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Torrick Ablack BIOGRAPHY
Born 1965. Known for: Street art painting, graffiti.
Toxic has been painting on the New York subways since he was 13, often accompanied by friends A-One and Kool Koor. Toxic quickly joined Rammellzee's crew, "Tag Masters Killers", developing a very... Read full biography
Toxic has been painting on the New York subways since he was 13, often accompanied by friends A-One and Kool Koor. Toxic quickly joined Rammellzee's crew, "Tag Masters Killers", developing a very distinctive and world-renowned style. Toxic deconstructs letters down to abstraction at the heart of... Read full biography
Toxic has been painting on the New York subways since he was 13, often accompanied by friends A-One and Kool Koor. Toxic quickly joined Rammellzee's crew, "Tag Masters Killers", developing a very distinctive and world-renowned style. Toxic deconstructs letters down to abstraction at the heart of large flat areas of color. An intimate friend of Jean-Michel Basquiat, with whom he learned new techniques, Toxic even appears mischievously in three of Basquiat's works. In particular in a 1984... Read full biography
Toxic has been painting on the New York subways since he was 13, often accompanied by friends A-One and Kool Koor. Toxic quickly joined Rammellzee's crew, "Tag Masters Killers", developing a very distinctive and world-renowned style. Toxic deconstructs letters down to abstraction at the heart of large flat areas of color. An intimate friend of Jean-Michel Basquiat, with whom he learned new techniques, Toxic even appears mischievously in three of Basquiat's works. In particular in a 1984 painting that bears his name, currently kept at the Whitney Museum, in New York.
Toxic has been painting on the New York subways since he was 13, often accompanied by friends A-One and Kool Koor. Toxic quickly joined Rammellzee's crew, "Tag Masters Killers", developing a very distinctive and world-renowned style. Toxic deconstructs letters down to abstraction at the heart of large flat areas of color. An intimate friend of Jean-Michel Basquiat, with whom he learned new techniques, Toxic even appears mischievously in three of Basquiat's works. In particular in a 1984 painting that bears his name, currently kept at the Whitney Museum, in New York.
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Toxic
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Toxic has been painting on the New York subways since he was 13, often accompanied by friends A-One and Kool Koor. Toxic quickly joined Rammellzee's crew, "Tag Masters Killers", developing a very distinctive and world-renowned style.
Toxic deconstructs letters down to abstraction at the heart of large flat areas of color. An intimate friend of Jean-Michel Basquiat, with whom he learned new techniques, Toxic even appears mischievously in three of Basquiat's works. In particular in a 1984 painting that bears his name, currently kept at the Whitney Museum, in New York.