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Haring is often celebrated for his black-and-white chalk drawings and painted murals that notably appeared on New York City subway walls. Novy has spent an enormous amount of time documenting the unofficial founding members of today’s burgeoning movement, like Keith Haring, who passed away from AIDS in 1990 at the age of 31. In 2011, he received funding from the National Endowment for the Arts and the San Francisco Arts Commission for his self-curated exhibition, A History of Queer Street Art. In addition to being an artist, Novy has also become a historian of the movement. Novy describes the imagery he’s putting out there as, “talking about queer history but in a modern way, by using a can of spray paint and a stencil.” His past “queer” works include an array of rainbow-colored Care Bears, a stencil of the international drag icon, Divine, and stenciled and wheat-pasted posters of sexualized, intimate portrayals of men.
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Yet, as far back as 2008, Novy started placing queer images throughout Milwaukee, Chicago, New Orleans, Atlanta, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and elsewhere in response to the homophobic nature of graffiti culture. Novy, a Wisconsin native who currently resides in Los Angeles, is widely known for his stenciled images of koi fish, which appear throughout numerous US cities. Jeremy Novy, “Drag icon, ‘Divine’ sticker” (image courtesy Jeremy Novy)