Jeremy Novy
JEREMY NOVY's (b. 1979) unique brand of street art is ripe with thoughtful social examinations. Novy has combated a homophobic lack of representation with a celebration of gay iconography, bringing joviality and warmth to disused urban spaces. With a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, he curated the first major exhibition of its kind, “A History of Queer Street Art,” premiered in San Francisco in 2011 and later toured to Pop Up Gallery in Los Angeles and Yale University.
Since graduating from Pecks School of the Arts, Novy’s art has been met with acclaim across the country. His work has benefited non-profit foundations, advocacy organizations, and community service programs and has been featured in numerous films, books, publications, and collections public and private. His stencil work is cogent in its messaging and remarkably complex for its compositional simplicity—like the koi fish of his most-established series which, floating beneath the surface of concrete, refer to anti-authoritarian coded symbols in Chinese art under communism. His pioneering images of drag queens, physique pictorials, and pornography bring to life the multiplicity of modern identity, reminding us that the we, each of us, must walk the streets of our cities in collective solidarity.
“Migration and Immigration”
“Double Happiness”
The 2 koi represent double happiness because who doesn't want to be happy once but twice. The color choose of the orange and black are iconic of the San Francisco Giants and although you can find them all over North America they always will carry a part of San Francisco with them.
“A Murder of Crows”
My murder of crows mural was inspired by the flight pattern of birds in clusters called a murmur. I enjoy how although the mural is obviously flat your eye is drawn from one side to the other as if the mural is some how moving.
