In anticipation of our upcoming The Hundreds by Kenny Scharf collaboration, launching next Friday May 22, we’re revisiting our episode of TOP 5 with the eccentric artist.

The latest TOP 5 brings you the legendary Kenny Scharf. When the Kenny’s not busy creating art wondrous and zany enough to melt your face off, he’s apparently camping. Who knew! Find out the illustrious Kenny Scharf’s 5 – technically 4 – favorite places to camp below.

Muralist, painter, sculptor, and installation artist Kenny Scharf is best known for his fantastical, large-scale paintings of anthropomorphic animals and imagined creatures, as in Viva Mare Viva Mar (2011). Though Scharf’s brightly colored imagery is generally playful, he has remarked that darker themes exist beneath the surface of his works, visible upon closer inspection. Scharf was a part of the 1980s East Village Art movement, along with his good friend and fellow street artist Keith Haring. The artist says he has been influenced by all 20th-century art movements, including Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art, the latter reflected in his appropriation of cartoon characters from television shows like the Flintstones and Jetsons and his humorous depiction of snack food in Maple Glazed Donut Over Fertile Landscape (2011). Scharf’s oftentimes dense and frenetic compositions also echo a Baroque sensibility. –Artsy.net