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Cut Paper of Bovey Lee (LA, CA)

Submitted by russell on Wed, 01/18/2017 - 20:33

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My cut paper is informed by our oftentimes labyrinthine relationship with nature, reflecting on what we do to the environment with our super machines and technologies and what nature does back to us in reaction. Despite the fact that we often turn to nature when we crave serenity and balance, we have a competing obsession with overdeveloping land and building new structures, diminishing our opportunity to actually experience the peaceful retreat that we crave.

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Joseph Steininger (USA)

Submitted by russell on Mon, 01/16/2017 - 15:42

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Based out of Seattle, WA, Joseph Steininger is an artist and innovator. Using intricately detailed and hand-cut stencils applied with spray paint, his personal work is influenced by street art culture and printmaking. Using the traditional and time-honored forms of fine art, his pieces are remarkably complex and masterfully represent this contemporary medium.

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Tuco Wallach (FR) asks, What's the Manimal Looking At? (Video)

Submitted by russell on Sun, 01/15/2017 - 11:07

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Aaron Curry AKA ORFN/HUNGRY WAIF (1974-2016)

Submitted by russell on Wed, 01/11/2017 - 21:05

In the past few weeks, between the downpours of rain, RIP ORFN tags have appeared all over San Francisco. Aaron Curry, aka ORFN, died in December after a quick, lost battle with cancer. While mostly running with the BKF and US crews, Curry's span of activity dates back to the 1990s. His tags and throws were stylish and quick; his characters were funny and easy to spot all over the Bay Area. He went large and small, and even dabbled in cutting stencils and painting sidewalks in the Mission as HUNGRY WAIF. Around five weeks ago, Curry's friend Mark Cross posted on Instagram that "in September, Aaron walked into a hospital complaining of back pain and a roller coaster of progress and reprieve (of hope and despair) ensued. He has fought hard. With unbelievable exuberance and grace. Alas, for the past few days, Aaron has remained unresponsive... asleep." ORFN passed away soon after, and is now amongst the graff writers memorialized in paint.

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Michael Roman (1956-2016)

Submitted by russell on Sat, 12/31/2016 - 10:37

Generous, Prolific, “Loco” – Stencil Artist Michael Roman Dies at 60
By Laura Waxmann (Mission Local) Posted December 29, 2016
Here is Michael's Stencil Archive.
KQED also has an article about the life of Michael Roman.
<< Photo by Linda Wilson

In art and in life, Michael Roman was a man of many layers, colorful visions and haunting complexities.

The stencil artist and silkscreen printmaker, best known for layered prints depicting cultural and political icons, died on Monday, succumbing to severe health complications. He was 60 years old.

Three months ago, Roman was out to see a movie with his partner of six years, Kate Rosenberger, when he suddenly began heaving and panting heavily.

The movie date ended with a three-week hospital stay for Roman, said Rosenberger. It was then that doctors discovered lesions on his brain, that two of his heart valves had stopped functioning, and that a “massive tumor” had taken hold of his right kidney, she said.

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Michael Roman (SF, CA)

Submitted by russell on Sat, 12/31/2016 - 10:14

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PUNK LATINO WILD STYLE

No surface is safe near Michael Roman.

The genius of Michael Roman is a free falling universe of audacious color, images and ideas. Sweet courtships meets fierce gods, sex goddesses dance with vipers. Flying begins in his underground world of monsters and marvels.

Michael Roman’s sensibility is personal and playful, outrageous and informed by a universal nostalgia, courting kitsch and madness, but delivering beauty and often profundity. His imaginative mixture of traditional symbols, off-register silkscreen, deliberately clashing hot and sweet hues and a surreal mash-up of modern life energize Michael Roman’s art.

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Tom Tomorrow Stencils a Dumpster...

Submitted by russell on Wed, 12/28/2016 - 08:04

... or was it Sparky? (Link to This Modern World)

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Today's Upload from Paul Delano

Submitted by russell on Sat, 12/17/2016 - 16:26

The Stencil Archive wouldn't be what it is without all the help and submissions from folks like Paul. Want to submit photos of your own stencils, or those you have discovered? Check out our FAQ, which has an email in there for you to use. You can always conact us too for more information. I appreciate it!