training name field birth_date image article_title birth_name
school of visual arts lehman college don leicht art , painting , sculpture , writing 1946 new york city , united states donleicht.jpg don leicht
 don leicht
don leicht

don leicht -lrb- born 1946 -rrb- is a visual artist who has worked as a painter and sculptor in the bronx , new york city for over thirty years .
leicht has had one person exhibitions in new york , sweden and germany and is an early figure in the new york city downtown scene in the 1970s , and in the subsequent street art and graffiti movements .
leicht and longtime collaborator john fekner participated in recent street art exhibitions such as wooster collective 's 11 spring street project in 2006 .
known as the original `` invader '' , leicht continues to work both indoors and outdoors .
working with john fekner in 2010 , their outdoor project `` the stanley cup is missing '' was part of the annual blk river street art festival in vienna , austria .
in 1983 , art writer glenn o'brien in a review in `` artforum '' magazine states , `` leicht 's piece consists of a sequence of creatures that exist only on a video screen - pac man , donkey kong , and other atari-type stable mates .
leicht has cut the forms of these leisure demons from heavy aluminum plate and enameled them with their normal , unnatural colors .
but each creature has also been abraded , scratches in the enamel showing the metal underneath .
one geometric thing -- an abstracted dog ?
an `` imperial walker '' ?
-- has been scratched with a message like a toilet-stall graffito or the `` pray '' scratched on the metal of new york city phone booths .
