STAYHIGH 149 - "Stayhigh149" Painting

STAYHIGH 149 - "Stayhigh149" PaintingSTAYHIGH 149 "Stayhigh149" Painting. Paint Marker and acrylic on canvas . Measures 14"x 18", Circa 2003. Signed verso. Wayne Roberts was born in Virginia in 1950, his family migrated to Harlem in 1958 and the Bronx ten years later. By 1969 the New York City graffiti movement had begun and Wayne took an immediate interest in it; he preferred writers with a message or slogans like Pray, Worship God and Free Huey. His friends on the grand concourse began

It was in Philly that the clever wordplays first began to crop up

PART ONE is a veteran of the golden years of New York City subway painting and considered a style master in the graffiti world specializing in his own brand of lettering which he started to develop in 1974

Looking at his work

and the Art Students League

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and in doing so altered an entire generation’s perception of urban letter forms

4 years later graduating with a BFA in Traditional Animation

Original acrylic/paint markers

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