Stephen Powers

Everything is Shit Except You Love (a rare signed Printers Proof early print)

2012

Stephen Powers Everything is Shit Except You Love, 2008 17 Color silkscreen on 335 GSM Coventry rag paper. Hand signed and numbered on lower front. Also bears publishers blind stamp ...

Stephen Powers Everything is Shit Except You Love, ca. 2012 Silkscreen in colors on 254 GSM Coventry Rag Paper Hand signed and numbered 18/50 by the artist on the lower right front. ...

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...

Stephen Powers Invest in Love, 2019 5 Color screenprint on 335 GSM Coventry rag paper Hand signed and numbered 9/50 by Stephen Powers with his distinctive hat logo on the front 14 × 8 1/2 inches Unframed "Invest in Love" was created by the renowned street artist Stephen Powers in 2020 to celebrate the artist's return to his hometown of Philadelphia in December 2019 to transform an empty building into a screen-printing pop-up shop to raise funds for a non-profit arts charity Mural Arts. The building at 1201 Spring Garden Street operated for many years as a bank. (see photograph of Powers' painted mural "Invest in Love"). Powers has exhibited in streets, galleries and museums all over the world. 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...

Lithograph on 310g Magnani Incisione paper. Hand signed and numbered on verso by Felipe Pantone. Edition 1/30. Frame size approx 34 x 34 inches. Artwork is in excellent condition...

Zevs Liquidated LV, 2017 Screnprint 58" x 46 " Edition of 20 signed and numbered in pencil Zevs is an anonymous contemporary French graffiti artist...

Zevs Liquidated LV, 2017 Screnprint 58" x 46 " Edition of 20 signed and numbered in pencil Zevs is an anonymous contemporary French graffiti artist...

Based off of a series of paintings currently showing at the Brooklyn Museum. The limited edition works consist of 10 high quality screen prints on Saunders Waterford 425gm HP Hi-Whit...