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West Chelsea Contemporary is much more than the typical gallery. Offering world-class art in a dynamic, interactive setting WCC produces museum-quality exhibitions year-round with programming that is free and open to the public.

West Chelsea Contemporary’s collection includes artists influential to Pop Art, Street Art, Graffiti, Post-Graffiti and contemporary art as well as tastemakers of these movements With a local, national, and international roster of represented artists, West Chelsea Contemporary situates artwork from the primary market alongside a highly curated selection of pieces from the secondary market This novel display of represented, emerging and mid-career artists alongside Blue Chip masters increases each artist’s exposure and serves to make connections between their work.

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British, b 1974

BANKSY

Banksy Turn Right or Get Shot, 2011 Black tape on street sign 30 x 30 in Price on Request

In Turn Right or Get Shot (2011), Banksy takes over a diamond-shaped street sign signaling an intersection with small pieces of black duct tape, transforming it into a gun pointed upwards.

One year before this piece was exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, an exhibition entitled 'Art, Activism, Access: 40 Years of Ethnic Studies at UCLA,' on view at the Fowler Museum, UCLA, featured a series of photographs of signage used during the civil rights movement While residing in LA, Banksy became inspired by one of the images at this exhibition: a rudimentary street sign with the words 'Turn Left Or Get Shot' spray-painted on its face, to alert Black, Indigenous, and communities of color that this was not a safe area to enter. In the tradition of his Graffiti-tagged street signs, Banksy created this unique piece while retaining a clear political message and references to the history of the Civil Rights movement in the United States.

Banksy

Love Is In The Air (Flower Thrower) (VIP) (114/300), 2019

Screenprinted triptych on micron board

43 x 83 in

Price on Request

One of Banksy’s most iconic and immediately recognizable images Love Is In The Air encapsulates the decisive social commentary and wry humor that typify the artist’s provocative and highly acclaimed oeuvre. In its original guerrilla iteration, the image first appeared in 2003 as a large format stenciled graffiti in Bethlehem shortly after the construction of the West Bank Wall The graffiti was made on the 760km wall that separates Palestine from Israel, testifying to Banksy’s unique ability to activate urban environments and public architecture in a way that supercharges his message. Rendered in Banksy's signature stenciled style, Love Is In The Air (Flower Thrower) depicts a young man, dressed as a militant, wearing a baseball cap and a bandana to mask the lower half of his face. A well-known anti-war advocate, Banksy inserts the powerful message of peace over violence by substituting the protestor's rock, Molotov cocktail, or bomb with a bouquet of flowers. It is believed that the floral replacement in the image was inspired by the poem “Wage Peace” by Judyth Hill

Axe makes a clever comment on the tradition of the readymade; whilst appearing to be a found object like Duchamp’s wine rack or urinal, the work has in fact been made from scratch, presenting a doubling of an existing object which has been given an ironic punchline by these two artists who are known for their satirical wit The work could also be read as a message on pacifism, referencing Bernie Boston’s famous photograph of a man inserting a flower into the barrel of a soldier’s gun at a Vietnam war protest, Flower Power, which depicts a man inserting a flower into the barrel of a soldier's gun at a Vietnam war protest. This sculpture can also be read as a reference to early works by Banksy, such as Love Is In The Air (Flower Thrower), in which the artist captures a man with a bandana over his face frozen in the act of throwing not a brick or a molotov cocktail but a bunch of flowers at an unseen target. Similarly, the axe and its flower could be promoting an environmentalist message, asking us to consider the value of our trees, especially in light of the ongoing climate crisis.

As an artist who tends to work alone, this collaboration is significant in Banksy’s body of work. The piece was first sold as part of Gross Domestic Product, a new ‘homewares brand’ launched by Banksy in October 2019 in response to the threat of a greeting card company claiming the rights to his name in order to sell products based on his designs As a result, the Banksy name became accompanied by the trademark symbol, and a new line of products and artworks were released, much of them in the same vein as this sculpture, offering witty takes on some of the darker or more desperate corners of contemporary society.

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Escif 2019

Banksy

Welcome Mat, 2019

Life vest fabric on fiber door mat

20 x 27 in

$6,500

In 2019, Banksy launched a store in Croydon, London called Gross Domestic Product, with this doormat featured in the window of the shop. Welcome Mat was made in collaboration with Love Welcomes, a creative social enterprise that works with fabrics diverted from landfills notably, life jackets worn by refugees forced to flee their homes. Designed by Banksy, each Welcome Mat is hand-stitched and fabricated by women with refugee backgrounds employed by Love Welcomes using life vests that were abandoned on the beaches of the Mediterranean

Published by Gross Domestic Products Welcome Mat comes with a GDP label affixed to the piece certifying its authenticity as a Banksy product.

BILL BARMINSKI

American, b 1962

Bill Barminski has a long history of playing with cardboard. Though known as a painter, his increasingly independent sense of humor long ago inspired him to make unlikely things out of cardboard rockets, motorcycles, mixtapes, gas masks offerings which always operated on dual levels. On the one hand, the subversive joy of making that recalls childhood in its imagination and raw fun; on the other, an almost nihilistic thumb in the eye of the expense-obsessed out of control art market and its insatiable appetite for junk Barminski's work has spanned innumerable music videos, movies, magazines and advertisements. Some of the most notable include the Absolut Vodka billboard on Sunset, Baz Lurhmann's iconic Everybody's Free (To Wear Sunscreen) video, or the security entryway to Banksy's Dismaland He has been immensely prolific and influential over the last 30 years, with work spanning the mediums of illustration, painting, sculpting, animation, music composition, video and fully-immersive large-scale installations.

Bill Barminski

Boozy Flower Uzi, 2021

Acrylic on wood panel

36 x 48 in

$4,000

Bill Barminski

Record Player with Barons Record, 2021

Acrylic on cardboard, life-sized record player with working audio unit

6 x 16 in $1,600

Bill Barminski

Table Items

Acrylic on cardboard

10 x 10 x 6 in

$1,000

BLEK LE RAT

French, b 1951

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dissemination of art through the city as if it were the plague. In recent years his work has become increasingly political, focusing on the homeless, the environment, and other social causes Blek’s posters of kidnapped French journalist Florence Aubenas helped raise public awareness of her situation, pressuring politicians and journalists to work harder for her release.

Blek le Rat

8 Dancers, 2021

Acrylic and spray paint on linen

51.13 x 39.13 in $42,500

Blek le Rat

Dog & Pony Show, 2011

Spray paint and acrylic on linen

79.63 x 95.19 in Price on Request

Blek le Rat

Renaissance, 2021

Mixed media and aerosol on linen

51 12 x 38 5 in $44,250

Blek le Rat

Richard Hambleton Tribute, 2022

Acrylic and aerosol on linen

83 x 52 in

Price on Request

Blek le Rat

TMWWTW Blue, 2022

Acrylic and aerosol on linen

41 x 40 in

$41,000

One of Blek le Rat's most notable images is his self-portrait, The Man Who Walks

Through Walls (TMWWTW). This character features the artist's face on the body of one of his favorite actors Buster Keaton holding suitcases filled with stencils Blek has described this figure as a traveler who journeys around the world, perhaps an immigrant seeking a place to settle down. "He is like a ghost," Blek explains. The character walks through one wall only to appear on another in a different city. The figure also lends itself to Blek's own mission of spreading his art widely, traveling across the world to adorn the streets of faraway places. TMWWTW made its debut on the streets of London in 2004 and has since become, fittingly, Blek's most traveled character He can be found on walls in London, Buenos Aires, Leipzig, Prague, and New York, among others.

MR. BRAINWASH

French, b 1966

into his wry screen prints and sculptures Mr Brainwash s colorful texts and iconography reflect the artist’s Graffiti-inspired sensibility and undermine his original source material. The artist rose to prominence as the main figure in the 2010 Banksy-directed film Exit Through the Gift Shop Today, his work sells for up to six figures on the secondary market Mr Brainwash has also designed album covers for the likes of Madonna and Rick Ross.

Mr. Brainwash

Einstein, 2022

Silkscreen and mixed media on canvas

32 25 x 28 25 in $44,050

Express Yourself, 2022

Silkscreen and mixed media on canvas

28 25 x 32 25 in $44,050

Keep It Unreal, 2022

Silkscreen and mixed media on paper

36 x 36 in

$19,200

Mr. Brainwash Mr. Brainwash

HENRY CHALFANT

American, b 1940

Urban culture photographer Henry Chalfant is most notable for his Graffiti and break dance photography and film. He is highly regarded as one of the foremost authorities on New York Subway art and other aspects of urban youth culture Chalfant started out as a sculptor in New York in the 1970s and turned to photography and film to do an in-depth study of hip-hop culture and Graffiti art. Due to the ephemeral nature of Street Art, Chalfant’s photographs act as lasting proof of some of the finest Graffiti art that no longer exists Chalfant co-authored the definitive account of New York Graffiti art, Subway Art and a sequel on the art form’s worldwide diffusion, Spraycan Art. Chalfant also co-produced and did the background research and photo-documentation for the 1983 documentary film, Style Wars, first shown on PBS television in 1984. His photos are in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, and the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Passion by Zephyr (5/25), 1980

Montage of 5 joined photographs

8 x 40 in $8,500

Widely recognized as one of the most significant documentarians of Graffiti and Street Art, Henry Chalfant has produced numerous photographs of the work of artists now recognized as Graffiti pioneers He has documented works by Blaze, CRASH, DAZE, Dez, Fab 5 Freddy, Zephyr, and more. In this piece, Passion by Zephyr, executed in 1980, Chalfant captures Zephyr's work on a subway car, which includes the word “PASSION" filled in with light green and outlined in blue To the right of "PASSION," Zephyr created a caricature of the skull of Uncle Sam, reanimating him with a text box of dialogue that reads “LOVE STINKS."

Chalfant's montage of five joined photographs display Zephyr’s sequence of forms, which progress like a gust of wind blown by the Greek god to which his name alludes. Zephyr's work perhaps suggests mixed emotions of a time when New York was ripe with both fragility and animation, and Chalfant's panoramic serves only to emphasize these feelings

ZEPHYR

American, b 1961

Michel Basquiat In 1983, his art was part of an exhibition that toured Japan which also included Fab Five Freddy, Dominique Philbert, Futura 2000, and Dondi White. That same year, Zephyr was hired by Director Charlie Ahearn to design and art direct the title sequence for the first hip-hop film, Wild Style, in which he was also featured. He is co-author of the 2001 biography Dondi White Style Master General: The Life of Graffiti Artist Dondi White and in 2005, he was included in the East Village USA show held at The New Museum. He has been featured in the films Style Wars, The Art of Storytelling, and Bomb It

Zephyr

Celebrating 15 Years Above Ground (96/100), 1995

14 x 11 in

$5,800

Watercolor and collage on paper mounted on wood

SANDRA CHEVRIER

Canadian, b 1983

has produced a number of public works and collaborated with clients including the Ultimate Fighting Championship, the LINE Hotel in Austin, and Palms Casino Resort.

Sandra Chevrier La cage quand le cœur bat à toute vitesse, 2015 Watercolor and collage on paper mounted on wood 16.93 x 13.81 x 2 in $8,500

CRASH

American, b 1961

breaking Graffiti Art Success for America at Fashion MODA that helped elevate the Graffiti movement CRASH’s career took off and he saw instant popularity throughout Europe and America, and eventually Asia CRASH's work has been part of numerous exhibitions around the world and is in many permanent museum collections including the Brooklyn Museum and the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam. His visually iconic work has appeared in partnerships with Absolut Vodka, Fender Guitars, SoBella Handbags, Levi’s, and most recently, Tumi luggage and Morphik. He is the co-owner of contemporary art gallery WALLWORKS NEW YORK and the coowner of Wallworks TWO, a locally driven retail boutique, both in The Bronx.

CRASH

C, 2022

Spray paint on shaped canvas

40 x 36 in

$11,000

CRASH

Color Cloud 1, 2022

Spray paint on shaped canvas

36 x 36 in

$11,000

CRASH

Color Cloud 2, 2022

Spray paint on shaped canvas

36 x 36 in

$11,000

DAZE

American, b 1962

Chris Daze Ellis began his prolific Career painting New York City subway cars in 1976 while attending The High School of Art and Design. He remains one of the few artists of his generation to make the successful transition from the subways to the studio. His first group show was the seminal “Beyond Words” at the Mudd Club in 1981. Soon after his first solo exhibition was held at Fashion Moda, an influential alternative art space in the South Bronx One year later the Sammlung Ludwig, Aachen, Germany acquired the first of several paintings for their permanent collection. Since then he has exhibited in numerous solo exhibitions in such cities as Paris, Monte Carlo, Singapore, Beijing, Florence, and Buenos Aires. Ellis’ work has continued to be included in many group shows and museum surveys internationally Daze’s paintings have found themselves in many private collections including Eric Clapton, Natalie Imbruglia and Madonna. His work can also be found in the permanent collections of The Whitney Museum, NY, Museum of Modern Art, NY, The Museum of the City of New York, The Ludwig Museum, Aachen, and Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven.

DAZE

Where Kings Dwell, 2019

Acrylic and spray paint on canvas

53 x 53 x 1 in $18,000

DAZE

Lost In The World, 2021

Silkscreen and charcoal on Rives paper

44 x 30.25 in

$7,050

DAZE

Celebrating 15 Years Above Ground (96/100), 1995

Screenprint in color on Stonehenge paper

14 x 11 in

$1,800

DELTA 2 American

Kings Arrive DELTA 2 also experienced success in the international art scene Beginning in 1984 he painted in more conventional contexts He participated in a Guillaume Gallozo Graffiti art presentation for Valentino's 25th Anniversary in Rome, Italy and displayed and sold paintings throughout Europe. DELTA's current work features traditional aerosol paintings--such as his work at the 2005 NYC Graffiti Hall of Fame--and meticulously detailed line art illustrations and letter explorations.

Delta 2

Untitled, 2009

Spray paint on canvas

24 x 48 in

$14,000

Among the first American writers to bring Graffiti to commercial European galleries, Delta 2’s work is internationally celebrated alongside names such as Rammellzee and Kool Koor, both of which he collaborated with as a part of the Tag Master Killers

Untitled, 2009 utilizes Delta 2’s Graffiti style to portray an embellished rendition of the word "Delta," commemorating the artists own namesake. The work serves as a classic example of the artist's unique composition and kaleidoscopic range of color as it reminisces on a surrealist urban landscape

Delta 2, born Jean Gallard, began painting on trains in 1978, and then became wellknown within the scene for his rapid takeovers of the 4 and 6 train lines By 1982, he was exhibiting works in galleries and at art fairs in both the United States and abroad. In 1985, he participated in the Guillaume Gallozo Graffiti art presentation for Valentino's 25th Anniversary in Rome.

Delta 2

Untitled (New York City), 1990

Spray paint and mixed media media collage on canvas

36 x 24 in

$9,400

fight against the ways in which we are all unthoughtful when it comes to language Rammellzee calls you to design your style based in Gothic Futurism, a philosophy he articulates in a 1979 manifesto titled Iconic Treatise on Gothic Futurism. As a part of his theory, Rammellzee arms letters for battle, manifests intergalactic starships, and renders beautiful depictions of nebulae As Graffiti's first major critical theorist, Rammellzee argues that the art form holds the power to weaponize letters and reclaim language in the battle against a culture plagued by social control He instills his TMK crew with this belief Fascinated by the galactic, otherworldly, and architecture, Kool Koor seems to be a perfect fit. However, to make it into TMK, it is all about your letters.

Koor chooses “B” this letter allows for evolution You can separate its lobes from their stem You can work fluidly You can dissect the type’s anatomy the movement of its ascenders and descenders With a “B,” you can arrive at “R,” then “K,” or you can go from “B” to “13” with the separation of two semicircles from the vertical-lined stem. Koor repeats “BRK13” throughout his work but it’s more than that. Through a two-dimensional representation, Koor's motif creates a three-dimensional object. Impressed by his letterbuilding, Rammellzee welcomes Koor into TMK, along with A-One, Toxic, and Delta 2.

By the mid-1980s, Delta 2 becomes famous for his Graffiti work on subways, well known for his rapid takeover of the 6 and 4 lines. He later makes a name for himself in the international art scene, working in more conventional contexts, including traditional aerosol paintings, detailed line art illustrations, and letter explorations. Today, Kool Koor continues to build three-dimensional objects in his space-age-inspired works, creating celestial vessels that fly through a realm shimmering with starlight

KOOL KOOR

American, b 1963

A monumental first-generation Graffiti artist, Kool Koor is best known for his spaceage inspired works that range from surreal scenes to intricate abstractions. Born Charles Hargrove, the artist began his career in the late 1970’s on the subway trains and throughout the urban landscape of New York City while attending the Art and Design School in Manhattan. In doing so, the artist helped bring the South Bronx style to downtown Manhattan, at venues such as Fashion Mod, and transform the Graffiti style away from just urban scrawl into an innovative movement in the artistic scene. Along with friends and fellow artists Rammellzee, Crash, and Futura, Kool Koor stands at the basis of the New York Graffiti movement. Kool Koor now lives and works in Brussels, Belgium

Kool Koor

Twins Revisited, 2020

Acrylic, spray paint, and paint markers on canvas

60 x 48 in

$26,000

AL DIAZ

American, b 1959

SAMO

Thick markers and spray paint in hand, a teenage Jean-Michel Basquiat and Al Díaz begin tagging the streets of Manhattan in 1978 The pair’s ubiquitous tag, SAMO …, evolves from a “secret society” idea first beginning at City As School High School in Brooklyn After numerous philosophical discussions, Basquiat and Díaz craft SAMO pronounced “say-moe” from a phrase they hear throughout the neighborhood: “Same Old Shit.” Safe to say, Basquiat and Díaz have a lot in common. With a mutual interest in wordplay, they create a literary newspaper at school Organically and with passion, the two shape a unique narrative around their SAMO concept Basquiat expertly writes an amusing and humorous essay in which SAMO ... redefines a new religion perfect for solving the woes of an increasingly dispirited society.

Together, Basquiat and Díaz spend time filling notebooks and fostering lengthy discussions about SAMO , curating an exceptionally sophisticated body of work Their cryptic phrases and statements ring advertorial, strategic in their aim to get attention. Their words linger in the minds of viewers and admirers throughout an artsy SoHo, whose passersby are often artists, gallery owners, writers, art critics, or the like. With poise and electricity, Basquiat and Díaz hit just the right notes of rebellion and skepticism Decorating a city drowning in and comfortably numbed by advertising verbiage and promotions, it is not long before everyone begins to wonder who it is regularly placing interesting, neatly drawn uppercase words throughout the streets of Lower Manhattan always signed "SAMO..."

By the end of the year, the Village Voice publishes an article about SAMO and SoHo Weekly News runs an editorial asking the author to come forward Basquiat and Díaz disagree on going public: Basquiat is for it, while Díaz wants to stay behind the curtain Basquiat decides to reveal himself. By early 1980, the two friends halt their collaborative work. Basquiat disperses the final mantra: "SAMO IS DEAD." Not long after, Basquiat earns his first major art show in 1981 and continues to use the SAMO moniker in his paintings Díaz launches his career as a percussionist

In 2016, Díaz resurrects SAMO... Now fully revived, Díaz employs the once-anonymous Graffiti poet to create the six featured SAMO... pieces in 2022, along with many others.

BANNED IN CHINA

It’s the summer of 2021 Al Díaz receives an invitation from Beyond The Streets to participate in its Shanghai event in 2022. Enthusiastic about picking up from where he left off prior to COVID-19, Díaz decides to incorporate photos of himself and longtime friend and collaborator Jean-Michel Basquiat into his works for the event He had previously been working with these photos for a New York City exhibition at Van Der Plas Gallery titled WE WERE SAMO ..., which intended to demystify the somewhat murky and incorrectly told story of the Graffiti Basquiat and Díaz created together in the late 1970s

As winter creeps in, Díaz receives a few more emails: date changes and what starts to sound like censorship of his subject matter With every update, Díaz is brought under more restrictive and tense criteria Soon, Díaz becomes aware that many of his word-and image-based themes would not be accepted including any and all images of his Graffiti partner, Basquiat. While Díaz said Roger Gastman and his BTS team were very understanding and supportive, after several more calls, it is decided Díaz will "wait this one out." Despite remaining on great terms with BTS, Díaz’s optimism and excitement about the Shanghai event wanes completely.

Inspired by the disappointment and determined to bring the planned pieces to full completion, Díaz finishes the two Banned in China pieces in 2021-2022. Through the works, he tells the story of his experience and the evolution that he and his art endure

Al Díaz

Banned In China 1, 2021-2022

Acrylic and silkscreen on canvas

68 x 56 in $18,000

Al Díaz

Banned in China 2, 2021-2022

Acrylic, silkscreen, and collage on canvas

68 x 56 x 1 5 in $18,000

RON ENGLISH

American, b 1959

jamming efforts (altering billboards) alongside the Billboard Liberation Front He later earned his MFA from the University of Texas English has exhibited in London, Los Angeles, and New York, among other cities. In addition to his fine art and mural practices, English has produced album art for musicians including the Dandy Warhols and Slash, art for the documentary Super Size Me, and a number of designer toys.

Ron English

Mickey Mouse Imagining Primal Pop, 2021

Oil on canvas

52 x 89 in Price on Request

Pioneering American contemporary artist Ron English explores the intersection of Street Art, brand imagery, superhero comics, art history, advertising, and politics. His cheeky interpretation of Pop Art comes alive in vibrant drawings, paintings, and murals, and Mickey Mouse Imagining Primal Pop is no different. The most prominent reference to pop culture in this piece includes Mickey Mouse. English's version of the well-known Disney character is cheery only in posture; his face is masked with a portal into what seems to be a fantastical realm, populated with a pink and red KAWS figure and a yellow and black character reminiscent of Sonic the Hedgehog. The two stand on a bridge covered in foliage in a scene taken from the kitsch paintings of Thomas Kinkade. To the left of the Mickey Mouse figure sits a bust of a Basquiat-esque head reimagined in 3D English configures the painting like a disjointed advertisement, placing an invitation to viewers at Mickey Mouse's feet to "Win $1,000,000." He finishes the painting with his initials, which he stylizes to parody the General Electric logo, further emphasizing the look and feel of an advertisement or promotional poster.

FAILE

American, Founded 1999

FAILE FSTR, 2019

Acrylic, silkscreen ink, and spray paint on paper

50 x 35 in $30,000

FAILE Hair Wolf PPR, 2015

Acrylic, silkscreen ink, and spray paint on paper

75 5 x 50 in $30,500

SHEPARD FAIREY

American, b 1970

Shepard Fairey Windmill Girl, 2022 Material stencil and mixed media collage on paper 42 x 18 in $20,500

Shepard Fairey Star on Billboard, 2022 Material stencil and mixed media collage on paper 30 5 x 19 5 in $18,000

Shepard Fairey Lotus Pod Study (Red), 2021 Stencil, silkscreen, and collage on paper 18 x 14 in $13,500

FAB 5 FREDDY

American, b 1959

Visual artist, filmmaker, and hip-hop pioneer Fab 5 Freddy (Fred Brathwaite) was among the earliest Graffiti artists to receive recognition in the wider art world. His work bridged the uptown hip-hop scene and the downtown art and punk scene of 1970s and ’80s New York and made major artistic contributions to both. Along with Futura 2000, Keith Haring, Jean-Michel Basquiat, and others, Fab 5 Freddy proved that Graffiti was not just a passing trend but an art movement all of its own In 1979, he and fellow artist Lee Quiñones were the first to exhibit Graffiti art abroad, bringing international attention to this emerging American artistic medium; his appearance in the 1983 cult-classic film Wild Style inextricably linked Graffiti art with hip-hop music. As a member of the Graffiti crew the Fabulous 5, he became known for covering New York subway cars in Graffiti, and later went on to produce films and music videos with pop culture icons like Blondie and Queen Latifah.

Return of God to Africa (35/100), 2021

Screenprint in colors on Coventry Rag paper

30 x 30 in

$3,500

Fab 5 Freddy

Quiñones becomes one of the most famous members. Notably, Quiñones and Fab 5 share a common objective: bombing whole subway cars or rather, covering them in Graffiti. Known for his precise paint control and ability to illustrate, Quiñones becomes instrumental in the realization of the "Whole Train Dream,” helping to place Fab 5 amongst the short list of crews to tag a whole train of 10 subway cars.

By the late 1970s, Fred Brathwaite, more popularly known as Fab 5 Freddy, joins the Brooklyn-based Graffiti group. While known for painting the entire side of New York City's subway cars, Freddy and Quiñones together shift the crew towards a different impetus, aiming to bring Graffiti to the forefront of the contemporary art world By 1979, Freddy and Quiñones exhibit in Galleria La Medusa in Rome, Italy the first Graffiti artists to have their work shown abroad. A year later, Freddy and Quiñones bring the gallery to Graffiti, painting a subway train with giant cartoon-style depictions of Andy Warhol's Campbell Soup cans.

Throughout the 1980s and beyond, Freddy flourishes within the music scene as an undeniable force for Hip Hop He conceptualizes what becomes the legendary Charlie Ahearn-directed 1983 film Wild Style, which celebrates Hip Hop and Graffitti culture and their pioneers. Freddy co-produces the soundtrack with Chris Stein and stars in the film alongside Quiñones Today, Fab 5's Freddy and Quiñones continue to shape the worlds of art, music, and entertainment, creating and producing works that push boundaries and place the immense talents and influences of Graffiti and Hip Hop at center stage.

Major

Inkjet giclée on canvas

40 x 40 x 1 50 in $19,500

Fab 5 Freddy Movement, 2012

LEE QUIÑONES

American, b 1960

George Lee Quiñones is one of the most prominent figures to achieve visibility during the golden age of New York City Graffiti culture. Raised on the Lower East Side, Quiñones established himself alongside peers like Keith Haring, Jean-Michel Basquiat, and members of Fabulous 5ive. He began tagging the city’s subway system in 1974, gaining notoriety for his ability to cover entire subway cars with riotous phrases, beasts, and abstract forms Some of his tags were overtly political, like “Earth is Hell, Heaven is Life” and “Stop the Bomb ” These messages circulated throughout the city and caught the eye of countless straphangers. While most of his unsanctioned large-scale paintings no longer exist, fans of Quiñones can purchase his works on paper, which feature the same layered, frenzied style of his street art His works are in the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the New Museum, and the Staatliche Museen, among others.

Fab 5 Freddy

Major Movement, 2012

Inkjet giclée on canvas

40 x 40 x 1 50 in

$19,500

FUTURA American, b 1955

decades, he’s exhibited at such institutions as the New Museum and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, and his work has sold for six figures at auction. Futura has also collaborated with fashion brands such as Supreme, Comme des Garçons, Nike, and Off-White.

Futura

Time Travel (/PP), 2022

Silkcreen on 320 gram Coventry R paper with hand deckled edges

22 x 30 in

$3,500

Futura

Celebrating 15 Years Above Ground (96/100), 1995

Screenprint in colors on Stonehenge paper

14 x 11 in

$3,800

DOZE GREEN

American, b 1964

“biological entities, a swarm of arrows coming in from infinite perspective.”

Doze Green

Divine Spark, 2022

Mixed media on canvas

73 50 x 59 25 in Price on Request

This mixed media piece was inspired by Doze Green's "Divine Spark Project," which renewed a 1911 theater as part of the Unexpected Project curated by Justkids. Bringing contemporary art to Arkansas, Green interpreted his version of life all over the walls of the Sparks New Theater in Fort Smith, which was abandoned in the 1970s. Celebrating the spectrum of human experience, this piece and the project from which it is inspired take viewers on a visual journey through the progression of art and its multiple manifestations, including music, theatre, art, and spoken word. Divine Spark features Green's signature style of characters and elements caught in a state of flux, demonstrating the kinetic flow of action painting. Green captures his characters through figurative abstraction, fluid line work, and organic cubism to create an illusion of time made immortal.

Doze Green

Enki, 2002

Pencil on paper

14 x 11 in $3,000

Doze Green

Harpie, 2014

Pencil on paper

14 x 16 5 in $3,500

Doze Green

String Time, 2000

Pencil on paper

14 x 10 75 in $3,000

crew brings innovation to the Graffiti scene, especially the NYC subway system, and continues to push the boundaries of contemporary letter and character styles over the last 25 years.

By the early 1980s, Doze Green joins TC5 alongside Lady Pink Green, also Devious Doze, finds a home in the Graffiti and Hip Hop scenes by tagging subway cars and breakdancing for Rock Steady Crew, a legendary b-boying and Hip Hop group. With Green as the king of characters, TC-5 pioneers the Graffiti scene with the modernday Graffiti character Green is seen as a fusionist, symbolist, and figurative painter he is an artist's artist, with work that defies definition.

Nicknamed the "First Lady of Graffiti," Lady Pink challenges the norm as one of the first women active in the 1980s New York City subway Graffiti scene. Pink joins TC5 after creating an all-female crew, Ladies of the Arts. Along with her leading role in Wild Style (1983), Pink painted subway trains throughout the 1980s, moving on to freight trains in the 90s Today, Lady Pink utilizes her expertise in Graffiti art and design to create chromatic studio paintings and murals that reimagine a more just world for women of color.

TC5

LADY PINK

Ecuadorian-American, b 1964

Sandra Fabara, aka, Lady Pink, was born in Ecuador, raised in Queens, New York, and studied at the High School of Art & Design in Manhattan. While a student there, she met a group of Graffiti artists and began writing at age fifteen She was soon well known as the only prominent female capable of competing with the boys in the Graffiti subculture. Lady Pink painted subway trains from the years 1979-1985. She appeared in theaters in the starring role of Rose in Charlie Ahearn’s 1983 film Wild Style and quickly acquired hip-hop, cult figure status Lady Pink’s canvases are in the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Brooklyn Museum, among others. They were featured in the major exhibitions “Art in the Streets” at the LA MOCA and “Graffiti” at the Brooklyn Museum. Lady Pink continues to mature as an artist, selling work internationally and producing ambitious murals commissioned for universities, corporations and institutions

Lady Pink Sisters Oh Sisters, 2019

Acrylic on canvas

114.50 x 115.37 in

Price on Request

Lady Pink Unity Tree, 2021

Acrylic on canvas

112 x 93 25 in Price on Request

In 2018, Lady Pink was commissioned by the city of Gävle, Sweden to paint a mural addressing immigrant issues facing the area. After completing the mural, the artist loved the imagery so much that she decided to create a replica inspired by her commission for an exhibition at Soho Contemporary Art in New York Unity Tree depicts a budding tree of life against a black background. Each branch debuts a different flower from countries across the world synthesizing in harmony to act as personal symbols of strength, growth, and beauty. Lady Pink’s current home in the countryside continues to encourage her adoration of the living world “I grew up around flowers and an abundance of color, which inspires me to use this imagery in my artwork,” the artist says “Now, I live in the country, surrounded by nature again. It’s sunny, warm, and wonderful ” Unity Tree was exhibited in the artist's solo exhibition, Lady Pink: Graffiti HerStory at the Museum of Graffiti, Miami in 2021.

RICHARD HAMBLETON Canadian, 1952 - 2017

Richard Hambleton, referred to as the “Godfather of Street Art,” was a pioneering Canadian Street Artist. He is recognized as a pivotal intermediary between Abstract Expressionism and the popular “art for the masses” Graffiti that boomed in the 1980s. Hambleton is best known for his grisly “Shadowmen” and “Horse and Rider” figures, which he tagged in alleyways and drug-dealing hotspots in Lower Manhattan throughout the '70s and ’80s Despite finding early success in New York and showing at the Venice Biennale in 1984 and ’88, Hambleton was largely forgotten in the ’90s and early 2000s, when his personal battles with addiction alienated him from the art world. Hambleton’s work saw a resurgence in the 2010s, with solo shows, major museum retrospectives, and documentaries taking a new look at the seminal role he played in the history of Street Art.

Richard Hambleton

Shanghai, 1982

Acrylic on canvas

91 x 54 in Price on Request

Renowned as the “Godfather of Street Art,” Richard Hambleton rose to critical acclaim in the 1980s with his legendary Shadowman series of black and white silhouettes painted on building facades throughout New York City. Exemplifying Hambleton’s prolific series of expressive, leering figures on canvas, Shanghai references figures from his “shadow” project, wherein he splattered walls worldwide – from the Lower East Side to Paris, Rome to Shanghai – and gained international notoriety as a result. Each work in the Shadowman painting series is titled after a major international city With Shanghai, Hambleton moves from painting directly on the city streets to cleverly and conceptually engaging with cities from afar.

Untitled (1985), created during the peak of Hambleton's career, is an early variation of the artist's celebrated Shadowman series This work draws upon the feel of Abstract Expressionism's action painting while evoking Impressionism's ability to capture the temporary. Specifically, this piece is situated within Hambleton's 1985 'Rainscape' series, in which the artist used gel to create the effect of rain dripping overtop the paper surface of his works.

Richard Hambleton Untitled, 1985 Acrylic and gel on paper 71.5 x 29.5 in Price on Request

Richard Hambleton

Battle Scene Painting, 1983

Acrylic and plastic figurines on canvas

96 x 40 in

Price on Request

After gaining notoriety for mass murder scenes and 'Night Life' street imagery in the late seventies Hambleton began to realize a key difference between his street art and gallery work - the opportunity for progression His outdoor works were a tool to transfer an idea immediately, while works on canvas afforded the artist opportunity to incorporate color, texture, composition, and structure - four elements on full display within the present work. From his beginnings in San Francisco Hambleton was interested in the psychological effects of terror Here, Hambleton dives deeper into this exploration. By alluding to war, explosions, blood, guns, and soldiers Hambleton readies the viewer for a shocking twist - the sculptural inclusion of toys. Nostalgic and seemingly innocent, the addition is both thought-provoking and unsettling.

KEITH HARING

American, 1958 - 1990

singer Grace Jones. Haring s prodigious career was brief, and he died of AIDS related complications on February 16, 1990 at the age of 31.

Keith Haring

Untitled (Helmet and Invitation), 1987

Marker pen on helmet and printed paper invitation

6.5 x 11 x 8.5 in $39,900

This unique art object was created during a pre-exhibition party titled Pour un déjeuner sur l’herbe, (a nod to Edouard Manet's 1863 masterpiece) to celebrate the opening of Keith Haring at Casino Knokke, Belgium in 1987. The Elderid mountain climbing helmet was also popular with skateboarders, hence the skating figure rendered by Haring for the helmet’s original owner, one of the party attendees

The circle surrounding an x, denoted on both the helmet, and invitation, is an indicator that this is an authentic Keith Haring piece. The “X” marking inside the body of Haring's figures was a more general statement against the transformation of humans into targets, as Haring took a strong stand against events of the time, like the AIDS crisis, the state of emergency during the apartheid-era in South Africa, or the war in Vietnam.

JONONE

American, b 1963

JonOne Knight Sky, 2018 Oil on canvas 63,34 x 51 14 in $40,000

JR French, b 1983

JR’s practice lies at the intersection of photography, Street Art, film, and social practice. The artist is best known for his site-specific public interventions, which usually feature large-scale, black-and-white photographs overlaid on building façades, stadium seats, and a variety of other architectural and landscape features. His practice often comments on such issues as incarceration, immigrant rights, and poverty yet JR infuses his work with joy and hope for change He has exhibited in cities including New York, London, Paris, Tokyo, Berlin, and Seoul JR’s work belongs in the collections of the Musée de l’Elysée, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Brooklyn Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Museum Frieder Burda In addition to his public interventions, JR has produced a number of films, including a collaboration with the famed French director Agnès Varda.

Unframed, Children Treated in the Ellis Island Hospital Revised by JR, U.S.A (2/3), 2014 Color photograph, matte plexiglass, aluminum, and wood

70 75 x 96 in

Price on Request

This piece is from JR’s UNFRAMED Ellis Island project, where the artist created a sitespecific installation in the Ellis Island Hospital by superimposing archival photographs onto various parts of the building, which has been abandoned for the past 60 years This installation project is part of JR’s larger series that “puts archival photos in new contexts” in places around the world from Marseille, France to São Paulo, Brazil. The seven children pictured in the photo were sent to the Ellis Island hospital after arriving to the US because they had favus, a scalp disease JR intends for his installation to remain up in the space “until it decides to disappear.” Like many of his public interventions, photographic editions like this one allow JR’s work to be frozen in time and immortalized as a tangible work of art that can reach a different audience

KAWS

American, b 1974

studied illustration at the School of Visual Arts in New York and went on to work as an animator at Disney after graduating Evoking the sensibilities of Pop artists like Andy Warhol and Claes Oldenburg, KAWS possesses sophisticated humor and thoughtful interplay with consumer products and collaborations with global brands. He often draws inspiration and appropriates from popular culture animations to form a unique artistic vocabulary and influential cast of hybrid cartoon and human characters.

KAWS

4FT Companion (Black) (/100), 2007

Fiber-reinforced plastic

50 x 22 x 14 in

Price on Request

KAWS

4FT Companion (Grey) (/100), 2007

Fiber-reinforced plastic

50 x 22 x 14 in

Price on Request

EDUARDO KOBRA

Brazilian, b 1976

Eduardo Kobra’s final masterpiece, a larger than life photorealistic mural. The artist officially began his career at the age of 12 years old and has painted over 3,000 murals on five different continents since In 2016 Eduardo Kobra made the headlines for creating his illustrious 32,000 square-foot mural Las Etnias (The Ethnicities) that lined Olympic Boulevard at the 2016 Rio Olympics.

Eduardo Kobra

Pablo Picasso, 2019

Spray paint and acrylic on canvas

60.75 x 77 in

Price on Request

Kobra employs his trademark style of blending geometric patterns, bright, contrasting colors, and hyper-realism in this portrait of Pablo Picasso. Despite capturing Picasso's likeness in hyper-realism, Kobra divides the artist's features into translucent rectangular, square, and triangular shapes that are rich in color. Through this practice, Kobra seemingly prompts viewers to recall Picasso as a co-founder of the Cubist movement. This portrait falls into his common practice of capturing kaleidoscopic images of famous icons from art to social justice. In addition to his studio works on canvas such as this painting Kobra is widely known for his massive-scale, brightly colored murals infused with bold lines and found in various cities, states, and countries, including throughout the state of New York, in Chicago and Minneapolis, and throughout his hometown of São Paulo, Brazil. Many of his murals focus on social justice, including the fight against pollution, global warming, destruction of forests, and war.

CHRIS LEVINE

British, b 1960

Chris Levine is a light artist who works across many mediums in pursuit of an expanded state of perception and awareness through image and form. Levine’s work considers light not just as a core aspect of art, but of human experience more widely and a spiritual, meditative and philosophical edge permeates his work. Levine is perhaps best known for producing what is already being described as one of the most iconic images of the twenty-first century, Lightness of Being With light and stillness at its core, the sensational portrait of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II presents an utterly fresh depiction of the most famous woman in the world. Levine has had artwork in London’s Science Museum and has staged light performances and exhibitions internationally in spaces such as Radio City in New York commissioned by MoMA, The Royal Opera House, MATE museum in Lima, and London’s Fine Art Society. Levine’s status as one of the World’s leading light artists has led to a number of high profile cross media collaborations with Massive Attack, Kate Moss, and Grace Jones, and has produced work for Chanel, BMW and Swarovski.

Chris Levine

Banksy (3D) (27/33), 2019

Archival inkjet print with Fluro stamp 24 41 x 17 72 in

$45,000

In 2017, Levine released a photograph titled Banksy in an edition of 4 artist prints, one of which went on to sell for seven times the estimate, with the other three belonging to Banksy himself and the musician Robert Del Naja Banksy (3D) is a later edition of 33 released in 2019 after the original edition's success. The work portrays Banksy’s famed anonymity as the artist captures him from behind without revealing his face.

Chris Levine is a UK-based photographer and light artist with a multi-disciplinary approach that harnesses a diverse array of technology with the unyielding intention of revealing the ways in which light is fundamental to the human experience. Levine is perhaps best known for his holographic portraits of celebrities, including Queen Elizabeth II and singer Grace Jones

ERIC ORR American

personal archives were acquired by Cornell University and his work joined the permanent collection of Columbia University the following year.

Eric Orr

Repeat, 2020

Silkscreen on 320 gram Coventry Rag paper with hand-deckled edges

27 x 20 in

$1,800

PHOEBENEWYORK American

PhoebeNewYork, the alter ego of the artist Libby Schoettle, first came to life in collages created with found objects, including vintage photographs, magazine pages, clothing, old books, record covers, and iconic pop art elements The artist is drawn to materials that have been owned and handled by others, touched over time, and will remain intact over time or not. In Street Art seen everywhere from New York City to Philadelphia, Los Angeles, London, and Berlin, Schoettle reveals her own vulnerability, raw emotions, and witty observations through PhoebeNewYork’s dark and funny explorations of love, feminism, political independence, and finding beauty in the mistaken. Schoettle has been featured in publications such as New York magazine’s The Cut, Teen Vogue, Nylon, and Glamour Italia, and has collaborated with Victoria Beckham, Dr. Martens, and Lululemon, among others.

PhoebeNewYork Turn a Few Heads, 2022 Mixed media collage 38 75 x 50 5 in $20,000

PhoebeNewYork Rock It 2022 Mixed media collage 38 75 x 23 5 in $12,000

PhoebeNewYork

Is It Me, 2022

Mixed media collage

23 5 x 19 5 in $5,750

PhoebeNewYork

Please-No, 2022

Mixed media collage

27 x 22 in $7,450

PhoebeNewYork

You Deserve It All, 2022

Mixed media collage

23 5 x 19 75 in $5,900

RISK

American, b 1967

RISK

Untitled, 2021

Acrylic and spray paint on handwoven strips of Coventry Rag paper

59 5 x 49 in

$23,500

RISK x BUDDHA

RISK’s serial use of buddhist imagery was inspired by his interaction and collaboration with the late contemporary painter Ed Moses, a seminal figure in the Post-War, West Coast art scene. Before his passing, Moses introduced and educated RISK on his Buddhist beliefs which greatly intrigued the artist Fully inspired, he went on to create a piece for Hollywood’s Shep Gordon, delving deeper into this newfound Buddhist series. RISK is a self-proclaimed “Buddhist beginner” and draws inspiration from the religion while he continues to search for an elevated state of mindfulness. Many of RISK’s Buddha works, such as Peaceful Buddha (2020), embody the many juxtapositions seen consistently in the artist’s work. The Buddha represents RISK’s philosophy that people are composed of three modes of thought: right, wrong, and in-between (which he refers to as "our greater good"or "the real grey area")

RISK x Adam Stone

Buddha Car Hood, 2022

Kandy, pearl, & metal flake car paint with aerosol and neon on car hood

55 x 60 in Price on Request

RISK

Peaceful Warrior, 2021

Acrylic and spray paint on handwoven strips of Coventry Rag paper

62 x 50 in

$25,000

RISK x NEON

To RISK, neon is the most versatile form of artistic representation in contemporary art. Although the majority of contemporary artists use it to convey text, he believes its representational purpose is equally as strong. Neon is a gateway between scientific principles and artistic expression, integrating electrical technology, creative design, and fundamental concepts of physics and chemistry. RIsk has been devoted to art in electric media, exhibiting electric and kinetic fine art for over 25 years. His fascination with neon began in one of his early studios where he met a neighbor who made neon signs Risk took hundreds of random scrap pieces and strung them randomly together from fishing wire. He began clustering groups together by color to evoke emotion or cast a mood. Enamored with the glow of neon, RISK believes the pieces take on two lives; one with neon on and another with the lights off

RISK x Adam Stone

"Rolling Risk" Car Hood, 2023

Kandy, pearl, & metal flake car pa with aerosol and neon on car hoo

64 x 60 in Price on Request

RISK x Adam Stone

"Stay Gold" Car Hood, 2023

Kandy, pearl, & metal flake car paint & aerosol on car hood with neon

54 x 46 in $47,500

SABER

American, b 1976

School and attended the San Francisco Art Institute. Rising to international fame at the age 21, Saber created the world's largest Graffiti piece on the bank of the LA river, which was visible and documented by satellites in space Over years of dedicated and often dangerous painting, he helped bring public awareness to the true art form of Graffiti. Saber's work has influenced a generation of artists and graphic designers and has become an influential part of modern entertainment, social media, and art for social reform He continues to make his vibrant, mesmerizing, and often political paintings that can be found in galleries and private collections across the word.

SABER

Black & Silver, 2019

Mixed media on canvas

60 25 x 48 25 in $22,000

SABER

Violence, 2014

Mixed media on canvas

48 x 60 in $22,000

KING SALADEEN

American, b 1983

as their current situations In 2011 he began his venture at the Saladeen Art Group showcasing art in SOHO NYC, Art Basel Miami Beach, LA ART SHOW and more.

King Saladeen

Love Can Get Tricky, 2021

Pastel and acrylic on canvas laid on spray-painted wood boards

63 x 70 in

Price on Request

ANDRÉ SARAIVA

Swedish-French, b 1971

Before he began exhibiting his work in galleries, André Saraiva was known as Monsieur A in Graffiti communities. Saraiva was active in the early Parisian Graffiti movement, alongside Space Invader and Zevs He became identified with his iconic, cartoonish character: a round-headed figure with long limbs and a circle and a cross for eyes a subject that recurred in Saraiva’s early canvas paintings. In the 2000s, Saraiva began a performative project called “Love Graffiti” in which he would spray paint the name of someone’s lover at an address of his or her choosing His later works continued to employ line, text, and clean-edged geometry. In 2012, he created a large-scale installation titled Andrépolis, resembling a city based on Paris and New York in miniature scale with neon lighting

Design 1 (Range Rover Evoque), 2010

Aerosol on board

14.5 x 93 in $12,000

André Saraiva

Design 2 (Range Rover Evoque), 2010

Aerosol on board

14 5 x 93 in $12,000

André Saraiva

Design 3 (Range Rover Evoque), 2010

Aerosol on board

14 5 x 93 in $12,000

André Saraiva

KENNY SCHARF

American, b 1958

depiction of snack food Scharf’s oftentimes dense and frenetic compositions also echo a Baroque sensibility.

Kenny Scharf

Bravia Sony Suno, 2021

Oil on Sony flat-screen TV

32 75 x 50 25 x 5 12 in Price on Request

Growing up in post-World War II Southern California, Scharf was fascinated by television and the futuristic promise of modern design. Colorful, cartoonish faces and imagined creatures populate Kenny Scharf’s fantastical murals, paintings, sculptures, and installations In Scharf’s paintings, these figures careen against one another, floating through a galactic landscapes passed still-life elements, such as vases.

Bravia Sony Suno is a painting done on a modern but slightly outdated Sony flatscreen TV This work is reminiscent of Scharf's designs from the 1980s, in which he utilized box televisions as canvases for his creations. Where his older work adorned the casing, leaving the screen blank, he has now inverted the process to render his fantastical worlds as though they are being broadcast live on the television itself

SCHOONY

British, b 1974

Schoony

Bruiser, 2019

Spray paint and stencil on foam board

32.75 x 23 in

$3,350 Schoony

Stars & Stripes, 2015

Fiberglass wall relief cast sculpture

55 1 x 27 4 in

$12,000

STIK

British, b 1979

For the last decade, Street Artist Stik's huge mysterious figures have been lurking on the sides of buildings and billboards in London. Though simple, composed of just six lines each with dots for eyes, Stik's stick people are subtly expressive and are meant to convey feelings of insecurity in an urban setting. The artist like his contemporary Banksy, has revealed little of his early life other than that he began his foray into Graffiti around 2001 The artist spent a number of years homeless, and in addition to being self-taught, still does much of his mural work illegally, sometimes reaching seemingly superhuman locations to paint. Despite Stik’s unofficial origins, organizations such as The British Council have commissioned permanent murals by him in London and abroad and in 2011 the artist was the subject of a solo exhibition at Imitate Modern Gallery in London.

Stik

Plaque (Blank) (9/10), 2011

Hand cast resin with color tinted polyurethane resin and aluminum trioxide

9 x 9 in $40,000

SWOON American, b 1977

around the world There is power on the walls of the city, and I fell in love with every part of that,” said the artist Born Caledonia Dance Curry, Swoon moved to New York to received her BA in fine arts at the Pratt Institute in 2002. Her work gained recognition after a solo show at Jeffrey Deitch’s Soho gallery in 2005, quickly attracting the attention of gallerists and museum curators The artist’s site-specific solo show Submerged Motherlands at the Brooklyn Museum in 2014 was the museum’s first exhibition dedicated to a living Street Artist.

Swoon

Braddock Steel, 2013

Acrylic on found door

14.25 x 15.25 in $38,000

Braddock Steel visually embodies the fight for civil rights in the steel mills of Pittsburgh Pennsylvania. Inspired by the award-winning documentary Struggles in Steel (1996) the blockprint portrait in Braddock Steel features Henderson Thomas, one of the film's subjects, and was created in conversation with the filmmakers Ray Henderson and Tony Buba.

Swoon Argentina, 2022

Silkscreen, cut paper, and acrylic gouache on paper and wood

24 x 34 in $7,200

Swoon

Arielle 5, 2019

Silkscreen, acrylic gouache, hand cut paper, on found object (glass and wood)

21 x 24 in

$4,900

Swoon

Girl from Rangoon Province, 2021

Screenprint, hand painting on mounted linoleum tile

14 25 x 15 25

$6,000

SAGE VAUGHN

American, b 1976

California-based Sage Vaughn a self-described “gun nut” who approaches art making with a hard-working, blue-collar mentality is interested in illustrating the complex co-existence of nature and technology In his “Wildlife” series, Vaughn depicted birds in trees against technological backgrounds, while in “Wildlives,” children in play battle armor prepare for an imaginary war. Determined to make popular art that everyone can grasp on a basic level, Vaughn depicts scenes from everyday life that suggest deeper, more profound narrative content

Sage Vaughn

Escape Artist, 2006

Mixed media on canvas

36 x 48 in

$5,250

VHILS Portuguese, b 1987

Vhils, the pseudonym of Portuguese Street Artist Alexandre Farto, has become synonymous with his signature approach to street portraiture. Working both outdoors and indoors, his large-scale, detailed images are achieved by scratching, drilling, and using bleach to tear away at billboards, walls, and found panels. The subjects therefore become one with the architecture and detritus that Vhils uses as both substrate and medium His groundbreaking bas-relief carving technique has been hailed as one of the most compelling approaches to art created in the streets in the last decade. Challenging the notion that Graffiti art is socially disruptive, Vhils sees the medium as a force to push the boundaries of the politics of communication in the social arena An avid experimentalist, Vhils has been developing his personal aesthetics in a plurality of media besides his signature carving technique: from stencil painting to metal etching, from pyrotechnic explosions and video to sculptural installations. Since 2005, he has presented his work in over 30 countries around the world