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VERONICA
Star has been heavily involved and a Key Role model figure for women in Hip Hop for many years.
Living and currently working in New York under the arts.
Over the years Star's accomplishments, contributions and achievements include-
Teacher/Instructor-teaching the art of B-Boying/B-girling in a local Community Centre in the Bronx for 17 years,
Instructing Senior (Silver Sneakers) Fitness Specialist for 20 years,
Supporting Underground B-Boy/B-Girl events since the 1980's,
Event co-ordinator in the early 90's bringing Hip Hop events, Battles, DJ Battles & performances to Florida then bringing it back to the Bronx throwing one of the first B-Boy events in New York, then later block parties with company BBOYALLSTARS (founder),
Organizing B-Boy events at the Zulu Anniversary Annual Legendary Events,
Additional locations include the 106 &Park Graffiti Hall Of Fame bringing performances and B-Boy/B-Girl cypher to The Park to add Elements to The Annual Historic Event.
Graffiti Clothing line with ex- partner Ruel in many underground clothing stores in NYC with distribution worldwide in the early 90's,
Star's B-Girl image is adored worldwide as many character artists emulate her style & fashion and draw characters using her likeness,
Documenting the art of Graffiti for decades and sharing her Graffiti art photographs on social media daily, Star is still a passionate and dedicated Graffiti philanthropist,Entrepreneur and is currently working on a coffee sized table book with all the Street Photograffy and "Street Bombing" she is infamous for,
Went from marking her signature Tag on the walls of New York City leaving her mark on society,
Star is also an artist discovering her talent at a later date she practices her drawing on the daily, bringing her skills up and is now adoring stores, shops indoors & outdoors designing Art, logos, muruals and commission paint jobs using spray paint as a medium,
A true revolutionary but she didn't stop there..
Star has many years behind the camera acting & was also a Print Model for numerous Magazines and has featured in many music videos including Big Pun, Biggie Smalls, Dmx, The Roots and more,
Movies include appearances as a principle Kung Fu fighter in the movie "Bobby Digital" starring Rza of The Wu- Tang Clan
Star has received many awards for outstanding contributions and recently received a Proclamation during the Hip Hop's 50th Anniversary 2023,
Promotes wellness & Fitness and is a herbalist believing that healing the Mind, Body & Soul thru natural medicines, food and teachings for a richer lifestyle.
STEVE CAS
Steve Cas is known as a innovative multi-talented creative professional with sterling credentials and a reputation for pioneering flawless art.
Born and raised in New York City, art is in Steve’s DNA. Steve's been in the art world since he was born. His mother is an artist. Whose work was currently in "EL MUSEO DEL BARRIO". He has an uncle who is a costume designer. He has a cousin who is a architect and designs hi-tech buildings for major clients.
Art has been in Steve's family even before he was born, His Grandmother was an abstract artist.
Steve Cas has had a fantastic professional career which started over 20 years ago. He has been involved in many cutting-edge projects. At 22 years old, Steve was one of the youngest Art Directors with Warner Bros. He quickly grew his management skills while developing an appreciation for art, animation, and 3D.
As Art Director his work has been awarded “THE WARNER BROS. LT. PRESIDENT AWARD” , which is given to the License Company of the year to have the most creative and profitable art.
He has designed and creatively developed art for many major companies and licenses. To mention a few: Warner Bros.. (As the License Art Director), Looney tunes, Batman, Disney, Toy Story, Winnie the Pooh, MTV, Beavis & Butthead, VH1, Nickel- odeon, Ren & stimpy, Rug Rats, Cat Dog, Pepsi, Power Rangers, Cat Dog, Hanna Barbera, King features,Betty Boop, Popeye, M&M’s, Kellogg’s, Izod, Hanes, Champion, Playtex, Just My Size, Hasbro, Martha Steward, Sean John, Phat farm, BabyPhat, Queen Latifah, Mountain Dew, Lipton, Ocean Spray, MLBaseball, and so much more.
Steve Cas was even a Digital Illustrator with DISNEY working on Marvel, Star Wars, Pixar and Jarassic World licensed brands.
Amazingly Steve has found time to give to others. He donates artwork and time to two non profit organizations. Steve Sponsor's, The Bronx Chester Boxing Club, which helps kids after school and keeps them off the streets. He also is a frequent volunteer at the Ronald Mcdonald House. Which is a in-house cancer treatment center for kids. Steve Cas stated, " I'm bless to be doing what I do. My heart is full of gratitude and love. It's only right for me to share that with others.
Futura 2000 is a contemporary American graffiti artist. Over the course of his career, he transitioned from making New York-based subway graffiti in the early 1970s, to exhibiting at Fun Gallery in the 1980s. Futura’s major contribution to graffiti art was his use of abstraction, adopting a style of painting characterized by its blending of text and imagery. Born Leonard McGurr on November 17, 1955 in New York, NY, he went on to collaborate with the punk band The Clash, designing their album art and performing live graffiti during their concerts. Today, McGurr’s work can be found in the collections of the Museo de Arte Moderna di Bologna, the Musée de Vire in France, and the Museum of the City of New York. No longer working in graffiti, Futura now lives and works as a graphic designer in Brooklyn,
FUTURA 2000
George Lee Quinones
George Lee Quinones is an American-Puerto Rican artist known for the graffiti he made on New York subway cars during the 1970s and 1980s. Quinones addressed political and cultural issues through his graffiti, with quotes such as “Earth is Hell, Heaven is Life” and “Stop the Bomb.” Born George Lee Quinones in 1960 in Ponce, Puerto Rico, he was raised in the Lower East Side neighborhood of New York. The artist began bombing subway cars in 1974, and by 1976 he was already well known for his work. Many of these paintings are only documented by Instamatic color photos, though during the time some of them survived for several months without being removed. By the mid-1980s, he had begun working on canvas and exhibiting his work in galleries. He has gone on to collaborate on graphics for clothing brands such as Supreme and Adidas. The artist currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. Today, Quinones’s works are held in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York and the Groninger Museum in the
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JAMES PRIGOFF
James Prigoff is an author, photographer and lecturer on the
subject of worldwide urban murals. He is one of the most
important photographers of aerosol art on the international
scene. He started worldwide documentation of murals in the late
1960's. His interest would eventually lead him to aerosol art
(graffiti). His personal photographs are one of the most
extensive collections of aerosol art in the world. During the late
1970s and the early 1980s, Prigoff documented many aerosol
artmovements from beginning to end across the United States
and abroad
Frank Shepard Fairey isn’t your average street artist that uses spray cans to get up. Born February 15, 1970, his medium is iconic prints with wheat paste rolled over them, so they stick to the surface he’s applying them to. My first introduction to his work was in San Francisco in the early to mid-90’s. At the time, I thought it was a painted stencil. Come to find out, it was a print wheat paste of Andre the Giant’s face! I remember being pumped about it because I’m a huge wrestling fan. His signature wheat paste prints became one of his trademarks. I saw them on billboards, rooftops, and light poles. They were everywhere, and it was awesome to see; no name, no text at all, just Andre’simage. One way or another, it made a statement when you saw it! Now you can find that image on his clothing line OBEY. Emerging from the skateboard scene, Frank has built OBEY into a mega empire for popular clothing and accessories. He became widely known during the 2008 U.S. presidential election for his Barack Obama "Hope" poster. The Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston has described him as one of the best known and most influential street artists. His work can be found in the collections at The Smithsonian, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, the Museum of Contemporary Art in San Diego, the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C., the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond, and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.
FRANK SHEPARD FAIREY
FERNANDO CARLO
Fernando Carlo was born in New York City in 1968. He began his street art in 1985 after encouragement from his cousin. Fernando adopted the tag name “COPE2”. Fittingly, this graffiti legend now resides in The Bronx, the birth place of hip hop. He actively painted in the city especially in the 80’s and 90’s. It was like everywhere you looked you’d see a Cope throw up! One couldn’t miss his trademark bubble letters. His crews are “KD”and “TNB” and he is known as the “ambassador” of New York City Graffiti. He started painting in 1978 and his work can be found in galleries and cities around the world. COPE2 is a self-taught artist who is a celebrated figure for the last 30 years in the graffiti art culture. One of New York City’s most legendary prolific graffiti artists, he developed his style in the subways and streets of the Bronx by creating graffiti productions on subways and the streets of NYC. Today, you can catch COPE2 in the studio painting, bringing his raw energy into abstract masterpieces that are uniquely intertwined with his trademark bubble letters and tags on canvases. He has also delved into curating successful group exhibitions. COPE2 crosses between art world, mainstream and street culture
Known in pop-culture and the graffiti circle as “The First Lady of Graffiti”, also known as “Lady Pink”, is a strong, talented woman named Sandra Fabara. Lady Pink was born in Ecuador in 1964, raised in New York City and currently resides in the countryside north of the Big Apple. While still in high school, she was already exhibiting paintings in art galleries, and by the age of 21, Lady Pink had her first solo show at the Moore College of Art. In 1979, she picked up a can and began her journey in graffiti art. In no time, she was widely known as the only female capable of competing with the boys in the graffiti subculture. Pink painted subway trains from the years 1979-1985. Lady Pink used her graffiti and murals as acts of rebellion and self-expression and empowering women. As Lady Pink says, "It's not just a boy’s club. We have a sisterhood thing going." In 1982, she had a starring role in the motion picture "Wild Style" where she was able to display her exceptional art herself. That renowned role and her other significant contributions to graffiti have made her a cult figure in the hip-hop subculture. As a leading participant in the rise of graffiti art, Lady Pink's canvases have entered prestigious art collections such as those of the Whitney Museum, the MET in New York City, the Brooklyn Museum and the Groningen Museum of Holland. She has made a name for herself in the fine arts worldas her paintings are highly prized by collectors all over the globe. Today, Lady Pink continues to create new paintings on canvas that express her unique personal vision. She also shares her 30 years of experience with teens by holding mural workshops and actively lecturing to college students.
LADY PINK
RUBY NERI
If you drove through the streets of San Francisco in the 90’s,you probably came across some painted black and white horses;yes, horses! The incredibly talented woman behind these stunning creations is artist Ruby Neri aka Reminisce/ REM. Her trademark horses were painted everywhere on the city’s walls and trains. REM’s art always stood out from a lot of the graffiti artists at the time and even today, her distinct talent would still set a standard. Roaming around the Bay Area, one would find themselves suddenly in front of a stunning random horse galloping on a wall, or perhaps a simple lone beautiful horse just standing there staring at you. In the early 90’s, Neri (REM) was a core member of the Mission School, a group of countercultural street artists in San Francisco’s Mission District that included Barry McGee and Margaret Kilgallen. Ruby was born in San Francisco but now lives and works in Los Angeles. Inspired by her artistic past and present, she has continued her journey by creating sculptures of women with a graffiti twist. She will be part of a group exhibition at the Modern Museum of Art in Paris in October 2021. Following that exhibit, she will have a solo show with Salon 94 in November 2021.
McGee a San Francisco Graffiti Artist
McGee, a San Francisco graffiti artist, has been producing work on the streets since the 1980’s under the tag names “Twist”, “Twister”, and “Twisted”. His signature motif is the face of a man with sagging, tired eyes, and a screw rendered in an efficient linear style. I remember going to San Francisco in the early 90’s as a beginning graffiti artist myself and being amazed by his work and the spots he would paint. One would see it on the sides of bridges, billboard signs, roof tops, and other places that seemed impossible to get to easily. However, Twist always managed to surprise you with that fearless factor of risking his life to get up on a crazy spot. Twist was like Batman, probably not a billionaire, but a mysterious guy of the night that no one knew about at the time but everyone knew his work. When they saw the faces he did, the screws, throw ups and tags everywhere, he shot to popularity in the graffiti circles. He was a San Francisco city king no doubt. A revered figure in the West Coast graffiti subculture (typically associated with the skater and surfer communities), Barry McGee currently makes drawings, paintings, and mixed-media installations inspired by urban culture that incorporate elements such as empty liquor bottles and spray-paint cans, tagged signs, wrenches, and scrap wood or metal. You can find his artwork and follow him on his Instagram @mcgee_archive
RICHARD 'RICHIE' MIRANDO'S "SEEN"
Richard "Richie" Mirando’s, aka “SEEN”, artwork is synonymous with the historical cityscape of New York. Born in the Bronx in 1961, he has become one of the most well-known graffiti artists and is often referred to as the Godfather of Graffiti. Influenced by comics, “SEEN” first started getting up on the New York City subway systems in 1973, at the young age of 11. Over the next ten years, what began as a quick tag on the inside of a train, developed into producing full-color burners and rockin with his crew, United Artists (or simply UA), which included Duster, Sin, and his brother Mad, who all painted whole train cars. SEEN’S style of art contributed to some of the most iconic images of New York. The artist’s work has moved from the street to canvas and from trains to tattoos and gallery walls. SEEN also featured in the acclaimed 1983 documentary, Style Wars, which explored hip-hop culture. His vision became ingrained in popular culture with images of his work appearing in well-known digital video-games and, coincidentally, also where I first learned of him in the book “Subway Art”. SEEN now has his own galleries in New York and has recently started opening one in the city of sin, Las Vegas. To keep up with what this living legend and hip-hop icon does next, you can follow him on IG @graffitiloser and find his art and other items available at his website
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