Lady Pink

Lady Pink (born Sandra Fabara, Ambato, Ecuador, 1964) is a graffiti and mural artist based in New York City. Nicknamed the "first lady of graffiti" because she was one of the first women active in the early 1980s subway graffiti subculture.

Biography

Sandra Fabara was raised in Queens. She started her graffiti writing career in 1979 following the loss of a boyfriend who had been sent to live in Puerto Rico after he had been arrested. She exorcised her grief by tagging her boyfriend's name across New York City. Soon after she started tagging the name Lady Pink, derived from her love of historical romances, England, the Victorian period, and the aristocracy. Lady Pink studied at the High School of Art & Design in Manhattan. While a student there she was introduced to graffiti and began writing at age fifteen. Within a few years LADY PINK began running with TC5 (The Cool 5) and TPA (The Public Animals) graffiti crews. Lady Pink painted New York City Subway trains from 1979 to 1985. In 1980, she was included in the landmark New York show “GAS: Graffiti Art Success” at Fashion Moda, which traveled in a modified form downtown to The New Museum of Contemporary Art.

Fabara

Fabara (Spanish: [faˈβaɾa]) or Favara de Matarranya (Catalan: [fəˈβaɾə ðə mətəˈraɲə], locally: [faˈβaɾa ðe mataˈraɲa]) is a municipality located in the province of Zaragoza, Aragon, Spain. According to the 2004 census (INE), the municipality has a population of 1,195 inhabitants. This town is located in La Franja, the local dialect is a variant of Catalan.

There is a Roman mausoleum in this town, as well as important archaeological sites close by.

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Coordinates: 41°11′N 0°10′E / 41.183°N 0.167°E / 41.183; 0.167