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

Hello everybody, to complete the previous “women in graffiti” post, here’s some artwork from many worldwide female artists. Don’t hesitate to post comments and reactions, even if you have mysoginist vision

By order : Only from Spain Valencia, Faith47 from Cape Town South Africa, Shiva from Mineapolis USA, Toofly from New York USA, Maria From Foggia, Italy.