John Fekner, “Slowdown Children Growing,” silkscreen print, from Your House Is Mine, 1990

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John Fekner, “Slowdown Children Growing,” 1990, silkscreen print, 20″ x 23″. Available signed or unsigned.

John Fekner pioneered the use of stencils in unsanctioned street art. He has described the early project “Warning Signs” as “focused on pointing out hazardous conditions that dominated New York City and its environs in the 1970s.”

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