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John Fekner "Decay"

New print and a few originals of this defining moment in Street Art history.


“Most people think of the Decay series as being only about those huge stencils like Broken Promises - the South Bronx work. That’s the iconic image of the Decay stencil, co-opted by the 1980 Presidential Republican Candidate Ronald Reagan in the foreground.

What people may not know is that there were many other Decay stencils scattered across the city – at least 50 distinct interventions of different sizes, on walls, bridges, and abandoned cars, between 1978-1983.
The lettering on Bio Editions’ new Decay print is the exact size of the stencils I painted on the Queensboro bridge in 1979.” - John Fekner.
- Extracted from a conversation with John Fekner and Prof. Susan Hansen , Queens, NYC, July 8th, 2024

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