Lee George Quinones - Artist Info

About Lee George Quinones

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    "Lee George Quiñones, son of Puerto Rican parents, grew up in the Lower East Side in Manhattan. In 1974, he began to spray spectacular large graffiti in subway stations and on trains of the New York City Subway, among others, Keith Haring and Jean Michel Basquiat affected.

    After initially illegal spray actions Quiñones began to work legally and used for his work increasingly canvas and metal as an image carrier. his exhibition gesprayter images to Claudio Brunis Galleria Medusa in Rome was in 1979 for general dissemination of street art at, and he is considered one emerged among the most influential of the subway sprayer scene artists.

    "In the technological age Whose cyber-arena is the basis of information exchange, Lee is e...

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