High five to Kevin Cyr for his recent feature in the SF Examiner on March 4th, 2010. Virginia Pelley writes, “There is perhaps no better way to explore the urban culture of America than through its vehicles. Dented, dirty and graffiti-plastered delivery trucks are elevated from utility to art in the work of Brooklyn, N.Y.-based Kevin Cyr.”

While discussing Kevin Cyr’s 2010 West Prize winning Camper Kart, Kevin Cyr added:

“It’s partly a reaction to materialism and excess, but it’s really about human perseverance and self-reliance. It’s comforting to think that I can make a shelter out of a shopping cart, and in a catastrophe, something like ‘Camper Kart’ or the ‘Camper Bike’ could provide a temporary mobile shelter.”

Click here to download the article pdf and be sure to see Kevin’s array of 25 truck paintings, 3 model trucks, and 3 photographs currently on view at White Walls through March 27th, 2010.