“A wall is a very big weapon. It’s one of the nastiest things you can hit someone with.” — Banksy
Lady Aiko might just be a pin-up herself. The artist launched her solo career in 2006 with works on canvas that incorporate collage, stenciling, brushwork, spray paint, and serigraphs. This bricolage technique perfectly suits AIKO’s eclectic practice of voracious mash-up of Japanese and American pop culture, soft-corn porn and erotic art.
It’s officially spring. The birds are chirping. Pimps and players are flirting. And the girls? Well depending on who you ask, they run the world. It wouldn’t be spring without a tribute to the girls, girls, girls.
Lady Aiko is a founding member of the artist collective FAILE, formed in 1999, which helped fuel the current wave of global contemporary street art with spontaneous wheat pastings and stenciling in numerous world capitals.
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