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= Lady Pink = Lady Pink (born Sandra Fabara, 1964) is a graffiti and mural artist based in New York City.[1] She has focused her career on empowering women, using graffiti and murals as acts of rebellion and self-expression.[2] As Lady Pink says, "It's not just a boys club. We have a sisterhood thing going." [3] She was nicknamed the "first lady of graffiti" because she was one of the first women active in the early 1980s subway graffiti subculture.[4]

In 1980, she created the all-female graffiti crew Ladies of the Arts (LOTA).[6] Within a few years, Lady Pink began running with the graffiti crews TC5 (The Cool 5) and TPA (The Public Animals). Also, from 1979 to 1985, Lady Pink painted New York City Subway trains.[7]

In 1980, she was included in the landmark New York show "GAS: Graffiti Art Success" at Fashion Moda, which traveled in a modified form downtown to The New Museum of Contemporary Art.

Early Life
Fabara was born in Ambato, Ecuador, in 1964 and raised in Astoria, Queens.[2] She started her graffiti writing career in 1979 following the loss of a boyfriend who had been arrested and sent to live in Puerto Rico. She exorcised her grief by tagging her boyfriend's name across New York City.[ citation needed]  Lady Pink studied at the High School of Art & Design in Manhattan. As a student there, she was introduced to graffiti and began writing at age fifteen.[5] Fabara never graduated high school due to a graffiti-related shooting that she was not involved with. undefinedundefined

She is married to another graffiti artist, SMITH (Roger Smith formally of the graffiti duo Sane Smith), with whom she often collaborates on murals and commercial work.[9]

Name Origin
Lady Pink was first given her name “Pink” by Sean TC5. The name was chosen for aesthetics because Pink is a feminine name and because she wanted other writers to know that she was a girl. Lady Pink also said that the letters appealed to her; the way the "K" kicked out and how the "I" was cute and could be dotted with a heart. She started calling herself Lady Pink because of her love of historical romances, England, the Victorian period, and the aristocracy. She titled herself like royalty. She never wanted to tag her full name because did not want to be associated with the Pink Lady, a women in the club scene who sold pink cocaine.

Career
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Other Mediums
Despite her being known for graffiti, she was also a prominent painter as well as illustrator. Her studio paintings often use themes of New York City Subway trains and POP-surrealist cityscapes.[11] Some of her pieces are in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Brooklyn Museum in New York City, as well as the Groningen Museum in the Netherlands.[5]

1980s
* In 1983, she played the leading role in the film Wild Style,[8] playing the girlfriend of the main protagonist Zoro. Lady Pink has also collaborated with Jenny Holzer on a poster series. Her first solo show, "Femmes-Fatales," was in 1984 at the Moore College of Art & Design in Philadelphia.

1990s
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2000 - Today
Lady Pink is also dedicated to the community and mentoring teens. She visits schools to teach students about the power of art and how it can serve as a medium for self-expression and community engagement.[10] Each year she does a mural project with the students of Frank Sinatra School of the Arts.

Collaborations
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Private Work
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Political & Social Themes
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Lady Pink's official website http://www.ladypinknyc.com/

https://web.archive.org/web/20121202052400/https://theworldofphotographers.wordpress.com/2011/05/03/lady-pink-graffiti/ Source cited in a bibliography of a source used on her article page

Article from the Brooklyn Rail https://brooklynrail.org/2008/05/artseen/the-very-public-life-of-street-art

Interview with Lady Pink http://jonreiss.com/2013/07/this-is-not-a-game-an-interview-with-lady-pink-guest-post/

https://rogallery.com/Lady_Pink/lady_pink-biography.html

Article from the Chicago Tribune about Lady Pink

Biography from WideWall

Born In the Streets: Graffiti

Graffiti Women

Street Art

Street and Studio

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