FAILE: The “Painted Rip” Effect

Addicted Art Gallery
4 min readJun 15, 2022
Black Dog, FAILE

FAILE, is an anagram for, “A Life”, the name of their first project. FAILE began life as a trio, (originally including Aiko Nakagawa, born 1975, Tokyo), and they focused on dispersing their art on city streets around the world. Their style of wheat-pasted and stenciled work evoked the pulp-cultural and comic book characteristics of sixties pop artists such as Andy Warhol and Richard Hamilton.

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