New York Graffiti Artist Futura Shares His Design Journey

May 5, 2021

By Craig Kellogg

Back in the heyday of urban graffiti, New York artist Leonard McGurr signed his out­door murals with the tag Futura2000. He painted scenery live onstage for 1981 con­certs by punk-rock band the Clash and showed in the same East Village gallery as his friend Jean-Michel Basquiat. In 1997, McGurr’s Futura Laboratories began selling clothes in Japan. Abstract fine-art canvases by Futura, as he’s now known, score blue-chip prices from collectors today. Recently, curators asked him to paint several of Isamu Noguchi’s Akari light sculptures, designed between 1952 and 1986, for a stunning solo exhibition that ran this winter at the Noguchi Museum in Queens. He tells us more.

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