NEW YORK, NY December 21, 2011 - Fresh Paint NYC is proud to announce the official release of a limited edition t-shirt designed by "The Original" KR. ONE from Astoria, Queens.
About KR.ONE:
Louie “KR.ONE” Gasparro is a self taught natural artist. His inspirations and earliest influences range from Saturday morning cartoons, 1960’s and 70’s underground comics, rock album cover and poster art and of course the rolling art of NYC Subway Graffiti. Specific influences include: Roger Dean, Rodney Matthews, Vaughn Bode, Bernie Wrightson, Alex Nino, Josh Kirby, Syd Mead, Frank Frazetta, Dan Merriam, and NYC Graffiti luminaries such as DON 1 MAFIA,TRACY 168,ROTO 1,SON1,and KEL139. Born in Manhattan, raised in Astoria Queens; Louie totally absorbed the early to mid 70’s graffiti metamorphosis and in 1977 took the name KROME later changing it to KR.ONE.
New York City’s MTA subway RR, M, L, J, A, B, 2 and 5 lines became the surface choice of this emerging artist’s creative expression.
Retiring from the subways in 1982, Louie put his late night subway excursions on pause to begin his musical career playing drums and guitars. He has created art, written music and drummed for such legendary NYC bands as: MURPHY’s LAW, LORDZ OF BROOKLYN, BLITZSPEER, SUPERVILLAIN and current hard rock / heavy metal project RESURRECTION SORROW, which are about to release their 2nd independent album in March 2011. http://www.kolorstorm.com
About FRESH PAINT NYC:
Since early 2001, Billy Schon has been documenting the graffiti/writing culture in New York City leading up to the self titled book "FRESH PAINT NYC" Fall 2010, available in book stores worldwide. FRESH PAINT NYC is also regularly maintained blog featuring related news and graffiti/street photography by Billy Schon.
http://www.freshpaintnyc.blogspot.com