"Fifty Years of New York Graffiti Art and Beyond" is the first monograph by Puerto Rico-born artist Lee Quiñones. In 1974, the then 14-year-old Lee made his first painting. This book is packed with drawings, artifacts, and subway photographs that illustrate Lee's progress in a vibrant New York.
Lee was also one of the first painters to be allowed to make legal murals, 120 pictures on subway cars in New York stations. He also introduced spray paint-based work internationally when he opened his first formal exhibition in Rome, Italy in 1979, alongside Fab 5 Freddy. He influenced peers Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring, Jenny Holzer and more. Lee and Basquiat were the youngest artists to exhibit at Documenta 7.
Subsequent paintings show how Lees shaped a generation of contemporary artists as he further developed his technique. The imagery captures the mood and excitement of 1980s New York and moves from the streets to the intimacy and maturity of Lee's contemporary studio environment.
A definite buy for the graffiti connoisseur!
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