Ian Kuali'i

We welcome the talented Ian Kuali'i for his debut RUN Afterlife which features 25 individually unique hand-cut stencil cut spray cans. Each of these hand cut stencils is completely unique and has been applied to long forgotten aerosol spray paint cans all of which has a story uniquely their own.

Click Here To View All 25 Unique Cans From Ian Kuali'i's Afterlife Series

"I first started working with rusty spray cans about 14 years ago but just recently (about three years ago) started knocking out the cans in this style. The concept for this ongoing series came about after one of my excursions to a well known graffiti spot in Downtown Jersey City. I discovered all of these discarded cans and thought to myself, 'This tool gave us life and here we are just discarding it's empty vessel.' So the idea was to harvest these rusty cans and give life back to them so that maybe they could be remembered again." - Ian Kuali'i

This RUN comes signed and numbered by Ian Kuali'i along with an Original Artwork Letter of Provenance from 1xRUN.

Ian Kuali'i is a multi-disciplinary artist born in Orange County California, raised in Maui Hawaii and currently residing in the New York City Metro Area. Ian's creative process blends the contrasting elements of very loose graffiti writing technics with extremely detailed hand cut paper and collaged found materials to create unique compositions. His work is a balance between the rough and delicate, demonstrating the process of destroying to create. His art is predominantly influenced by his ancestral ties to the indigenous people of the Southwest United States and Hawaii, as well as masonic symbolism, mysticism, global politics and themes of urban decay. Through out his career, Ian has assisted such artists as Doze Green, Carlos "Mare139" Rodriguez and WK Interact in large scale projects and installations across the country.