Pantheon NYC Windows Installation
Collaborations, Don Leicht, Exhibitions, Installation, Object/Sculpture, Space Invader, Stencils, Street Art No CommentsA 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
Renegades (Space Invaders)
Collaborations, Don Leicht, Object/Sculpture, Paintings, Projects, Space Invader, Street Art No CommentsOngoing Collaboration with Don Leicht since 1982
Nuclear Intrusions
Collaborations, Guerilla Art, Political Art, Projects, Stencils, Street Art, Toxic Wastes No Comments
Nuke Freeze
1982
Central Park, NY
The Daze of Toxic Water
1988
Southampton, NY
Collaboration with Andrew Ruhren
Post No Bills/Post No Dreams Winter 78-79
Collaborations, Don Leicht, Guerilla Art, Projects, Stencils, Street Art No CommentsThe Post No Bills/Post No Dreams project was one of the first examples of street art culture jamming and subversive advertising. Other stencils created in the series included Instant This Instant That, No TV, Soft Brains Watch The Screen And Buy The Jeans, Doomsday and My Ad Is No Ad. Read the rest of this entry »
Mother Earth Will Survive (Your Journey Through The Secret Life Of Plants)
Collaborations, Don Leicht, Exhibitions, Paintings, Public Art, Stencils, Street Art No CommentsJohn Fekner and Don Leicht were invited to participate in the outdoor street exhibition Welling Court Mural Project organized by Ad Hoc Art in Queens, NY. After a preliminary visit to the site, they decided to paint on a wall directly facing the Two Coves Community Garden and the NYCHA Astoria Houses Development. The location of their collaborative site-specific work was important for two reasons: not only did it connect with the communities’ thriving volunteer-run urban garden; it also provided a platform to address the catastrophic BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Read the rest of this entry »
The Suffolk Street Fallout Street 1981
Collaborations, Guerilla Art, Political Art, Public Art, Stencils, Street Art Comments OffJohn Fekner & John Crash Matos
John Crash Matos, a graffiti artist, and I collaborated on a project entitled THE SUFFOLK STREET FALLOUT SHELTER. The mural, painted on an abandoned building on the Lower East Side, depicts a nuclear bomb exploding in the New York City. A stenciled warning in English and Spanish reads: IN CASE OF NUCLEAR WAR STEP INSIDE/EN CASO DE GUERRA NULCEAR ENTREN. Read the rest of this entry »
Fashion Moda-Selected Projects
Collaborations, Don Leicht, Exhibitions, Projects, Space Invader, Stencils, Street Art No CommentsFekner visits Fashion Moda in 1979 which leads to his installation of NO TV/READ which is simultaneously shown at P. S. 1 and Galerie S:t Petri -Archive of Experimental and Marginal Art in Lund, Sweden. In the window of Fashion Moda, Fekner creates an installation with a TV set, a stenciled logo and a statement in both English and Spanish in February 1980. Read the rest of this entry »
By John Fekner & Don Leicht
Turn Green
Collaborations, Don Leicht, Exhibitions, International Exhibitions, Projects, Space Invader 1 Comment
Summer/Fall 2009
John Fekner & Don Leicht
“This is Art” Galleri Jonas Kleerup and various locations in Stockholm, Sweden 2009 Read the rest of this entry »