• Artist Futura Talks Futura 2020 Show, Monograph With Rizzoli

    Futura
    Image Credit: Lexie Moreland/WWD

    Futura (Lenny McGurr) at Eric Firestone Gallery

  • Artist Futura Talks Futura 2020 Show, Monograph With Rizzoli

    Futura
    Image Credit: Lexie Moreland/WWD

    FUTURA2000
    Poll Watchers, 2020
    spray paint, acrylic and ink on canvas
    56h x 216w in
    142.24h x 548.64w cm

  • Artist Futura Talks Futura 2020 Show, Monograph With Rizzoli

    Exhibition view
    Image Credit: Lexie Moreland/WWD

    Detail view of “Poll Watchers.”

  • Artist Futura Talks Futura 2020 Show, Monograph With Rizzoli

    Exhibition view
    Image Credit: Lexie Moreland/WWD

    Exhibition view of “Maskerade One,” “Maskerade Two,” and “Maskerade Three.”

  • Artist Futura Talks Futura 2020 Show, Monograph With Rizzoli

    Exhibition view
    Image Credit: Lexie Moreland/WWD

    “I’m very focused on [Futura’s] inclusion and placement to American institutions,” says gallerist Eric Firestone, adding that the artist was pivotal to the evolution of the graffiti and street art movement in New York. 

  • Artist Futura Talks Futura 2020 Show, Monograph With Rizzoli

    Futura
    Image Credit: Lexie Moreland/WWD

    Futura’s work often features futuristic imagery suggesting perpetual motion, such as atoms and gears.

  • Artist Futura Talks Futura 2020 Show, Monograph With Rizzoli

    Exhibition view
    Image Credit: Lexie Moreland/WWD

    Exhibition view.

  • Artist Futura Talks Futura 2020 Show, Monograph With Rizzoli

    Exhibition view
    Image Credit: Lexie Moreland/WWD

    Exhibition view. Futura’s work incorporates gestural spray paint and negative space of the canvas.

  • Artist Futura Talks Futura 2020 Show, Monograph With Rizzoli

    Exhibition view
    Image Credit: Lexie Moreland/WWD

    Exhibition view

  • Artist Futura Talks Futura 2020 Show, Monograph With Rizzoli

    Exhibition view
    Image Credit: Lexie Moreland/WWD

    FUTURA2000
    Mercury, 2020
    spray paint, acrylic, varnish, oil and ink on canvas
    84h x 60w in
    213.36h x 152.40w cm

  • Artist Futura Talks Futura 2020 Show, Monograph With Rizzoli

    Exhibition view
    Image Credit: Lexie Moreland/WWD

    Exhibition view

  • Artist Futura Talks Futura 2020 Show, Monograph With Rizzoli

    Exhibition view
    Image Credit: Lexie Moreland/WWD

    Exhibition view

  • Artist Futura Talks Futura 2020 Show, Monograph With Rizzoli

    Futura
    Image Credit: Lexie Moreland/WWD

    Futura

  • “Futura: The Artist’s Monograph,” published by Rizzoli.

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    “Futura: The Artist’s Monograph,” published by Rizzoli.

  • “Futura: The Artist’s Monograph” Published by Rizzoli

    Image Credit: All images (c) the artist / Rizzoli New York

    From inside the book.

  • “Futura: The Artist’s Monograph” Published by Rizzoli

    From inside the book.

  • “Futura: The Artist’s Monograph” Published by Rizzoli

    Futura's "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly."
    Image Credit: All images (c) the artist / Rizzoli New York

    Futura’s “The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.”

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