Jeff Brown (graffiti artist)
Jeff Brown (* 1958 in New York ; † August 14, 2011 ibid), also known as King Kase2 and Case2, was an American graffiti artist and an important contributor to the hip-hop movement.
Life
He painted his first American handball court in 1973, and by 1976 had sprayed over fifty of the most iconic graffiti on trains on the New York City subway .
In the 1980s he made his " computer rock " style known, a kind of wild style in which the letters are broken into individual boxes and nested. He is also featured in the hip-hop documentary Style Wars , which won the jury's grand prize at the 1983 Sundance Film Festival . Kase was a member of the TFP (The Fantastic Partners) crew .
The self-proclaimed King of Style was admired by other graffiti artists of his time for his natural talent. His images on New York City subway trains were creative and artful. Kase lost his right arm in an accident on the New York subway when he was 10 years old. He explained what had happened to him in the documentary Style Wars: “It wasn't a massive accident, I was just burned by cables ... electrical cables, and then they took me to the hospital and had to amputate ... Because my tissues and muscles were badly burned . "
Jeff Brown died on August 14, 2011 at Lincoln Medical and Health Center in the south of the Bronx from a pulmonary aneurysm .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Edwin Sacasa: 'King Of Style' Kase 2 Remembered . MTV. Retrieved January 4, 2012.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Brown, Jeff |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kase2, King; Case2 |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American graffiti artist and a major contributor to the hip hop movement |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1958 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | new York |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 14, 2011 |
| Place of death | new York |