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Iz the Wiz's 1982 blackbook

Collection — Box: 1

Identifier: 8059

Scope and content

Clothbound black sketchbook once owned by Iz the Wiz, full of artwork by him and his contemporaries, including 25 full-page artworks. Artists represented include Wasp 1, Billy 167, Dynomite 149, Clyde, Zephyr (Gold), Iz the Wiz, and new wave artists Doc, Midge, 2Cute, and Abi. The tag pages also include Crash, Daze, Lady Pink (Sandra Fabara), and Cavster. The sketchbook was exhibited at the Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Paris, in the 2009 exhibition Born in the Streets Graffiti.