Fonem
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FONEM: A female graffiti artist, painter, photographer, and musician who, after graduating from the Atlanta College of Art aka SCAD Atlanta, moved to San Francisco and now works mainly out of New York City. Famous not only for her eternally questioning owls but also for her works of fine art. She sold her first painting to The Polk Museum of Art in Lakeland, FL at the age of 15 and now has 3 paintings hanging in the offices of The Metropolitan Museum in New York City. Her influences include Jean-Michel Basquiat, Francis Bacon (painter), Egon Schiele, Margaret Kilgallen, Camille Claudel, Joseph Campbell, Joseph Cornell, Francis Picabia, and Lee Krasner. She is currently the Art Director for the urban photoblog CityNoise and frequently DJs in Brooklyn and on webcasts. She lives and works in Brooklyn, New York with her husband.