Home Cote Interior Exterior Spray Enamel, Bright Green, late 1970s: Formerly Owned by Lady Pink

Formerly owned by Lady Pink, this can of late 1970s Home Cote Bright Green was manufactured by Red Devil.  Queen of graffiti writers Lady Pink has described the Red Devil paint of the early 1970s as “the paint for kings.”  After 1976, Red Devil had become thinner and fell out of favor among writers.  According to Pink, Home Cote was thick like the old Red Devil.  Red Devil’s Home Cote line was discontinued in the late 1970s.  Pink speculates that the brand was geared towards homeowners and female buyers rather than industrial users. Street art and graffiti hold cultural significance in the way they help artists express their individuality and critique political, cultural, social, and economic issues, as a subculture with a message.

Lady Pink (Sandra Fabara, b. 1964), is an Ecuadorian-American graffiti and mural artist. Her career focused on using graffiti and murals as acts of rebellion, empowering women and self-expression. Lady Pink’s name was chosen for her aesthetics because the name “Pink” is feminine and she wanted other artists to know that she was a girl. She started calling herself Lady Pink because of her love of historical romances, England, the Victorian period, and the aristocracy. Lady Pink was nicknamed the "first lady of graffiti," because she was one of the first active women in the early 1980s New York City subway graffiti subculture.