I STILL HAVE A DREAM
john Fekner
2011-2012
Enamel & paint marker on kraft butcher paper
Wheat paste installation on Pal’s Lounge, Atlanta Georgia
Foe the Martin Luther Kings Jr’s Birthday January 16th, 2012
Along March route & Rally Auburn Avenue between Peachtree & Jackson Street
Photo courtesy: Nathan Bolster LivingWalls
http://livingwallsconference.com/
Streetela
http://www.streetela.com/john-fekner-work-in-atlanta-for-mlk-day/
John Fekner
NO WAR
2011
Enamel & paint marker on kraft butcher paper
LA VS WAR
http://vswar.org/
Sept 9-11, 2011
Organized by John Carr
Photo courtesy: LA VS WAR
Takeover in Times Square July 24th, 2011
Public Ad Campaign & The Heavy Projects
Featuring John Fekner, Ron English, PosterBoy, Doctor D and Ox
http://daily.publicadcampaign.com/2011_07_01_archive.html
Photo courtesy: Rebecca Fuller
Fekner’s first outdoor work was the phrase Itchycoo Park painted in large white letters on a park house of a Queens playground in 1968 with his friends Robert, Harry, Dennis and Pat while Steve played the lookout.
On Friday night, August 15th, 1969, before leaving from Itcyhcoo Park to go to Woodstock with Robert and Steve, Fekner created his 2nd text-based work of hand-cut letters out of paper. The phrase White Lake Or Bust, pertained to the upstate location of Bethel where the concert was originally scheduled, was taped on the inside windows of a Chevy station wagon driven to the Woodstock Music and Art Festival in upstate New York.
The following summer, Fekner painted two murals entitled Luv Flowers on two backyard walls; one in Jackson Heights, NY and the second in Canoga Park, California.
During the summer of 1968, 69 and 70, Fekner worked as a messenger at 841 Broadway at 14th Street in NYC and constantly used the city subways at that time. The amount of graffiti on subway lines, walls and buildings was not noticeable at that time.
A history of art from the streets of New York City
20 West 53rd Street, b/w 5th & 6th Avenue
New York, NY 10019 (across from MoMA)
Group show runs April 2-17, 2011
Open to the public 24 hours
Ongoing Collaboration with Don Leicht since 1982
Techno Plaques is a late 80s series of stacked music CDs encased in resin condensing environmental disasters and other information into a nutshell not easily understood.
In the early 80s, Fekner uses tar and other materials to ‘fossilize’ ready-mades and other found objects into what he calls industrial trophies.
Working on industrial silk-screens, an extremely unconventional material, Fekner executes a series of vibrantly spray painted large-scale works.
