‍ YOU SHOULD SPEAK WITH YOUR FINANCIAL ADVISOR, ACCOUNTANT AND/OR ATTORNEY WHEN EVALUATING ANY OFFERING. AN UP-TO-DATE DALMORE FORM CRS IS AVAILABLE HERE. YOU CAN REVIEW THE BROKERCHECK FOR DALMORE HERE. ALL SECURITIES-RELATED ACTIVITY IS CONDUCTED BY DALMORE GROUP, LLC (“DALMORE”), A REGISTERED BROKER-DEALER AND MEMBER OF FINRA ( AND SIPC ( LOCATED AT 525 GREEN PLACE, WOODMERE, NY 11598. (“OTIS”) OPERATES THE WITHOTIS.COM WEBSITE (THE “SITE”) AND A MOBILE APP-BASED PLATFORM (THE “APP”), AND IS NOT A BROKER-DEALER OR INVESTMENT ADVISER. His commercially successful and available work, while it may make “ the art world uncomfortable,” draws collectors, critics, and voracious fans from all over the world. His work can be seen in practically every level of art and culture, from the cover of Kanye West’s ‘808s & Heartbreak’ album to his custom Air Jordans for Nike. The KAWS brand has exploded since the turn of the century, beginning with collaborations with Supreme and Bathing Ape. Ever since, ‘COMPANION’ has become an important symbol in the KAWS lexicon. KAWS’s 2011 toy ‘COMPANION,’ featuring the X-shaped eyes and exhausted demeanor now classic in KAWS’s work, was made in an edition of 500 and sold out almost immediately. As KAWS told the Independent, “Frieze and Comic Con – what’s the difference? It’s a different crowd, a different dress, a different network, but honestly? It’s just making work and putting it into a room.” As a result, he is often compared to fellow New York-based artists Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat, both of whom challenged the concepts of high and low art and object fetishism. Through mass production of pieces and making them easily available to the public, KAWS built up a diverse fan base of people largely uninvolved in the institutional art world.

He next developed screen-printed lithographs playing on popular '90s advertisements (which he called 'subvertising'), which over time became a predominant theme in his work. KAWS began as a graffiti artist, tagging his now-iconic cartoonish figures around the New York and New Jersey area. Brian Donnelly, known more commonly as KAWS, has been an international leader in the street art world for several decades.

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