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PIXNIT Exhibition at the DeCordova

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PIXNIT Productions is pleased to announce a new installation by the artist PIXNIT at the DeCordova Museum. "Folie que la nouveauté"(Follylike novelty), commissioned and designed for The Café @ DeCordova is on view now and is an ongoing exhibition.
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You Can Now Find (de)Appropriation Project on Stencil Archive

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I just went through the San Francisco Poster and Valencia St. archives and keyworded/renamed all the images I could find that show stencils from the (de)Appropriation Project's wall. A simple search in the Stencil Archives for "dap" or "deappropriation project" or "art wall" will give you over 50 images I have taken of the dap wall near 24th st. All future additions to this site will have these keywords as well.
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Valencia Street Art Wall Archive Now Online

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deappropriationproject.net, documenting years of street art on one Mission District wall, goes online.

For ten years now, the legal wall on Valencia Street in San Francisco's Mission District has hosted hundreds of pieces of art. Pasted posters represent the vast majority of the wall's art, but also includes anything from stenciled posters, stencils, stickers, and even children's drawings. Artists like Swoon, Shepard Fairey, SAW, members of Just Seeds, and many more have put up stencils on this wall over the years. I have been photographing this wall since I moved to San Francisco, and so has Bruce Tomb, the owner of the former Cop Shop that had the wall as its facade. Tomb has documented the wall at least once a week since around 2001, and now he has begun to put his archives online.

This is what Tomb has to say about what he calls the (de)Appropriation Project, aka the Democracy Wall, the Valencia Wall, the Poster Wall, etc.:

"The wall as a resource for a range of disciplines has become more evident over time. As a dynamic artifact, time has been a key aspect to understanding its value. The range of imagery and subjects seems to be unlimited, triggering considerable dialog with neighbors and colleagues. As new cultural issues arise, the archive expands to incorporate them, becoming a living record of our culture and concerns."

 

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