- Lady Pink
Lady Pink (born Sandra Fabara,
Ambato ,Ecuador , 1964) is agraffiti artist. She was raised inQueens ,New York , and started her career in 1979 when she started writing graffiti while a student at theHigh School of Art and Design , and made a name for herself as one of the only females capable of competing with men in the graffiti subculture. [ [http://thegalleriesatmoore.org/publications/lady.shtml "Femmes Fatales: An Installation by Lady Pink] , The Galleries at Moore. AccessedJuly 24 ,2008 .] She was featured in the film "Wild Style " (1982) and worked withJenny Holzer . As one of the first females to write graffiti, she is credited with opening the doors for other female writers.Fact|date=January 2008Her works are in collections of the
Whitney Museum of American Art ,Metropolitan Museum of Art ,Brooklyn Museum , andGroninger Museum . She now runs her own mural paintings company with her husband Smith. In July 2006, an art piece titled "The Black Dude" (1983), by Lady Pink, was featured at the Brooklyn Museum's exhibit on graffiti.References
References
* [http://www.pinksmith.com/Site%203/BIO%20PAGE.html Lady Pink's biography page]
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