Stephen Powers

Everything is Shit Except You Love, rare signed Printers Proof, early silkscreen

2012

Stephen Powers EVERYTHING IS SHIT Except You Love, 2014 Screenprint on 335 GSM Coventry Rag paper 24 × 24 inches Edition PP 3/3 Hand Signed and numbered in the artist's distinctive hand. One of only three rare Printer's Proofs Rare collectible! One of only three (3) printers proofs!! For offer here is an 11 Color lithograph on 335 GSM Coventry Rag paper featuring the incredibly popular message : "Everything is Shit Except you Love” by artist Stephen Powers, who recently exhibited at the Brooklyn Museum. The simple messaging with bold, playful lettering with purple background has resonated with so many, and the edition sold out almost immediately. This is one of only three rare Printers Proofs, aside from the regular edition, which is also long sold out. In excellent condition; never framed. Makes a terrific gift that says it all. Excellent provenance: Acquired directly from the printer. About Stephen Powers A Fulbright scholar who has been awarded many public commissions and exhibited in major institutions like the Brooklyn Museum.... Born and raised in Philadelphia’s Overbrook neighborhood, Stephen Powers (b. 1968, Philadelphia) moved to New York in 1994, where he gained attention as the publisher of On the Go magazine and the author of the graffiti history The Art of Getting Over. In 1997, Powers undertook an ambitious and far-reaching graffiti campaign of his own, using the official-sounding acronym ESPO (Exterior Surface Painting Outreach) to deflect attention from the illegality of his activities. By 1999, he had covered dozens of storefront grates with giant silver block lettering. Powers gave up street graffiti the following year to concentrate on studio-based projects. Powers’s work typically fuses word and image in paintings and graphics that evoke the bright look of a handmade bodega and fairground...

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