Jeffrey Deitch wrote in Art in America that «a patch of wall painted by SAMO, the omnipresent
graffiti sloganeer, was a knockout combination of de Kooning and subway spray - paint scribbles.»
Upon seeing the artist's contribution to the Times Square Show, Deitch compared Basquiat to an Ab - Ex master: «A patch of wall by SAMO, the omnipresent
graffiti artist
sloganeer, was a knock - out combination of de Kooning and subway spray - paint scribbles» (J. Deitch, «Report from Times Square,» Art in America 68, Sept. 1980, p. 61).