POEM FX Canvas

POEM
Canevas 60x50cm / 70x60cm
Blast letters POEM’s Style
with great effects in the letters made with a metal stencil
Large Wood framed 10cm
Aerosol and Markers
Signed and dated 2012 on back

​Poem One is a graffiti legend who rose to prominence during the 1980s New York City subway art movement.
His rise to fame was sky-rocketed by being featured on the cover of the most influential book ever published on graffiti art, “Subway Art” by Martha Cooper and Henry Chalfant. “Subway Art” is considered by most to be “the bible”, which covered the very first generation of spray paint artists of NYC.​
Poem’s most known personal work is self-publishing a graffiti art magazine called “Flashbacks”. The issue has been around since 1991. The magazine’s circulation was on a global scale and influenced a generation of graffiti styles. Today, the New York City based publication is still recognized as one of the first to highlight the world’s graffiti subculture, and still continues to be a significant part of graffiti history.
Poem emerged from the street culture to be accepted by the art world for his talent, originality and skills. What sets him apart is his unique approach to lettering. Due to his prolific career in the streets that started in the late seventies, he was able to easily make the transition from street to gallery. It gave him away to preserve his unique style of graffiti and to start a new chapter in his life.
His graffiti style is fluid and continues to be bound to his “graffiti roots”, but he does explore areas as diverse as 3D collage art and re-arranged broken up outline pieces in an abstract form. Self-taught, his inspiration comes from sketching and developing his own style.
By using shadows and highlights he creates bright, vibrant 3D effects. His mastery of understanding light and form makes his paintings seem like they are floating. Poem’s meticulous attention to detail makes his work very recognizable. His drawings, paintings are inspired by patterns and centered around contemporary urban culture, street art, and graffiti.

FX
This crew has some of the best writers in the world. A leading force in NYC’s large scale murals during the mid to late 90s.
The original members of the FX crew are: PER ONE, POSE II, COPE II, KING BEE, NOMAD, SERVE,T-KID. They were the to first paint together as a crew. It was in a school yard on Webster Ave. In the Bronx. POSE II and PER ONE created the name FX.
Originally there was no president for the crew. People were recruited by the other members by voting. Based on skills, fame and personality. Soon after the first walls CES and CLARK were asked to be down. Later on over the next 2 and 3 years other writers put down. By 1994 the cru consisted of PER ONE, POSEII, T-KID, COPE, CES, CLARK, SNOW, SUB, POEM, KING BEE and SERVE.
In the summer of 1995 DAIM,and HESH came to New York. They were introduced to the other members of FX by POEM and where asked to be down. Also LOOMIT had been put down earlier thru POEM. The members of 1998: PER ONE (started writing `79), POEM (`79), CES (`83), SUB (`87), POSE II (`78); DAIM (`89); HESH (`85); LOOMIT (`83), REK and SKE (`84) aus Puerto Rico, T-KID (`74), YES I, (`86), SNOW (`85) TKID, CES, SNOW, SUB, LOOMIT, HESH, and POSE 2