Garrett Dutton (also known as G. Love) is an international recording and touring artist who launched his musical journey 30 years ago as a street musician in Philadelphia. He later moved to Boston, met his band Special Sauce, signed with Epic/Sony Records and was nominated for a Grammy Award in 2016 for his album “Juice.” 

Mr. Dutton is also a visual artist. His art sprang out of the graffiti/hip hop culture of Philadelphia in the late 1980s, when he was an aspiring graffiti writer. The Philadelphia graffiti writers used a “tagging style” where they would choose a tag that would become their name or alias and then repeat it all over the city. “The style of Philly graffiti writing was deeply embedded into my hand after countless hours as a teenager and adult, practicing over and over, thousands of times,” Mr. Dutton said. He chose “love” as his tag and he repeats it constantly. “My repetition of love celebrates both the cultures of hip hop’s street art and contemporary art as a whole. Repeating the word love acts like a mantra bringing forth the intention of both my art and music—which is to spread the message and feeling of and inspiration from love,” he said.