Michael "IZ the Wiz" Martin (November 8, 1958 – June 17, 2009, aged 50) [2] was one of the most prominent graffiti writers of the New York graffiti movement of the late 1970s and early 1980s. Martin was from the New York City borough of Queens, a Rockaway Beach native.

2013年9月16日 · Aspiring artist Michael Stewart died at the hands of police in the wake of an aggressive crackdown on graffiti by New York City authorities during the 1980s.

2023年10月26日 · Michael Tracy, a Bronx-bred graffiti artist known as Tracy 168 who turned subway cars into rolling canvases for his spray-paint murals, becoming a breakout star of the New York streets in the...

2009年6月29日 · Michael Martin, known as Iz the Wiz, was a prolific embellisher of New York subway cars, including this one painted in 1982. Iz The Wiz. In the 1970s and ’80s, chances were good that anyone...

TRACY 168 (born Michael Tracy in 1958) is an American graffiti artist. TRACY 168 was born at New York Hospital on E. 68 Street. He is one of the founding fathers of the art form; and created the Wildstyle style of graffiti.

Michael Jerome Stewart (May 9, 1958 [1] – September 28, 1983) was an African-American man who received recognition after his death following an arrest by New York City Transit Police for writing graffiti in soft-tip marker or using an aerosol can on a New York City Subway wall at the First Avenue station. [2]

2009年6月29日 · Graffiti artist Michael Martin—aka Iz the Wiz—died on June 17 in Spring Hill, Florida, where he had moved a few years ago, according to the New York Times. Iz the Wiz was a legend among graffiti artists, by almost all accounts “the longest-reigning all-city king in New York City history,” as the graffiti website @149st puts it.

2023年11月16日 · Michael Christopher Tracy aka “Tracy 168” died on Sept. 3. He was known as the inventor of graffiti and was recently immortalized with a mural by graffiti artist MACS in Bassano del Grappa, Italy.

2016年7月9日 · With his outstanding sense of color, style and design, Tracy 168 achieved legendary status early on in the most significant art movement of our time. The personification of wild style and the first writer to hit the subways with cartoon characters, the prolific artist wielded tremendous influence.

2021年6月29日 · Michael Stewart was a New York City graffiti artist who died following an incident with the city’s transit police. Although not much is known about his early life, Stewart’s death entered the media on September 15, 1983 at 2:00 a.m. He was accused of writing on the subway station wall with a felt-tipped marker.