Sentences with phrase «of graffiti writers»

A very diverse crew of graffiti writers and artists who recently have...

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.

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.

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.

But the two leads — a pair of black teen graffiti writers from the Bronx — break the comparison.

At first glance American Graffiti appears to be a nostalgia trip back to the early 1960s, the teenage years of its now legendary filmmakers — producer Francis Ford Coppola who at the time had just directed The Godfather and writer / director George Lucas who would go on to create the Star Wars franchise.

The musical elements of hip - hop — the DJ, the MC, and break dancing — seem incomplete without the spray - can - blasted messages that graffiti writers use to adorn the walls of their concrete jungle.

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.

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.

Their decks featured artworks by Damien Hirst, an edition considered to be one of the most valuable and coveted Supreme releases to date; Ryan McGuinnes with the collection of Pantone decks; the street artist KAWS; the visual artist, graffiti writer, performance artist musician and sculptor Rammellzee; the artist Dan Colen with the edition featuring imagery of Nike sneakers and chains; the Russian conceptual artist Andrei Molodkin; the graphic designer Peter Saville with iconic pulsar waves featured on a Joy Division album artwork; the director Larry Clark most famous for his cult film «Kids»; Neo-Pop artist and 80s icon Jeff Koons with the variety of monkey imagery with surreal backgrounds; Richard Prince; world - renowned Japanese artist Takashi Murakami; Marilyn Minter; George Condo; John Baldessari; Robert Longo; Raymond Pettibon; and many many more.

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.

Respected for decades of influential and pioneering work as a graffiti writer, REVOK's studio work explores deeply shared themes involving place and human experience using the very materials that make up the environment around him.

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.

A member of the «second generation» of New York graffiti artists, Daze has been hailed as one of the most important artist - writers of his time.

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.

For this issue's dossier, Thom Bettridge climbs to the rooftops of the German capital with the BERLIN KIDZ, the city's most notorious graffiti writers, who provide us with a how - to of public vandalism.

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;

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.

-- 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 Iggraffiti 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 Iggraffiti 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 IgGraffiti 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

Best known for his Abstract Expressionist - style Graffiti, JonOne represents a new generation of contemporary artists who have moved beyond their roots as graffiti writers to establish themselves as pGraffiti, JonOne represents a new generation of contemporary artists who have moved beyond their roots as graffiti writers to establish themselves as pgraffiti writers to establish themselves as painters.

Raptuz is a famous graffiti writer from Milan, co-founder of the historical crew of TDK and part of the world - renowned CBS crew, from West - Holliwood — California.

He is considered one of the historical italian graffiti writers that was important for the development of the movement in the country.

The opening will be characterized by a live painting through which the graffiti writers will show their skills and way of realizing their artworks.

There will also be an effective connection with Miami — Wynwood, the neighborhood that is world - renowned for the existence of important pieces by street artists and graffiti writers, for which Raptuz and Poesia will create two murals beginning from July 11th.

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.

He befriended artists such as Jean - Michel Basquiat and Kenny Scharf, as well as musicians and graffiti writers and began having exhibitions and performances at venues like Club 57, reflecting the mix of art, nightlife, fashion, performance, and music that characterized the artistic climate of the time.

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.

The Low Bros are an artist duo, made up of brothers Christoph and Florin Schmidt — formerly active graffiti writers Qbrk and Nerd.

He is one of São Paulo's original old - school writers who played an important role in growing the now thriving Brazilian graffiti scene.

But if you're looking for a throwback or something more low - key, hear from old school graffiti writers at Eric Firestone Gallery, or treat yourself to new and exciting film at the Museum of the Moving Image.

More's heritage as a graffiti writer dates back to the mid 80's when his elaborately styled letter based pieces started to go up under the name of OneMor.

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.

The artist will discuss his nomadic artistic practice and his ongoing exhibition at the Guggenheim with artist, writer, and curator Julie Ault as well as Peter Broda, who co-founded the Museum of American Graffiti.

He became a graffiti writer at the age of 14, later on joined the artist group getting - up, and created some spectacular murals with them.

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.

A number of these friends and graffiti writers have deftly made the transition from painting streets and rolling stock, to studying at London's leading post-graduate art colleges, such as the Royal College of Art and the Royal Academy schools.

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.

Similarly, graffiti and street art have typically operated as a counterpublic artistic practice and means of garnering fame or status for «writers» and artmakers.

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.

Tim has created a new series of work based on «tools» typically used by graffiti writers.

The story of the painted «Poison City» will have you walking the pathways of countless graffiti writers and artistic vigilantes, from the South Basin to Rivertown.

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.»

The wall was previous decorated by the work of Swoon before the blizzard gave graffiti writers a nice opportunity to bomb it.

The production on the interior walls of Dallas Contemporary is a dedication to graffiti writers that have passed away and were a major influence on the artists.

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.