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Jose "Prime" Reza, (b.October 5, 1971) is an American graffiti artist born and raised in the Pico-Union District of Downtown Los Angeles.Prime is credited with being a founding father of Los Angeles stylized graffiti lettering, a hybrid of Cholo lettering and East Coast style graffiti that is often bold, aggressive, and monochromatic.
Beyond the Streets is a graffiti and street art exhibition and gallery created and curated by Roger Gastman. [1] [2] The first exhibition was held in 2018 in Los Angeles, USA [3] and has since occurred yearly. In 2022, a permanent gallery and store was opened at the location of the original exhibition in LA. [4]
RISK (born Kelly Graval), also known as RISKY, is a Los Angeles–based graffiti writer and contemporary artist often credited as a founder of the West Coast graffiti scene. [ 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.
Climbing up abandoned, unfinished floors and tightrope walking across balcony ledges, backpacks clanging with cans of alkyd and acrylic, a collective of Los Angeles graffiti artists have moved ...
Smear (Cristian Gheorghiu) (Los Angeles) – graffiti, street art, contemporary painter The Splasher (New York City) – a serial vandal who splattered other works of street art with paint Stay High 149 (born Wayne Roberts; October 20, 1950 – June 11, 2012; New York) – graffiti artist [ 3 ] [ 4 ]
[7] [13] Murals are considered a distinctive form of public art in Los Angeles, often associated with street art, billboards, and contemporary graffiti. [ 14 ] [ 15 ] From 2002 to 2013, Los Angeles had a moratorium on the creation of new murals in the city, stemming from legal conflicts regarding large-scale commercial out-of-home advertising ...
Metro Transit Assassins, also known by the initialism MTA or as Melting Toys Away and Must Take All, [1] is a graffiti street artist collective based in Los Angeles, most famous for its half-mile graffiti "MTA" tag along the concrete walls of the Los Angeles River.
Graffiti in Los Angeles is a contentious subject. Artists and academics say focusing on the crime is missing the point. Graffiti tower debate shows Los Angeles' contradictory relationship with ...