He      was      born            ,            and     left     home
and    went to live    there:playing      in     the  noise­
and   supporting   himself.   Over  time  he   became
cryptic.                Statements such as                     tags,
named                underground punk                 whose
paintings began to attract attention in the art world.
Fame,             “We don’t collect art..”    This does not
capture the            spirit of the art           that coincided
with                   polarizing opinion.    Government and
the                           culture wars.            he was acutely
Aware  racism     was  in the reception,           with the
stereotypes.                                              in the art world.
Celebrate and symbolize it.    Saw his situation in this
                                connected to an
                           American history rife
                    with invisibility, and paternalism,
  and he often used his work to directly denounce these injustices
and hypocrisies. Before his tragic death at the age of twenty-seven,
He  expressed  boundless  creative  energy,  producing  wonderful
                                               art