A Direct Link to Basquiat and the Original New York Movement
Few living artists can claim genuine proximity to the birth of contemporary street culture in the way TOXIC can.
In 1982, Jean-Michel Basquiat personally encouraged TOXIC’s transition from painting trains to creating work for gallery walls.
A year later, TOXIC was immortalised in Basquiat’s iconic Hollywood Africans — one of the artist’s most celebrated and culturally significant works.
This is not influence from a distance.
It is lived art history.
Collectors are not buying work inspired by the movement.
They are acquiring work from someone who stood inside it.