jaybo monk
Jaybo (1968) is a runaway, setting out and wandering along in a physical as well as in a creative sense. In his youth, he ran away from his house in southern France, settling in Berlin-Kreuzberg at the beginning of the 1980’s, where he busied himself as a graffiti writer, street actor and hip-hop musician. When he founded the streetwear label “Irie Daily” and the cultural magazine “Style” at the beginning of the 1990’s, his influence on Berlin’s youth culture and fashion scene could be clearly seen. Even today, urban subculture is the driving force behind his artistic activities.
Jaybo Monk, a French-born painter, has lived and worked in Berlin since 1985. In this time, he has created such various influential urban subculture projects as the streetwear label Irie Daily and the cultural magazine Style and the Family Tunes. In addition to his upcoming show, “Hazardous Brushstrokes” at Circle Culture Gallery (Sept. 30), Monk has most recently exhibited his abstract figurative art style in the Avant Garden Gallery (Milano) and a solo exhibition in Stolen Space Gallery (London).
Jaybo Monk, a French-born painter, has lived and worked in Berlin since 1985. In this time, he has created such various influential urban subculture projects as the streetwear label Irie Daily and the cultural magazine Style and the Family Tunes. In addition to his upcoming show, “Hazardous Brushstrokes” at Circle Culture Gallery (Sept. 30), Monk has most recently exhibited his abstract figurative art style in the Avant Garden Gallery (Milano) and a solo exhibition in Stolen Space Gallery (London).
