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I have a showing coming up on December 11th at Guerrero Gallery here in San Francisco.
Guerrero Gallery is located at 19th and York in SF's Mission District.
It is entitled "Even Keel" which reflects the artwork , not only in subject matter, but in process.
Broken Meter
Zine Release Party and Gallery Show
Created by Adam Rozan
Shooting Gallery
835 Larkin Street
San Francisco, CA
...Broken Meter is a celebration of city life, a visual recording of the activity, movement, and energy of the urban environment. Broken Meter is not gentrification, trash removal, clean swept streets, and flower boxes, but rather the decay, the chipped, flaked, broken aesthetic of our culture. Broken meter is the misspelled sign, the street preacher, the converted U-Haul cardboard trucks, the old ladies and recycled cans and bottles, the graffiti tag, the covered up graffiti tagged, the re-tagging of the original piece, it is the funny face, the sad face, the busted, it is the unexpected, the hopeless, it is both beautiful, and sad, it is the Broken Meter.
Lets Meet a collection of queer stencils from the past year by Jeremy Novy
San Francisco, CA (November 3, 2010)— The San Francisco LGBT Center is honored to present “Lets Meet”, a collection of queer stencils from the past year by Jeremy Novy. Novy's is considered one of the up and coming street art celebrities of San Francisco and street art world itself. His koi fish stencils found through out the city have gained him acceptance by not only the street art community of San Francisco but also complements from the Cities Department of Public Works. Yet this exhibit is about something much deeper then just adding beauty to urban blight. It's street art with a social message against homophobia. This exhibition, opens with a reception on Thursday, December 2nd from 6-9 pm and runs through December 30th. Novy has made a limited edition print, signed and numbered, for the 50 guests, along with having Pabst Blue Ribbon beer on hand. Novy was recently commissioned by Joe Pabst, owner of the Pabst Mansion in Milwaukee, WI, to stencil koi around the Mansion pool.
Saturday, November 13, 2010
Jeremy Novy is walking South of Market, deciphering his own hieroglyphics.
"That's two men kissing," he said, pointing to a stencil of two sets of boots facing each other on the sidewalk.
On the side of an abandoned ice machine business, a life-size, shirtless man in a cowboy hat leans seductively. "That's an iconic gay image," Novy said. "Like a two-step guy. Or a Marlboro man."
Scribbling in a language of doodles, stencils and graffiti, Novy uses underground street art to honor San Francisco's gay history. Much as Keith Haring's anonymous chalk drawings in the New York subways drew attention to gay culture in the 1980s, Novy is emerging as San Francisco's street whisperer.
When:
Saturday, October 23, 2010 7:00 PM -
Tuesday, December 07, 2010 11:00 PM CET
Where:
Eckstück
Wrangelstr. 20
Berlin, x-berg 36
..the art of cutting stencils.
featuring:
- artiste ouvrier
- dave the chimp
- dash3ultra
- czarnobyl
- bohomaz
- pisa 73
- plotbot
- emess
- azione
- bonk!
- m:m
ONE DAY ONLY
Poster Exhibit - Book Release Party - Artist Panel
CELEBRATE PEOPLE’S HISTORY: the Poster Book of Resistance and Revolution
Edited by Josh MacPhee
Foreword by Rebecca Solnit
Published by the Feminist Press
7pm - Saturday Nov. 20
The Center for Political Education
522 Valencia St, SF
www.politicaleducation.org
Since 1998, Celebrate People’s History posters have documented feminist organizers, indigenous uprisings, civil rights leaders, union struggles, LGBT activism and much more. Bay Area history stands out with posters on Los Siete de la Raza, the 1969 Alcatraz occupation, the International Hotel and the 1966 transgender riot at Compton’s Cafeteria. The Feminist Press has just released over 100 posters in hardback, and the book’s West Coast premiere includes a poster exhibit, book signing and artist panel.
Featured Speakers:
Lincoln Cushing, historian, www.docspopuli.org
Favianna Rodríguez, artist, www.favianna.com
FREE admission. Donations go to MacPhee’s partner, Dara Greenwald, who is battling cancer.
Carmichael Gallery Invites You to Attend
Block Party
Boxi, Krystian Truth Czaplicki, Gregor Gaida, Simon Haas, Dan Witz
&
A Showcase of New Works by Sixeart
5795 Washington Blvd
Culver City, CA 90232
November 13 – December 11, 2010
Opening Reception: Saturday, November 13, 2010, 6-8pm
please RSVP by email rsvp at carmichaelgallery dot com
theYOUNG…
is an artist/stencilist from germany
is also known as tim young
was born in 1972 in bad oeynhausen, germany
grew up in minden, germany
currently lives in bielefeld, germany
cut his first stencil sometime around 1988
became obsessed with stenciling in 2002
turned grey in 2007
