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Bua gives a slide overview of his graffiti style, distorted realism, and urban themes that make his paintings some of the best-selling prints at Z-Gallery and Prints Plus.
The biggest markets for Bua's work are college campuses in America and Canada, where he is a best seller. He has an energetic and vocal fan base that ranges from high school skateboarders and college students across the globe to Hollywood actors like Robert De Niro and Christina Ricci.
Justin Bua was born in 1968 and grew up in New York City's untamed, upper-west side. Bua was fascinated by the raw, visceral Manhattan street life and found himself spending most of his time hanging out at places like Rock Steady Park and the Douglas Projects. These environments inspired many paintings, for example, "RISING" "is a painting that exemplifies the poetic struggle to rise above the insurmountable stigma of the projects," says Bua.
Bua is a graduate of the High School of Music and Performing Arts in New York, NY and the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA. He is currently an adjunct faculty member at the USC School of Fine Arts.
Bua started out doing slick-bottom paintings for the skateboard industry and signed with a distributor, American Vision Gallery, for a line of fine art posters. He quickly made his way into the commercial freelance world where he did numerous CD covers, for companies such as Warner Bros., Atlantic Records, Sony Music and BMG Music as well as advertising work for clients like Weiden and Kennedy and The Nike Corporation.
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