~MADAME ROSA’S 80s ART PARTY / CONTRA / PARTY PIX !!
MADAME ROSA’S 80s ART PARTY
CONTRA GALLERIES
THURS FEB 28, 2019
note: the exhibition – is still up, and running.
things were really – starting to come together.
a great series of clips, focusing on goth street legend, RAMMELLZEE,
screening at the entrance.
looks like the ‘subway car’ was taken over by Delta2 !!
in clean black script.
Delta2, aluminum subway train, 2019.
($3,000)
left: street legend COSE TDS, with the show’s curator: LINUS CORAGGIO.
COSE shows me his work, on his iPhone !!
in the back room, custom ‘motorcycle’ by LINUS CORAGGIO, in the foreground.
in fact, all the metal work sculpture was by the show’s curator, LINUS CORAGGIO.
the first painting on the left, looking very Mondrian, with the big Keith Haring influence is by LA II.
and, yes !!
that is an early KEITH HARING on cardboard – at center, 1983.
a much smaller, metal ‘bike’ sculpture, by LINUS CORAGGIO.
great display table, btw / Restoration hardware !! Airplane series.
yes, that’s my famous Keith Haring, ‘chalk Angel’- on cardboard, from 1983.
Keith drew this white chalk angel, on a large discarded refrigerator box he had picked up off the street, outside the Red Bar, in the East Village . . one night – drew the chalk angel, and then handed it over to me, as thanks for returning his sketchbook, which he had passed on to me, for safe keeping – at his super chaotic, wild, & scarily over-crowded opening, at Fun Gallery, a few months back.
when we got it back home to our storefront on Rivington St, my hubby, East Village gallerist, collector, and artist . . SIMON CERIGO, painted the background white / thinking to add it to his appropriation work (!!). a few days later, Haring had sky-rocketed to international fame, and we framed it. so, it’s in pristine condition, Simon’s ‘signature’, and all.
KEITH HARING, chalk Angel on cardboard. 1983
60 x 23 in. (unframed)
the area of the actual drawing, approx. 19 x 23 in.
collection: NANCY SMITH, KATE & THEO CERIGO.
ANTHONY HADEN-GUEST.
my KEITH HARING 1983 chalk angel, behind him.
RICHARD HAMBLETON’s art works at Contra, they command a pretty hefty price, the larger ones – in the hundred thousand $$$ range.
ALFREDO MARTINEZ gun drawing. colored marker on DIY collaged paper.
I guess Alfredo is pretty much, 80s – in spirit.
($1,000)
Delta2 at Rosa’s Art Party, a peep of his new work to the side.
Delta2’s new work looked supremo – in the all-white ‘film shoot’ room.
RAMMELLZEE, mixed media , 1988.
I had never seen these before. very cool. very nice.
a newer work by Fab 5 Freddy. 2018.
M. HENRY JONES, with one of his signature lenticular portraits.
fun fact: his (bouncing-off-the-walls) studio on Ave A, was the original site of Simon’s early East Village gallery,
SIMON CERIGO GALLERY on AVE A.
PHOTOS: NANCY SMITH