist’s first show completely dropping the Hanksy moniker and features paintings that are quite a departure from his street art oeuvre, finding him moving closer to something out of a Cubist fever-dream.

Adam notes, “The last five years have been fun and full of pun, but things are slightly different now. My day-to-day is changing quite a bit and the current administration is a damn tire fire. The work I’d like to create right now makes more sense without the Hanksy label.”

The exhibition will be on view for four days only at 151 Canal Street in New York City with an opening reception from 7 to 9PM on Wednesday, November 8th, 2017.

Continue below to check out a rad little promo video Adam made: