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2 Dec :: Jeremy Novy Lets Meet Exhibit (SF, CA)

Lets Meet a collection of queer stencils from the past year by Jeremy Novy

San Francisco, CA (November 3, 2010)— The San Francisco LGBT Center is honored to present “Lets Meet”, a collection of queer stencils from the past year by Jeremy Novy. Novy's is considered one of the up and coming street art celebrities of San Francisco and street art world itself. His koi fish stencils found through out the city have gained him acceptance by not only the street art community of San Francisco but also complements from the Cities Department of Public Works. Yet this exhibit is about something much deeper then just adding beauty to urban blight. It's street art with a social message against homophobia. This exhibition, opens with a reception on Thursday, December 2nd from 6-9 pm and runs through December 30th. Novy has made a limited edition print, signed and numbered, for the 50 guests, along with having Pabst Blue Ribbon beer on hand. Novy was recently commissioned by Joe Pabst, owner of the Pabst Mansion in Milwaukee, WI, to stencil koi around the Mansion pool.


SF Artist Jeremy Novy thrives

S.F. artist Jeremy Novy thrives in outdoor gallery

Saturday, November 13, 2010

Jeremy Novy is walking South of Market, deciphering his own hieroglyphics.

"That's two men kissing," he said, pointing to a stencil of two sets of boots facing each other on the sidewalk.

On the side of an abandoned ice machine business, a life-size, shirtless man in a cowboy hat leans seductively. "That's an iconic gay image," Novy said. "Like a two-step guy. Or a Marlboro man."

Scribbling in a language of doodles, stencils and graffiti, Novy uses underground street art to honor San Francisco's gay history. Much as Keith Haring's anonymous chalk drawings in the New York subways drew attention to gay culture in the 1980s, Novy is emerging as San Francisco's street whisperer.

Until 07 Dec :: Burner Stencils (Berlin, DE)

When:
Saturday, October 23, 2010 7:00 PM -
Tuesday, December 07, 2010 11:00 PM CET


Where:
Eckstück
Wrangelstr. 20
Berlin, x-berg 36

..the art of cutting stencils.

featuring:
- artiste ouvrier
- dave the chimp
- dash3ultra
- czarnobyl
- bohomaz
- pisa 73
- plotbot
- emess
- azione
- bonk!
- m:m

20 Nov :: Celebrate People's History Book Release Party/Exhibit (SF, CA)

ONE DAY ONLY
Poster Exhibit - Book Release Party - Artist Panel

CELEBRATE PEOPLE’S HISTORY: the Poster Book of Resistance and Revolution
Edited by Josh MacPhee
Foreword by Rebecca Solnit
Published by the Feminist Press

7pm - Saturday Nov. 20
The Center for Political Education
522 Valencia St, SF
www.politicaleducation.org


Since 1998, Celebrate People’s History posters have documented feminist organizers, indigenous uprisings, civil rights leaders, union struggles, LGBT activism and much more. Bay Area history stands out with posters on Los Siete de la Raza, the 1969 Alcatraz occupation, the International Hotel and the 1966 transgender riot at Compton’s Cafeteria. The Feminist Press has just released over 100 posters in hardback, and the book’s West Coast premiere includes a poster exhibit, book signing and artist panel.

Featured Speakers:
Lincoln Cushing, historian,  www.docspopuli.org
Favianna Rodríguez, artist,  www.favianna.com

FREE admission. Donations go to MacPhee’s partner, Dara Greenwald, who is battling cancer.

Stencils in the Underbelly of NYC

Street Art Way Below the Street
By JASPER REES (NY Times)

A vast new exhibition space opened in New York City this summer, with a show 18 months in the making. On view are works by 103 street artists from around the world, mostly big murals painted directly onto the gallery’s walls.

It is one of the largest shows of such pieces ever mounted in one place, and many of the contributors are significant figures in both the street-art world and the commercial trade that now revolves around it. Its debut might have been expected to draw critics, art dealers and auction-house representatives, not to mention hordes of young fans. But none of them were invited.

In the weeks since, almost no one has seen the show. The gallery, whose existence has been a closely guarded secret, closed on the same night it opened.