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DirtyPilot.com Presents: COPE2 & INDIE184 Starting today – through June 18. An amazing 2 person show featuring new and older works. Collaborative and solo canvas and paper artworks.

Indie184 is a graffiti artist and graphic designer hailing from Washington Heights, New York City. Growing up all over NYC she began to participate in the graffiti culture in 2001. Determined to express herself to the world through art, she quit business college to teach herself how to sew, paint and produce graphic design. Influenced by all things colorful, happy and sexy. She is known for her classic New York simple yet playful feminine graffiti style infused with exuberant bold colors bursting with hearts, stars and bubbles. You can find her graffiti pieces in the streets from the South Bronx to Oslo. Indie’s graffiti was featured the record breaking Rockstar Games’ Grand Theft Auto IV video game. Her current endeavors include directing her streetwear brand Kweenz Destroy, curating art exhibitions and producing graphic design work for Pro-Keds, Super Rad Toys and Bic Plastics to name a few. Catch her painting in the streets, studio or or producing her next fashion collection.

Cope2 was born and raised in the South Bronx, New York City, in 1968. COPE2’s paintings have been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in galleries and auctions throughout the United States and abroad. He is a self taught artist who is a celebrated figure for over 30 years in the graffiti art culture. One of New York City’s most prolific graffiti artists, he began tagging his name in 1978. He developed his style in the subways and streets of the Bronx throughout the 1980’s and 1990’s achieving international recognition for his distinctive style. Today, you can catch Cope2 in the studio painting, bringing his raw energy into abstract masterpieces, intertwined with his trademark bubble letters and tags on canvases. He has also delved into curating successful group exhibitions. Cope2 crosses between art world, mainstream and street culture alike.

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DirtyPilot has brought together 2 legendary writers of the 1970’s, STAYHIGH149 & LSD OM. Highlights from this show include collaborations by the two, the likes of which have not been seen in decades. The two tags side by side were dazzling then and even more stunning and rare now. Check out these new works now at DirtyPilot.com.

LSD OM began his writing career on he upper west side of Manhattan in 1969, he has the rare distinction of being the only writer from the 60’s to go on to do pieces on the trains. At the height of his writing career, from 1973 to 1976, LSD OM wrote with every great writer of his generation, including a partnership with the legendary STAYHIGH 149.
In 1974 LSD OM and FLINT created the graffiti crew the Rebels, a crew that helped pave the way for RTW years later. Writers who have acknowledged his influence include HAZE, ZEPHYR and REVOLT – now it’s your turn.

Wayne Roberts was born in1950, 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 calling him STAYHIGH because of his penchant for smoking weed, he liked the nickname and in 1971 he added the number 149 to it to become STAYHIGH 149. In 1972 he completed the signature by adapting the stick figure from “ The Saint “ TV show, he gave it a joint to smoke and unified it with his tag. It was far and away the most stylized signature of it’s time.

STAYHIGH hit the streets and trains with his ornate signature for two straight years, he was considered by many to be an all – city king. He became so famous that his face appeared in “New York” magazine in 1973, without the anonymity he was quickly arrested while writing in Brooklyn and he knew he had to give up his name. He floundered for a while until one day, on the way to work, he came up with his second name: VOICE OF THE GHETTO. At a time when writers were using smaller names Wayne Roberts chose to go big, the name VOICE OF THE GHETTO could soon be found on many of the IRT train lines in a very unique style – he would write the name with a three toned magic marker that was two inches thick called a uni – wide. By the end of 1975 he had retired from graffiti, he would soon disappear from the graffiti community altogether with rumors touting his untimely demise.

In the summer of 2000 there was a small graffiti show in Brooklyn that attracted hundreds of writers, after a twenty five year absence Wayne Roberts re-emerged. That night, in a two hour period, he signed over 400 autographs and finally slipped out a back door from sheer exhaustion. The New York Times covered the story in it’s metro section the next day. Soon, STAYHIGH began to adapt his talents to canvas selling to private collectors all over the world. As a graffiti icon he’s done work for companies as diverse as Reebok, Ecko Unlimited and Zoo York.

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DirtyPilot Presents “NYC BLACK BOOK MASTERS 2″.

A collection of drawings by NYC graffiti Legends.

“Doing pieces and outlines in your own, and other writers black book, is a graff tradition that has held up and has been there from the beginning. With the NYC subway graffiti era gone (but not forgotten) blackbooks, now more than ever are a vital part of preserving the culture.

Drawing in black books are still a common denominator, whether you wrote on trains, walls or whatever, black book trading is still something special and personal – the exchange of art between its practitioners. The result is something precious and ever lasting that can be held and appreciated without the inevitability of being whitewashed or blasted from existence.

There aren’t many things that we continue to do as adults that we began doing as children. Black books are today’s link to yesterday’s dreams”.

Louie “KR.ONE” Gasparro c.1977 – 2011

Dirtypilot.com is thrilled to offer collectors a window into the private world of black books and chance to own a piece of history by one of your favorite NYC writers.

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Welcome back to one of our favorite good guys and dope artist-ALBERT REYES.

Now showing March 9th – April 15,  Albert’s signature drawings and paintings on re-purposed book covers covers along with new  prints.

Albert Reyes has been known to spit art on his hands and knees with a mouth full of beer in the middle of the street. He has also shown in a gallery along with a painting by Picasso. These same strange dualities and juxtapositions are highly prevalent in his work, which tackles both conceptual and graffiti art. Recognized for his ubiquitous “GIVE” tag, Albert has a distinctive artistic approach inspired not only by street art, comic books, and American pop culture; but also by contemporary and classical “high art”. Many of his drawings and illustrations incorporate everything from icons of corporate America to Hollywood stars to mass media to politics to consumerism. Reyes has exhibited at the Tree House Gallery, JUNC Gallery, Bent Gallery, Giant Robot LA SF NY, New Image Art Gallery LA, Upper Playground SF, Low, Balazo, Ampersand, Stay Gold Gallery NYC, Studio Number One, and in Paris, France. He has done album cover artwork for the band Le Rev and singer/songwriter Simone White. He has also appeared in the New York Times: Year In Ideas, Swindle, Chicano Art Magazine and appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live, CW’s Online Nation, and CNN.

New QUIK  Throw Ups on NYC Transit Maps.

5 New pieces Added to Current Show and Back Room Gallery.

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