Stencil Group Show at Art Whino: pics
Paper Monster drops some show opening photos of the stencil show at Art Whino. I'll be there next Sunday to drop my slide presentation so hope you all can attend.
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Paper Monster drops some show opening photos of the stencil show at Art Whino. I'll be there next Sunday to drop my slide presentation so hope you all can attend.
Vinyl Killers at Goodfoot posted a great online album of all the submitted pieces. Stencils continue to be used for this wide open genre.
Bonhams & Butterfields invites you for a cocktail reception and panel discussion featuring:
Six years in, and the Stencil Archives just keep growing. As it turned out during the upload today, Cricket in AZ, shot by Moe Beitiks, had an upload that put the Archives at exactly 11,000! Hard to believe that they were at 8,000 when I started on Stencil Nation earlier this year.
Thanks again to all of the artists, photographers, and fans who keep sending me great works from around the world. I know I can't keep up with the likes of Flickr (322,000 "stencil" flicks there), but I'll keep posting as long as I keep finding and getting images.
Here's the current update, which will be the last one for a short bit.......
Got one sprayed in Brazil
A few from Australia by the artist LaWright
Another batch from South Carolina
Grabbed some pics offa FaceBook, with PIXNIT's permission
Jim in TN hooked me up with painted stencils, so I now have his cut outs and the pieces
Here's the Cricket batch from AZ, which took me to 11k
Left of 88 and Marc of the Covenant from NC get a new Artist Archive
David Drexler sent a few Election-Themed Chicago pieces over
And some small batches from: SF's SoMa, The Media Archive, Cross Bowed Lobster and Rumply Button in Ft Collins CO, Tucson, AZ, and North Cali (thanks XSacto)....
Come and visit me on tour! Can't wait to meetcha......
The Original Link to Paper Mag is Here
Marc's Original Wooster Post is Here
Props to Crystal for the tip
Last year Marc Schiller wrote a blog for his site WoosterCollective.com called "The Banksy Effect," in which he addresses the abrupt and remarkable changes that were taking hold in the London street-art scene. To Schiller, it appeared that after five years of just barely inching along, the market for street art in galleries had suddenly hit the roof, and the kinds of pieces that had gone unsold for years prior were selling at an insane rate and even crazier prices. Schiller could think to chalk it up to only one thing, or man, rather: Banksy, the Bristol-born stencil artist whose work went from streetscapes to auction house must-haves in a hot second, and who was fast becoming a major figure in the fine-art world.
"Soon after we published the blog, "Space Girl and Bird," a Banksy stencil created for a Blur CD cover sold at Bonhams auction house in London for $575,000 -- 20 times the estimate, making it the most expensive BANKSY ever sold at that time.
Back then, my thinking was that everyone was benefiting from this "Banksy Effect" -- artists, gallerists and collectors alike. But now things are a lot less clear. Still fueled largely by London-based buyers, the market for street art has in many ways become completely irrational.
The past few weeks has been a whirlwind of promotions here at the SC SN HQ. The Southeast dates proved to be a bit harder to pin down times and dates, but I think I finally have the whole tour schedule worked out (with a few starting times still lingering). The Northeast November leg is good to go, and the word is out online and in print. Just bought my ticket to Boston via SF and will probably buy my Amtrak ticket from DC to Charleston, SC soon. Wish the bus/train system was good down here in the Southeast. Will be in the car for that leg of the tour. What's brewing in the distant future? Well, if capitalism doesn't completely fail by January, I'll either do a California tour or a brief visit to Europe. Stay tuned for more details!
November in the Northeast
December in the Southeast
*Art Whino*
173 Waterfront St
National Harbor,MD
(more info coming soon)
http://www.artwhino.com/
*Laced Up Gallery and Elbasha Cafe*
(more details coming soon)
705A E Pike St
Seattle, Wa
206-274-5671
http://www.getlacedup.com/
December:
*Artsic Festival*
The Haven Wolverhamptom
1st Floor Harian House
Fold Street
Nicolas Lampert, Josh MacPhee, and Colin Matthes
Cut and Paint stencil template zine #2
$4
Buy it Here
Cut and Paint stencil template zine #2 is now available! The overwhelming demand for Cut and Paint #1 has encouraged us to more than double the print run. This time around we traded in the headaches of attempting to scam double-sided 11x17 photocopies for the impeccable offset printing provided by Eberhardt Press - an anarchist printer in Portland, Oregon.