Show info:::
"Feast"
Friday, October 3rd -Oct. 30th
Metropolis Gallery
154 N Prince Street
Lancaster, PA 17603


PaperMonster's upcoming solo show "FEAST" opens this Friday October 3rd at Metropolis Gallery. The show will feature some incredible stencil art pieces. PaperMonster explores the broad and multifaceted spectrum of emotions, from anger and distress to love and desire, and its effects on the intricacies of female facial expressions. His pieces are truly exciting and interactive as the audience can not only take the paintings at face value but dive deeper into exploring the complex stories within. If you are in the PA area it is a show you will definitely not want to miss.

With his latest offering, Planet Of The Kooks, Portland artist Klutch delivers a vision both inspirational and dystopian. Via an installation/mural made entirely from old skateboard decks, Klutch has manifested a world where people's trash has been reclaimed by The Kooks into a space where flocks of birds and birdhouses hover over adobe villages rising from clouds. As protection from evil all are guarded by several primitive masks converted into elaborately decorated surveillance and communication devices.

http://thegoodfoot.com/gallery/

Artist JP Kelly wanders the streets of San Francisco, wondering about stencil art.

Can't embed the video in this post, so you'll have to go to his site and look for the small thumbnail for the video titled "Stencil Art?" A pink text stencil is in the thumbnail.

Stencil Archive gets a cameo, as does long time friend and stencil geek Josiah S.

Bellas and fellas, its that time again - new issue of Overspray season. We are proud to present you with Overspray08 - StreetHeart, the Love issue! Exploring the themes of love and hate throughout international street art, this stellar issue features the likes of Jesus Saves, I Love You, Berlin's own 'Linda's Ex', graffiti's number one adversary, Peter Vallone Jr, the Splasher, the faces behind wooster collective and Factory Fresh, the skinny on the beef between Shepard Fairey and Erik Brunetti, and so, so much more.

Bikes and stencils continue to blend into a stew of fun! Check out dandyhorse's site.

PaperMonster's Solo Show(s)
      "Stencil Graffiti Art"
Start Time: Friday, October 3 at 1:00am
End Time: Saturday, November 1 at 4:00am

PaperMonster’s solo show titled “MAIN COURSE” is open and you can find it over at http://www.dirtypilot.com/lounge.html or http://dirtypilot.com The show contains over twenty stencil art pieces with some exclusive/rare pieces including original stencils mounted on wood blocks and drawings. The show will run from Sept 14th to Oct 17th.

Vinyl Killers 6 – Call For Submissions
Deadline October 8th, 2008

Go here for more info

Greetz from Chicago. I am currently on the road with the wild and wooley Sustainable Living Roadshow via a caravan of bio-fueled buses and trucks. I have barely had time to keep up with the many carny tasks that fall into my lap every day, let alone sit down with a powered laptop and wifi to upload photos and submissions. Our culture is positively a vampire to the power lines and I've spent most of the past month with juiced-out tech and am sharing a Verizon wifi modem with 18 other people.

So be patient friends. Uploads to the Stencil Archive will begin again in early October.

Keep your ears out for more info on a Stencil Nation Nov/Dec book tour as well. Cities will include: Boston, Providence, NYC, Baltimore, DC, Asheville, Atlanta, and a few other dates for fun!

Thanks for you patience. I am trying to blog about this crazy circus tour over on Happy Feet if you care to follow along. And I am finding stencils here and there when I run across them!

Over 100 pieces will go on display at White Walls in a timely new show titled "The Duality of Humanity." The show marks an evolution for the artist, whose unique form of reverse propaganda emerged from the spirit of the punk movement. With this show, Shepard touches upon, but also goes beyond the 'calls to action' against mindless consumerism and war evidenced in previous shows like Nineteeneightyfouria, E Pluribus Venom and Imperfect Union. "The difference between this show and the previous ones is that now the optimism of a potential  Obama presidency is in the mix," Shepard said. His recent work reflects his own personal shift towards a new optimism, a direct result of his involvement with, and inspiration by, the powerful political ideals of Barack Obama.

The title of the show, "The Duality of Humanity," is inspired by the peace-sign wearing US soldier in Vietnam, 'Joker,' in Stanley Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket. Fairey sees a strong parallel between the Vietnam war and the Iraq war. Fairey says that this show addresses  the "human struggle between good and bad, hope and fear". One of the show's central pieces is a child with a gun in his hand and a flower in his hat. The theme of soldiers and weapons bearing peace signs, or peace signs comprised of military effects, runs through many pieces in the show. Environmental themes also appear in some pieces, illustrating the tenuous balance between our dangerously uncontrolled consumption of non-renewable resources, and our well intentioned eco-concerns. Suffering and hope are seamlessly merged in a visual mash-up that defies expectations and easy answers.

"The Duality of Humanity" includes larger mixed media pieces on canvas and paper that have been covered with carefully collaged ephemera, self-printed patterns and found clippings from printed media. The backgrounds provide a seductive painterly texture and visual subtext, often allowing apropos words and images to bleed through the iconic images printed and painted over them. The multiple layers create a sense of depth, but also bring in temporal elements through preserved newsclippings, historic images and vintage printing effects. It is the images in the foreground, however, that give the work its power. They are crisp and provocative, communicating in a way that is direct and clear.

"The Duality of Humanity" by Shepard Fairey opens to the public Saturday, September 13th 2008. Runs through October 4th. For more information and images visit www.whitewallssf.com.

Location: White Walls
835 Larkin Street
SF CA. 94109
(415)931-1500