Sentences with phrase «graffiti artists turned»

Tats Cru is a group of Bronx - based graffiti artists turned professional muralists whose works transformed graffiti into a highly regarded art form.

The graffiti artist turned painter's short but prolific career is explored, while Louis Theroux investigates the grim reality of heroin use in the US

Although we might not consider an artist such as Eddie Martinez your typical graffiti artist turned contemporary painter he is just that.

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Here, she does that literally, teaming up with the graffiti - artist - turned - stunt - photographer JR (a kind of Gallic version of Banksy).

Vandals is a turn - based stealth graffiti game in which players take on the role of a mysterious street artist with aspirations of creating masterpieces across five different parts of the world.

The project allows Wheatley, a graffiti - artist - turned sculptor to experiment with different materials to build the words, including wood, mirrors, and even ice.

• Tony Smith (1912 — 1980), sculptor who bridged AbEx and minimalism (dad of Kiki) Mel Kendrick (b. 1949), formalist process - based sculptor Chris Wilmarth (1943 — 1987), sculptor of steel, bronze, and etched glass Joel Shapiro (b. 1941), minimalist sculptor who flirts with figuration Christopher Wool (b. 1955), Neo-AbExer with a taste for graffiti and repetition Alex Hubbard (b. 1975), rising master of painterly materials and abstract coloration Josh Smith (b. 1976), Factory - like painter of great expressive volume Jacob Kassay (b. 1984), mirrored - painting - wunderkind - turned - sackcloth artist • Andy Warhol (1928 — 1987), Pop maestro and appropriationist world - changer David Robbins (b. 1957), artist and «Concrete Comedy» theorist David LaChapelle (b. 1963), lush photographer of celebrity decadence Ronnie Cutrone (1948 — 2013), Factory personality and East Village cult figure George Condo (b. 1957), Neo-Picassian painter of the grotesque Mark Dagley (b. 1957), Op abstractionist • Richard Serra (b. 1939), grand master of process art and the post-industrial sublime Grégoire Müller (b. 1947), painter of current - event appropriations Philip Glass (b. 1937), «Einstein on the Beach» composer Lawrence Chandler (b. 1951), composer, musician, and sound artist • Sol LeWitt (1928 — 2007), father of conceptual art, multitasking artistic outsourcer Adrian Piper (b. 1948), performance art innovator Mark Williams (b. 1950), monochromatic minimalist painter

Dash Snow: «At 25, he is a growing downtown legend, a graffiti writer turned artist with a beautiful face and...

This exhibition also marks a turn for the artist for it enables him to explain his work to the public, from graffiti to abstract art.

For his excellent new show at Lehmann Maupin, NYC, Sunset in My Heart (which was celebrated at the opening by turning the gallery into a raucous Japanese summer street festival with a musical performance by the artist dressed as a Japanese schoolgirl gone wrong), Mr. has returned to his expressive and experimental roots as a young artist, incorporating abstract elements like graffiti, and using distressed and sullied canvases to accentuate his colorful anime - themed imagery.

Location: 132A Eldridge Street Associated Artists: The graffiti writer - turned - street - artist Moody (aka Mutz) has a few pieces inside, including his well - known Coca - Cola ad riff, along with a dolphin - themed mural by BK FOXX outside.

Littlefield was a graffiti artist before turning to the studio to create minimalist abstraction artworks.

Dash Snow: «At 25, he is a growing downtown legend, a graffiti writer turned artist with a beautiful face and a De Menil pedigree, elusive even to the two friends who created his myth.»