Sentences with phrase «born graffiti artist»

Geso, an American born graffiti artist whose legacy spans 2 decades, is truly a graffiti writer's writer.

A BROOKLYN - BORN GRAFFITI ARTIST, Basquiat became a singular presence when he transitioned into the 1980s downtown New York art scene where Andy Warhol was both his mentor and close friend.

The majority of the pieces on view come from 1981 through» 83, when the Haitian - American, Brooklyn - born graffiti artist made his improbable leap into the upper echelon of the art world.

Eyes on Irish - born graffiti artist and painter Conor Harrington.

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Born and raised in Los Angeles, graffiti artist Chaz Bojorquez brought cholo writing from the streets to the Smithsonian.

The artist was born in Brooklyn in 1960, and during the late 1970s he began to make graffiti as well as small works on paper.

The artist born Brian Connelly, Jersey City son and Williamsburg resident, has an decade - long indelible mark on the art - world beyond his early graffiti years.

Born in Bezons in 1972, Olivier lives and works in Paris, where he started as a self - taught artist and graffiti writer.

Few contemporary artists have developed a visual vocabulary as immediately recognizable as the Chicago - born artist Christopher Wool's — and what's remarkable is that he was able to achieve this distinction across a number of different series, from his influential text paintings to his elegantly minimal canvases marked by fences and other repetitive forms to his dynamic gestural abstractions that borrow from graffiti culture.

Swiss artist Urs Fischer, who is known for his melting - wax men and houses made of bread; Pakistani - born constructivist artist Rasheed Araeen; USA graffiti artist KAWS and the king of British conceptual art, Sir Michael Craig - Martin and just some of the artists represented.

Born on December 22, 1960, in Brooklyn, New York, Jean - Michel Basquiat was a successful graffiti and Neo-Expressionist artist who continues to influence contemporary artists today.

A lauded and much - respected cult figure in a bi-coastal subculture that comprises skaters, graffiti artists, and West Coast surfers, Barry McGee was born in 1966 in California, where he continues to live and work.

Of contemporary artists, Grayson Perry, the eccentric potter, Sir Peter Blake, the pop artist, and Banksy, the graffiti artist, have been singled out by their peers as major influences, but those conspicuous by their absence from the Top Ten, apart from Hirst and Emin, include Jake and Dinos Chapman, best - known for defacing Goya prints, Mark Wallinger, who videoed himself dressed as a bear, and Marc Quinn, who made a head out of his own blood.

The gallery represents an impressive collection of artists including San Diego - born sculptor Deborah Butterfield and Argentinian painter Guillermo Kuitca, and regularly hosts exhibitions featuring talents like American ceramic artist and sculptor Matt Wedel and graffiti artist and illustrator Gajin Fujita.

JonOne, born John Andrew Perello in 1963, New York, USA and today one of the most recognised contemporary artists in France, as well as a key figure in the world of graffiti will be opening next Wednesday Predictably Irrational at Wunderkammern Gallery in Milan.

Born and raised south of San Francisco, Norling hails from a recent generation of artists raised on the fun and gun ethos of graffiti and the mark - making of urban street culture; from stickers to wheat - pasted posters, it is from this street aesthetic; one that is in dialogue with Norling's teacher Raymond Saunders, as well as younger artists such as Barry McGee and the late Margaret Kilgallen, that Norling's paintings, sculptures and installations derive much of their impact.

2 Jean - Michel Basquiat, born 1960 in Brooklyn, New York, was a graffiti artist who died in 1988.

Gajin Fujita (ガジン ・ フジタ, born 1972) is a graffiti artist from East Los Angeles.