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Another random stencil we found trawling the interweb. Any idea who created it ? drop us a line.

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LOGAN HICKS AT OPERA GALLERY

Untitled from Logan Hicks on Vimeo.

Nuart friend and colleague Logan Hick's opens at Opera Gallery tomorrow evening in NYC, 6 months in the making the show features over 30 new works including some of his largest yet.

Logan Hicks’ Pretty Ugly.
June 3rd – June 24th
Free admission: 10:30 – 7:00 daily
Email: nyc@operagallery.com
Website: operagallery.com/ny

BOXI, NEXT LEVEL STENCIL

Boxi takes it to the next level, great to see the old staple Stencil, a form that introduced most to street art, being given a fresh lease of life.

The Curtain, 6 layer hand cut stencil on 8mm MDF , 12v Dimmable SMD LED's, 180 x 220cm, 2009 - 2011

Produced for the excellently titled "Street Art, meanwhile in deepest east anglia thunderbirds were go". In Wuppertal by Reinking Projects "Streetart" show.

Music by Darkstar, Dear Heartbeat, from the album North


More excellent images of the install can be found on ekosystem here

STEN & LEX IN DENMARK

20 days in the making, Nuart friends Sten & Lex supersize for their latest piece in Køge Denamrk as part of the Walk this way festival. Possibly the worlds largest stencil !

Other artists taking part include
Akay (SE), Armsrock (DK), Basco5 (CA/DK), Brad Downey (US/DE), Don John (DK), Josefine Günschel (D),Mormor (DK), Moss Couture (DK), Papfar (DK), PHUCISME – Phuc van Dang (DK/VN), Pink Army (DK), Sten & Lex (IT), Stickkontakt (S), Swoon (US), Tejn (DK), Ultra Grøn (DK).

More info here

COCO 144. STENCIL FROM 1971

I'd read somewhere recently about an NYC writer named COCO 144 who was using a stencil to spray his tag as far back as 1971, after a bit of research, I managed to track down an original image of his tag. COCO 144 was getting up with the likes of Topcat 126, Tracey 168, C.A.T 87 & Taki 183 as far back as the late 60's.

We all know Banksy popularised it, but there's been a lot of background chatter on when the stencil was first introduced to the culture of Street Art (oh, and how it's not REAL graffiti). Was it Blek, John Fekner maybe, Christy Rupp's rat's.. actually, it seems it was a writer from 144th and Broadway.

Ok, That's todays little history lesson over.. tune in next week to waste more time procrastinating when you should be doing something else. Including myself in that.

ALIAS

Clever little piece from Alias, reminds me of those war correspondent shots with crowds of photojournalists surrounding a single "event", see Libya below.

More from Alias on his flickr stream

ADW STENCIL

We never get bored of a good quality "Smash the system" stencil, especially when it comes with the perfect soundtrack.

In this time-lapse footage ADW pieces together ‘Step up to the Plate’ in the ‘Good Food Gallery’.where the Dublin based artist held a mini solo exhibition in October 2010. To keep up to date with ADW in 2011 visit ADWart.com

From Irish Street Art