QUIK LIN FELTON drawing on envelope BOTH SIDES

QUIK LIN FELTON
Drawing on large US POSTAL envelope 38.5×29.5cm
Signed and dated 2019
Countersigned on the back “S.QUENN” (Seen / Quik)

Lin Felton was born in 1958 in Queens, he lives and works in New York.
He started tagging on the walls of Queens at the age of 10 as Star10. His fascination with this world begins when he sees the subway trains covered with moving tags. He takes the name of Quik and poses it everywhere. Lonely, he is not part of any crew.
Close to the theories of Hugo Martinez (UGA) who pushed graffiti artists to go on canvas, to exhibit, to consider himself as artists, he very early on made paintings. Very socially committed, his works denounce racial discrimination through the character of Quik. They refer to his private life, to the art world, to business in a humorous and quirky way.
Having become essential on the international scene, his works have entered prestigious collections. His works are thus represented in the collections of the Museum of the City of New York, Studio Museum of Harlem in New York City, the Becht Collection in Amsterdam, the Martin Visser Collection in the Netherlands, the Herning Kunstmuseum in Denmark, the Groninger Museum, the Helmond Museum in the Netherlands, the Henk Pijnenburg Collection, the Rudolph Scharpf Collection, the Martin Wong Collection, the Yaki Korenblit Collection, the Martin Sanders Collection, the Wildenberg Collection, or even the Dieter Weber Collection.