John Fekner Luv Flowers 1970

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The Teenage Years

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.

Your Space Has Been Invaded 1982 to Present

Collaborations, Don Leicht, Exhibitions, Installation, Object/Sculpture, Paintings, Projects, Space Invader, Stencils No Comments

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Pantheon NYC Windows Installation

Collaborations, Don Leicht, Exhibitions, Installation, Object/Sculpture, Space Invader, Stencils, Street Art No Comments

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

www.chashama.org
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Renegades (Space Invaders)

Collaborations, Don Leicht, Object/Sculpture, Paintings, Projects, Space Invader, Street Art No Comments

Ongoing Collaboration with Don Leicht since 1982

Techno Plaques

Installation, Object/Sculpture No Comments

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.

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Sculpture

Object/Sculpture No Comments

In the early 80s, Fekner uses tar and other materials to ‘fossilize’ ready-mades and other found objects into what he calls industrial trophies.

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Paintings

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Working on industrial silk-screens, an extremely unconventional material, Fekner executes a series of vibrantly spray painted large-scale works.

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International Projects

International Exhibitions, Public Art, Stencils, Street Art No Comments

In 1979, Fekner’s stencil work begins to appear outdoors in Sweden and continues in Germany, England and Canada.

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Environmental Warnings

Stencils, Street Art No Comments

Fekner’s first environmental stencil project in 1977 entitled A Tribute To The Green Grass That Valiantly Grows Through This Asphalt is painted at Gorman Park.

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The Remains of Industry

Demolition, Stencils, Street Art, Urban Decay No Comments

The Remains of Industry is painted at the abandoned Trunz Meat Factory in Greenpoint, Brooklyn with assistance from two brothers who were squatting in the building.