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Carlos Rodriguez, better known as Mare139, is a New York-based artist born in 1965 in Spanish Harlem, New York City.He was best known as the subway graffiti writer Mare 139, and has since adapted the graffiti lettering styles to metal sculpture in the fine art context, and is recognized as a media artist for his creation of graffiti-art-related websites.
Klark Kent (born 1973 in Frankfurt am Main, West Germany) is a graffiti artist and music producer. Klark Kent has been writing graffiti since 1989, and has gained international credit for his work over the years.
ZEPHYR, born Andrew Witten, is a graffiti artist, [1] lecturer and author from New York City.He began writing graffiti in 1975 using the name "Zephyr" in 1977. He is considered a graffiti "elder", who along with Futura 2000, Blade, PHASE 2, CRASH, Lady Pink and TAKI 183 invented styles and standards which are still in use.
Andre Pierre Charles (born 1968) is an American artist born in Brooklyn, New York and raised in the Bronx. [1] Charles is best known as a 1980s pioneer of the New York City graffiti art movement and for his influence on New York City nightclub and youth culture.
[4] [6] [7] Working under the name 'Espo', he painted throughout the city becoming known during the late 1990s for his thematic graffiti 'pieces', for On the Go magazine, and for his 1999 book The Art of Getting Over, which placed stories told by other graffiti writers alongside photos of their work.
Following the success of the publication, which was reputed to be one of the most widely read graffiti publications ever, Same Same was released in 2014. [5] In 2019 Moses and Taps collaborated with the photographer Edward Nightingale to produce Memento Mori on the occasion of the Rose Béton Biennale. [ 6 ]
ORFN began experimentation with graffiti in middle school, initially spraying stencils in his then hometown of Palo Alto, California. By 1992, ORFN had taken on his namesake moniker and started to make a name for himself as a graffiti writer in San Mateo County and San Francisco, along with his early graffiti partner Revers.
In 1971, Diaz was first introduced to the burgeoning graffiti culture by his older cousin Gilberto "SIETE" Diaz when he was just 12 years old. [4] His cousin lived in Washington Heights, which was a locus of graffiti production at the time, and taught Diaz about the traditional style of writing graffiti: combining a moniker, or nickname, with a number. [6]