Jean-Michel Basquiat: Hollywood Africans Skateboard Decks Oskar Schlemmer and installations explore the relationship

and installations explore the relationship between memory and material

spontaneity and control

and added garish colors and graphic elements that capture the area’s sleazy glamour

The Innocents (2003)

Jean-Michel Basquiat: Hollywood Africans Skateboard Decks Oskar Schlemmer and installations explore the relationshipThe Skateroom has collaborated with the Estate of Jean Michel Basquiat to create this set of three skateboard decks featuring Basquiats painting Hollywood Africans (1983). Hollywood Africans is from a series of Basquiats paintings that features images and texts relating to stereotypes of African Americans in the entertainment industry. It was painted while Basquiat was on an extended visit to Los Angeles in 1983. Several of the works notations are