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Stash | |
|---|---|
| Born | Josh Franklin 1967 |
| Nationality | American |
| Known for | Graffiti, Spray paint art |
| Movement | Street art, |
| Website | mrstash |
Josh Franklin (born 1967), known as Stash, is an American graffiti artist and graphic designer based in Brooklyn, New York. [1]
Franklin was born in Long Island, New York in 1967. [2] He grew up in New York City, finding inspiration from a young age looking at illegal Graffiti art on the sides of the city's subway trains while on his way to school. [3] Later in the early 1980s, Stash started painting trains alongside other artists such as Futura and ZEPHYR. He exhibited at age 17 with pop artists Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat, and later continued on as a successful gallery artist. He got the name Stash from the colloquial term "stashing", which equates to hiding things. Growing up in a very small home, Franklin felt the need to hide, or "stash" his most valued belongings from his brother. [4] [5]
In 1989, he appeared as a graffiti artist in the feature film Slaves of New York .
By the 1990s, Franklin began collaborating on product designs with high-profile brands such as Nike, [6] [7] Reebok, [8] Casio, [9] and more recently A Bathing Ape, Leica and Uniqlo. [10] [11] He still remains an active graphic designer to this day. [12] Franklin also created two clothing brands and opened a sneaker shop: Subware, Recon, and Nort/Recon Sneaker shop.
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