@prefix rdf: . @prefix dbpedia: . @prefix dbpedia-owl: . dbpedia:John_Fekner rdf:type dbpedia-owl:Artist , dbpedia-owl:Person . @prefix ns3: . dbpedia:John_Fekner rdf:type ns3:LivingPeople . @prefix owl: . dbpedia:John_Fekner rdf:type owl:Thing , ns3:AmericanGraffitiArtists , ns3:AmericanPhotographers , ns3:AmericanArtists , ns3:ContemporaryArtists . @prefix dbpprop: . dbpedia:John_Fekner dbpprop:name "John Fekner"@en . @prefix ns6: . dbpedia:John_Fekner ns6:birthName "John Anthony Fekner" . @prefix xsd: . dbpedia:John_Fekner ns6:birthDate "1950-10-06"^^xsd:date ; ns6:birthPlace dbpedia:NYC , dbpedia:US ; dbpedia-owl:field dbpedia:Art , dbpedia:Music , dbpedia:Poetry , dbpedia:Video . @prefix ns8: . dbpedia:John_Fekner ns8:field dbpedia:Art , dbpedia:Music , dbpedia:Poetry , dbpedia:Video ; owl:sameAs . @prefix ns9: . dbpedia:John_Fekner owl:sameAs ns9:John_Fekner . @prefix foaf: . dbpedia:John_Fekner foaf:name "John Fekner" . @prefix ns11: . dbpedia:John_Fekner foaf:page ns11:John_Fekner ; dbpedia-owl:training dbpedia:Lehman_College , dbpedia:NYIT ; dbpedia-owl:movement dbpedia:Stencil_Graffiti , dbpedia:Street_Art , dbpedia:Sound_Art ; dbpprop:reference , , , , . @prefix ns12: . dbpedia:John_Fekner dbpprop:reference ns12:The , , , , . @prefix rdfs: . dbpedia:John_Fekner rdfs:label "John Fekner"@en ; dbpedia-owl:thumbnail ; dbpedia-owl:birthName "John Anthony Fekner" ; dbpedia-owl:birthDate "1950-10-06"^^xsd:date ; dbpedia-owl:birthPlace dbpedia:NYC , dbpedia:US ; ns8:training dbpedia:NYIT , dbpedia:Lehman_College ; ns8:movement dbpedia:Stencil_Graffiti , dbpedia:Street_Art , dbpedia:Sound_Art ; dbpprop:abstract "John Fekner, is an influential stencil graffiti, photographer and multimedia artist, who created hundreds of environmental and conceptual outdoor works consisting of stenciled words, symbols, dates and icons spray painted throughout New York, in addition to projects in Sweden, Canada, England and Germany in the 70s and 80s. A seminal figure in the Street Art movement, Fekner participated in recent urban art exhibitions such as Wooster Collective's 11 Spring Street Project in 2006. Art writer Lucy Lippard writes, \"Fekner does in public what a lot of art world artists don\u2019t even do in galleries: he dispels ambiguity by naming his visions, his viewpoint. \" In 1968, Fekner painted the words Itchycoo Park in large white letters on an empty building in Gorman Park, New York, and in 1978 he curated the Detective Show at the same outdoor location in Queens which included the words street museum on the invitational card. In reaction to the desolation of the abandoned burnt-out buildings of the South Bronx, Fekner stenciled Last Hope in large letters above one crumbling structure so that every time you passed it you couldn\u2019t block it out of your vision. Now you know you can\u2019t change the world, but you can\u2019t sit back and watch it implode either, so you\u2019ll do your part, have your own little victory, and so will the next guy and the next, and maybe things will start to change. Fekner's output includes paintings, cast paper reliefs, video, audio and performance works, sculpture, and computer-generated work. Fekner creates multiple versions of work in entirely different media and will use whatever means are necessary to communicate a vision or message, and whose work changes as that vision expands. Throughout his entire career in the arts, Fekner has made a commitment within his work by consistently addressing issues that demonstrate an interest involving concepts of perception and transformation, as well as specific environmental and sociological concerns such as urban decay, greed, chemical pollutants, mass media and Native American Indians. Fekner's stencil Wheels Over Indian Trails greeted motorists and international travelers arriving in New York City at the Pulaski Bridge Queens Midtown Tunnel from 1979-1990. The message remained untouched for eleven years, until Earth Day 1990, when Mr. Fekner, feeling the piece had run its course, painted over it."@en ; rdfs:comment "John Fekner, is an influential stencil graffiti, photographer and multimedia artist, who created hundreds of environmental and conceptual outdoor works consisting of stenciled words, symbols, dates and icons spray painted throughout New York, in addition to projects in Sweden, Canada, England and Germany in the 70s and 80s. A seminal figure in the Street Art movement, Fekner participated in recent urban art exhibitions such as Wooster Collective's 11 Spring Street Project in 2006."@en ; foaf:depiction . @prefix skos: . dbpedia:John_Fekner skos:subject . @prefix ns15: . dbpedia:John_Fekner skos:subject ns15:Public_art , ns15:Graffiti_and_unauthorised_signage , ns15:Living_people , ns15:American_photographers , ns15:American_graffiti_artists , ns15:Culture_jamming , ns15:Contemporary_artists , ns15:American_artists . @prefix ns16: . dbpedia:John_Fekner dbpprop:wikiPageUsesTemplate ns16:infobox_artist ; dbpprop:field dbpedia:Music , dbpedia:Art , dbpedia:Video , dbpedia:Poetry ; dbpprop:birthname "John Anthony Fekner"@en ; dbpprop:works dbpedia:Broken_Promises ; dbpprop:dateOfBirth dbpedia:October_6 ; dbpprop:location dbpedia:NYC , dbpedia:US ; dbpprop:movement dbpedia:Street_Art , dbpedia:Sound_Art , dbpedia:Stencil_Graffiti ; dbpprop:training dbpedia:Lehman_College , dbpedia:NYIT . @prefix ns17: . dbpedia:John_Fekner dbpprop:hasPhotoCollection ns17:John_Fekner . @prefix ns18: . dbpedia:John_Fekner dbpprop:wordnet_type ns18:synset-artist-noun-1 . @prefix yago: . yago:John_Fekner owl:sameAs dbpedia:John_Fekner .