Good luck with the show, my friend. I’m a fan, as you know.

Great show. Hats off to Wearology as always



I will just leave this here

Thanks for the photos wear

Some great pieces! Congrats on getting that together.

LA II deserves much more cred, and a current higher profile, than he gets.

Get it!

Sad I missed the opening night - caught a glimpse as I rode past on the bus - looked great !

Angel "LA2" Ortiz will be featuring new artwork publicly for the 1st time in 5 years.
The show titled "Walk The Line" will run from Thursday, March 24th - April 24th at the
Van Der Plas Gallery on 156 Orchard Street in NYC.  
Artistically LA2 pivoted from using a spray can and for this particular body of work he focused primarily on traditional acrylic paint on canvas with a paint brush and the results are absolutely fantastic.
The general public opening is Friday, March 25th for anyone interested in attending.  
If you are not familiar with LA2 and his legendary status in the Urban Art Movement then I suggest you Google his name and also watch the current Netflix Documentary about Andy Warhol where LA2 gets a lot of love from Andy and other masters of the scene.   

Thanks for posting Wearology. Hopefully you can post some pictures of the show after it opens for those fans this side of the pond.

If anyone is in NYC and wants to attend the show please send me a DM and I will put you on the list.
There is a soft opening Thursday, March 24 @ 12:00 and then there will be the Free Wine & Cheese Opening Friday Night starting @ 6 PM EST.

For those of you across the pond that can't make the opening in NYC, here is a snap shot of LA2's paintings from his Solo Show.

Hey All,

Very happy to have helped put this new London exhibition together with Angel Ortiz. This is a huge moment for Angel having not left the US in so long and so is certainly not going to be a show to miss.

Info:

30 September - 28 October 2022

D’Stassi Art is pleased to present King of Hearts, a new exhibition marking the highly anticipated comeback of Keith Haring’s longstanding collaborator and creative partner Angel Ortiz (known as LA II) with a new body of work set to unveil on Friday 30 September.

The Puerto Rican street artist who lives and works in New York has created over 30 new large-scale paintings for the show - his first in the UK in over 40 years. King of Hearts is a story of redemption that sees the arts community come together to uplift and celebrate one of the only remaining living artists - discovered by Keith Haring at only 12 years of age - who collaborated with all of the most influential figures of the 1980s. Amongst these include Haring himself, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Richard Hambleton, and Andy Warhol to name a few with more recent collaborations including the likes of London street artist STIK.



Angel Ortiz (LA II) in his studio in New York City

LA II’s career took off in 1980 when Haring, fresh from the Pennsylvania suburbs, came across his ‘Little Angel’ tag on a New York City Street and sought him out to collaborate. A friendship that would last a lifetime, LA II gave Haring access to the city’s vibrant street art scene through The Non Stoppers (TNS) - the largest street art crew of the time on the Lower East Side.

A combination of brotherhood, art and mutual admiration formed the foundation of their creative partnership and their first collaboration - a yellow NYC taxi hood tagged by both artists - sold for $1,400 at the time with proceeds evenly shared between them. Throughout the 80s, the two artists combined their signatures to create murals, sculptures, train paintings, and objects with LA II’s style and technique thought to have influenced Haring’s solo practice from then onwards. In 1983 aged just 16, LA II dropped out of high school to travel the world and work with Haring until 1985, collaborating side by side and weaving their creativity to create some of the most iconic works to exist in the art market today.



King of Hearts is a cathartic and full circle moment for LA II. His new body of work takes inspiration from his past collaborations while looking ahead to the future, combining techniques that started in the 80s that merge the spray can, ink marker, and paint. Restoring his archive as the starting point for his new show, LA II reimagines some of his past work to take its meaning into a new direction including his original blue spray-can cartoon painting from the 90s.

Please email info@dstassiart.com to RSVP and for more information.

Hope to see some of you there!

All the best,

Eddy

Angel Ortiz has been creating magic since the 80's.
Mr. Doodle was not even born yet.
LA2 has collaborated with Keith Haring, Richard Hambleton & STIK.
I will assume Mr. Doodle has collaborated with Photoshop & Tik Tok.

He is an extremely talented artist and genuinely nice person. I met him in NYC this summer.