The man with the iron masks

Graffiti artist Neck Face opens his first-ever New York solo show tonight, and his timing (as in Halloween) couldn't be more appropriate. After all, he has already tagged his bloodthirsty goth creatures—beloved by collectors like Beck—from New York to Tokyo, and the exhibit includes eerie metal masks (above), a toddler-sized pair of witch's hands, and sculpted neon-yellow devils. And then there's the show's title and theme: Closed Casket, which is loosely based around the idea of Satan. "I'm inspired by the dark, the blackness of the night, the things you ain't supposed to laugh at, the evil in the world today," he says. (Cue Vincent Price chuckle here.) But consider yourself warned: If you plan on going to tonight's opening, costume is required.

Also, Londonist claims to have "unmasked" Banksy, but we're not convinced that blurry, tilted-angle shots taken from a distance really count.
Closed Casket, Oct. 31-Nov. 24, Dactyl Foundation, 64 Grand St., (212) 696-7800, dactyl.org. RSVP for the opening to rsvp@dactyl.org

JONATHAN DURBIN

Photo: Neck Face/Courtesy of Dactyl Foundation

11:26 AM, October 31, 2007
Tags: Going Out

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Tangentjude
4:23:08 PM on
11/05/07

The face only a mother could love!

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Neck Face is a graffiti artist born in 1984 in Stockton, California. He is known for his frightening drawing style.

Neck Face originally worked in Stockton and Lodi, California, where he attended Bear Creek High School and Tokay High School. Neck Face gained a great deal of notice through his affixing stickers emblazoned with his art to public objects throughout Stockton and Lodi. Later he evolved into other graffiti techniques and also spread his work to San Francisco, California, where his name can still be seen on many newspaper stands and walls throughout the city. He attended the School of Visual Arts in New York City, and was based in Brooklyn, New York City for two years before dropping out.^{[citation needed]} In 2005 he relocated his studio to California, and now splits his time between California, New York, Australia, and Spain.^{[citation needed]}

His most famous public art piece once appropriated the sign on an abandoned storefront of the store "My Old Lady" in New York City's Chelsea neighborhood; he painted under that "...Loves Neckface". Recent renovations to the storefront, however, have removed the sign.

In addition to appearing across billboards and buildings in the United States, Neckface's work can be seen internationally in places such as Sydney and Melbourne, Australia and Tokyo, Japan.

[edit] Commercial Projects

As a skateboarder himself, neckface is the art director at Baker Skateboards, and rumored to be the art director of Andrew Reynolds brainchild Deathwish skateboards, Neck Face has collaborated with a series of skateboard and related brands by designing decorations for their products. The most notable among these brands are: Vans, Stüssy, and most recently Altamont Apparel.

Neck Face graffiti can be seen in the video game EA Skate.

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• Gallery works for New Image Art
• Fotolog Neck Face
• RobotsWillKill Graffiti Galleries: Neck Face
• BBC article on Neck Face from May 2005
• The San Francisco Bay Guardian interview
• SWINDLE Magazine Interview
• Citynoise article

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