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The title is a reference to the New York City Subway, where much of the city's graffiti was painted during the late 20th century, on the sides of subway cars.. This was done without permission of the transit authority and considered as vandalism in the time the two were taking pictures of the art on passing trains.
By 1976, Lee was creating huge murals of graffiti art across the subway system. As a subway graffiti artist, Lee almost exclusively painted whole cars, all together about 125 cars. He was the major contributor to one of the first-ever whole-trains, along with DOC, MONO and SLAVE, the core members of The Fabulous Five crew, which also included ...
A seven-step process was devised to create a "systematic selection process which would, nevertheless, provide flexibility". [5] After meetings of the arts committee, the art panel held meetings with the MBTA and architect, and chose a method for artist selection (open or limited competition, invitation, or purchase).
Starting out as a sculptor in New York City in the 1970s, Chalfant turned to photography and film to do an in-depth study of hip-hop culture and graffiti art. One of the foremost authorities on New York subway art, and other aspects of urban youth culture, his photographs record hundreds of ephemeral, original art works that have long since ...
One of the larger pieces depicts a sewer alligator, as described by reporter Michael Rundle: "There is a bronze alligator on the Eighth Avenue and 14th Street subway platform, wearing a suit and tie. A 10-inch (250 mm)-high bronze man — also wearing a suit and tie — is struggling to escape his powerful jaws.
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.
Amelia Ross Opdyke Jones (November 13, 1913 – December 30, 1993) was an American cartoonist who sometimes signed her work with the name "Oppy". She is best known for her series of cartoons in the 1940s and 50s called The Subway Sun which promoted positive behavior and an anti-littering campaign on the New York City Subway.
Devon Rodriguez was born on April 8, 1996 [1] in the South Bronx to a family of Puerto Rican and Honduran descent. [2] At age 8, he began doing graffiti with his friends [3] but, after being arrested at age 13, he turned his attention to drawing portraits. [4]