~KAYROCK/WOLFY/100 T-SHIRTS
an archival business card for: KAYROCK SCREENPRINTING – ca. summer 2003
KAYROCK SCREENPRINTING and EXPLODING SKY have a few thing in common.
1. they are both talented silkscreen shops run by 2 partners who know each other from very early on. Kayrock and Wolfy are friends from very early teen days.
Mark & Matt Enger are twin brothers.
2. they both have the dubious claim ‘to fame’ of being the only 2 rejects from the DANIEL SILVERSTEIN ‘ONE HUNDRED ARTISTS – ONE HUNDRED T SHIRTS’ of Summer 2003.
The KAYROCK SCREENPRINT submission was banned from the show on the grounds that it was: … get this !!! .. “too political” !!! – that’s a direct quote (Danny Silverstein).
KAYROCK were good sports, they (and their) friends came to the opening in the banned T-shirts, anyways.
The photo of their friend EMILY, in their ‘FUCK BUSH’ t-shirt, below, was published in
in artnet, at the time, and then was picked up by BLACK BOOK.
When we recently caught up with them at the FLIP BOOK PARTY , they said there was a new resurgence of interest in the t-shirt lately.
top photo:
KAYROCK (center) and WOLFY (right) in their banned t-shirts, outside the opening,
‘ONE HUNDRED ARTISTS – ONE HUNDRED T SHIRTS’ – DANIEL SILVERSTEIN GALLERY,
(now defunct), 520 West 21st Street, CHELSEA, July 16, 2003
(Photo: Nancy Smith)
2nd photo:
KAYROCK SILKSCREEN friend, EMILY, sports their ‘banned t-shirt’,
outside the DANIEL SILVERSTEIN, ‘ONE HUNDRED ARTISTS – ONE HUNDRED T SHIRTS’ opening, 520 West 21st St, CHELSEA, July 16, 2003
(first posted in: artnet 8-29-03)
(Photo: Nancy Smith)
‘100 ARTISTS – ONE HUNDRED T SHIRTS’