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Craig R. Stecyk III (born 1950) is an American artist, writer, photojournalist, and filmmaker who has documented and influenced the surf, skate, and snowboarding cultures.
Craig R Stecyk III. Designer of the iconic Rat Bones logo, Los Angeles–based Craig R. Stecyk III (b. 1950, Santa Monica) worked as a surfboard artist in Venice, California, in the early 1970s, later playing a key role in documenting the era’s surf and resurgent skateboard scenes as a writer and photographer for both Surfer magazine and the ...
C.R. Stecyk III is a multimedia artist widely acknowledged as a major influence within the genres of graffiti and street art. Stecyk was involved with the founding of the Zephyr surf shop, where the boards he painted helped to establish the graphic styles of both surfing and skateboarding.
Beginning his career as a surfboard designer and graphic artist while working out of the small Zephyr surf shop, Stecyk is considered one of the first to incorporate many outlaw elements of surf and skate culture into the equipment and attendant gear. He is perhaps best known as a documentary photographer.
May 11, 2010 · C. R. Stecyk III is a multimedia artist widely acknowledged as a major influence within the genres of graffiti and street art. He has participated in more than 300 international exhibitions and his work is included in a number of public collections.
Apr 25, 2012 · It’s the voice of a historian. Having spent the best part of four decades documenting the ebb and flow of Californian skate history – as a writer, photographer, filmmaker and artist – C.R. Stecyk III boasts bylines aplenty.
Craig R. Stecyk III. (b. 1950, Santa Monica; lives and works in Ocean Park Heights) Luxuria, 2011. Video. Loop. Courtesy of the artist. A montage of film and photographic images taken from the artist's archive dating back to 1965. Cinematograpy by the artist, Susanne Melanie Berry, Felipe Lima, Jon Humphries & Greg Hunt. Edited by Lenny Mesina.
