Influences

There are many street artists that influenced my art work. However, there is one person that has influenced me by his technique and his name is Futura2000. I remember drawing pictures in my sketchbook and trying to emulate his style off my lap top. I was introduced to him by the PS2 video game getting up. He was one of the first artists you meet.  Futura 2000 was one of the pioneers of street art as he was doing it in the 70’s. He used to do graffiti pieces back in the day by spray painting on anything he can see. Presently, he stopped vandalizing subways, walls and does very surreal and abstract pieces on canvases or sculptures. He owns a clothing company Futura Laboratories, which is located in Japan. This clothing caters towards the street fashion style with graffiti designs on the clothing. He also designed a Hennessy bottle in 2012.  His style is very unique, his earlier stuff was straight up graffiti style; bubble letters and the distinct color way. Presently, all you see is abstract pieces, robots/aliens with squiggles around them, weird looking isotopes. Me personally, his earlier stuff was better. Click here to see him in action http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zp7EgQwsfEI