Career
Commonly referred to as the "Michelangelo" of graffiti, Mear One is commonly associated with Columbia Broadcasting System (Can"t Be Stopped – City Bomb Squad) and World Cube Association (West Coast Artist) crews. As a graphic designer, Mear One has designed apparel for Conart, Kaotic, as well as his own Reform brand. Mear One has done album covers for artists like Non Phixion, Freestyle Fellowship, Alien Nation, Limp Bizkit, Busdriver and Daddy Kev.
In 2004, Mear One joined artists Shepard Fairey and Robbie Conal to create a series of "anti-war, anti-Bush" posters for a street art campaign called "Be the Revolution" for the art collective Post General
In 2015 he was paid to appear as a judge on Oxygen Channel"s "Street Art Throw Down" hosted by poster artist Justin Bua. As an Los Angeles Freedom for Humanity was a controversial political mural painted by Mear One on a wall in East London.
In April 2014, Mear spoke with fellow graffiti-muralists Cache, EyeOne, and Alice Mizrachi at Brown University as part of the panel Bottom-Up Place Making: Graffiti-murals and Latino/a Urbanism, hosted by the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America and moderated by Brown University urban theorist, graffiti writer, and professor, Doctor Stefano Bloch.