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Meet LeGatsby
Simon Legaspi, known by fans of his art as LeGatsby, has been a showcasing artist in multiple Feels’ showcases and was named in our inaugural class of Celebrate Art/sts grant recipients. This emerging visual artist deepened his love for art after being drawn into the transformative world of graffiti, when he immigrated from the Philippines to NYC with his family as a child. This set him on a path of experimental art, heavily influencing his style today.
Now, as a longtime Seattle resident, LeGatsby says he appreciates the city’s pandemic-induced embrace of street art. Although graffiti remains a point of great contention in Seattle, new murals and community art projects began popping up, scrawled along our city’s building facades and roads, during the two year Covid lockdown.
“I got into graffiti and street art—I was kind of experimenting—and that had a heavy influence.”
– Simon Legaspi
LeGatsby is optimistic about the increase in support for artistic careers among people of color. Whether from families and friends or the community at large, championing each other’s art is crucial to increasing representation in art institutions, developing our own art spaces and increasing the sustainability of creative careers for Black and Brown artists. The Feels is looking forward to a continued, flourishing relationship with creators like LeGatsby.
