Jeannie Hopper interviews Lee Quiñones, the world-renowned contemporary painter and star of the 1981 cult classic film Wild Style.
Quiñones rode a bicycle from NYC to Miami toraise money to aid children and their families affected by Hurricane Katrina via the
Boys & Girls Clubs of America Hurricane Katrina Relief Fund.
He departed Brooklyn on Oct. 27, 2005 in a send off that featured Borough Prez Marty Markowitz and actress Rosie Perez. His arrival in Miami came just at the start of the Art Basel Show on Dec. 1.
Quiñones is considered the grand expressionist of the New York Graffiti Art Movement. As part of the legendary crew The Fab 5ive, he came to prominence in 1976 with a socially daunting piece called Doomsday that covered two full subway cars. The piece established Quiñones as a poetic and painterly graffiti artist with powerful activist abilities.
