{"id":305,"date":"2024-10-10T07:16:01","date_gmt":"2024-10-10T07:16:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bohmannandvick.com\/?p=305"},"modified":"2025-08-19T12:37:18","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T12:37:18","slug":"gats-comes-out-at-midnight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bohmannandvick.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/10\/gats-comes-out-at-midnight\/","title":{"rendered":"GATS Comes Out at &#8220;Midnight&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"K2FeedImage\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/bohmannandvick.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/2e63bc15e8f5e304a38c258607359d29_L.jpg\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"K2FeedIntroText\">The perks and drawbacks of being a masked figure are roughly the same: nobody can know you. While this anonymity frees graffiti artists like GATS (Graffiti Against the System), it also means the painter has had to connect with their audience beyond a personal identity. Over decades of painting city walls, warehouses, underpasses, and highways worldwide, GATS has built a community that instantly recognizes the bearded or toothed mask as representing the artist\u2019s presence. In their newest solo exhibition with Harman Projects, Midnight, GATS recontextualizes the familiar masked face with a sense of play and irreverence, leaning into the freedom of being a masked figure themselves.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The perks and drawbacks of being a masked figure are roughly the same: nobody can know you. While this anonymity frees graffiti artists like GATS &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":307,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bohmannandvick.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bohmannandvick.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bohmannandvick.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bohmannandvick.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bohmannandvick.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bohmannandvick.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":308,"href":"https:\/\/bohmannandvick.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305\/revisions\/308"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bohmannandvick.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bohmannandvick.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bohmannandvick.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bohmannandvick.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}