BRAZILIAN BOY - ASA

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Searching a new york blog i stumbled across this brazilian - i was looking for Bikini babes but got this instead...

"ASA a brazilian born art reject. He has been recognised for his graffiti and skateboard art and plays music for 2 São Paulo bands.Polar rock and Caxabaxa

ASA’s art has always been a form of personal expression. Self-taught, rejected from art classes, ASA funneled his rage into painting and coloring whatever he could find, and he will still work with whatever he can get his hands on— acrylic paint, markers, crayons, or spray-paint.
Often the subjects are detailed, single iconographic monsters or large collage-like scenes of thickly doodled characters.


Skating, swimming and biking have also always been a part of ASA’s life in Brazil, but one of his biggest influences (besides caffeine—the artist has said, “espresso is the best partner when it comes to producing in large scale”) is music.
In Juxtapoz Magazine he named his top 5 albums as Johnny Coltrane’s A Love Supreme, anything by the Descendents, Teixeihinha and Mary Terezinha’s Desafio das Perguntas e Respostas, Jorge Ben’s O Bidú Ou Silêncio No Brooklyn, and Check Your Head by the Beastie Boys.


Still a big name in Sáo Paulo’s galleries, he now lives by the beach in Florianópolis with his wife, who makes Veraneyo bikinis."

Check out his flickr account for more pictures of his work.



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