CRASH the Godfather of Graffiti

                                                              

              

                         

                                                             

John Matos took the name CRASH and began writing graffiti on the Bronx subway lines. He joined fellow artists DONDI and FUTURA and other artists where they painted on canvas for The New Museum of Contemporary Art in Manhattan. He has traveled to Europe to paint murals. His distinctive style brings together  graffiti lettering and portraiture with Pop art, comic book backgrounds. He has done special work for Eric Clapton painting Fender Stratocaster guitars and Fender has commissioned CRASH to design his own line of guitars, the Crashocasters.