Artist News

14 March: Chris Stain Book Launch Exhibit (NY)

Chris Stain has a book coming out ths month from Drago Books. One of the earliest artists to discover and support Stencil Archive, Chris Stain has always personified the community-mindedness, radicalness, and kindness that the stencil scene tends to exhibit. While on tour with "Stencil Nation," a young artist in Baltimore recalled a childhood memory of Chris showing him how to use spraypaint... and then giving him some cans to take home and use. This small act changed this artist's life, and neatly shows what a great person Chris is.

Read the interview Stencil Archive had with Chris Stain back in 2002.

And if you live in New York, go to this great show (which will include long-time Stencil Archive collaborator Josh MacPhee).

Congrats Chris!

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Urban Soule update

URBAN SOULE Newsletter
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Oct 2011

Issue No.10
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Dear Friends,
As most of you I had a major Jaw Surgery [http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=msg7b7cab&et=1108339394208&s=528&e=0018ca…]
on October 4th,
The surgery was a success and I am healing well and feeling much better, I still
have another three weeks of having my mouth wired shut,many months of liquid/soft
food diet and a long road to recovery, but once all is healed I should be back to
normal!

wired shut […

10 Nov: Blek Book Event at SFMOMA (SF, CA, USA)

(I wrote an essay for this book. Haven't seen it yet, but now is your chance buy a copy and meet one of the stencil OGs - Russell)

Blek le Rat, the 30 Year Anniversary Retrospective will be available at the San Francisco MoMA on November 10, 2011, from 6:30 to 8:30.

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
151 Third Street (between Mission and Howard) in the Schwab Room
San Francisco, California

Join us and meet iconic Parisian stencil graffiti artist Blek le Rat as he signs copies of his new book!

"Blek le Rat's stencils distill the essence of the human struggle into poetically concise images. Blek shows clarity in his work, he makes every stylized mark count, yielding art that is at once personal and universal, economical in gesture, and bountiful in statement."

—Shepard Fairey

By RSVPing to this event you are reserving your $70.00 copy of the Blek le Rat 30 Year Anniversary Retrospective. Books can be picked up, signed and dedicated by the…

Gee Vaucher / Exitstencil Press News

EXITSTENCIL PRESS NEWS
http://www.exitstencilpress.com

OK, this is the first mail out from Exitstencil Press and there’s much to tell, which is one of the reasons it has taken so long to say hello.

Firstly, we have very kindly been offered a gallery in London with which to officially launch Exitstencil Press  back into the land of the living again.
The’ UNDERGROUND GALLERY’ is exactly that and underneath Charing Cross Station, London.
This new gallery is the brainchild of a young photographer called Christine Santa Ana who, no doubt, has a lot of other good ideas up her sleeve for the future.
The launch of Exitstencil will take place on  21st NOVEMBER – 5th DECEMBER.
There will be a series of events starting with music from Tony Barber and Danny Drummond, otherwise known as THE NEAR FUTURE
Other events have yet to be confirmed and once they are, we’ll let you know all the times and dates.
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Essay Inside: Blek le Rat "30 Year Retrospective"

I have written an essay for this very special book.

http://www.artpublishingltd.com/new/blek/

Blek le Rat, the “godfather” of stencil graffiti commemorates 30 years creating art on the streets with the launch of new retrospective from Art Publishing, Ltd.

Xavier Prou a.k.a. Blek le Rat, the Parisian-born artist practicing stencil graffiti since the late 1970’s, will be celebrating his 30-year anniversary of creating art on the streets later this year with a highly anticipated book launch at Art Basel Miami Beach 2011 and gallery exhibitions throughout the United States and Europe. Blek le Rat is one of the most prolific stencil graffiti artists of his generation, applying his trademark rats and iconic imagery around the world since New Year’s Eve, 1981. His work…

Adam5100 Exhibit Sneak Peak

A few photographs of Adam5100's latest work at the Guerrero Gallery.

From cut-out to spray-through to sewn-up!

http://guerrerogallery.com/

New Archive for Rocky Villanueva

Thanks to SFGate.com, I know who painted these pigeons...

Rocky gets a new achive in the San Francisco Artists section of the collection.

http://www.stencilarchive.org/archives/index.php/San_Francisco/Artists_…

18 June : Fresque Monumentale by Jef Aerosol (Paris)

REALISATION D'UNE FRESQUE MONUMENTALE  DE 350 m2 du 11 au 18 juin 2011
PARIS 4e - Place Stravinsky



La proposition de l'artiste, soutenue activement par Madame Dominique Bertinotti, Maire du 4ème arrondissement, est une douce injonction à la quiétude, au respect, à la réduction du bruit au cœur de la ville.

Pour Jef AEROSOL cette œuvre , véritable prouesse technique réalisée avec la collaboration et le mécénat de DOUBLET, suggère le mystère, un appel au silence, une proposition de calme, de pause urbaine, de sérénité, dune certaine « zénitude ».


C'est aussi un questionnement sur le stress, le bouillonnement parisien, la qualité de la vie en milieu urbain, etc.
Il s'agit d'aider les passants à écouter la ville, la mélodie urbaine, le rythme et les pulsations que livre le cœur de la…

Jeremy Novy - Queer Street Art

A Movement Defaced: Queer Street Art Fights for Legitimacy
By Jonathan Curiel
published: June 15, 2011
Jonathan Curiel on A Movement Defaced: Queer Street Art Fights for Legitmacy

Cover photo by Michael Cuffe/Warholian.

Inside his art studio in San Francisco's Bayview District, Jeremy Novy surrounds himself with the stencilwork that has burnished his reputation as a street artist of note. Of course, the koi are there. Even people who don't know his name know his aquatic vertebrates — colorful creatures that can be found on sidewalks across San Francisco, most prominently at Market and Laguna streets, where scores of the fish swirl outside the Orbit Room. In Novy's studio, though, the animals are crowded out by representations of people. Men,…

20 March: Blek in SF