Lamont A. Nelson: Return Of the Value in Graffiti as a
Form of Public Art by Van Stone frontpagenews1@yahoo.com
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Lamont Anthony Nelson, Graffiti Artist, Director of VSP Foundation Visual Arts
Programming.
Lamont Anthony Nelson, a street artist, was born in
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1965. He took strong interest in his
hobby-art, which has now gained some interest in people admiring his work. At
first this was a simple home organizing project, at which continued to develop,
the more he worked at it. Just using letter styling art and creating different
patterns, Nelson used the ink and pen to become more diverse as some nice graffiti
artwork has been created.
Nelson began his career as a graffiti artist in the early 2000s, and that type of public art is, in fact an effective tool of social emancipation or, an achievement of a social-political goal.
Nelson began his career as a graffiti artist in the early 2000s, and that type of public art is, in fact an effective tool of social emancipation or, an achievement of a social-political goal.
Lamont is a solo graffiti artist, as well as the director of the Van Stone Productions Foundation Visual Arts Programming in Philadelphia, who will collaborate with anyone who is productive.
In his quest to find some graffiti opportunities at first he concluded that there was not a whole lot of interest. As several meetings with people in the hip-hop and the media fields became enjoyable, this has sparked an opportunity to be exposed on a broader spectrum of visual arts graffiti.
His current work is created by free hand ink pen on
basic thin cardboard to develop designs of different graffiti styles. His graffiti
style combined of street, radical, and political hand writing to get his
message across has only been in effect for the last five years. Nelson does
personal work and designs, using imagination and creativity, to stencil and see
what can develop as possibly a new trend in the art world.
Nelson's graffiti artwork is characterized by striking images of different letter designs of phrases, titles, or a person’s name. As this trend continues to grow Lamont would like to see this develop into hobby device for anyone to be able to pick up. His work has been both small and large scale stencil work. Nelson is going to challenge himself to start designing on a larger scale to bring out more of his talent.
One of his goals using his art work is to make graffiti an accessible as any other hobby of the arts and crafts project. Nelson has learned that his graffiti artist craft could become a practice platform for even the already established artist. Pursuing further opportunities, Nelson will most definitely open up graffiti-art to a new market to attract a wide base of visual arts admirers.
Nelson's graffiti artwork is characterized by striking images of different letter designs of phrases, titles, or a person’s name. As this trend continues to grow Lamont would like to see this develop into hobby device for anyone to be able to pick up. His work has been both small and large scale stencil work. Nelson is going to challenge himself to start designing on a larger scale to bring out more of his talent.
One of his goals using his art work is to make graffiti an accessible as any other hobby of the arts and crafts project. Nelson has learned that his graffiti artist craft could become a practice platform for even the already established artist. Pursuing further opportunities, Nelson will most definitely open up graffiti-art to a new market to attract a wide base of visual arts admirers.
