Boston Magazine
Chances are you’ve seen Rob Gibbs’s work before and didn’t even know it. After all, the prolific mural artist, who goes by the name Problak, has been painting the city’s handball courts and honeycomb hideouts since he first discovered graffiti as a young boy growing up in Roxbury. For a long time, though, Gibbs remained largely in the shadows of Boston’s art establishment. “The street was my gallery,” he says.