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Murdered graffiti artist’s work shows rare complexity and outsider imagination
REVIEW Graffiti writer Michael Francisco, a.k.a. Mike Dream
(1969-2000), was already a legend when he was murdered during a
robbery. “They wouldn’t have shot him if they knew who he was,†his
younger brother and fellow Those Damn Kids crew member Lil John says.
And no doubt, this is true. Like Too $hort, the Filipino American spray
can artist claimed 1983 as his debut year and Oakland as his turf, and
he is likewise cited as a founder, albeit visual, of Bay Area hip-hop.
The group show “Dream†highlights the artist’s work alongside tributes
by TDK and various other crews. Given the ephemeral, site-specific
nature of graffiti, many of Dream’s works are present only in
photographs or re-creations by his colleagues. Yet this hardly
diminishes their power. Tax Dollars Kill (1995) - designed by
Dream and executed with the TDK crew - exemplifies the formal
sophistication of his work: the top suggests pop art in its
reproduction of the US dollar font, at once faithful and distorted,
though it surrounds an image of protest.R.I.P KING DREAM
IGOT PURPLE IGOT GRAPES
~"*FILIPINO ARTIST*"~
Roscoe Umali - Live It Up
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