Phase 2 club
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Remembering Phase 2 Through His Final Writings
Phase 2 (Michael Lawrence Marrow) was an early innovator of the Aerosol Art movement, as well as a prominent writer in 1970’s subway writing era and impresario of hip hop culture including breaking. He was known for creating bubble letter writing and creative letter writing that eventually became profound works of art on subway cars, canvases and as sculptor. Phase 2 was a member of United Graffiti Artists (UGA) with other big names like Mike 171, SJK 171, J.E.C *, and Henry 161. If that wasn’t enough excitement, Phase 2 was also there in the Bronx at the dawn of hip hop culture. He brought his own ideas to “breaking,” held his own on microphone and designed some of hip hop culture’s earliest promotional flyers.
Sadly, Phase 2 passed away in 2019. Prior to his passing from illness he wrote the spoken word book Prafodivi. The book was a collection of poems touching on his life story and experiences, as well as his very last paper and pen drawings. I got to interview Midus, the editor of that book, and lear
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Phase 2, who in the early 1970s was one of the most prolific, inventive and emulated New York graffiti writers, and who later produced early hip-hop’s most innovative fliers, died on Dec. 12 at a nursing and rehabilitation center in the Bronx. He was 64. The cause was amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, his longtime friend David Schmidlapp said.
In the South Bronx at the dawn of the 1970s, all the creative components that would coalesce into what became widely known as hip-hop were beginning to take shape. At the center of them all was Phase 2, an intuitive, disruptive talent who first made his mark as a writer of graffiti — although he hated the term. “He had a natural gift or ability to stylize letters,” said Alan Ket, a founder of the Museum of Graffiti in Miami, adding that he “continued to develop styles that were pioneering or just wildly innovative.” His influence on the burgeoning art form was seismic.
The graffiti artist Coco 144, born Roberto Gualtieri, met Phase 2 in 1973 and found him
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Phase 2 (artist)
American graffiti artist (1955–2019)
This article is about the graffiti artist. For other uses, see Phase II (disambiguation).
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PHASE 2 in 1999 | |
| Born | Michael Lawrence Marrow (1955-08-02)August 2, 1955 New York City, U.S. |
| Died | December 12, 2019(2019-12-12) (aged 64) New York City, U.S. |
Michael Lawrence Marrow (August 2, 1955 – December 12, 2019),[1] known as PHASE 2 and Lonny Wood, was an American aerosol paint artist based in New York City. Mostly active in the 1970s, Phase 2 is generally credited with originating the "bubble letter" style of aerosol writing, also known as "softies".
Early life
Born to the late John Thomas Marrow and Adele Crichlow Marrow. He was a native of The Bronx, New York City, and attended DeWitt Clinton High School. Many famous graffiti writers of the early 1970s would meet at a doughnut shop across from the school before heading down to the 149th Street–Grand Concourse station to watch tagged trains on the IRT subway lines pass.[2]
He began writing in late
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