CRASH is the tag of John Matos who was raised in the Bronx, New York. He made a name for himself in the 1970s by painting trains throughout New York City. By 1980, he gained critical attention for curating “Graffiti Art Success for America” at the Fashion Moda in 1980, now considered a historic exhibition. In 1984, CRASH collaborated with Keith Haring on a set of murals and his work has since been preserved in the permanent collections of the Brooklyn Museum, the Boca Raton Museum of Art, the New Orleans Museum of Art, and the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, among others. A master at subway art, Crash was also one in a handful of New York writers who painted murals on the streets during the early 80s while exhibiting at prestigious galleries worldwide. At the same time, Chris “Freedom” Pape moved into a larger space in Manhattan, an abandoned two mile stretch of tunnel designed by Robert Moses that would become the legendary Freedom Tunnel, launching a sixteen-year run of world-famous paintings and drawings.