Margaret kilgallen

When Margaret Kilgallen died, Clare Rojas married her husband, adopted her daughter, and inherited an imposing artistic legacy.

April, 22, 2018 During the mid to late 1990s, the Bay Area art scene was having a renaissance of sorts. An interesting new group of young graffiti artists began to catch the attention of galleries in Europe and New York. Writer Glen Helfand called them the “Mission School,” and their work was a top

The late Margaret Kilgallen was a central figure in the San Francisco Bay area street art movement. She was influenced by American folk art...

For an art form so daring, defiant, and overwhelmingly public as graffiti, it is too often dismissed, ignored, and (in some cases) made invisible, disappearing into the barrage of visual information around it. Encompassing everything from large-than-life paintings to train tags or the scratching of one’s moniker into an air-conditioner grill, graffiti both animates and disrupts our landscape. This way of working was at the heart of Margaret Kilgallen’s practice.

Margaret Kilgallen is one of those artist that leaves me speechless.... really. I've never seen anything so perfect. Her love for 'all thing...

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