8 Claude Lane
Union Square/Financial District
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This mural, (on the outside of Claudine Restaurant) is by Vogue TDK. According to an interview he did with 1:AM he got into graffiti in late 1984, after school, I turned on the TV to the local PBS station and caught the start of the documentary “Style Wars”. There was a scene where there was a MTA train moving down the tracks, then the train curves to show some graff and that was it. I was hooked and knew that is what I was going to do.
As far as why he is the artist he is today: I always did some sort of art throughout school. With the help of my parents, after graduating high school, I attended Academy of Arts in San Francisco, majoring in graphic design. After two years of that, I switched majors to illustration for another two years. During my schooling at the Academy, I incorporated my spray painting in both my homework and random jobs. A lot of what I learned at school translated on to the constant painting I did at the 23rd Oakland tracks. On the flip side, what I learned from my fellow graff peers and what I learned on my own also started appearing in my schoolwork.
The mural that flows to the interior of the restaurant is by Leon Loucheur, who is responsible for the Make Moves mural in SOMA. Leon is part of the Chamber Made Group.
