FUTURA 2000, Leonard McGurr, USA, born 1955

"Crude Oil", Spray paint on canvas, dated 2011, signed Futura2000 at back, 91x91cm. FUTURA 2000, Leonard McGurr, born 1955 New York Leonard McGurr, known as FUTURA 2000, lives and works in New York. Is one of the most famous graffiti US artist, internationally acclaimed. While being a key figure of the movement, he was also one of the first to pass from the street?s walls to the galleries. Earlier 2012 his works has been sold at Art Curial and Galerie Jéröme de Noirmont in Paris. By the early 70s, he began painting rail cars of Brooklyn subway with different groups such as UGA (United Graffiti Artists), 3.Y.B, C.I.A., F.B.I, Interpol, K.G.B, and sees frequently other great names of the graffiti world: Ali, Dondi White, Lee, Seen? In 1973, his compulsive desire to paint ends up after an accident in the subway. FUTURA 2000 gives up the graffiti and enlists in the U.S. Navy. As he returns to New York in 1979, he goes back to his life of « writer » and creates with Ali the collecti