Leslie Bender
Street Stencil from New York’s Lower East Side, found on Sholette Seminars.
Made by Leslie Bender in the early 1980s, it appeared in the anti-gentrification street-art project entitled Not For Sale organized by PAD/D (Political Art Documentation/Distribution) that took place on New York City’s Lower East SIde/East Village in 1984. Similar stencils by Eva Cockcroft and Michael Anderson were also also part of the guerilla-style NFS project. Read more about the PAD/D, Not For Sale, project, and see more art, here.
This street stencil was made by Leslie Bender in the early 1980s and appeared in the anti-gentrification street-art project entitled Not For Sale organized by PAD/D (Political Art Documentation/Distribution) that took place on New York City’s Lower East SIde/East Village in 1984. Similar stencils by Eva Cockcroft and Michael Anderson were also also part of the guerilla-style NFS project. For further reading see:
http://c-m-l.org/?q=node/40
http://www.sholetteseminars.com/home/the-lower-east-side-is-not-for-sale-with-greg-sholette/
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