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Herzog Solo Stencil Exhibit

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> "STENCIL ATTITUDE"
> HERZOG solo exhibition
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> 19th December - 31st January
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> vernissage: 19th December
> opening hours: 7PM-2AM
> drinks & djset
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> info:
> www.myspace.com/barlioy10
> dj set by: djb
> www.myspace.com/d__J__b
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http://herzog.noblogs.org/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/derherzog/
http://www.myspace.com/herzog031
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Logan Hicks: Blogging Primary Flight (Art Basel)

Logan dropped me a pile of photos, which I haven't had time to go through, organize, post etc. due to being on the book tour. But Nikki in SF just tipped me off to Logan's FecalFace post about all the killer FREE, DIY art walls that he and a bunch of artists put up. In the mix: Boxi, Chris Stain, Billy Mode, Shepard Fairey, Ron English, and Logan himself.....

Logal also sent over a link to a Flickr pool with hundreds of pics of Primary Flight

Ron English stencils a background before pasting up one of his freaky characters. Primary Flight, Miami, FL

Stencil Nation Q&A in Atlanta Journal

There's a great feature on stencils coming out Sunday in the Altantal Journal Constitution. First, Drew Jubera talks with Transmit Device to get his angle on stencils in Atlanta. Drew then hit me up with a phone call last week while I was in the Charleston, SC area. He did a good job combing through my long-winded answers to get the gist of what I was saying. I have taken note of this for future interviews.....

The Art of Social Resistance in Oaxaca

La Tinta Grita-The Ink Shouts: The Art of Social Resistance in Oaxaca
Exhibition Tour
Sunday, December 7
2 pm

Center for the Study of Political Graphics and Fowler Museum at UCLA Invite you to the closing tour of La Tinta Grita-The Ink Shouts: The Art of Social Resistance in Oaxaca by Jesus Kobe, Oaxacan artist and activist in the 2006 social movement.

Overspary in Miami: Event Today

Yes, we, like everyone else, are in Miami this week friends,  and we want to invite you to come say hello in person if you have never before. We arent hosting any shindigs this year, but we are official media sponsors for Vanguard, Gen Art's new contemporary art fair.

Slide Tour Gets an Upstate Nod

'Stencil Nation' book tour tags the Upstate

Graffiti around the world in a day

By Matt Wake

Metromix December 3, 2008 Link to original Metromix post

'Stencil Nation' book tour tags the Upstate

This piece by Minneapolis artist Amy Rice is featured in the book “Stencil Nation,” by Russell Howze. A Greenville native, Howze is touring to promote “Stencil Nation.” The events feature slide presentations of graffiti art featured in the text, with Howze riffing about the style’s virtues and vices. (Credit: Amy Rice)

When: 5 p.m. Dec. 4 The Open Book 110 S. Pleasantburg Drive Greenville 864-235-9651 www.theopenbookonline.com

When: 7:30 p.m. Dec. 5 The Showroom 149 S. Daniel Morgan Ave. Spartanburg 864-582-0056 www.hub-bub.com

San Francisco author Russell Howze has found spray paint salvation on Berlin’s Reichstag and on the side of a Clemson apartment building. Launching his Web site, www.stencilarchive.org in 2002, Howze is a noted curator of stencils, a sub-genre of graffiti which utilizes stencils to produce poignant (and expedient) imagery.

His 192-page ode to the form, “Stencil Nation” was published in June. The tome boasts more than 500 full-color photos of works from more than 350 artists hailing from 28 nations. A second printing is already in the works.

“Stencils have a mystery to them,” Howze says. “Most of the people that make them don’t put their name on them, so there’s not much vanity in them. The placement of stencils makes them really interesting.”