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The online magazine Aeroart has recently launched it's third issue dedicated to the stencil movement in Romania. It contains pictures from galleries such as Stencil Exhibition and A-camp, but also presents works done by The Orion, Coate Goale, Otaku and many more.
(rapid share will force you to wait about 2 minutes before you can download the file.... good stuff! - Russell)
http://rapidshare.com/files/162919904/REVISTA_AEROART_NR_3.2008-ENGLISH…
To coincide with his participation in the Gallery of Modern Art's exhibition 'Optimism, Contemporary Australia', you are invited to preview Aussie, Aussie, Aussie, oi, Oi, Oi a solo exhibition by Regan Tamanui
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Opening Thursday
13 November 2008, 6–8pm
PIXNIT Productions is pleased to announce the group show In Pursuit of Beauty open now until January 24th, 2009 at Montserrat Gallery in Beverly, MA.
Leonie Bradbury, Curator of the exhibition wrote the following about the exhibition:
In Pursuit of Beauty brings together five artists who examine both the politics and poetics of the beautiful. They are: Julie Chang (San Francisco, CA), Timothy Horn (Melbourne, Australia), PIXNIT (Boston, MA), Tomás Rivas (Santiago, Chile), and Elizabeth Wallace (Boston, MA). This exhibition is inspired by the resurgence of visually sensual work. Unapologetically decorative, ornate, and concerned with elaborate surface detail, each artist explores beauty in their own way.
They are exemplary of a generation of artists who have come into the 21st century art world with a renewed interest in beauty as a tool and a topic of investigation, making it an integral part of their artistic process. These artists utilize rich surface designs to draw the viewer to the work, only to surprise them with seditious content. Their pursuit differs from the classical understanding of beauty as perfectly proportioned and idealized by integrating imperfection rather than excluding it.
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......
