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Born 1963 Bronx, New York. Known for: Graffiti painting.
Chuck Kool Koor Hargrove, known as "Koor" (which is the inversion of the Dutch word "Rook", smoke) was born in the Bronx, New York and grew up around artists. His mother and his sister are artists.... Read full biography
Chuck Kool Koor Hargrove, known as "Koor" (which is the inversion of the Dutch word "Rook", smoke) was born in the Bronx, New York and grew up around artists. His mother and his sister are artists. In 1976, at the age of thirteen he started writing Graffiti. Although being a graffiti painter from... Read full biography
Chuck Kool Koor Hargrove, known as "Koor" (which is the inversion of the Dutch word "Rook", smoke) was born in the Bronx, New York and grew up around artists. His mother and his sister are artists. In 1976, at the age of thirteen he started writing Graffiti. Although being a graffiti painter from the first generation he never painted on subway trains. "What got me into it? I saw a girl in my building writing GLORIA on a yard wall outside of my second floor apartment window. So I yelled at her... Read full biography
Chuck Kool Koor Hargrove, known as "Koor" (which is the inversion of the Dutch word "Rook", smoke) was born in the Bronx, New York and grew up around artists. His mother and his sister are artists. In 1976, at the age of thirteen he started writing Graffiti. Although being a graffiti painter from the first generation he never painted on subway trains. "What got me into it? I saw a girl in my building writing GLORIA on a yard wall outside of my second floor apartment window. So I yelled at her and she cursed me out and kept on painting. Well I said to myself that if she could do it, so could I. So I went out into the hall ways and started writing MELLOW C. That same week I went up to the eighth floor of my building to see A-One and talked... Read full biography
Chuck Kool Koor Hargrove, known as "Koor" (which is the inversion of the Dutch word "Rook", smoke) was born in the Bronx, New York and grew up around artists. His mother and his sister are artists. In 1976, at the age of thirteen he started writing Graffiti. Although being a graffiti painter from the first generation he never painted on subway trains. "What got me into it? I saw a girl in my building writing GLORIA on a yard wall outside of my second floor apartment window. So I yelled at her and she cursed me out and kept on painting. Well I said to myself that if she could do it, so could I. So I went out into the hall ways and started writing MELLOW C. That same week I went up to the eighth floor of my building to see A-One and talked him into going writing with me." . Koor is inspired by new science and technology. He calls his work "Futuristic Symbolis... Read full biography
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Chuck Kool Koor Hargrove, known as "Koor" (which is the inversion of the Dutch word "Rook", smoke) was born in the Bronx, New York and grew up around artists. His mother and his sister are artists. In 1976, at the age of thirteen he started writing Graffiti. Although being a graffiti painter from the first generation he never painted on subway trains.
"What got me into it? I saw a girl in my building writing GLORIA on a yard wall outside of my second floor apartment window. So I yelled at her and she cursed me out and kept on painting. Well I said to myself that if she could do it, so could I. So I went out into the hall ways and started writing MELLOW C. That same week I went up to the eighth floor of my building to see ...But wait, there's more...
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