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STEVE CAS
Steve Cas is known as a innovative multi-talented creative professional with sterling credentials and a reputation for pioneering flawless art.
Born and raised in New York City, art is in Steve’s DNA. Steve's been in the art world since he was born. His mother is an artist. Whose work was currently in "EL MUSEO DEL BARRIO". He has an uncle who is a costume designer. He has a cousin who is a architect and designs hi-tech buildings for major clients.
Art has been in Steve's family even before he was born, His Grandmother was an abstract artist.
Steve Cas has had a fantastic professional career which started over 20 years ago. He has been involved in many cutting-edge projects. At 22 years old, Steve was one of the youngest Art Directors with Warner Bros. He quickly grew his management skills while developing an appreciation for art, animation, and 3D.
As Art Director his work has been awarded “THE WARNER BROS. LT. PRESIDENT AWARD” , which is given to the License Company of the year to have the most creative and profitable art.
He has designed and creatively developed art for many major companies and licenses. To mention a few: Warner Bros.. (As the License Art Director), Looney tunes, Batman, Disney, Toy Story, Winnie the Pooh, MTV, Beavis & Butthead, VH1, Nickel- odeon, Ren & stimpy, Rug Rats, Cat Dog, Pepsi, Power Rangers, Cat Dog, Hanna Barbera, King features,Betty Boop, Popeye, M&M’s, Kellogg’s, Izod, Hanes, Champion, Playtex, Just My Size, Hasbro, Martha Steward, Sean John, Phat farm, BabyPhat, Queen Latifah, Mountain Dew, Lipton, Ocean Spray, MLBaseball, and so much more.
Steve Cas was even a Digital Illustrator with DISNEY working on Marvel, Star Wars, Pixar and Jarassic World licensed brands.
Amazingly Steve has found time to give to others. He donates artwork and time to two non profit organizations. Steve Sponsor's, The Bronx Chester Boxing Club, which helps kids after school and keeps them off the streets. He also is a frequent volunteer at the Ronald Mcdonald House. Which is a in-house cancer treatment center for kids. Steve Cas stated, " I'm bless to be doing what I do. My heart is full of gratitude and love. It's only right for me to share that with others.
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Futura 2000 is a contemporary American graffiti artist. Over the course of his career, he transitioned from making New York-based subway graffiti in the early 1970s, to exhibiting at Fun Gallery in the 1980s. Futura’s major contribution to graffiti art was his use of abstraction, adopting a style of painting characterized by its blending of text and imagery. Born Leonard McGurr on November 17, 1955 in New York, NY, he went on to collaborate with the punk band The Clash, designing their album art and performing live graffiti during their concerts. Today, McGurr’s work can be found in the collections of the Museo de Arte Moderna di Bologna, the Musée de Vire in France, and the Museum of the City of New York. No longer working in graffiti, Futura now lives and works as a graphic designer in Brooklyn,
FUTURA 2000
George Lee Quinones
George Lee Quinones is an American-Puerto Rican artist known for the graffiti he made on New York subway cars during the 1970s and 1980s. Quinones addressed political and cultural issues through his graffiti, with quotes such as “Earth is Hell, Heaven is Life” and “Stop the Bomb.” Born George Lee Quinones in 1960 in Ponce, Puerto Rico, he was raised in the Lower East Side neighborhood of New York. The artist began bombing subway cars in 1974, and by 1976 he was already well known for his work. Many of these paintings are only documented by Instamatic color photos, though during the time some of them survived for several months without being removed. By the mid-1980s, he had begun working on canvas and exhibiting his work in galleries. He has gone on to collaborate on graphics for clothing brands such as Supreme and Adidas. The artist currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. Today, Quinones’s works are held in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York and the Groninger Museum in the
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JAMES PRIGOFF
James Prigoff is an author, photographer and lecturer on the
subject of worldwide urban murals. He is one of the most
important photographers of aerosol art on the international
scene. He started worldwide documentation of murals in the late
1960's. His interest would eventually lead him to aerosol art
(graffiti). His personal photographs are one of the most
extensive collections of aerosol art in the world. During the late
1970s and the early 1980s, Prigoff documented many aerosol
artmovements from beginning to end across the United States
and abroad
Frank Shepard Fairey isn’t your average street artist that uses spray cans to get up. Born February 15, 1970, his medium is iconic prints with wheat paste rolled over them, so they stick to the surface he’s applying them to. My first introduction to his work was in San Francisco in the early to mid-90’s. At the time, I thought it was a painted stencil. Come to find out, it was a print wheat paste of Andre the Giant’s face! I remember being pumped about it because I’m a huge wrestling fan. His signature wheat paste prints became one of his trademarks. I saw them on billboards, rooftops, and light poles. They were everywhere, and it was awesome to see; no name, no text at all, just Andre’simage. One way or another, it made a statement when you saw it! Now you can find that image on his clothing line OBEY. Emerging from the skateboard scene, Frank has built OBEY into a mega empire for popular clothing and accessories. He became widely known during the 2008 U.S. presidential election for his Barack Obama "Hope" poster. The Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston has described him as one of the best known and most influential street artists. His work can be found in the collections at The Smithsonian, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, the Museum of Contemporary Art in San Diego, the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C., the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond, and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.
