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Monikers (also known as streaks, tags, or hobo art) are a type of graffiti done on the side of a freight car on freight trains. They date back to the late 1800s. [ 1 ] Monikers are usually produced with a solid paint stick, industrial crayon, or a lumber crayon.
Faile (USA/Canada/Japan) - stencil graffiti, street poster art, screenprinting; Ray Ferrer (USA) - spray paint, hand-cut stencils; Josh MacPhee (USA) - stencil graffiti, street poster art, screenprinting; Scott Williams (USA) Christopher Wool (USA) Shepard Fairey (USA) - stencil graffiti, street poster art, screenprinting, political art
JA began painting graffiti in New York as a teenager, [2] and by 1985 was known for his work on the city's trains. [3] JA One took on his tag in 1986. [4] In response to the MTA's clamp down on train graffiti, initiated under the leadership of David L. Gunn, [5] JA One spearheaded the movement to take graffiti bombing onto the streets. [6]
C215 primarily uses stencils to produce his art. His first stencil work was put up in 2006, but he has been a graffiti artist for (as of 2011) over 20 years. [2] His work consists mainly of close up portraits of people. C215's subjects are typically those such as beggars, homeless people, refugees, street kids and the elderly.
In 2011 Gastman, with MOCA director Jeffrey Dietch and director Aaron Rose, curated a survey of graffiti and street art at the Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles titled Art in the Streets. The exhibition featured a wide-range of mediums in separate installations by artists or 'crews' and was held in the 40,00 square foot Geffen building ...
[1] [2] In the 1980s, he was one of the first graffiti writers in Southern California to paint freight trains, and he pioneered writing on "heavens", or freeway overpasses. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] He took his graffiti into the gallery with the launch of the Third Rail series of art shows, and later created a line of graffiti-inspired clothing. [ 5 ]
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.
RETNA (born Marquis Lewis 1979) is a contemporary artist, primarily recognized for graffiti art. He was born and raised in Los Angeles , California, and started his career in the early 1990s. He developed a distinctive constructed script which is derived from Blackletter , Egyptian Hieroglyphics , Arabic , and Hebrew calligraphy, as well as ...