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Btoy Solo Show: Paris

a solo show of
BTOY
December 10, 2009 -  January 23, 2010
Opening December 10 from 6 pm   

Barcelona based duo Btoy have been featured this past year at the Carmichael Gallery, Los Angeles, and at the Bricklane Gallery, London. Btoy have their first show in Paris. Andrea Michaelsson's stencils that are inspired by female icons from the 50's encounter Illia Mayer, his boyfriend's illustrations which make us enter a world where no one knows if it is magical or demonic.

http://www.thisisbtoy.com

Galerie Itinerrance
7 bis rue René Goscinny - Paris 13e
+ 33 (0)1 53 79 16 62
Opening hours Wed-Sat 2-7 pm
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Janet Bike Girl in Paper Politics

Paper Politics is a travelling art show curated by Josh MacPhee. Paper Politics is an exhibition of politically and socially engaged printmaking. In 2005, the Seattle edition of Paper Politics opened at the Phinney Center Gallery, with work by 174 artists from the USA, Canada and around the world.

"Paper Politics presents a breathtaking tour of the many modalities of printing: relief, intaglio, lithography, silkscreen, collagraph, monotype, and photography. Most exciting is the inclusion in the show of finely crafted stencils and street printing, traditional media used to convey political thought."

ART WHINO: MIAMI

E.L.K., Leckomio, Jef Aerosol, Soule, and many others in these two Art Basel events.

ART WHINO: MIAMI will be an innovative New Brow exhibition, complete with receptions and musical performances that will heighten the experience beyond the typical art show. Art from two separate traveling exhibitions, LIFE ESSENTIALS and OLD SKOOLIN’ will be brought together in Miami for the first time. This landmark multi-city, comprehensive exhibition will bring together the best of both traditionally trained and urban street art styles, helping to more define this era in contemporary art and set the bar even higher for the direction of art today. This combined show will highlight both music and art that spans the spectrum of current trends, and will be accompanied by installations and auxiliary exhibitions featuring live painting by several Art Whino artists.

Art Whino has also teamed up with Urbanite Bistro to host a special all day event Thursday, December 3rd in the outdoor garden space of Urbanite Bistro, featuring over 15 Art Whino artists painting live and musical performances. Artists will also showcase some of their newest works inside the restaurant for the entire of the month of December.

Outside of Urbanite Bistro, on several surrounding buildings, Primary Flight: The world’s largest site-specific street level mural installation will be taking place throughout the week. For more information visit http://primaryflight.com/blog/

Art Basel Miami Begins

Peat and Logan Hicks both sent me some updates from Miami. Other stencil artists are also in the mix:

"IMAGINARY FRIENDS"
OPENS THURSDAY NIGHT - 6pm - midnight
December 3rd through to January 15th.
Located in the Design District
137 NE 40th St, Miami Mia, Fla 33127

http://latzero.com/

Expect to see heavily influenced graffiti style cartoon expressionism paintings and sculptures, alongside technically proficient stenciled art installations as well as various works of art made from clothespins, decade specific found objects, and holograms!

ALEX YANES | HELENA GARCIA | JEFF DEKAL | DANIEL FILA | MIKE RIVAMONTE | GERRY STECCA | JEREMY NICHOLS | DUBELYOO | PEAT WOLLEAGER | DRES13 | SCOTT DONALD | MAT CURRAN | ADRIAAN MOL | GREGORY MICHAEL CARTER

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BKMIA - BROOKLYN MIAMI
OPENS THURDAY NIGHT - 7PM - 10PM
December 3 - 6, 2009
OPEN DAILY from 11am-7pm
The Moore Building/Miami Design District -
4040 NE 2nd Avenue, Suite 103
http://www.bkmia.com/

Miami-based conceptual gallery AE District is proud to partner with Brooklyn-based galleries Eastern District and Ad Hoc to bring you over 40 artists ranging from all mediums and styles that best represent the aesthetics and vision of the Brooklyn art scene. This comprehensive showcase will not only emphasize the visionary works of today's biggest street artists such as The London Police, Lady Pink, Cycle, Poster Boy, Flying Fortress, Skewville, Thunder Cut, Depoe, and Peat Wollaeger.

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PRIMARY FLIGHT

in the mix: Logan Hicks, Shepard Fairey, C215, and many more

http://www.primaryflight.com/

14,200+ Pics After Today's Upload

Over 330 photos uploaded today and yesterday. Many thanks to all the people who submitted something. Every small submission contines to expand the documentation of the art form. DJ Podinski dropped the beats during this upload session.

Gary Atkinson submitted these pics

Banksy
http://stencilarchive.org/index.php?q=gallery&g2_itemId=4284

Poland
http://stencilarchive.org/index.php?q=gallery&g2_itemId=5836

UK
http://stencilarchive.org/index.php?q=gallery&g2_itemId=5898


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Other Submits

a1one sent in some new work
http://stencilarchive.org/index.php?q=gallery&g2_itemId=7225

xoooox (thanks TXMX)
http://stencilarchive.org/index.php?q=gallery&g2_itemId=60502

Jon Boruchow
http://stencilarchive.org/index.php?q=gallery&g2_itemId=65277

X Sacto
http://stencilarchive.org/index.php?q=gallery&g2_itemId=50272

North Cali (thanks Larry)
http://stencilarchive.org/index.php?q=gallery&g2_itemId=17110

Illinois (thanks Rachel)
http://stencilarchive.org/index.php?q=gallery&g2_itemId=16589

NYC
http://stencilarchive.org/index.php?q=gallery&g2_itemId=15358

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In San Francisco

CAB
http://stencilarchive.org/index.php?q=gallery&g2_itemId=65307

Craig M.
http://stencilarchive.org/index.php?q=gallery&g2_itemId=11443

Jeremy Novy (new)
http://stencilarchive.org/index.php?q=gallery&g2_itemId=66865

CONTRA (new)
http://stencilarchive.org/index.php?q=gallery&g2_itemId=66879

Valencia St
http://stencilarchive.org/index.php?q=gallery&g2_itemId=9775

CAMP
http://stencilarchive.org/index.php?q=gallery&g2_itemId=38666

the Mission
http://stencilarchive.org/index.php?q=gallery&g2_itemId=8411

elsewhere
http://stencilarchive.org/index.php?q=gallery&g2_itemId=9276

SoMa
http://stencilarchive.org/index.php?q=gallery&g2_itemId=9477

Sunset
http://stencilarchive.org/index.php?q=gallery&g2_itemId=9703

protest
http://stencilarchive.org/index.php?q=gallery&g2_itemId=12219

Germany Upload Special !

TXMX in Hamburg just sent over dozens of new flicks fm the streets of Hamburg (with a few other cities thrown in).

BBC also submitted some new work

And straight from Mitte, Berlin, DJ Podinski provided the beats during the uploading....

Just passed 14k pics! danke....

~~~ {uploading the rest tomorrow}

Alias (DE)
http://stencilarchive.org/index.php?q=gallery&g2_itemId=41985

ASA (DE)
http://stencilarchive.org/index.php?q=gallery&g2_itemId=36502

BBC (DE)
http://stencilarchive.org/index.php?q=gallery&g2_itemId=4395

dash3ultra (DE) NEW
http://stencilarchive.org/index.php?q=gallery&g2_itemId=66141

Emporte Moi (DE)
http://stencilarchive.org/index.php?q=gallery&g2_itemId=61777

funk (DE)
http://stencilarchive.org/index.php?q=gallery&g2_itemId=3450

holzweg (DE) NEW
http://stencilarchive.org/index.php?q=gallery&g2_itemId=66160

marybel (DE) NEW
http://stencilarchive.org/index.php?q=gallery&g2_itemId=66261

mindfuck (DE)
http://stencilarchive.org/index.php?q=gallery&g2_itemId=61823

note (DE) NEW
http://stencilarchive.org/index.php?q=gallery&g2_itemId=66282

ocioso (DE)
http://stencilarchive.org/index.php?q=gallery&g2_itemId=54926

piratos (DE)
http://stencilarchive.org/index.php?q=gallery&g2_itemId=54935

quasikunst (DE)
http://stencilarchive.org/index.php?q=gallery&g2_itemId=54944

superfatcat (DE)
http://stencilarchive.org/index.php?q=gallery&g2_itemId=61861

tona (DE)
http://stencilarchive.org/index.php?q=gallery&g2_itemId=56002

TXMX (DE)
http://stencilarchive.org/index.php?q=gallery&g2_itemId=3468

USP (DE)
http://stencilarchive.org/index.php?q=gallery&g2_itemId=41994

DE (pics by TXMX)
http://stencilarchive.org/index.php?q=gallery&g2_itemId=2603

Hamburg (pics by TXMX)
http://stencilarchive.org/index.php?q=gallery&g2_itemId=2746

Get Some Friends and Stencil Some Drains

Long-time Stencil Archive contributor Bryn threw a link my way from a Sacramento, CA government website, asking citizens to "Help educate your neighbors, Get a group together to stencil drainage inlets in your neighborhood with the 'don't dump here flows to creek' message." The PDF packet is about as legal as you can get for this stencil.

Here in San Francisco, the National Surfrider Foundation has begun to stencil drains around the City. Their site is looking for volunteers that will be "working with the local city governments on developing this program, designing stencils/plaques to be placed at storm drains, recruiting and coordinating volunteers to attach stencils/plaques to storm drains and map locations of storm drains/plaques. We need YOU for the project!"