Since 2002 (updated often), your old-school website for all things stencils. Photo, video, links, and exhibit info submissions always welcome. Enjoy and stay curious.
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Thanks to: @Emily_Lykos, Jaime Rojo for Brooklyn Street Art, @RadicalGraffiti, u/Gudariak, u/w0f0z, u/shares_inDeleware, u/Pzy2209
Spinning: Spoon, Echo and the Bunnymen, Frank Zappa, Tom Waits, Calexico
>NEW< Ilse Nieman (ZA)
Berlin (just one)
France (just one)
Netherlands (just one)
Spain (just one)
Thanks to: @Emily_Lykos, Jaime Rojo for Brooklyn Street Art, @RadicalGraffiti, u/Gudariak, u/w0f0z, u/shares_inDeleware, u/Pzy2209
Spinning: Darker My Love; Herbie Hancock; Spoon; Echo and the Bunnymen; Frank Zappa
In the Western Addition, SF
in the Mission District, SF
From 2002: Omega Man in Berkeley
Eclair (just one)
Ongo in the Richmond Dist., SF
Also: https://www.instagram.com/fnnch/
fnnch creates street art and murals using multi-layered stencils and spray paint. He calls his work “contemporary pop art”, depicting objects from both nature and everyday life.
Also: https://www.instagram.com/mittenimwald_artist/
German street artist from Hamburg, best known for his work on stencils, collages and stickers. He worked as a designer at several advertising agencies before he quit his job and got involved in street art in 2005. He began with stickers and ended up as a skillful stencilist.
Stephen Quinn: Cork exile, living in Dublin. Photographic chronicler of street art in Dublin and Cork, as well as other places to which I travel.
Also: https://www.instagram.com/mrbrainwash/
Thierry Guetta, under his moniker, Mr. Brainwash, has been pushing the envelope of contemporary art. The orchestrated collision of street art and pop art has been his balancing act. The tipping point for Mr. Brainwash was his groundbreaking footage from the widely- acclaimed documentary, Exit Through the Gift Shop.
Also: https://www.instagram.com/ilse_nieman_paperartist/
In 2013 Ilse developed an interest in paper art – at first in origami and kirigami. It inspired her to produce line drawings of her cats, adding background patterns (reminiscent of her favorite artists Klimt, Beardsley, and Morris) and developed it into single sheet stencil designs. Ilse joined an exclusive Instagram group titled The Paper Artist Collective in 2015 and has been a member since.
You all know him from Instagram. The hugely talented photographer guy, who trots around the globe with his paper cut-outs, creating amazing pictures along the way.
Also: https://www.instagram.com/swoonhq/
Caledonia Curry, known as Swoon, is a contemporary artist and filmmaker recognized around the world for her pioneering vision of public artwork. Through intimate portraits, immersive installations and multi-year community based projects, she has spent over 20 years exploring the depths of human complexity by mobilizing her artwork to fundamentally re-envision the communities we live in toward a more just and equitable world.
