1958-1990
Keith Haring, one of the most recognized artists of the 1980's continues to influence the art of today. Younger artists continue to adopt his methodology and use of graphic and cartoon-like imagery. Working within the urban environment, Haring utilizes the language and theater of graffiti, a practice that is at once a highly personalized development of visual and semantic style and its inscription directly on the urban surface.

Moving between the private and public realms and high art and popular culture, Haring's glyphs and symbols are repetitive and automatic gestures that communicate publicly as a language learned through graphic visual impact.