User:Hildred Warner/Blackbooks Stencils

In 2004, Andrew Black and BooksIIII established a company in South Florida called Blackbooks Stencils aka, Blackbooks. Blackbooks is an experimental design house, fabrication house, and artist collective that fabricates large quantity, art related products for major corporations, collections, museums, as well as fabricating one off products for private artists and individuals. Their main focus is fabricating and expanding a specific printing tool, an encased Co2 Laser (laser Engraver) and standard Auto Cad Router.

Strictly a word of mouth campaign, Blackbooks is a niche company who arguably, were the first to introduce these printing methods on a grand scale to an increasingly popular contemporary graffiti and street art movement. Having worked with artists such as the Seventh Letter, Shepard Fairey, Logan Hicks, Chris Stain, as well as Green Day, Crispin Porter + Bogusky, Stefan Sagemiester, Mountain Dew and Red Bull, to name a select few, creating promotional items, tools, design, and one off art pieces.

Blackbooks is also an artist collective / curators working in the Wynwood Arts District Miami. Blackbooks holds representation at a young and notable contemporary art gallery in Miami called Spinello Gallery, through this outlet they are found to showcase their finer works internationally. Their private works are said to be inspired by graffiti handstyles, tags, and urban decay. Blackbooks can also be found creating sculptures, paintings, installations, and tension stress furniture. Steadily teetering on the wire of conceptual art, Blackbooks is forever evolving and expanding on their creative fabrication methods making certain that the method reflects the message when reffering to their current bodies of work.

In 2007, Blackbooks Founded an exhibition that happens annually in Miami during Art Basel Miami Beach called Primary Flight. This exhibition is slated to be the largest, multi-site specific mural installation in the world. Between 2007 and 2008 Blackbooks is responsible for bringing just over 100 different artists to the Wynwood arts District to paint murals live during this infamous Art Fair. Select artists have included Lady Pink, Blek Le Rat, Wk Interact, Retna, & El Mac, these names generally describe the caliber of work gracing the Wynwood Art District Walls. The murals have become the backdrops for music videos, Fashion shoots, and tourist highlights, bringing a new face to an area that is stuck in the middle of development and gentrification.