Kenny Scharf (born in Los Angeles, 1958) attended Manhattan’s School of Visual Arts and came of age in the 1980s New York downtown art scene alongside his contemporaries Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat. A painter and performer inhabiting the visual worlds of both street art and popular culture, Scharf’s graffiti paintings gained him notoriety and established a vernacular language all his own. A continuation of his legendary œuvre, “Woodz ‘N Thingz” illustrates a constant interplay between ecosystems - the awareness of the observer and the delicacy of the environment - with Scharf creating magnetic compositions that exist in the ambiguity of transition and change while highlighting contemporary environmental perils and impending global crises.