Do you know Mizzo, a female street artist from switzerland? Now you know!

Mizzo, whose real name is Myriam Gaemperli, is a Switzerland based artist who grew up in Jonschwill, SG. After her studies in different art disciplines (art school, graphic design, for example) in Switzerland and London, she became what she always wanted to be, a skateboard artist. She’s comfortable drawing with all sorts of materials, from a pencil to a paintbrush.
She has different projects, both indoor and outdoor, such as her work with brands like Diesel, Bionyc and Doodah and her illustration of the Call-To-Action wall in Zurich.
Check her website. It provides an overview of her artwork.

Text by Yafa for the Fatcap team

Today you’ll meet a young Female graffiti artist : Toofly From NYC. Enjoy her artwork!

Toofly is a major actor in the graffiti and Hip Hop community in New York City. This young woman, from Queens, started to draw and paint in the streets in the beginning of the 90’s, when she was about 15 years old. At the time, this movement was still rebellious and marginalized and not many women were involved in it.
Her artwork is influenced by the calligraphy and illustrations of some artists she admires (Clark, Ench, Bis, Skuf and many others), but she also developed her own style and characters and is now acknowledged as an equal by these same artists.
In the Spring 2007, Toofly launched a fashion and accessories collection, under the signature of TOOFLY NYC, that can be found in a variety of stores all over the US and in countries such as UK and Japan, in limited quantities, though.
She also organizes, through Younity, a female urban arts collective that she created with her partner Alice Mizrachi, many exhibitions, art programs, book publishing, for young women artists, to promote street arts among the public. She also tries to encourage women’s participation to these events and helps them position themselves in the mainly masculine world of Graffiti.
Her art and designs can be admired in numerous books, videos, magazines like Graffiti Women, MTV Tr3, Trace, Juxtapoz, and on her website. She is currently working on many projects, including a billboard for an American brand in association with other artists and canvases for the Sweet City Woman exhibition at Fuse Gallery in May.

Text by Yafa for the Fatcap Team

Toofly official site

Photo by Genxcel

Swoon is a street artist from New York who specializes in life-size wheatpaste prints and paper cutouts of figures. She started doing street art around 1999. She studied painting at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn.
Swoon’s worlds are often populated by realistically rendered cut-out street people, often her friends and family. Riding bikes, talking on a stoop, going grocery shopping - these people traverse a cityscape of her own unique invention.

Enjoy the talent!

Photographers :Jackdobkin (the first and the second pictures) and Vitostreet (the last picture).

Let’s start with a female graffiti artist from the Queens who started in 1979. We will talk about the contentious subject “girls in graffiti” later, here’s an introduction with one of the pioneer of the New York graffiti movement.

From the legendary http://www.at149st.com

PINK aka LADY PINK is the most committed and enduring female writer of all time and can without question be labeled the most accomplished woman in the history of writing. In 1979 PINK came into prominence in the New York City subway graffiti scene. There had been few female writers of significance since the early 1970s.

During the late 1970s and early 1980s PINK wrote on a variety of subway lines with the top crews in the city. Her artistic ability progressed rapidly; prompting respect and admiration from within the graffiti community. Along with the admiration came jealousy and spite, particularly because she was talented and female. PINK remained unintimidated and continued to break new ground. Her career would excel well beyond those of her critic’s, both in quantity and quality. In addition to her accomplishments on the subway system PINK was involved in many important gallery exhibitions of aerosol art during the early 1980s including the Fashion Moda gallery. Her work has also been displayed at the Whitney Museum and the Bronx Museum of the Arts.

She has remained active in graffiti culture on many levels, from formal art venus such as art galleries, museums and commissioned paintings to traditional graffiti street murals and even freight trains. She has style and painting ability that are clearly the results of a powerfully creative mind. PINK has painted all over the world and is still very active.

Crazy Dali Shit!

No joke, she’s one of the best