Arts & Culture By Joan Tapper
The Writing on the Wall GRAFFITI ARTISTS HAVE TAKEN STREET ART INTO GALLERIES AND ONTO MURALS.
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elly Graval, aka Risk, has a lot going on these days. The multimedia artist, color field muralist, and pioneer of street art on the West Coast is working on two retrospective exhibits. One is for the Chase Contemporary Gallery in New York. The other is for the California Museum of Art Thousand Oaks (CMATO), now located at The Oaks, just a few miles from the home Graval bought a dozen years ago on the street where his wife grew up. There’s a lot going on there, too: The print shop where he produces his limited-edition prints is being moved from one end of the house to a new space above his studio,
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