Posts Tagged ‘Toofly’
YOUNITY.
We’re going to be at the Younity event this Saturday. Come by and check it out. Thanks to our good friend TooFly for putting this together and having us be a part of it as well!
Info: Come join Younity and friends for some hip-hop style community building. Fostering local economies for urban artrepreneurs with a conscious mindset, It’s time for Younity’s 2nd annual Urban Arts Markit!
One-of-a-Kind -Limited Editions – Hand Crafted – Flavor
Curated by the infamous Toofly, and homegirl Yvey Hidalgo this open air markit pays homage to market life around the globe as a staple of community life and celebration where makers, fans, and collectors come to shop and mingle – 2010 style.
Featuring live DJ sets, live painting, break dancers, vendors,
Hondurian Valiadas, Empanadas, & American hot dogs, in the heart of New York City’s Lower East Side…
This is going to be fun. See you on Saturday!
by Scrills
The Cookies Mob runs deep.
TOOFLY – BRAVE SOULS ILLUMINATE.
We’re so blessed to have many talented friends doing wonderful things. Such a great company of people to be in. To all our LA friends, here’s another dope art show coming your way. This one features the works of our very good friend TooFly. This is one show you don’t want to miss!
Upper Playground and Fifty24LA Gallery Present
“Brave Souls Illuminate”
A Collection of New & Existing works by Maria “TOOFLY” Castillo
Maria “Toofly” Castillo is a painter and illustrator from New York.
Growing up Queens, Toofly immersed herself in graffiti culture and developed her own knack for hand styles and unique “around the way girl” characters.
“Brave Souls Illuminate” is a re-mix of new, and existing works that showcase Toofly’s growth as young woman drawing and writing on the walls to a mature well respected fine artist, designer, and visual arts producer. Her existing works takes you on a journey of a self proclaimed, “around the way girl” using hard and fluid lines, hand styles, and self confidence to declare a spot in New York City’s graffiti subculture dominated by men, and fierce attitude.
Her new works re-introduce the shades of grey that originally helped her pull in the raw emotions she grew up with, and surfaces new and improved.
As she travels to reconnect time and space, the new pieces not only feel and look more mature, yet bring you back to the core of her spirit:
”A brave being who looks to shine bright unapologetic from the inside out!”
”Brave Souls Illuminate” features new works and an installation on display at FIFTY24LA Gallery from November 11 – January 4, 2009.
About TOOFLY
Toofly is a graduate of the School of Visual Arts where she applied her artistic skills to illustration and graphic design coursework. Her signature “around the way girl” character is instantly recognizable from print to public street art projects. She and her partner Alice Mizrachi founded Younity, a female urban arts collective, in which they produce art exhibitions, community street murals, and mentorship art programs for young women in the arts. Toofly’s art and design work have appeared in books, video and magazines including Graffiti Women, NYC Graffiti the Next Stage, Burning New York, Current TV, MTV, Trace, Marie Claire, and Juxtapoz.
by Scrills
The Cookies Mob runs deep
STAY TRUE: TOOFLY.
We just wrapped up a shoot with the legendary female graffiti artist TooFly for our Stay True Project and we had such a good time. TooFly is fun and very intelligent. We’ve worked with her before in the past so it was great to catch up and see what each other is up to. She’s mad cool and you folks are definitely going to be seeing some collaborations between Cookies -n- Cream and TooFly for various projects. The interview went well and the video will be dropping real soon. In the meantime, enjoy some pics from the shoot.
TooFly…
Jon Blak aka Young Scorsese doing his thing…with TooFly chillin…
TooFly’s signature image…
I did say she was a graf legend right? Yep so it’s only right that she had all the necessary tools…lots of it…
TooFly also customizes toys…and she’s ill. She’s done some pieces for KidRobot..see below. By the way she gave me the Fatcap which is the one on the far right. (Thanks TooFly!)
verdict – She’s dope. She is Too Fly. Stay tuned for the video interview coming soon.
by Scrills
The Cookies Mob runs deep.