Futura: The Artist's Monograph Gabriel Moses Shaniqwa Jarvis

Shaniqwa Jarvis

the artist's second solo exhibition with Anthony Gallery

and Mo' Wax saw his artwork canonized as an elemental component of the street aesthetic

Collected here

Produced on the occasion of Tom Sachs: Handmade Paintings

Futura: The Artist's Monograph Gabriel Moses Shaniqwa JarvisThe most in depth and comprehensive survey of the life and career of one of the pioneering artists of the original graffiti generation. Having forged his graphic style painting subways in New York in the late 1970s, Futura was among the first graffiti artists to be shown in contemporary galleries in the early 1980s, where his paintings shared space with works by Keith Haring, Jean Michel Basquiat, and Kenny Scharf. As the commercialization of street