George Lee Quiñones is one of the most prominent figures to achieve visibility during the golden age of New York City graffiti culture. Raised on the Lower East Side, Quiñones established himself alongside peers like Keith Haring, Jean-Michel Basquiat, and members of Fabulous 5ive. He began tagging the city’s subway system in 1974, gaining notoriety for his ability to cover entire subway cars with riotous phrases, beasts, and abstract forms. Some of his tags were overtly political, like “Earth is Hell, Heaven is Life” and “Stop the Bomb.” These messages circulated throughout the city and caught the eye of countless straphangers. While most of his unsanctioned large-scale paintings no longer exist, fans of Quiñones can purchase his works on paper, which feature the same layered, frenzied style of his street art. His works are in the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the New Museum, and the Staatliche Museen, among others.