George Spencer - The Boxing Series, #1

George Spencer

George Spencer (1965) was born and raised in New York. Living in New York City, traveling backing and forth between SoHo and the Upper East Side, introduced Spencer to the world of Art/graffiti which he entered under the name of “MIZER”. At the just 14 years old, trains became the ideal host to Spencer’s tags. Motion tagging, or the art of graffiti executed on the interiors of trains/busess while they’re in motion, became his premier style up until the early 80′s. Spencer went on to the School of the Visual Arts which he left early, a decision that lead to start of his Boxing Series in New York’s East Village. Spencer has been involved with art organizations like the arts collective REPOhistory, Art In Odd Places, and ACRIA. In 2001, after a four year pause from his exploratory paintings of boxers, Spencer was called back to the Series and works on them to this day. In 2010 Spencer was featured in the Rizzoli Publication – ” Stickers: From Punk to Contemporary Art” Paintings in this book are from the,”$20.00 Boxing Series”. All works are approximately 18”x24”, Acrylic paint on found paper. All images in this book are from private collections.