Al Diaz "SAMO©…" Quote - Screen Printed Edition of 25 - 11 x 14"

SAMO©…4 THE ASPIRING 'INFLUENCER' & HIS 'INFLUENCEES' - •  1 color screen print on 130lb natural off white stock  •  11 x 14 inchesHand-signed, dated & numbered by artist Al Díaz in a limited edition of 25House of Roulx blind embossed stamping • Authentic Edition rubber stamp on verso • Letter of Authenticity "SAMO©…" BY AL DIAZ   A key figure among New York street artists, Al Diaz is best known for collaborating with Jean-Michel Basquiat on the iconic SAMO© tag, a sardonic graffiti tag that was highly visible throughout Lower Manhattan in the late 1970s. The son of Puerto Rican immigrants, Diaz began tagging under the name Bomb-One in his early teens. He and Basquiat spray-painted fragments of irreverent slogans on buildings around SoHo and the School of Visual Arts.    Art curator and critic Jeffrey Deitch called it “disjointed street poetry” and remembered that “back in the late seventies, you couldn’t go anywhere interesting in Lower Manhattan without noticing that som