Black Market Culture

Portland | Tyler Bensen

What would you be without the internet????… no seriously… think about it…. what would you be without the internet? You would be married… that is what you would be. You would be married in the suburbs with a 14 month old baby and you would be a day trader to your loving partner’s real estate brokerage firm. How do I know this? Because without the internet, Black Market Culture wouldn’t exist. Without websites like Black Market Culture, youth and expression would be something foreign to you and may bring about words such as “bonkers” un-ironically.

Without a medium like Black Market Culture, there would be absolutely no way to observe the art and culture flowing through your city’s veins without some jet set gallery opening that you can’t attend because you have a 14 month old freeloader at home and all the youth of today are a bunch of dope smoking retards anyway (the cycle is as vicious as the morning commute).

Michael Fields came to us from Pennsylvania by way of Tucson, Az, a place close to my heart, and immediately noticed a difference in the Pacific NW culture… there is actual culture here. Fields saw revolutionary and brilliant artistic minds and immediately felt it necessary to parade his findings to the rest of the country.

Field displays artistic portfolios of any medium from people all across the country on his site, Black Market Culture. Collectives such as this would initially seem simple and archetyped, however, it is the Midas touch of having a curator with the passion and drive that Fields has that puts Black Market Culture into a very exclusive club.

Black Market Culture has already performed two successful gallery shows at Goodfoot last spring and “TimeBomb” at local35 last November. A Black Market Culture Magazine is in the works for the spring, allowing the typical exhibit fiend to actually hold and flip through the artists and their concepts with no screen involved. Find out more at www.blackmarketculture.com