User talk:Mrbrakes

"Mr. Brakes"
✓BRAKES© Also Known As “MR. BRAKES”,Is A American Graffiti Artist, Fine Artist And Photographer that started his career in the early 2000’s in Buffalo, New York. (USA). BRAKES is widely known for his advanced wild style graffiti lettering, his cartoon-esque illegal graffiti “throwups”, And His 60’s Style Vintage Comic Paintings.His graffiti work has been illegally displayed on walls, bridges, trains, and different surfaces all over the world. His work has been constantly featured over the last 10 years on some of the most followed platforms in the graffiti world. Including (But not limited to) www.bombingscience.com and www.artcrimes.com. BRAKES gained police notoriety in the late 2000’s- Early 2010’s in Buffalo, New York after defacing over 500 buldings with his signature ‘’Throwup’’ that contained imagery of his lettering sticking it’s tongue out as a taunt to the Buffalo, New York Police Department that he couldn’t be apprehended. Although he defaced numerous parts of the city, BRAKES heavily focused on Buffalo’s’ “East Side’’ which has the highest murder and crime rate in The City Of Buffalo, New York. In October 2010, BRAKES co-founded “Daddy’s Garage” A local urban art gallery and boutique in Buffalo, New York. Daddy’s Garage gave graffiti/street artists from all over the world a chance to purchase quality supplies and the opportunity to legally display their artwork inside the gallery and on the building’s exterior walls without police attention. In December 2010, He took over the role of Gallery Curator and organized various art exhibitions and events (While simultaneously participating in numerous art exhibitions around Buffalo, New York) Including the controversial packed house film release of Aaron Ferguson’s “Nickel City Vandals” Documentary. (December 2012). In Early 2013 BRAKES moved to New York City, And continued to gain police notoriety as a prolific graffiti vandal. Painting his signature “Throwups”And “Handstyles” throughout The Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, And Queens. Taking on various commissioned projects and selling dozens of canvas paintings of his work worldwide,. On February 22nd,2014 BRAKES was a part of a three man exhibition at Daddy’s Garage Gallery “True School” Featuring The Artwork Of 2 Of New York City’s “Subway Movement” Pioneers  Frank “Wore” Croce  And Kenji “Python” Takabayashi .BRAKES mysteriously disappeared from the art scene and graffiti world immediately after the show for almost an entire year. Until in March 2015, BRAKES tags mysteriously started appearing illegally around Europe. This set off his year long vandalism and graffiti art spree around Europe before his return to The United States Of America in early 2016. BRAKES has then since retired from illegally painting graffiti. And currently resides in Chicago, Illinois. Where he continues to create acrylic 1960’s vintage comic inspired paintings and dabbles with the art form of graffiti lettering on walls known as “Style Writing”. His work has inspired many of the younger generation graffiti writers today. And he continues to be a staple in the graffiti world as being one of the youngest and most successful graffiti writers in the art form.