ARTICLES
COCO 144
One of the first ‘Writers’ of the late 1960s, COCO 144 embossed New York City subway cars, underground tunnels, and concrete walls with his spray-painted pen name—inspired by a popular Puerto Rican pet name and the street that he grew up on in Manhattan, 144th street. His art lives on, both literally and figuratively, throughout the hollows of New York City.
My Name Was Writ in Water
In the wake of the Civil Rights movement, a generation of children took to the streets, and signed their names to the trains and walls of a crumbling New York City infrastructure. This innovative language dismissed as “graffiti” by the media was illegible to the outsider, and a creative call-to-arms for the initiate, a battle of letters and words Rammellzee dubbed “Iconoclast Panzerism.”
Looking Glass
A student of anthropology, de Kwiatkowski is interested on the influence of the past and ancient cultures on the present. The continuum through time of central tenets of human existence are given voice through his heavily hand-worked pieces.
Away With Words
Photography Show Featuring:
Armando Nin, Kisha Battista, Barron Claiborne, Robin Newland, Fabian Palencia, McDermott & McGough, Ricky Powell, Kate Simon, Tom Jarmusch, Sante D’Orazio, Khalik Allah, T. Eric Monroe, & Michael Avedon