Dripping Tags - Special Hand-Embellished Edition

New, Special Hand-Embellished Edition (SHE) print collab. with Signari Gallery and Post Modern Vandal.

Dimensions: 24 x 18 Inches / 61 × 45.75 cm

Medium: Archival pigment print on 305gsm Moab Juniper Baryta Rag Hand-embellished by COPE2 with Paint Splatter and numerous, signature graffiti tags in varying colors. 

Provenance: Hand-signed and numbered on the back by artist. Comes with original Post Modern Vandal x Signari Gallery COA.

Edition: Limited Edition of 8

Year: 2025

ABOUT THE ART

Last year, Cope2’s 'Dripping Tags' Hand-Embellished Editions sold out almost immediately—each one uniquely worked by the artist and never intended to be repeated.

As part of our continued collaboration with Cope2, and in response to ongoing interest in that sold-out series, the artist agreed to create a new, clearly distinct body of work: a Special Hand-Embellished Edition (SHE). 

These pieces begin as prints from the original edition but are newly transformed by Cope2 with expanded hand-embellishment and added spray-paint splatter, resulting in a separate, artist-defined variant—individually marked and numbered on the verso as SHE 1–8/8.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Born 1968 as Fernando Carlo, Jr. in New York City. Cope2’s paintings have been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in galleries and museums throughout the United States and internationally. He is a self taught artist who is a celebrated legend contributing over 30 years to the graffiti street art culture. One of New York City’s most prolific graffiti artists, he began tagging his name in the South Bronx in 1978. He developed his style in the subways and streets of the Bronx creating graffiti productions throughout the 1980’s and 1990’s achieving international recognition for his distinctive style.

In recent years Cope2 has been commissioned by Time Magazine, Converse, Adidas among others. His work has even crossed into the virtual realm with appearances in video games such as Mark Eckos: Getting Up and Rockstar Games: Grand Theft Auto IV.

Today, you can catch Cope2 in the studio painting, bringing his raw energy into abstract expressionist style masterpieces, intertwined with his trademark bubble letters and tags on canvases. Cope2 crosses between art world, mainstream and street culture alike.

COPE2 is one of the most notorious graffiti ‘bombers’ in New York City and the five boroughs, starting out very young during the mid-80’s with his now legendary stylish bubble letter throw-up reading COPE. From the Bronx to downtown, all the way to Brooklyn, he had pieces everywhere, and with slow rate of transport cleaning at that time, his work accumulated fast highlighting him as one of the best in New York City.