Chris Stain

Without Labor Nothing Prospers

Hand cut stencil, cut paper, and spray paint on wood panel

12.5" x 33" 

2015

Collaboration with Billy Mode

Hand cut stencil, cut paper, and spray paint on wood panel

40" x 80" 

2015

Hand-cut stencil, cut paper, and spray paint on panel

30" x40"

2015

Adapted from a photograph by Martha Cooper

Hand-cut stencil, cut paper, and spray paint on panel

30" x 40"

2015

Adapted from a photograph with permission by Martha Cooper

Hand-cut stencil, cut paper, and spray paint on panel

16" x 20" 

2015

Created as a study for Brooklyn Street Art's PM/7 project at Urban Nation in Berlin

Hand-cut stencil, cut paper, and spray paint on panel

9" x 12"

2015

Reworking of an older design adapted from a photograph of my uncle

Hand-cut stencil, cut paper, and spray paint on book cover

7" x 10.5"

2015

Hand-cut stencil with cut colored paper and spray paint.

16" x 20"  

2015

Adapted from a photograph taken by Martha Cooper  

Hand-cut stencil, spray paint, and paper on book cover

7" x 10.5"

2015

Hand-cut stencil, cut colored paper, and spray paint on book cover.

14" x 19"

2015

Adapted from a photograph by Irina Rellano Weiss

N 9th St

Hand-cut stencil and spray paint on found metal

14" x 20"

2009

Adapted from a photograph by Martha Cooper

Too the Hoop

Screen print, stencil, and spray paint, on wood flooring

30" x 30"

2012

Structures of Thought 1

Hand-cut spray painted stencil on canvas

30" x 40"

2013

Adapted from a photograph of my son

Sisters

Screen print and spray paint on wood panel

16" x 20"

2012

Adapted from a photograph of two sisters in Albany NY

Boy on a Bike

Screen print and spray paint on wood

20" x 20"

2011

Oscar Grant

Stencil and spray paint on metal

14"x 19"

2011

Strictly Swish

Stencil and spray paint on NBA basketball backboard

42" x 72"

2011

Some Other Spring

Hand-cut stencil and spray paint on metal

12" x 12"

2010

Old Friends

Hand-cut stencil, spray paint, paper on metal

12" x 12" 

2011

Up On the Roof

Hand-cut stencil and spray paint on metal

14" x 20" 

2009

Adapted from a photograph by Martha Cooper

Railroad Bill

Hand-cut spray painted stencil on metal

12" x 12"

2009

Cries of the Ghetto

Hand-cut stencil and spray paint on metal

14" x 23"

2009

Adapted from a photograph by Martha Cooper and Shame 125

Bethlehem Steel Worker

Hand-cut stencil and spray paint on metal

12" x 12" 

2007

The Threat of Chance

Hand-cut stencil and spray paint on found metal

14" x 23"

2009

Adapted from a photo by Mike Brodie

Baltimore

Hand-cut stencil and spray paint on metal

17" x 24"

2008

The Boss Needs You

Hand -cut stencil on paper

19" x 25"

2008

Esperanza

Hand-cut stencil and spray paint on metal

24" x 24" 

2007

229

Screen print on masonite, duct tape, paper, acrylic, spray paint

18" x 24"

2011

From Here You Can See Tomorrow

Hand-cut stencil, spray paint, and wood stain on panel

18" x 48"

2008

Smiley

Hand-cut stencil and spray paint on metal

12" x 12"

2008

War In the Streets

Hand-cut spray painted stencil on found metal

14" x 23"

2008

Here Comes the Sun

Hand-cut stencil and spray paint on found metal

20" x 36"

2008

Adapted from a photograph by Martha Cooper

On the Dock

Hand-cut stencil and spray paint on metal

16" x 20"

2007

Three the Hard Way

Hand-cut stencil and spray paint on metal 

16" x 40"

2007

All We Want is a Fair Deal

Hand-cut stencil and spray paint on metal

18" x 24"

2007

Almost Lost Detroit

Hand-cut stencil and spray paint on metal

12" x 12"

2007

Arraber

Hand-cut stencil and spray paint on metal

12" x12"

2007

Carry My Body

Hand-cut stencil and spray paint on metal

11" x 17"

2007

Conductor Kevin

Hand-cut stencil and spray paint on metal

12" x 12"

2007

Scrubber Woman

Hand-cut stencil and spray paint on metal

12" x12"

2007

Shortbread

Hand-cut stencil and spray paint on metal

12" x 12"

2007

Winter In America

Hand-cut stencil and spray paint on metal

12" x 12"

2007

Winter In America 2

Hand-cut stencil and spray paint on metal

12" x 12"

2007

Huelga

Hand-cut stencil and spray paint on found metal

16" x 24"

2006

Lost Souls

Hand-cut stencil, spray paint, and paper on metal

12" x 12"

2006

No More War

Hand-cut stencil spray painted on found wood

14" x 22"

2002

Go Down Hannah

Hand-cut stencil spray painted on found metal

18" x 40"

2005

Shit Out of luck

Hand-cut stencil spray painted on metal

12" x 18"

2004

Adapted from a photograph by Nick Sharp

On the Corner

Hand-cut stencil, spray paint, and paper on wood

4' x 6'

2004

Amara

Hand-cut paper, spray paint, and brush  on found wood

20" x 30"

2003

Family History

Hand-cut stencil spray painted on metal

11" x 17"

2003

Adapted from a photograph of my great-uncle

Lumberjack

Hand-cut stencil on chipboard

8" x 11"

2003

Sitting Bull

Hand cut wooden stencil  stained

4' x 5'

2002

Casual Destruction

Hand-cut stencils spray painted on found metal

17" x 26"

2001

Pop

Hand-cut stencil spray painted on metal

9" x 12"

2001

Snow on Milton

Hand-cut stencil spray painted on metal

10" x 14"

2001

Adapted from a photograph of my Uncle 

Katrina

Hand-cut stencil spray painted on metal

20" x 48"

2005

Hard Work

Hand-cut stencil spray painted on cardboard

12" x 12"

2001

Jackhammer Blues

Hand-cut stencil spray painted on metal

9" x 12"

2001

Strike On

Hand-cut stencil spray painted on metal

10" x 14"

2000

451

Hand-cut stencil spray painted on metal

14" x 18"

2000

Ed Hammond

Hand-cut stencil spray painted on metal

19" x 25"

2000

Workhorse

Hand-cut stencil spray painted on metal

18" x 26"

2000

Farmer

Hand-cut stencil spray painted on copper

8" x 12"

2000

Highlandtown

Hand-cut stencil spray painted on metal

9" x 12"

2000

Adapted from a photograph of my mother 

William Casby

Hand-cut stencil spray painted on metal

9" x 12"

1999

Tijuana

Hand-cut stencil spray painted on metal

9" x 14"

2000

Sitting Bull

Hand-cut stencil spray painted on metal

9" x 12"

1999

Lil' Joe

Hand-cut stencil spray painted on metal

9" x 12"

1999

Boilermaker

Hand-cut stencil spray painted on metal

10" x 14"

1999

YO, JOE!

Hand-cut stencil spray painted on burnt parchment paper

12" x 14" 

1998

Fight the American Nightmare

Hand-cut stencil spray painted on paper

8" x 11"

1998

From the Good Earth

Hand-cut stencil spray painted on metal

10" x 14"

2000

Rise Up 

Screen print on masonite, duct tape, acrylic, and spray paint

18" x 24" 

2011

Pigeons

Hand-cut spray painted stencil on metal

12" x 20"

2009

Boys from the Bronx

Hand-cut spray painted stencil on metal

16" x 24"

2006

63rd Drive

Screen print and spray paint on paper

11" x 18"

2006

Fight the American Nightmare

Hand-cut spray painted stencil on cardboard

12" x 16"

1998

Girl Jumping Rope

Hand-cut spray painted stencil on poster board

18" x 24"

1998