Timothy Curtis is a self-taught artist and graffiti writer born in Philadelphia. He has gone from being a prison inmate doing portraits of his fellow inmates, to an internationally acclaimed artist. His West Philly tag was PIPE, given to him at age 9. He became well known for his graffiti style early on, using faces as a tag and rebranding himself Agua, the warning he heard people  shout when they saw the police approaching. Curtis’s work exists at the intersection of drawing and painting and his highly informed by his approach to graffiti. Being in the streets from a young age, in this spirit, the artist places an emphasis on the power and intuition of bold lines in order to convey feeling and movement.