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<<< T.I.E. fighters appear on 24th Street in the Mission
>NEW< Douglas Miles (thanks, Terri)
>NEW< Ali Harrison
>NEW< Andrej Wrubleski (in Berlin, thanks, Pod)
East Bay / Oakland (just one)
NYC (just one)
fnnch (just one)
The Mission (thanks, Josiah)
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Stencil Archive just passed 22,000 photos. Once again, your submissions are appreciated and help keep it large!
<<< Maybe 22,000th photo? txmx snapped this one, by Marshal Arts (Hamburg)
Two from Chile (thanks, Amanda)
A few from Hamburg (thanks, txmx)
>NEW< A Inside a Heart (UK)
Funny, Trump stencil from Bambi (UK)
Banksy in Palestine
>>>More from txmx in DE
ketauu (just one)
KUSEK (just one)
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« people and things » : des gens et des choses…
Jef aurait aussi bien pu appeler cette exposition « Sujets et Objets », dans tous les sens des deux vocables.
Humains ou inertes, vivants ou inanimés, ces objets/sujets se jouxtent, se complètent, dialoguent, racontent ce que nous sommes et ce qui nous constitue : rêves, peurs, espoirs, colères, larmes, sourires, souvenirs, interrogations…
Tantôt profond ou sombre, tantôt léger ou futile, à la fois possédé par ses nostalgies et remué par l’actualité, l'artiste pulvérise ses émotions à travers la dentelle de ses pochoirs. Pour cette exposition, il a privilégié le carton et le bois de récupération : supports vivants et si « riches de leur pauvreté ». Une fois de plus, Jef Aérosol affirme cet « engagement poétique » qui le caractérise.
Né à Nantes en 1957, vivant à Lille depuis 1984, Jef Aérosol est l’un des pionniers de ce qu’on appelle aujourd’hui « street art » ou « art urbain ».
Il pose sa première empreinte au pochoir en 1982 dans la ville de Tours où il réside alors.
Son imagerie doit autant à la culture punk-rock-pop qu’aux anonymes de la rue et ses oeuvres sont toujours soulignées de sa marque de fabrique : une mystérieuse flèche rouge. Depuis, ce dandy de la bombe aérosol a laissé sa marque sur les murs de nombreuses villes dans le monde entier : pochoirs furtifs ou grandes fresques murales telle celle que la Mairie du 4ème arrondissement de Paris lui a commandée en 2011 : le grand « Chuuuttt!!! » qui trône près du Centre Pompidou, face à la fontaine de Tinguely et Nikki de St Phalle.
Ses personnages en noir, blanc et nuances de gris, illustres ou inconnus, souvent peints à l’échelle 1, témoignent de l’attachement de Jef à de profondes valeurs humanistes. Son travail est également visible dans de nombreuses manifestations et expositions en galeries et musées, tant en France qu’à l’étranger. Sur le territoire hexagonal, il est représenté à Marseille par David Pluskwa et à Paris par la prestigieuse galerie Laurent Strouk.
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Innovate / Originate / Skate / Sublimate / Liberate! / pics.B.Moore / Not a Cliche or Charity
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It was a fateful day one December when, in search of a unique Christmas gift, Ali decided to try a new craft. Using a borrowed box cutter and her kitchen cutting board, Ali created her first papercutting. After falling in love with cutting paper, Ali armed herself with a sharper blade and an actual cutting mat, and Light & Paper was born.
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Douglas Miles, Global Fellow and February 2017 Artist-in-Residence
Kimball Education Gallery
February 1-26, 2017
Wednesdays–Sundays, 1–5 pm
Reception: Saturday February 25, 3–5 pm
APACHELYPSE Now is a glimpse into the multi-faceted work of Douglas Miles from the San Carlos Apache Nation in Arizona. Using street art forms, he creates work that simultaneously deconstructs stereotypes and emboldens Native people in the 21st century. His renegade ethos at work creates a new iconography in art, photos, and film. The title APACHELYPSE Now is an homage to Francis Ford Coppola's Vietnam epic Apocalypse Now about a lone poet, renegade colonel, and his tribe gone rogue from the U.S.
Douglas Miles is an artist, designer, photographer, filmmaker, muralist, public speaker, and founder of Apache Skateboards. His work encourages reflection on how art can foster community-building and promote pride and well-being, especially among young people. His work is rooted in Apache history and deeply engaged with the world of contemporary pop culture. Miles’ work has been exhibited at Princeton University, Columbia University, the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History, and the Institute of American Indian Arts Museum in Santa Fe. He recently collaborated with actor and author Ethan Hawke and artist Greg Ruth on a New York Times bestseller graphic novel, Indeh: A Story of the Apache Wars.
Ticket Information
The Kimball Education Gallery is located in the free zone of the museum; no tickets are required. Please drop by any time during open hours.
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<<< Unicorn Hot Air Balloon, by MBI (Hamburg)
Hamburg, DE (thanks, txmx!)
Back West, in San Francisco
Upper Market St. (just one)
Protest (just one; thanks, Mission Local and Josiah)
Tenderloin (just one)
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Thanks to txmx's annual submission massive, Hamburg, DE may be one of the most historically-covered cities here on Stencil Archive. Of course, San Francisco's archives have over 20 years of photo documentation. Thanks to txmx for the photos! (photo at left by txmx, in Hamburg)
Over in Germany, walls are rocking!
El Bocho (just one)
F.P.T. (just one)
Here in San Francisco, stencils between the rainstorms…
Protests in the streets
Eclair Everywhere
On Valencia St.
Literally in NoPa (just one)
rockin’ in Hayes Valley (just one)
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<<<At the airport last weekend, in Philly
NEW inserra (from Italy, thanks txmx)
Argentina (thanks Amanda)
France (just one)
Greece (Women’s March)
Italy (thanks txmx)
UK (just one)
Meanwhile, in the USA… lots of protest stencils
NEW Bovey Lee
NEW Joseph Steininger (WA USA)
LA, CA (just one)
NYC (just one)
South Carolina (just one)
Washington, DC (just one)
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I had a fun evening helping Mona Caron cut out the stencil she designed for this mural. We had tried before. A while back, I was going to cut/paint another stencil for another public art project of hers, but the muraled utility box was taken off the streets before the stencil could get painted. In the best way, these utilitarian stencils allow the viewer of the mural to see it at its best angle. Mona painted this ribwort plaintain weed in a way that makes it look flat on an unflat surface. Watch the video, and the stencil marks the spot to stand and see the magic!
