Known internationally for a figurative style that typically features their signature yellow characters, thin dark red outlining, and intricately patterned designs, OSGEMEOS broke onto the art scene during the late 1980s as
graffiti writers in their São Paulo neighborhood of Cambuci.
Inkie is an artist known as one of the most notorious and prolific
graffiti writers in UK history to emerge out of the 80's Bristol scene.
Not exact matches
His legacy as an upstart
graffiti artist, clothing designer, painter and musician is on view
in this informative and perfectly rendered (director /
writer Sara Driver) retelling of his early years.
Perhaps the biggest reason why More American
Graffiti is so different lies
in the fact that George Lucas» involvement is mostly just as an executive producer, leaving
writer / director Bill L. Norton with the chore of putting it all together.
Painting alongside 3D, Crime Inc, Nick Walker and Banksy,
in 1989 the «Kingpin» was arrested as the head of 72 other
writers in the UK's largest ever
Graffiti bust, Operation Anderson and went on to come second
in the 1989 world street art championships.
Born
in Bezons
in 1972, Olivier lives and works
in Paris, where he started as a self - taught artist and
graffiti writer.
Dubuffet's interest
in art brut, the art of the institutionalized and the untrained, whether a paleolithic cave artist or the
writer of contemporary
graffiti, led him to emulate this directly expressive and untutored style
in his own work.
JP: When I went to SCAD to study painting, I had been seriously engaged
in style - writing culture, having been a
writer (what people call a «
graffiti artist», a term I always thought was so strange) for years.
Last week, Parisian
graffiti writers, Skubb and Mosa, opened a new exhibition entitled «Yildun» at Galerie Association d'Idées
in Marseille, France.
Posse II, AKA Daniel Hopkins, is a
graffiti «
writer» born
in the Bronx and raised
in Yonkers, NY.
Tonight, legendary New York
Graffiti writer and artist, Daze, will be having a solo exhibition entitled «Indigo Dreams» at TT Underground
in New York.
One of those native
writers was Xeme who started his career
in 2001 and is today considered to be the most prominent Hong Kong based artist, and a true Asian
graffiti pioneer.
In collaboration with internationally acclaimed graffiti writer El Mac and local artists, The Propeller Group presents Sophie Holding the World Together, a new public mural in downtown San Jos
In collaboration with internationally acclaimed
graffiti writer El Mac and local artists, The Propeller Group presents Sophie Holding the World Together, a new public mural
in downtown San Jos
in downtown San José.
Prior to becoming involved
in commercial
graffiti, Eine was a highly credible
writer in the underground London
graffiti scene.
A respected train
writer, Remi has also played a significant part
in the development of «abstract
graffiti», a term that seems far too clinical to describe the accomplishments of his work, which has always been about the interplay of colour and shape.
This is lesson number one of this issue's dossier BERLIN KIDZ, which follows the anonymous group of
graffiti writers, videographers, and train - surfers to the highest points
in the German capital.
UNDERCOVER designer JUN TAKAHASHI blinds prophets, dignitaries, and other cultural icons
in a series of black - and - white illustrations;
writers and
graffiti artists NUG & PIKE collide tagging with trance rituals; photographer ALASDAIR MCLELLAN finds adolescence's last idyll; artist MATTHEW BARNEY takes us behind the scenes of his CREMASTER CYCLE;
writer EMILY KING digs up ASPEN magazine's protest against uniformity;
Friend and collaborator Remi Rough transcends the traditional and somewhat idealised vision of a
graffiti writer, and creates work that simultaneously belongs on the streets and
in the home or gallery without seeming out of context.
-- Nikolay Oleynikov, Tsaplya Olga Egorova, Dmitry Vilensky, and others Claire Fontaine (fictional conceptual artist)-- A Paris - based collective including Fulvia Carnevale and James Thornhill CPLY — William N. Copley Diane Pruis (pseudonymous Los Angeles gallerist)-- Untitled gallery's Joel Mesler Donelle Woolford (black female artist)-- Actors hired to impersonate said fictional artist by white artist Joe Scanlan Dr. Lakra (Mexican artist inspired by tattoo culture)-- Jeronimo Lopez Ramirez Dr. Videovich (a «specialist
in curing television addiction»)-- The Argentine - American conceptual artist Jaime Davidovich Dzine — Carlos Rolon George Hartigan — The male pseudonym that the Abstract Expressionist painter Grace Hartigan adopted early
in her career Frog King Kwok (Hong Kong performance artist who uses Chinese food as a frequent medium)-- Conceptualist Kwok Mang Ho The Guerrilla Girls — A still - anonymous group of feminist artists who made critical agit - prop work exposing the gender biases
in the art world Hennessy Youngman (hip - hop - styled YouTube advice dispenser), Franklin Vivray (increasingly unhinged Bob Ross - like TV painting instructor)-- Jayson Musson Henry Codax (mysterious monochrome artist)-- Jacob Kassay and Olivier Mosset JR — Not the shot villain of «Dallas» but the still - incognito street artist of global post-TED fame John Dogg (artist), Fulton Ryder (Upper East Side gallerist)-- Richard Prince KAWS — Brian Donnelly The King of Kowloon (calligraphic Hong Kong
graffiti artist)-- Tsang Tsou - choi Klaus von Nichtssagend (fictitious Lower East Side dealer)-- Ingrid Bromberg Kennedy, Rob Hult, and Sam Wilson Leo Gabin — Ghent - based collective composed of Gaëtan Begerem, Robin De Vooght, and Lieven Deconinck Lucie Fontaine (art and curatorial collective)-- The writer / curator Nicola Trezzi and artist Alice Tomaselli MadeIn Corporation — Xu Zhen Man Ray — Emmanuel Radnitzky Marvin Gaye Chetwynd (Turner Prize - nominated artist formerly known as Spartacus Chetwynd)-- Alalia Chetwynd Maurizio Cattelan — Massimiliano Gioni, at least in many interviews the New Museum curator did in the famed Italian artist's stead in the»90s Mr. Brainwash (Banksy - idolizing street artist)-- Thierry Guetta MURK FLUID, Mike Lood — The artist Mark Flood R. Mutt, Rrose Sélavy — Marcel Duchamp Rammellzee — Legendary New York street artist and multimedia visionary, whose real name «is not to be told... that is forbidden,» according to his widow Reena Spaulings (Lower East Side gallery)-- Artist Emily Sundblad and writer John Kelsey Regina Rex (fictional Brooklyn gallerist)-- The artists Eli Ping (who now has opened Eli Ping Gallery on the Lower East Side), Theresa Ganz, Yevgenia Baras, Aylssa Gorelick, Angelina Gualdoni, Max Warsh, and Lauren Portada Retna — Marquis Lewis Rod Bianco (fictional Oslo galleris)-- Bjarne Melgaard RodForce (performance artist who explored the eroticized associations of black culture)-- Sherman Flemming Rudy Bust — Canadian artist Jon Pylypchuk Sacer, Sace (different spellings of a 1990s New York graffiti tag)-- Dash Snow SAMO (1980s New York Graffiti Tag)-- Jean - Michel Basquiat Shoji Yamaguchi (Japanese ceramicist who fled Hiroshima and settled in the American South with a black civil - rights activist, then died in a car crash in 1991)-- Theaster Gates Vern Blosum — A fictional Pop painter of odd image - and - word combinations who was invented by a still - unnamed Abstract Expressionist artist in an attempt to satirize the Pop movement (and whose work is now sought - after in its own right) Weegee — Arthur Fellig What, How and for Whom (curators of 2009 Istanbul Biennial)-- Ana Dević, Nataša Ilić, Sabina Sabolović, Dejan Kršić, and Ivet Curlin The Yes Men — A group of «culture - jamming» media interventionists led by Jacques Servin and Ig
graffiti artist)-- Tsang Tsou - choi Klaus von Nichtssagend (fictitious Lower East Side dealer)-- Ingrid Bromberg Kennedy, Rob Hult, and Sam Wilson Leo Gabin — Ghent - based collective composed of Gaëtan Begerem, Robin De Vooght, and Lieven Deconinck Lucie Fontaine (art and curatorial collective)-- The
writer / curator Nicola Trezzi and artist Alice Tomaselli MadeIn Corporation — Xu Zhen Man Ray — Emmanuel Radnitzky Marvin Gaye Chetwynd (Turner Prize - nominated artist formerly known as Spartacus Chetwynd)-- Alalia Chetwynd Maurizio Cattelan — Massimiliano Gioni, at least
in many interviews the New Museum curator did
in the famed Italian artist's stead
in the»90s Mr. Brainwash (Banksy - idolizing street artist)-- Thierry Guetta MURK FLUID, Mike Lood — The artist Mark Flood R. Mutt, Rrose Sélavy — Marcel Duchamp Rammellzee — Legendary New York street artist and multimedia visionary, whose real name «is not to be told... that is forbidden,» according to his widow Reena Spaulings (Lower East Side gallery)-- Artist Emily Sundblad and
writer John Kelsey Regina Rex (fictional Brooklyn gallerist)-- The artists Eli Ping (who now has opened Eli Ping Gallery on the Lower East Side), Theresa Ganz, Yevgenia Baras, Aylssa Gorelick, Angelina Gualdoni, Max Warsh, and Lauren Portada Retna — Marquis Lewis Rod Bianco (fictional Oslo galleris)-- Bjarne Melgaard RodForce (performance artist who explored the eroticized associations of black culture)-- Sherman Flemming Rudy Bust — Canadian artist Jon Pylypchuk Sacer, Sace (different spellings of a 1990s New York
graffiti tag)-- Dash Snow SAMO (1980s New York Graffiti Tag)-- Jean - Michel Basquiat Shoji Yamaguchi (Japanese ceramicist who fled Hiroshima and settled in the American South with a black civil - rights activist, then died in a car crash in 1991)-- Theaster Gates Vern Blosum — A fictional Pop painter of odd image - and - word combinations who was invented by a still - unnamed Abstract Expressionist artist in an attempt to satirize the Pop movement (and whose work is now sought - after in its own right) Weegee — Arthur Fellig What, How and for Whom (curators of 2009 Istanbul Biennial)-- Ana Dević, Nataša Ilić, Sabina Sabolović, Dejan Kršić, and Ivet Curlin The Yes Men — A group of «culture - jamming» media interventionists led by Jacques Servin and Ig
graffiti tag)-- Dash Snow SAMO (1980s New York
Graffiti Tag)-- Jean - Michel Basquiat Shoji Yamaguchi (Japanese ceramicist who fled Hiroshima and settled in the American South with a black civil - rights activist, then died in a car crash in 1991)-- Theaster Gates Vern Blosum — A fictional Pop painter of odd image - and - word combinations who was invented by a still - unnamed Abstract Expressionist artist in an attempt to satirize the Pop movement (and whose work is now sought - after in its own right) Weegee — Arthur Fellig What, How and for Whom (curators of 2009 Istanbul Biennial)-- Ana Dević, Nataša Ilić, Sabina Sabolović, Dejan Kršić, and Ivet Curlin The Yes Men — A group of «culture - jamming» media interventionists led by Jacques Servin and Ig
Graffiti Tag)-- Jean - Michel Basquiat Shoji Yamaguchi (Japanese ceramicist who fled Hiroshima and settled
in the American South with a black civil - rights activist, then died
in a car crash
in 1991)-- Theaster Gates Vern Blosum — A fictional Pop painter of odd image - and - word combinations who was invented by a still - unnamed Abstract Expressionist artist
in an attempt to satirize the Pop movement (and whose work is now sought - after
in its own right) Weegee — Arthur Fellig What, How and for Whom (curators of 2009 Istanbul Biennial)-- Ana Dević, Nataša Ilić, Sabina Sabolović, Dejan Kršić, and Ivet Curlin The Yes Men — A group of «culture - jamming» media interventionists led by Jacques Servin and Igor Vamos
He is considered one of the historical italian
graffiti writers that was important for the development of the movement
in the country.
Deconstructions is a double personal exhibition of the two world wide famous
graffiti writers Raptuz and Poesia, which is born with the idea of making tangible the relationships that occur
in the development of their indoor practices.
Hausammann Gallery has organized personal and collective exhibitions of some of the most important
graffiti writers from Italy and has recently been part of the last edition of the Stroke Art Fair
in Munich.
When you think about consistency and sheer numbers
in graffiti the
writer Smash 137 is one of the artists that comes to mind.
In 1993, while only 19 years old, Otavio and Gustavo Pandolfo (Os Gemeos) met with young American
graffiti writer Barry McGee.
«There are many
graffiti writers who have done more
graffiti or done it more skillfully and
in greater quantity,» says assistant curator Caleb Neelon.
Peckham - based artist,
graffiti writer and contemporary artist Remi Rough stands apart from other street art - leaning practitioners
in that his work is often referred to as «visual symphonies», thanks to his keen eye for the geometrical treatment of form, colour, line and space, and inspired by avant - garde movements such as Suprematism and Italian Futurism.
He is one of São Paulo's original old - school
writers who played an important role
in growing the now thriving Brazilian
graffiti scene.
On opening night, a handful of Philly
writers all told me a similar story: I came out to support a friend
in another group exhibition, but this is unlike any
graffiti show I've ever seen.
Two years ago,
in an interview with the webzine 10and5.com, Nolan Oswald Dennis spoke of his youthful aspiration to be a
writer, «
in the
graffiti sense as well as the literary sense».
Blade: I was given the title King of
Graffiti in 1975 by fellow
writers because I painted more than anyone else
in New York.
In 2000 pre-streetart and coming off the popular nineties internet era of
graffiti Joker was a common name among
writers.
Lyken's history as a
graffiti artist stretches back to the eighties when he was one of the first
writers active
in Scotland.
It focuses on the experimental transformation of shapes and surfaces that make up the urban landscape, from which the three artists draw their inspiration from; Fabio Petani with his refined balance between organic forms and geometry, Nelio through a dense texture of colour fields that he uses to compose his name, and Heiko Zahlmann, with a long and vaunted past as a
graffiti writer, evolves his style
in three - dimensional works,
in which painting, drawing and architecture interact with one another.
Painter, illustrator, graphic designer and
graffiti artist, Rems 182's imagery unites violence, eroticism, and strength
in both large - scale and smaller portraits characterised by a use of multiple perspectives that create a unique softness
in each image that allows the various expressions to complement each other while revealing the complexities of human emotion Having a background as a
graffiti writer his work combines both letter - based and complex figurative images, or as the artist himself explains: «I fuse my
graffiti writer language with my modern figurative art experience
in perennial tension towards abstract disaggregation.»
Rest
In Power is presented by the
graffiti writer collective Sour Grapes and is two major wall paintings at Dallas Contemporary; one on the interior and one on the exterior of the building.
In the early eighties, after a ten - year career as one of the early seventies
writers, he broke away from one of
graffiti's most sacred traditions: the letterform as subject matter.
Around this same time, other early NYC
writers, who had also started their careers
in the seventies, began to make their own discoveries, taking off
in new hybrid directions that were not based on pure
graffiti traditions.
It's a slow day on the streets today, so we are going to bring it back to this Joe Stummer memorial mural painted
in 2003 by legendary
graffiti writers, Dr. Revolt and Zephyr,
in New York.
Also beginning
in the late eighties on the West Coast of the US, the Wildstyle - reductionist Joker was one of the first
graffiti artists to paint purely geometric abstractions and pushed for its acceptance within the
graffiti community by founding the Transcend Collective
in 1991 with She1, who was an abstract
writer in the UK.
The show is curated by Roger Gastman, a
graffiti writer turned filmmaker and author whose extensive credits include consulting producer of Banksy's Exit Through the Giftshop and co-curator of the major street art exhibition «Art
in the Streets» at LA's MoCA.
When you are a renowned
graffiti writer living 25 minutes outside of Marrakech at an artists compound and painting
in your studio to prepare for an upcoming exhibition on canvas, sometimes you still are activated by wanderlust to go out and catch a tag.
Around this same time, other early NYC
writers, who had also started their careers
in the seventies, began to experiment with new hybrid directions not based
in pure
graffiti traditions.
From
graffiti's humble beginnings
in 1967 to the first painting being sold
in 1973, Wall
Writers reveals the context of the start of a movement that would eventually grow to transform city life, public transit, public art, and ultimately visual art the world over.
Over the years a lot of talented
Graffiti artist from all over the world have come to paint, from Swedish
writer Finsta to French
writers Dezer, Keflione, Migwel, Rock, Posh, Seth, Boogie & Kid etc have all come and left their designs / marks / stories
in the streets of Mumbai giving locals something to smile about.