Early Life
Poster Boy / Matyjewicz was born in 1983, and raised in a one-parent home in a poor neighborhood in Hartford, CT. He later moved to the more affluent West Hartford, CT. Poster, as his friends call him, was a vandal as a teenager, and was arrested on minor charges a few times before enrolling in Community College. There he became interested in the political ideas of Noam Chomsky, and in simple artistic ways of expressing political reality, as in Animal Farm by George Orwell. He went from Community College to a prominent New York art school, and worked in a Chelsea art studio. He started on his collage like visual appropriation in art school, using used canvases already painted and discarded by other art students. He has said this was largely because he did not have the space and money to make art the traditional way. On the subway between his Brooklyn home and Manhattan he began to manipulate the advertising posters that line the NYC subway tunnels. He soon dropped out of art school.
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