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Kenny Scharf (born November 23, 1958) is an American painter known for his participation in New York City's interdisciplinary East Village art scene during the 1980s, alongside Jean-Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring.
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Kenny Scharf is an American graffiti artist who was an integral member of the 1980s East Village art scene. His colorful paintings depict pop culture figures and science fiction backdrops.
Kenny Scharf is an American painter and iconic street artist. His inimitable graffiti paintings gained him notoriety and fame in the New York downtown art scene of the 1980s, with his work regularly featuring stylized aliens and popular culture icons in tessellated, colorful patterns.
My original approach is unchanged; it is a personal challenge to produce the best work possible every time. One very important and guiding principle to my work is to reach out beyond the elitist boundaries of fine art and connect to popular culture through my art.
Jun 24, 2021 · The post-pop artist Kenny Scharf, who came out of the same downtown art and music scene as Keith Haring, Jean-Michel Basquiat and Klaus Nomi, is someone whose critical and material stock has...
Jun 25, 2021 · Kenny Scharf is a survivor. Scharf, whose smiley blobs and television creatures were his signature on the 1980s graffiti scene in New York, survived the HIV/Aids crisis that killed his friend and...
Oct 27, 2017 · A writer recounts his experience of revisiting the artist’s old haunts, and reminiscing with Mr. Scharf about the neighborhood’s gritty past.
Kenny Scharf was born on 23 November 1958 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He is an actor and writer, known for Pollock (2000), The Groovenians (2002) and Downtown 23 (2023).
Jun 15, 2016 · A self-described “pop surrealist,” Scharf employs a range of techniques, media and allusions to create hallucinatory worlds filled with floating donuts, Hanna-Barbera characters and bright-colored, often-anthropomorphic blobs.
