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In "Twin," his show on view now at New Image Gallery in West Hollywood, he happily employs a mash-up process that borrows heavily from graffiti's mark-making and dog-eared textures of urban decay, easily sliding back and forth between paint, collage, and de-collage to achieve his sense of balance.

Jaime Rojo & Steven Harrington: UK Street Artist HUSH, Blue Geishas And Graffiti Tags Jaime Rojo 2011

In "Twin," his show on view now at New Image Gallery in West Hollywood, he happily employs a mash-up process that borrows heavily from graffiti's mark-making and dog-eared textures of urban decay, easily sliding back and forth between paint, collage, and de-collage to achieve his sense of balance.

Jaime Rojo & Steven Harrington: UK Street Artist HUSH, Blue Geishas And Graffiti Tags Jaime Rojo 2011

In his Los Angeles Times article, MOCA's 'Art in the Street' Gets the Big Picture Wrong, critic Christopher Knight describes Fujita's paintings as "the most important 21st century iteration of graffiti's influence on art."

Bill Bush: Made in L.A.: This Artweek.LA (October 10-16, 2011) Bill Bush 2011

In his Los Angeles Times article, MOCA's 'Art in the Street' Gets the Big Picture Wrong, critic Christopher Knight describes Fujita's paintings as "the most important 21st century iteration of graffiti's influence on art."

Bill Bush: Made in L.A.: This Artweek.LA (October 10-16, 2011) Bill Bush 2011

But graffiti's popularity has also helped their cause, as once-elusive artists come out of the shadows.

As Their Work Gains Notice, These Painters Suffer for Their Art Tamara Audi 2011

"Graffiti writers are Team Robbo, street artists are Team Banksy," says Robbo, his heavy cockney accent and shaved head reminders of graffiti's past when skinheads and punks battled to mark their territory with names and slogans.

A Game of Tag Breaks Out Between London's Graffiti Elite Gabriele Steinhauser 2010

Like that of all art, it seems, graffiti's appeal lies squarely in the eye of the beholder.

Art: Kings Of Spray 2007

In contrast, an increasing number of idea factories on the web are relying on advertising and graffiti's shared emphasis on producing intuitive, targeted graphic messages that will rise above the - above this - clutter of words and have a rapid, unmistakable impact, like Moiz Syed's Israeli, Lebanese, and now U.N. tally of casualties and the unceasing barrage of pop-culture critiques like the one above from one of Worth1000.com's many Photoshopping contests.

Archive 2006-07-01 Jeremiah McNichols 2006

In "Twin," his show on view now at New Image Gallery in West Hollywood, he happily employs a mash-up process that borrows heavily from graffiti's mark-making and dog-eared textures of urban decay, easily sliding back and forth between paint, collage, and de-collage to achieve his sense of balance.

The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Jaime Rojo 2011

Despite causing consternation for the authorities, many Hong Kong residents like both the graffiti's aesthetic and its political message.

NPR Topics: News 2011