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
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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, mostly. Queer men like the drag queen with the yellow beehive and bright red panties, and the young wrestlers grabbing each other's flesh. Then there's the stencil of a big pink erect phallus.
"That's my cock," Novy says matter-of-factly.
12.12.2008: Stencil Nation Book Presentation (Video)
Nice video of a presentation I gave during the Stencil Nation book tour.
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4 June: A History of Queer Street Art (SF, CA)
Saturday, June 4 · 1:00pm - 4:00pm
934 Brannan Street
San Francisco, California
In the world of street art being Queer isn’t accepted. It is ruled by a group of misogynistic, homophobic, heterosexual, males. This exhibit is intended to bring an awareness to the homophobic bullying along with show the history of queer art .
One of the first ever collected and dedicated exhibit to fighting homophobia in the subculture of graffiti and street art. It is a multi-media exhibit allowing it to reach a larger demographic of people. A catalog, pasted construction walls, murals, and an exhibit causing the message to be heard.
One of the first ever collected and dedicated exhibit to fighting homophobia in the subculture of graffiti and street art. It is a multi-media exhibit allowing it to reach a larger demographic of people. A catalog, pasted construction walls, murals, and an exhibit causing the message to be heard.
