HEROES EXHIBIT

Tribute to DONDI White and urban cultural heroes, with artworks from:

DANIEL KATHALYNAS (VA Beach)
COREY WYNN (VA Beach)
LADRE DANIELS (VA Beach)
POINT BLANK (Nairobi, Kenya)
CHRIS GREEN (VA Beach)
TORI COGDELL (UK)
GARY VAN DE GRIEK (NYC)



Born Donald J. White on April 7, 1961, in Manhattan, New York; died October 2, 1998.

DONDI began scribbling on streetlights near his house, c. 1970; tagged using “NACO” and “DONDI,” c. 1976; joined The Odd Partners, 1977; founded Crazy Insides Artists, 1978; worked at Esses Studio, began making large-scale canvasses, 1980-81; became associated with the Soul Artists, in 1981; first group gallery show, New York/New Wave, at PS 1 in Queens, 1981; first solo show, Fun Gallery, 1982; featured in the film Wild Style; hired as consultant and artist TV movie Dreams Don’t Die; appeared in “Buffalo Gals: music video; featured in group show at University of California at Santa Cruz, 1982; commissioned to paint Hong Kong night club, 1982; toured Europe with the New York City Rap Tour, 1982; became the first graffitist to have a one-man show in the Netherlands and Germany, 1983; featured in retrospective exhibits of his work at Rempire gallery in Soho and at the Groninger Museum in the Netherlands, 1992; featured in the Fifteen Years Aboveground exhibit.

With Cooperation from the DONDI White Estate.

Special thanks to Ivan Perez--another personal hero of the Super kind.

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