Devandalized: 1987-2017

“When you live in New York it’s unavoidable to see things like graffiti and graffiti stickers,” Zipple says. I noticed his collections of objects and stickers found around New York’s walls and streets. Zipple’s habit of collecting street culture reminded me of artist Dieter Roth. “I keep lots of notebooks of things I see and I apply this research to my work, it’s ever-evolving,” Zipple states. He keeps hundreds of pages of ballpoint pen drawings on small format paper, with text scrawled upon them. “I’m painting logos and I work with them on computers and manipulate them in different ways,” he announced.