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Richard Hambleton 🇨🇦 Artist Discussion , by Pattycakes on Mar 10, 2008 22:05:41 GMT 1, So perhaps this has been discussed before, I don't know, but whilst in New York last week I met an NY street artist whose work frankly is incredibly similar to Mr. B, or more to the point Mr B's is rather similar to.

His name is Richard Hambleton, and I only came across him because a Gallery I went to visit represents him now. They gave me a catalogue about him and I was amazed at how similar Hambleton's and Banksys approach is. Hambleton started doing these really interesting murder scene chalk drawings all over the US in the early 80's, he then started pasting giant diazo printouts of himself all over NY with natty tag lines attached (think Shep Fairey etc.) Then moved onto shadow paintings of figures against walls. Some splattered referencing Yves Klein no doubt, others more traditional silhouette images. I'll try to get some images of the early works if people are interested.

I found it really fascinating, and was lucky enough to meet Richard briefly, who was a really humble sweet guy. He used to hang out with Basquiat and Haring and has clearly lived a pretty hard life, but he's beginning to get some recognition it seems with a few shows coming up in NY.

here are a couple of pics - the first two are from the mid 80's the bottom one from a recent exhibition he had in NY.

So perhaps this has been discussed before, I don't know, but whilst in New York last week I met an NY street artist whose work frankly is incredibly similar to Mr. B, or more to the point Mr B's is rather similar to.

His name is Richard Hambleton, and I only came across him because a Gallery I went to visit represents him now. They gave me a catalogue about him and I was amazed at how similar Hambleton's and Banksys approach is. Hambleton started doing these really interesting murder scene chalk drawings all over the US in the early 80's, he then started pasting giant diazo printouts of himself all over NY with natty tag lines attached (think Shep Fairey etc.) Then moved onto shadow paintings of figures against walls. Some splattered referencing Yves Klein no doubt, others more traditional silhouette images. I'll try to get some images of the early works if people are interested.

I found it really fascinating, and was lucky enough to meet Richard briefly, who was a really humble sweet guy. He used to hang out with Basquiat and Haring and has clearly lived a pretty hard life, but he's beginning to get some recognition it seems with a few shows coming up in NY.

here are a couple of pics - the first two are from the mid 80's the bottom one from a recent exhibition he had in NY.