Early Street Stencil Pioniers in the US 1969-85

Bojórquez, Fekner, Wojnarowicz and Vallauri

Authors

  • Ulrich Blanché University of Heidelberg, Germany

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.25765/sauc.v6i1.333

Keywords:

Stencil, template, street art, Los Angeles, Chaz Bojórquez, John Fekner, Alex Vallauri, David Wojnarowicz, Burning House, Random Dates, Acrobat, Senior Suerte, Decay, USA, New York City

Abstract

Independent from New York Style writing graffiti Chaz Bojórquez invented the visual signature tag in Los Angeles in 1969. Like John Fekner in New York from 1976 onwards he created rather road art than street art, stencils for car drivers in the urban outskirts. Fekner mixed conceptual art and activist art in his few word poetry warning sign stencils on car wrecks and industrial ruins. Like Bojórguez also David Wojnarowicz and Alex Vallauri used visual signature stencil tags in early 1980ies New York. Both, Vallauri and Wojnoarowicz, also used smaller stencils in a modular way to create larger mixed freehand/stencil compositions.

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Published

2020-12-30

How to Cite

Blanché, U. (2020). Early Street Stencil Pioniers in the US 1969-85: Bojórquez, Fekner, Wojnarowicz and Vallauri. Street Art & Urban Creativity, 6(1), 88–95. https://doi.org/10.25765/sauc.v6i1.333

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Vol. 6 No. 1 (2020): Academic Discipline

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