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He is well-known for his letter designs and is referred to as a legend in the Brooklyn graffiti scene. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] He was part of the Brooklyn based graffiti crew Beyond Your Imagination (BYI), which was active from the mid-1980s to the late 1980s and included membership by TRIM, ATCO, TRECH, CHINO, TRACK aka TE KAY, SCOTCH 79 aka KEO, SAST and ...
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Eric Haze was born in 1961 in New York City to progressive parents of the Upper West Side. [1] [2] Haze was drawn to art through his father's friend's pop art collection and meeting Elaine de Kooning who gave Haze oil paints while she painted a portrait of Haze and his sister in 1971. [2] In 1972, Haze began writing graffiti throughout New York ...
Graffiti began appearing around New York City with the words "Bird Lives" [1] but after that, it took about a decade and a half for graffiti to become noticeable in NYC. So, around 1970 or 1971, TAKI 183 and Tracy 168 started to gain notoriety for their frequent vandalism. [ 2 ]
IZ was prominently featured in the 1983 documentary Style Wars. [8] His work, which appeared in the book Subway Art, has been credited with inspiring European graffiti in particular; Martin's piece Hell IZ for Children became influential in Europe where the use of his tag to form a sentence and his freeform style has been incorporated and adapted by contemporary graffiti artists.
He was born Hector Nazario in the South Bronx in 1967. He was fortunate enough to be born with creativity running through his veins at an early age. Throughout the 1970s he played in abandoned buildings, transforming them in his mind into magical worlds of wonder and using his surroundings to create trucks and cars of bricks and wood chunks found in abandoned lots in his South Bronx neighborhood.
Brim Fuentes, is the founding member of graffiti crew TATS CRU, and was born in the South Bronx, New York City. Brim was fortunate enough to start writing graffiti in one of the most important periods of graffiti history. He began bombing and hitting New York City Subway trains, in the
At the age of ten, fellow New Yorker, from Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, [1] Michael McLeer said he started graffiti writing. [2] He explained that at the time he was gravitating toward the arts because he was looking for something that would have his voice, however, there was no after-school program for the youth that took that direction, but there were plenty of graffiti writers that lived in his ...