Lady Pink was a despondent teen in the ’70s when she started tagging her boyfriend’s name on walls around her middle school in Brooklyn, N.Y.

After he’d been arrested for graffiti and sent back to Puerto Rico, spray painting helped tend her wounded heart.

Decades later she still expresses her pain, anger and joy through paint, only now the renowned artist does it in the form of giant commissioned murals, as well as traditional gallery pieces that live in the collections of the Whitney Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art and Museum of Modern Art in New York City, Brooklyn Museum, Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and others.

Her most recent mural protests the loss of women’s reproductive rights and covers a 50-feet-by-14-feet wall in the Galleries of Contemporary Art in Colorado Springs with

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