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Al DiazWe Await a New Time / SAMO…As an End to Deliberate Spontaneity (Original)2015
2015
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Amazing double sided Original Artwork by Al Diaz.
Al Diaz is also famous for being the other half of 70’s- 80’s SAMO© duo along with Jean Michel Basquiat.
One side has thought provoking text by Diaz- WE AWAIT A NEW TIME.
Other side is hand illustrated with quote by Diaz, “SAMO©… AS AN END TO DELIBERATE SPONTANEITY” which the artist added in 2016.
Signed on bottom right of quote side with AL DIAZ NYC 2015.
The We Await side is made with tile board and cut alphabets reminiscent of the Wet Paint signs found in NYC subways reworked by Diaz.
Artist has self framed this work in aluminum frame similar style framing as found on ad message boards in NYC subway also.
This original mixed media artwork is based on the anagram messages Diaz was pasting in NYC subways graffiti style around the time this artwork was produced.
Framed with plexiglass and aluminum without hanging hardware.
We recommend having this original artwork professionally framed with archival materials over current artist frame to keep the look artist intended.
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- Creator:Al Diaz (1959, American)
- Creation Year:2015
- Dimensions:Height: 31.8 in (80.78 cm)Width: 9.4 in (23.88 cm)
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- Condition:Has marks on both sides as artist intended. Made to look like a subway message board.
- Gallery Location:Englishtown, NJ
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU1624214339922
Al Diaz
Al Diaz is an influential, first generation New York City graffiti artist, who later became a text oriented street artist whose career spans 5 decades. Diaz is best known for his collaboration with Jean Michel Basquiat on SAMO(c), graffiti that appeared in lower Manhattan from 1977 to 1979. SAMO(c) initially known for its wit and sarcastic humor, became a globally recognized graffito after Basquiat’s rise to fame. Diaz currently works with the WET PAINT & Service Change Alert signs used throughout the New York City subway system — cutting out individual letters from multiple signs to create clever, surreal and sometimes poignant anagrams. The reworked signage is then posted back onto subway walls. His earlier WET PAINT work is featured in Nicholas Ganz’s new book “Street Messages”. Diaz exhibits regularly and has been a featured speaker on a variety of panel discussions, including at The New School, The Museum of the City of New York, NOLA Arts Festival in New Orleans, and The New York Public Library as part of a discussion panel on the Basquiat Notebooks. Al Diaz lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
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