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July 15, 1992|By Nancy Stetson.

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Chicago graffiti artisan Mario Gonzalez durably believes that if the old art masters were painting in the 1990s, they`d be accomplishing graffiti.

``Definitely. All the masters were rebels in their time, so if they were animate today, they`d be accomplishing graffiti,`` Gonzalez says. ``There`s no agnosticism about graffiti actuality an art. Anybody that argues that has been sleeping for the aftermost 20 years.``

Gonzalez believes in the graffiti movement so acerb that Monday he`ll accessible 935, a graffiti accumulation abundance and studio. (Gonzalez called the abundance 935 afterwards his six-member graffiti crew, ICE Pack. The numbers accredit to the ninth, third and fifth belletrist of the alphabet: ``I,`` ``C`` and ``E.``)

The store, at 3613 W. North Ave., will advertise aerosol paints, nozzles for cans, books, videotapes, underground graffiti magazines and ``graffiti- and hip-hop-related items, such as fat shoelaces.`` Shoppers will be able to buy graffiti-decorated T-shirts, covering jackets and pants.

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Graffiti artists will be able to use the flat abaft the abundance to work. ``It will be Chicago`s alone underground hip-hop shop,`` says Gonzalez, who estimates that there are 2,000 graffiti artists in the city.

Gonzalez gets agitated back the media and politicians automatically agree graffiti with vandalism. ``It`s all in the intent,`` he says, appropriate amid assemblage symbols, tagging and art.

``Gang members` absorbed is territorial: `This is our turf, this is our

`hood, scram.` It`s a warning. Graffiti taggers go out and bomb . . . bombing is aloof accepting your name up. The accomplished affair is seeing how abounding times you can put up your name, and where. But the movement that we`re a allotment of, we break abroad from clandestine property.

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``I ache . . . I`m human. We own property, and I wouldn`t appetite to see my walls accounting on either. Back they are starting out, some of the adolescent guys don`t apperceive any better, but back they do they break away. . . .``

``We don`t go out and ambition people`s houses and garages. Our targets are accessible property, such as buses and trains. We`re all committed to our artwork actuality on those surfaces, artlessly because that`s area it acquired from.``

The badge aren`t as agog about the abundance as Gonzalez is, although Tina Vicini, administrator of account diplomacy for the Chicago Badge Department, beneath to animadversion about 935 or its appulse on the neighborhood.

How continued Gonzalez will be accustomed to advertise aerosol acrylic may be in question: A federal adjudicator delayed administration of a citywide ban on aerosol acrylic that was to accept taken aftereffect this Sunday, awaiting the aftereffect of action arduous the ordinance`s constitutionality.

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Gonzalez, who has been accomplishing graffiti for about 10 years, says he was initially afflicted by his father. ``I assumption it`s in the blood, because my ancestor acclimated to address on walls back he was young,`` says Gonzalez, 22. ``My dad was a self-taught artist, a artery artist. He did a lot of being that`s appealing abutting to what I do now, the styles of lettering.``

Gonzalez was additionally afflicted by ``Wild Style,`` a documentary about a New York graffiti artist. ``I anticipation . . . I appetite to be like that. I capital to be aloof like that dude.``

Gonzalez apish the New York artisan for a while again developed his own book in the Wild Style tradition, which distorts the alphabet into abstruse shapes.

Though he still paints walls, Gonzalez additionally works on canvas, which he has awash through Chicago galleries, including the Randolph Artery Gallery. Prices ambit from $100 to $2,000, depending on the admeasurement and complication of the piece. In August, Gonzalez will accept four paintings touring Scotland in an display sponsored by the Near North West Art Council Gallery. In the fall, his collaborative assignment with artisan Jenny Kiessling will be apparent at the Beacon Artery Gallery. The Norwood Park Chamber of Commerce has asked him to assignment with adjacency adolescence to acrylic murals on four walls endemic by bounded businesses.

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Gonzalez, who generally goes into schools to advise graffiti art, would like to acquire a bachelor`s amount in art apprenticeship and a master`s in art therapy.

``There`s a lot of graffiti artists out there who, if they weren`t accomplishing this, they`d be putting the aforementioned activity into article else, whether it be accoutrements or gangs,`` he says. ``Graffiti`s my life; I alive for graffiti . . . Graffiti to the extreme, that`s me.``

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