Marthalicia Matarrita, besides being a cutey, is a modern day prophet of painting (if that makes any sense.) She’s a street artist and a graff artist. These days Marthalicia is doing a lot of live painting with Art Battles, a New York based creation of artist/event thrower/entrepreneur Sean Bono, who produces live art events and competitions to expose emerging artists to the masses. (Check out their stuff when you get a chance it’s great!) Cultureserve.net says that “Harlem, USA based Marthalicia, is a self described, ‘mother, sister, daughter, artist, entrepreneur, community advocate – trained in the martial arts.’   If that’s not enough, she was also scheduled to go to Iraq twice as a member of the Army National Guard. Fortunately, her units 1st tour was postponed, she was 3 months pregnant.  The second tour was also delayed and her duty was up in 2005.  After 10 years in the making, in 2006 Marthalicia and her 2 brothers and 1 sister formed M-Squared Art Productions, a collective grounded in the four elements of hip-hop. M-Squared integrates art and music into the party landscape of New York City with Marthalicia’s specialty being, live painting.” I discovered her art for myself while watching  Current TV. The video is below. I’m listening to Common’s song “Food.” (Not the live on Dave Chappelle version.)

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