Indie184
{{Short description|American street artist}}
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| birth_name = Soraya Marquez
| birth_date = {{birth year and age|1980}}
| birth_place = Río Piedras, Puerto Rico
| known_for = Feminist graffiti art
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| style = Wild-style, mixed media
| movement = Graffiti
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| partner = Cope2{{cite web |title=I Am Uptown - Indie 184 |url=https://www.uptowncollective.com/2010/04/08/i-am-uptown-indie-184/ |website=uptowncollective.com |access-date=4 July 2024 |date=8 April 2010}}
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Soraya Marquez (born 1980),{{Cite web|title=Indie184 is Fresh, Bold and So Def|url=https://hiphopeducation.com/women-in-hip-hop/indie184-is-fresh-bold-and-so-def/|access-date=2021-07-02|website=Hip Hop Education Center|language=en-US}} better known by her pseudonym Indie184, is an American street artist known for her New York feminist graffiti style infused with feminine icons such as hearts, stars and bubbles.{{Cite web|title=Indie184 {{!}} Widewalls|url=https://www.widewalls.ch/artists/indie184|access-date=2021-03-09|website=www.widewalls.ch|language=en}} Her current work is a mixed media style incorporating painting of past American stars, graffiti, and stencil art on canvas or wall murals.{{Cite web|date=2015-04-09|title=An Introduction to Indie 184|url=https://duggal.com/an-introduction-to-indie-184/|access-date=2021-03-09|website=Duggal Visual Solutions}}{{Cite web|date=2013-06-04|title=Meet NYC Graffiti Artist, Designer and Entrepreneur Indie 184 {{!}} Art, Culture|url=https://remezcla.com/culture/indie-184-graffiti-artist-nyc-profile/|access-date=2021-03-09|website=Remezcla|language=en-US}} Indie’s art is inspired by old school New York graffiti artists such as Seen, LEE, West, Serve, and Cope2.
Marquez owns a streetwear brand, Kweens Destroy.{{Cite web|last=Dustin|first=Schoof|date=2012-11-01|title=Graffiti art exhibit on display at Warren County Community College|url=https://www.lehighvalleylive.com/entertainment-general/2012/11/graffiti_art_exhibit_on_displa.html|access-date=2021-07-02|website=lehighvalleylive.com|language=en}} Her graffiti art has been featured in the video game Grand Theft Auto IV. In 2013, she was commissioned by MAC Cosmetics to create a makeup style purse. Marquez also worked as Rommel London's Chief Artistic Officer in partnership on Rimmel's “The Art of Beauty Campaign.”{{Cite web|last=Igneri|first=Jenna|title=Street Artist Indie184 Is Rimmel London's New Chief Artistic Officer|url=https://www.nylon.com/articles/rimmel-indie184-creative-chief-artistic-officer|access-date=2021-07-02|website=Nylon|date=19 January 2018 |language=en}} Her art has been featured in New York City's El Museo del Barrio and the Volklingen Ironworks Museum in Saarbrücken, Germany.{{Cite web|last=GmbH|first=finanzen net|title=Rimmel London Announces Street Artist Indie184 as New Chief Artistic Officer|url=https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/rimmel-london-announces-street-artist-indie184-as-new-chief-artistic-officer-1002018968|access-date=2021-03-09|website=markets.businessinsider.com|language=en-us}}
Biography
Marquez was born in Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico, and is of Dominican descent. She was raised in New York City by a single mother and has four siblings. Marquez in various New York City suburbs until her family settled in the Washington Heights borough after the death of her stepfather.
Marquez's graffiti started in her teenage years in Washington Heights, where she would play basketball and draw on the walls. She studied marketing in college, but did not finish her degree.
Marquez's pseudonym Indie184 his derived from her favorite film franchise, Indiana Jones, and 184th Street, where she grew up in Manhattan.{{Cite web|date=March 29, 2016|title=Street Artist's Worldwide Acclaim Traces Back to Washington Heights|url=https://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20160329/washington-heights/street-artists-worldwide-acclaim-traces-back-washington-heights|url-status=dead|access-date=2021-07-02|website=DNAinfo New York|archive-date=2017-11-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171117235220/https://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20160329/washington-heights/street-artists-worldwide-acclaim-traces-back-washington-heights/}}
Notable work
- Go Hard, Indie's first solo exhibit featuring{{Cite web|title=Indie 184 Prints|url=https://www.fatcap.com/article/indie-184-prints.html|access-date=2021-03-09|website=FatCap|language=en}}
- “Don’t Get it Twisted”
- “Own Your Power”
- MAC Cosmetics Bag 1{{Cite web|title=MAC Illustrated Bag 1 by Indie 184 Illustrated Bags (2013) Review & Swatches|url=https://www.temptalia.com/product/mac-cosmetics-illustrated-bags-2013/illustrated-bag-1-by-indie-184/|access-date=2021-03-09|website=Temptalia: Makeup Reviews, Swatches, Dupes to Help You Shop Smarter!|language=en-US}} and Bag 2 {{Cite web|title=MAC Illustrated, part 2: Indie 184|url=https://www.makeupmuseum.org/home/2013/07/mac-illustrated-part-2-indie-184.html|access-date=2021-03-09|website=The Makeup Museum|date=24 July 2013 }}
Further reading
- {{Cite book|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/35047218|title=Artists talk back = Los Artistas responden : visual conversations with El Museo ; conversando en imagenes con El Museo|date=1994–1995|publisher=El Museo del Barrio|others=Susana Torruella Leval, Museo del Barrio|isbn=1-882454-02-2|location=New York|oclc=35047218}}
- {{Cite book|last=Elvis.|first=Aranda-Alvarado, Rocío. Fombella, Trinidad. Fuentes Rodríguez|url=http://worldcat.org/oclc/758983347|title=El Museo's Bienal : the (S) files 2011 : the street files|year=2011|isbn=978-1-882454-02-0|oclc=758983347}}
- {{Cite book|last=Hernandez|first=Jasmin|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1230926992|title=We are here : visionaries of color transforming the art world|date=2021|others=Sunny Leerasanthanah, Swizz Beatz|isbn=978-1-4197-4759-5|location=New York, NY|oclc=1230926992}}
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Category:21st-century American women artists