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Darryl McCray (born 1953), better known by his tagging name Cornbread, is an American graffiti writer from Philadelphia. He is widely considered the world's first modern graffiti artist. [1][2][3] McCray was raised in Brewerytown, a neighborhood of North Philadelphia. During the late 1960s, he and a group of friends started doing graffiti in ...
Graffiti are writing or drawings scribbled, scratched, or sprayed illicitly on a wall or other surface in a public place. [1] Graffiti ranges from simple written words to elaborate wall paintings. Graffiti, consisting of the defacement of public spaces and buildings, remains a nuisance issue for cities. In America, graffiti was used as a form ...
JonOne (New York City) – graffiti. Mark Jenkins (Alexandria, Virginia) – street installations. Michael Kirby (Baltimore, Maryland) Margaret Kilgallen (San Francisco) Knitta Please (Houston, Texas) – knitted graffiti. Liz LaManche (Boston) – murals, pavement art. Logan Hicks (New York City) - American Contemporary Artist.
Website. al-diaz.com. Al Diaz (born June 10, 1959) is an American urban artist and lecturer best known for being among the first generation of graffiti writers in the community and for co-creating the graffiti campaign SAMO© with Jean-Michel Basquiat in 1978. [2][3][4]
Herein lies the ink-stained testament of NYC native and early ’80s hip hop graffiti-pioneer Mike McLeer, aka KAVES, who—after a career-complicating biff and bust by the transit cops’ Vandal ...
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] Using a naming convention in which they would add their street ...
Richard Mirando, known as Seen, is an American graffiti artist. [1][2] He is one of the best known graffiti artists in the world and has been referred to as the Godfather of Graffiti. [1] Seen first started to paint on the New York City Subway system in 1973. [1] He was born in the Bronx, New York City.
Leon IV began writing graffiti in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1995, at the age of 15. He was attracted to the traditional uses of spray paint, markers, wild style lettering and black-book culture as first developed by graffiti writers in Philadelphia and New York City a quarter of a century earlier.