Born in Newark, New Jersey, and now living and working in San Jose, California, Scape Martinez has been creating art since childhood. Early in his teen years, he fell in love with graffiti art. He now creates with spray enamel, house paint, markers, acrylics and watercolors. He owns and operates a street wear clothing line, Liquidscape Clothing, and can be found frequently doing workshops and lectures.

Currently he shares his unique artisic vision with the world with public art projects through murals and sculpture. View his artwork at www.realsmartstudios.com.

In the past Scape has done murals for Stanford University Law School, the East Palo Alto Mural Arts Project, and San Jose City College, among others.

He has lectured on "Sights and Sounds of the Urban Environment," Arte Americas, Fresno, California; "Style Wars," Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco; "Aesthetics of Graffiti," San Jose City College; and "History of Graffiti and Rap Music," Hayward State University, currently he lectures on the connection between art and spirituality.

He continues to be an art's educator having been assistant art director and lead artist-in-residence for the Children's Shelter of Santa Clara County, California.

He's exhibited his work at Punch Gallery, San Francisco; Berkeley Art Center; Cultural Initiatives Silicon Valley; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts; Art Museum of Los Gatos; Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza, Los Angeles; and Works Gallery, San Jose; as well as at the Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana (MACLA), San Jose.

He has been featured in Artweek, The San Jose Mercury News, Metro: Silicon Valley's Weekly Newspaper, San Jose City Times and San Jose City College Times among others.

In the future he will continue working on his vision of founding a school for the arts in the San Francisco Bay Area.