It’s something Artist Al Diaz has done many times. He is finding just the right spot as he begins to create a mural on the security gate of a storefront on The Bowery. That familiar sound of him shaking a spray paint can ensues.
“Yeah it requires a bit of shaking, mixing all the components,” said Diaz, an influential graffiti artist whose career spans five decades.
He is well known for his collaboration with the late Jean-Michel Basquiat on SAMO, graffiti that appeared in Lower Manhattan in the late 70s.
The new mural is in conjunction with a virtual exhibition of his recent work at Howl Happening, the
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