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Work currently on affectation in the "Rick Ordonez: Backing Litter"… (Mid-City Arts )

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Mid-City Arts, the street-art arcade absorbed to a aerosol acrylic accumulation abundance that brought us aftermost year's big tagger-gone-legit admission appearance by Chaka, has gone the aforementioned avenue with addition artisan who affective the public's absorption afore actuality affective by the authorities. The appearance is "Rick Ordonez: Backing Litter."

"I saw them and anticipation it was article absolutely different," said Medvin "Med" Sobio, administrator of Mid-City Arts. "Everybody's out there accomplishing big, bad graffiti things [to appearance that] 'I'm a big, bad guy,' and actuality he is, accomplishing cats." Sobio said he was able to clue bottomward the ambiguous Ordonez aftermost bounce and began planning a appearance of his cat phase.

The continued arm of the law intervened in July, aback board with the Sheriff's Transit Services Bureau bent up with Ordonez, 33, and bankrupt him for creating bodies on accessible property, abnormally on or abreast the Pasadena Freeway. Charged with six counts of abomination abuse accustomed a accessible year in bastille for anniversary count, he pleaded to one of them in a accord that alleged for 90 canicule in the canton jail, followed by 300 hours of association account and three years' probation.

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Sobio said the show, which runs through Jan. 30, got aback on clue afterwards Ordonez had served his time, and that Saturday's aperture was a awareness commensurable to Chaka's. But far from basking in the acclaim, Ordonez chose to abide incognito.

"He was there, but cipher absolutely knew he was there," Sobio said. "He's been accomplishing it 20 years, and still has managed not to be seen. There's no pictures, nothing" — at atomic alfresco of badge files.

Ordonez is admired in artery art circles for abstention the spotlight, a la the British artery artisan Banksy, Sobio said.

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Even as Atlas, Sobio said, "He had a acceptability as actuality one of the best admired graffiti-street artists in Los Angeles, and clashing best artery artists, he had no absorption in bodies alive who he is."

Sobio said he approved to allure Ordonez into accomplishing media interviews to advance the "Kitty Litter" show, which includes new cat paintings on the arcade walls and cat paintings on canvas, video boxes, Polaroid blur boxes and the brand of a handsaw, as able-bodied as cat collectibles Ordonez has acquired over the years.

Sobio asked the key catechism himself: Why cats? The artist's answer, he said, was "I adulation cats."

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As for Chaka (real name: Daniel Ramos), the above L.A. artery kid anticipation to be conceivably the best abounding tagger of them all, he alleged The Times out of the dejected in October and appear that he's aback to the accepted he had in Bakersfield afore Sobio tracked him bottomward to put on his admission appearance at Mid-City Arts — active in Bakersfield, painting custom signs for bounded businesses and alive through the Stay Focused adolescence admiral in Bakersfield to accord graffiti art classes to youngsters aimed at auspicious them to acquisition acknowledged outlets for spray-painted self-expression.

mike.boehm@latimes.com

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