Maintaining The Balance from Dave the Chimp http://www.davethechimp.co.uk/home.php

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Aim: 

To balance the output of street pieces and products for sale

To remain authentic while being commercially viable

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Maintaining The Balance - Project 3

Customers are invited to purchase a print which funds an identical street piece.

The artist produces two identical prints. One is sent to the customer, the other is pasted in the street.

The print includes the customers name. The customer becomes both a patron of art for the community and an accomplice in an act of “vandalism”. 

The artist and customer both share the “fame” aquired with “getting their name up”, and the risk involved with the act of doing so.

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Print specifications

Maintaining The Balance - Project 3

Two colour print, Acrylic on 190 gsm paper, 594mm x 420mm

Unlimited edition, though as each print is customised with customers name it becomes an edition of 1. Signed by the artist

30 euros + 5 euros shipping Europe, 10 euros worldwide

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email davethechimp@gmail.com for more details

Jana & Js

Solo show "Jeux de constructions"
February, 25 - March, 26

Opening on Friday, February, 25 from 6 pm

Deserted factories, parking lots being demolished, low rise apartment blocks : these elements - among many others - surround and inspire Jana & Js. Their work is nourished by the city they live in, together with its inhabitants and its ever changing architectural landscape. The paintings created by this couple of artists make use of extremely detailed and scrupulously prepared stencils..
Jana & Js raise the question of the individual in large groups of buildings and more widely in the cities, combining portraits and architectural views.
Their street paintings (in France, Austria, Russia, Slovakia, Romania and Spain) also led them to develop an interaction with the environment in which they operate and the public – passerby or spectator – using sets of mirrors as a game in order to create infinities of ways of seeing the city.
Jana & Js are young artists whose work began to take shape only in the mid-2000, and who are today among the most talented of their generation. After having lived and worked together in Paris, they are today between Austria and France.
Jeux de Constructions is the second exhibition in Itinerrance Gallery devoted to them. Combining their love for woodworking, rebuilding their own materials and images composition from their cuts, this exhibition will present for the first time a wide range of their work volume initiated a few months ago.

2022 UPDATE: This post gets a fair amount of traffic via Google searches for spray paint and air quality issues. Glad you stopped by! Recently, Stencil Archive has added other posts about spray paint and environmental/health issues: a long read on aerosol pollution from Mongabay, Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS) for Belton and MTN 94 paints, and an article on aerosols from National Geographic. Read on and get informed. - Stencil Archive

Paint it green

Do graffiti artists express themselves at the expense of our air quality?

Sun, Feb 06 at 8:00 PM – Fri, Feb 11 at 8:00 PM

Hamburg OZM Bartelsstr.65

Tona and Quasikunst in den kellerräumen des OZM bartelsstr.65 in hamburg
vernissage 6.2.2011 20uhr
finissage 11.2.2011 20uhr

In Mid-December I ran into "Stencil Nation" publisher Jennifer Joseph at the annual Last Gasp Xmas Party (always a fun time). She let me know that the book continues to seel quite well and that the 2010 3rd print run was practically sold out. She contacted me over this past weekend to let me know that the book is now in a 4th print run.

What does this mean? It means that you can buy it from me, buy it online, or buy it from your local bookstore, graff supply store, or hipster store.

Your local store doesn't have it? Tell them to contact Manic D Press or me and we'll give them distro info.

As always I am still available to present, lecture, or sit on a panel and geek out on stencil art, graffiti, and any kind of public art. Just let me know by hitting that "contact" link up in the mast head!

And, after 9 years of being a stencil fan and artist, THANKS as always for your enthusiasm and support.

Adding this to this post so the RSS can get the good stuff:

Here is a Flickr set of tags with at least four stencils sprayed in protest against the long autocractic rule of Egypt's Hosni Mubarak and his corrupt party.