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About The Artist: Jon Planas

Peruvian-born artist Jon Planas began making a splash in the art world in 1980s in New York, at a time when the grit and grime of the Lower East side were were all the rage. Living in a small apartment there, the artist said that he was so poor he began buying paint with what he could afford; and because he loved fashion, he figured why not use that as a wearable canvas for his work. Soon before he knew it, the starving artist’s work was...