WHY SKRAPPER?

Founded in 1999 by artist William Quigley, Skrapper was conceived as a socially conscious platform for creative collaborations. The brand functions as a cultural billboard—partnering with artists, influencers, and organizations to build a credible, cross-disciplinary presence across art, fashion, film, and music, often supporting charitable causes. Each edition is a reinvention of an original work, channeling Quigley’s restless vision into timeless prints and wearable canvases that blur the lines between art and fashion.

William Quigley: Artist Biography

William Quigley emerged from the New York art scene in the 1980s. His early career included the sale of over 50 works created in college to Henry S. McNeil, one of the United States’ top contemporary art collectors turned dealer, and representation by the visionary Manny Silverman Gallery in Los Angeles. Just out of college McNeil organized his first major exhibition in June 1985 at McNeil's gallery, curated by Bruno Bischofberger, showing alongside 40 Andy Warhol, "Images of a Child's World" paintings. In 1992 showed at the LA Art Fair where Art Basel founder Ernst Beyeler and Galeria Ferran Cano invited Quigley to participate in Art Basel and arranged a six-month painting residency at Joan Miró’s Mallorca studio — now the Fundació Miró Mallorca — through curator Klaus Kertess and Ferran Cano. Returning to Los Angeles, Quigley founded AB Gallery on Robertson Boulevard in 1994, creating a prominent artist-run space.Over the years, he continued to exhibit with seminal figures of postwar and contemporary art, including Jean-Michel Basquiat, Julian Schnabel, Keith Haring, Robert Rauschenberg, Ed Moses, Anselm Kiefer, George Baselitz, Joan Mitchell, Willem de Kooning, and others.

He moved from Los Angeles to Chelsea, New York, in 1999, where he collaborated with Red Bull marketing director and art dealer Arne Zimmerman at Pablos Birthday Gallery until 2009, before relocating to East Hampton in 2013. Together, they created the now-famous Red Bull / Grey Goose cocktail at introducing the 2 brands at an art show on Quigley’s birthday, April 29th, 1999 — a coincidental moment that underscores his playful, culturally connected approach to art and events.

From 2016 to the present, Quigley has worked with private dealer Karl Hutter, a former Gagosian and Van de Weghe employee, and from 2018 through 2024, he exhibited with Julie Keyes Gallery, continuing to build his presence in both East Coast and national contemporary art circuits.

His work was shaped by studies with Alice Neel and Lee Krasner, mentorship from Clement Greenberg and Walter Darby Bannard, and formal training at the Philadelphia College of Art, Tyler School of Art (Temple University), the University of Pennsylvania, and Columbia University Graduate School of the Arts. These experiences grounded a practice informed by gesture, cultural iconography, and relevant focus on art and history of our time.

THE SKRAPPER LEGACY and MISSION

SkrapperStyle is the visual language of artist William Quigley—a brand forged at the intersection of downtown New York grit, West Coast athletic culture, and fine-art provenance. Emerging from the same 1980s New York scene that launched artists like Basquiat and Warhol contemporaries, Quigley’s work translates raw urban energy into iconic imagery that resonates with collectors, athletes, and cultural insiders alike. Each SkrapperStyle piece carries the DNA of lived experience: street-level authenticity elevated by museum-level composition. These are not reproductions chasing trends—they are limited-edition works rooted in history, scarcity, and cultural relevance.

SkrapperStyle 2016 Highline Fashion Show Produced by Parker and Clayton Calvert

model: Sara Balint photo: Neil Tandy

-AirMail Weekly, NY

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ICONIC PORTRAITS COLLECTED BY LEGENDS

Since 1985, Quigley has exhibited alongside renowned artists including Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Georg Baselitz, Anselm Kiefer, Keith Haring, Willem de Kooning, Joan Mitchell, and other leading figures of contemporary art. His work is owned by over 450+ collectors including Shaquille O’Neal, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Alexander Zweig, Robert Downey Jr, Jennifer Coolidge, Sylvester Stallone, Phil Maber, Fabrice Gautier, Wayne Gretzky, President Bill Clinton, John and Joanna Boynton, Pete Francis, Kobe Bryant Foundation, and the Tokita Medici Foundation, among others. In April 2020—the year and month his father William passed—Quigley was coincidentally contacted by and partnered with former Disney exec, co-founder of Clearstone Venture, Tether, and WAX, William E. Quigley, who shares his exact name. Together, they released a WAX Babe Ruth NFT celebrating the Babe's 714 career home runs. At $100. per NFT it became one of the fastest-selling drops to date, selling out all 714 NFTs in just 38 seconds. Today a WAX Skrapper Babe Ruth NFT is now selling for up to $33,000. depending on the seller, # and rarity of the NFT. Both viewed the unlikely connection as a blessing, believing it to be guided by the artist’s father's soul in heaven, William Quigley.

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Limited Edition Releases

Renowned for his dynamic abstract commentaries on art and politics coupled with historically significant portraits, a Quigley creation captures leadership and legacy through bold color, rich texture, and raw emotion. His Skrapper Edition prints have become highly sought after, mirroring the rising demand and prestige of his original paintings. Each limited-edition is published and hand signed in 3 sizes on the highest quality canvas and paper to offer affordable but collectible investment options for art enthusiasts and friends who may struggle with the decision to own a piece of Quigley's work. Making the work accessible. Each Print is an exclusive work of contemporary art, defined by originality and authenticity. As editions sell out, their rarity, desirability, and value appreciate. This is more than a print—it is a piece of history to covet. Acquiring the complete suite secures a numbered, signed, and authenticated Quigley edition: not merely ownership, but a claim in modern American art history.

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Exclusive limited edition drops featuring collectible prints and apparel from SKRAPPER. Each release is numbered and authenticated. Purchase options on the entire Suite Edition. Don't miss out—these drops sell out fast.

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100% American Made

Proudly crafted in the USA with premium materials

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