Graffiti artist Steve Powers started writing as a teenager.
Became known for painting his ESPO( Exterior Surface Painting Outreach) on storefront grates in broad daylight. Powers moved to New York in 1994.
Powers stopped his graffiti work in 1999 as he wanted to focus on another type of art.
The Dreamland Artist Club, a 2004 artist collective, repainted Coney Island signs. In 2007 he used his Fulbright grant to create murals with local youth in Dublin and Belfast.
The 2009 " A love letter for you" project in hometown Philadelphia was realized with over a thousand cans of spray paint and the aid of other artists. They enlightened a neigbourhood with visuals of an epic love letter.
His work has been shown at the Venice Biennale(2001), the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia.
Steve Powers publishes books and is editor of On the Go magazine.
Steve Powers, A love letter for you
ISBN 978-0977652372
The Art of Getting over
1999
Graphic Novel First and fifteenth: Pop Art Short Stories
2005 Villard Press
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