GREGORY SANTOS

A selection from a series of nineteen monoprints.

lithograph, printed from 5 photo plates

each measuring 19 x 15 inches

2016

Did you know? Showtime is a type of performance litefeet / pole dancing done as a busking routine using hand holds installed inside New York City Subway cars. Showtime includes acrobatic flips, hat and shoe tricks, and pole tricks.

Showtime routines begin with the performers shouting, “What time is it!?” The correct response is, “Showtime!” In March, 2014, police commissioner Bill Bratton announced that the NYPD would prosecute quality of life crimes against Showtime and other subway dancers.

In January 2015, the Transit Authority launched a publicity campaign in the New York City subway system, Courtesy Counts, Manners Make a Better Ride, which included this anti-Showtime poster.

You can watch Scott Carthy's short documentary "Litefeet" here.

A selection from a series of eighteen monoprints.

lithograph, printed from 5 photo plates

each measuring 19 x 15 inches

2016

Commuters. Map. is the artist’s exploration of New York City commuters seen from above, spread out over a never-ending city street map and displays the congestion of bodies that occurs twice a day during the rush hour commute. Each abstracted human form is the size of a raw sugar crystal.

Did you know? According to a six-page study by New York City Comptroller Scott M. Stringer released in 2015, the average weekly commute for New Yorkers was 6 hours 18 minutes. Compare that to San Francisco, which has the second longest average weekly commute at 4 hours, 57 minutes.

The New York City subway system opened in 1904 and now has 469 stations. In 2015, the subway delivered over 1.76 billion traceable rides.

By annual ridership the New York City Subway is the busiest rapid transit rail system in the United States and the Western world however, this figure places New York as merely the seventh busiest in the world behind: Beijing, Shanghai, Seoul, Tokyo, Moscow, and Guangzhou.

A selection from a series of 11 monoprints.

lithography + screenprint

each measuring 14x14 (17x17 diamond)

2017

As a child in the 80’s I was always warned to be cautious when on the beaches of Long Island. “You may step on a needle!” was what my parents would say. And they were right; one might. This series is my response to the ever persistent and growing drug epidemic. The syringe image is taken directly from a sticker placed on trash bins in Denver. The blend within the syringe are the colors of the Firecracker popsicle, synonymous with summer in America. The background pattern are actual size hundreds and thousands (sprinkles) printed from photo plates.

A selection from a series of fifteen monoprints.

lithograph, printed from photo plates

each measuring 19 x 15 inches

2018