"Times Square is filled with women. I propose to paint a mural of women who exist and survive on 42nd Street against a background of Times Square at night. A hot dog vendor, an oriental sidewalk vendor selling earrings, a black woman bicycle messenger, a beautiful hooker, a business woman in a suit, a wide-eyed secretary on her night out, a homeless beggar juxtaposed against an extravagant ad for a diamond necklace loosely draped over an elegant hand. Amidst these choices sits a young innocent girl. A child see her future." (Lady Pink in original installation proposal.)
"Lady Pink is the woman in the all-male bastion of graffiti art. Fourteen years ago, she spray-painted subways, crawled through dirty tunnels and defied the police. And her paintings are every bit as singular as their creator. Blazing colors! Lush shapes! In-your-face themes! All rendered in a distinct pointillist style as reminiscent of Seurat as Walt Disney.
"Her themes-gay bashing, abortion, overpopulation, and rape-passionately address women's fears and concerns.
"'Why is it that women have to fear when the sun sets?
"'Why should I be afraid of people beating me up when I walk with my girlfriend?' Lady Pink" ("The Pink Panther," by Norman Schreiber, HER NEW YORK: October 6, 1993.)
Artists' Biography
"Lady Pink aka Sandra Fabaro left Ecuador at the age of seven with her family to move to Queens, New York. She attended the High School of Art and Design as an architecture major, but soon rebelled to join the underground graffiti movement.
"The title Lady Pink is self-appointed. It denotes her position as queen of her terrain. At the same time, she wanted her peers to recognize a woman's touch. Dressed in loose-fitting male apparel (a sheep in wolf's clothing) she dodged rival gangs, fearful of rape.
" In 1979, she had her first art show at Fashion Moda, an alternate gallery in the Bronx. Today, her art goes for $8,000 from New York to Tokyo." ("The Pink Panther," by Norman Schreiber, HER NEW YORK: October 6, 1993.)
She has shown her work in New York at the Fun Gallery, Semphore Gallery, Sydney Janis Gallery, Caribbean Cultural Center, Franklin Furnace, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art and in Europe at The Inhound Museum in Geneva, Switzerland, Galeries Venster, Rotterdam and Lisson Gallery, London.
History of the Site
