UFO907 is an artist with an untraditional career straddling between the classical fine arts and rebellious graffiti writing. Born on the outskirts of New York City, he was nurtured from a very early age by the visual language on the streets of the city, which constantly re-emerges in his paintings throughout decades. He attended Parsons School of Design, received canonical education on artistic techniques and aesthetic theory, while also traveling through Europe and Asia for more visual inspiration which was translated into a large volume of sketches and writings in his notebooks, and this critical period has laid a substantial foundation for his own genre of fine arts graffiti and revolutionary techniques we observe in his paintings later on.

 

After Parsons School of Design, UFO907’s artistic trajectory started to diverge from the traditional path. Instead of following the traditional post-graduation path for an emerging artist, he devoted himself into the wood and furniture shops, into the archaic labor that allows for a direct human contact with the natural materials, into the actual texture of real life. It was in the industrial shops that UFO907 received trainings on carpentry and fabricating, techniques essential for his current trademark shaped canvas paintings made out of canvas stretched onto the handcrafted, specially cut wood frames. It was also during this period that UFO907 started to create as a graffiti writer by scrawling his expressive lines and painting elaborate murals on the forgotten walls and buildings in the corners of New York City. He employs unwieldly blue-collar materials such as aerosol, house paint, rollers, and homemade markers. His urban public artworks combined the exquisite fine arts technique and the rebellious, ironic expression in graffiti, finding a new context for the classical medium and a more delicate translation for the spiritual core of the working class, local culture.

 

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