The 01 Gallery presents “Vintage Futurism” an exhibition by graffiti artist Kofie One. Gallery Director Christina Ochoa curates collage works, watercolors and prints that showcase Kofie One’s recent and continuous expansion of architectural styling and graffiti art. The exhibition shows from February 28th through March 29th, 2009.

From his early 90’s exploits in West Los Angeles graffiti, Kofie One has determined a self-made artistic education upon graffiti art that now brings an iconic structure and fluid manner to all that Kofie One sees, hears, and feels about his life and love in and for Los Angeles. His artistic movement from the walls of L.A. streets to the precision of drafting on paper, results in a fine art esthetic that embodies, wrestles, and engages, all that is of formal art and “traditional” graffiti art. Often described as abstract freeways, the lines and letterforms of his art, tense with obsessive perfection. Kofie One’s art connects the dots from street art to high art like a fundamental geometry that only a certain few graffiti artists have accomplished, yet maintains a tribute to the energy and creative origins of graffiti art.

In “Vintage Futurism” the exhibition further looks into Kofie One’s mechanically detailed line-work, organically complex structures and heavy earth-tone palette that coalesce into a multi-layered, architectonic inspired world. A futuristic realm of lines and shapes not subject to gravity but firmly rooted in a formal manner. Executed by a sure hand, a feeling of motion unleashed underlies all of Kofie One’s current works. In his mixed media works, circular forms stretch, drape and harmoniously combine with images from outdated and discarded publications and found vintage paper creating a provocative glimpse into a world both intricately complex and balanced in perfect harmony.

As a self-proclaimed detail freak, Kofie One’s straightforward approach to painting continues to broaden his spectrum of creative endeavors and applications. He can be found today in his Echo Park, California studio producing commission works, collage and assemblages, watercolors, mural installations and the occasional live art event. The 01 Gallery invites the public to view a measure of his prolific work and become a part of his world.