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SUPER RAD!! #1 by snAwk, THE blank GALLERY

A stencil art by a Japanese artist, snAwk. The work is from 2013. snAwk -Stencil Artist Born and raised in Japan. Graduated Emily Carr Institute of Art + Design (Vancouver, CANADA). Bachelor of Fine Arts. Currently lives and works in Japan. Heavily influenced by pop art, street art, and punk culture, snAwk's works embrace fine details of hand-cut stencils, rawness of spray paints, and addictive colour scheme. Having a sense of “nostalgic modernity” and inspirations from imported/exported cultures, as he has been “re-imported” to Japan after graduating an art school in Vancouver, his works provide multifaceted perspectives. website: http://snawk.web.fc2.com/

THE blank GALLERY 『Summer Group Show 2017』

『NEVER MIND』by Rokuhisa Chino

July,2017

 Shibuya-ku Jingumae 3-21-6 Osaki Building 3F THE blank GALLERY

FUCK by Rob Judges, THE blank GALLERY

Painting by Rob Judges, originated from Toronto, Canada, and now based in Tokyo. Rob Judges grew up surrounded by 70-80s pop culture & learned art and semiotics at Toronto university. He is primarily inspired by the look of fading urban signage and typography, the vibrancy of popular music and advertising, the warmth of old comic books, the symbolism of North American totem poles, and the wit of 20th Century American artists such as Philip Guston and Jean-Michel Basquiat.

ERROR 404 -NOT FOUND (silver/blue) by snAwk, THE blank GALLERY

A stencil art by a Japanese artist, snAwk. The work is from 2013. snAwk -Stencil Artist Born and raised in Japan. Graduated Emily Carr Institute of Art + Design (Vancouver, CANADA). Bachelor of Fine Arts. Currently lives and works in Japan. Heavily influenced by pop art, street art, and punk culture, snAwk's works embrace fine details of hand-cut stencils, rawness of spray paints, and addictive colour scheme. Having a sense of “nostalgic modernity” and inspirations from imported/exported cultures, as he has been “re-imported” to Japan after graduating an art school in Vancouver, his works provide multifaceted perspectives. website: http://snawk.web.fc2.com/

YUKICHI (red / grey) by snAwk, THE blank GALLERY

A stencil art by a Japanese artist, snAwk. One of his early works from 2010. (According to Wikipedia) Yukichi Fukuzawa was a Japanese author, writer, teacher, translator, entrepreneur and journalist who founded Keio University. He was an early Japanese civil rights activist and liberal ideologist. His ideas about government and social institutions made a lasting impression on a rapidly changing Japan during the Meiji Era. He is regarded as one of the founders of modern Japan. Today, he is known most for appearing on the current 10,000-yen banknote and has been compared to Benjamin Franklin in the United States. snAwk -Stencil Artist Born and raised in Japan. Graduated Emily Carr Institute of Art + Design (Vancouver, CANADA). Bachelor of Fine Arts. Currently lives and works in Japan. Heavily influenced by pop art, street art, and punk culture, snAwk's works embrace fine details of hand-cut stencils, rawness of spray paints, and addictive colour scheme. Having a sense of “nostalgic modernity” and inspirations from imported/exported cultures, as he has been “re-imported” to Japan after graduating an art school in Vancouver, his works provide multifaceted perspectives. website: http://snawk.web.fc2.com/ Keywords: Japan, Tokyo, Yukichi Fukuzawa, 10000yen, Hand-cut stencil

JOE (green) by snAwk, THE blank GALLERY

A stencil art by a Japanese artist, snAwk. One of his early works from 2011. snAwk -Stencil Artist Born and raised in Japan. Graduated Emily Carr Institute of Art + Design (Vancouver, CANADA). Bachelor of Fine Arts. Currently lives and works in Japan. Heavily influenced by pop art, street art, and punk culture, snAwk's works embrace fine details of hand-cut stencils, rawness of spray paints, and addictive colour scheme. Having a sense of “nostalgic modernity” and inspirations from imported/exported cultures, as he has been “re-imported” to Japan after graduating an art school in Vancouver, his works provide multifaceted perspectives. website: http://snawk.web.fc2.com/

JOE (red) by snAwk, THE blank GALLERY

A stencil art by a Japanese artist, snAwk. One of his early works from 2011. snAwk -Stencil Artist Born and raised in Japan. Graduated Emily Carr Institute of Art + Design (Vancouver, CANADA). Bachelor of Fine Arts. Currently lives and works in Japan. Heavily influenced by pop art, street art, and punk culture, snAwk's works embrace fine details of hand-cut stencils, rawness of spray paints, and addictive colour scheme. Having a sense of “nostalgic modernity” and inspirations from imported/exported cultures, as he has been “re-imported” to Japan after graduating an art school in Vancouver, his works provide multifaceted perspectives. website: http://snawk.web.fc2.com/