Category Archives: Street Art, Grafitti, etc.

It Came from Outside…sneak preview!

Posted on September 14, 2012 by | Leave a comment

Preview shot of It Came from Outside! At Big Umbrella Studios in San Francisco. Good art, good cause, good grief! Curated by resident coy bad boy koi artist and queer street art historian Jeremy Novy.

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It came from Outside! And now it’s under the Big Umbrella…

Posted on September 14, 2012 by | 1 comment

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It came from Outside! – is an art show and sale benefitting an after school program dedicated to teaching urban renewal through mural and graffiti projects. Curated by Jeremy Novy, this exhibit of street art and more opens Friday, September 14th at Big Umbrella Studios on Divisadero Street in San Francisco. Gay Highwaymen has donated a two-sided, mixed media Tough Love stencil (It’s No/All a Game) with hand-lettering on a game board. For the origins of the Leather David icon, click here.

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Want to see Jeremy Novy’s Beef Noodle?!

Posted on September 7, 2012 by | 4 comments

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Novy’s cool take-off of a Warhol soup can is on display with a lot of his other stencil work at Tough Love. They are scattered throughout the show here and there: a nod to the furtive nature of street art. And these three are installed over the Exit sign…another Art World in-joke for those who know why museums always make visitors…exit through the gift shop!

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Beautiful Novy Nishikigoi dress the Porn Set…NSFW!

Posted on August 22, 2012 by | 1 comment

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Hot Bear poses for still shots on the set at San Francisco’s Lone Star Saloon. Leans on the pool table. Koi Pool! Cool and Controversial Stencil Artist Jeremy Novy has been installing them all over town…and beyond. More on that soon. Meantime, cum see Novy’s Boots, Beef Noodles and Butch guys at Tough Love. Hot Art in SF at the Center for Sex and Culture – this September for Folsom!

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Rural Mural: Saddle Bronc Champ

Posted on July 10, 2012 by | Leave a comment

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Don Coleman. Circa 1930s. Cowboy. Silent Movie Star. Rancher. Saddle Bronc Champ. And local boy. Mural in downtown Willits. Mendocino County in Northern California. For a real cowboy in Willits, click here. For an even older cowboy, here.

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Hump(ing) Make Art…

Posted on June 26, 2012 by | Leave a comment

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Sign seen in the back patio of the Lone Star Saloon on Harrison in San Francisco. Three stickers complete the modification. Hump becomes humping, of course. Two little mens room guys hang in the capital P. Yes…in the pee. And for the finish: Make Art. Paint Things. Be Awesome.

Sounds like a plan…the Lone Star also features stencil-and-spray artist Jeremy Novy‘s cool nishikigoi (koi) swimming perpetually around the pool table. Novy will show an example or three of his Leathermen series at Tough Love, an exhibit of hard homoerotic work that will open at the Center for Sex and Culture in September.

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Wag More. Bark Less.

Posted on June 17, 2012 by | Leave a comment

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Good words for today. Or any day…woof!

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Shoot! (for the Stars…)

Posted on June 14, 2012 by | Leave a comment

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Seen on the side of an electrical box in rural Mendocino County, just north of Ft. Bragg. Check out his giant Indian Club…

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Big Bite Bait Shop Art Brut…Boss!

Posted on May 2, 2012 by | Leave a comment

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Hand-painted sign on a Nor Cal bait shop. Wouldn’t want to be the boy on the skis. Gulp! For more ski-doodle doings,here.

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Rubber Dump Ducks. Really!

Posted on April 1, 2012 by | Leave a comment

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Sight seen at the funky art dump in Mendocino County. The hippie trash man makes DIY pop art installations. Dump Ducks! More to come…

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