Geburtsdatum | Freitag, 11. Mai 1962 |
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Beschreibung | Michael Anthony Pegues (born May 11, 1962) is an African American visual artist living in New York City. Born and raised in Brooklyn, mother's family from Liberia, father's from Portugal, he attended alternative High School Redirection, Brownsville, Brooklyn, and later Nassau Community College, Garden City, LI. Self-taught, modern-day Fauve, Expressionist as well as Pop artist, contemporary of Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring, his work is strongly influenced by Hip Hop and Graffiti. Pegues had his first major solo and retrospective show at the FB Gallery in New York in 2012, "Prince Michael's Neverland: The Measure of an Artist: Michael Anthony Pegues," May 16 – June 3. His work was exhibited in Italy, his first solo show abroad, in 2014 at Le 4 Pareti: galleria d'arte, Napo |
