~KEN BROWN: NYC STREET POP – last week

KEN BROWN – NYC STREET POP
JAN 12 – FEB 24, 2013
TEKSERVE – 119 W 23rd ST – CHELSEA, NYC

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a few more pix . . .


artist/entrepreneur KEN BROWN with future wife-to-be, artist LISA CRAFTS, ca. 1975-76.
in an archival photo displayed in the glass case – as you enter the store.
Brooklyn hipsters, you ain’t got nothing on us . . . the original Woodstock generation.

you can also check out:
kenbrownpixpop.blogspot.com – ‘Ken Brown’s Garage d’Or’ (!!)
kenbrownpixpop.com


a KEN BROWN postcard – featuring ‘Shriners’ – from his own flea market collection.
KEN BROWN produced over 600 postcards that sold commercially across the country – mostly inspired by political satire, pop culture, and flea market finds.


KEN BROWN postcard: ‘PERHAPS WE SHOULD MOVE INDOORS’.


KEN BROWN postcard: ‘SOME DAY, SON, ALL THIS …’.


KEN BROWN also designed and produced iconic wrapping paper, and yes, even . . . rubber stamps.


“CASH When You Need It” – detail vintage KEN BROWN wrapping paper.


also playing on short loops in the entry display cases at TEKSERVE, a few more of KEN BROWN’s animations. from 1987 – 2001, KEN and his wife, animator LISA CRAFTS created dozens of short films for SESAME STREET, VH1, MTV, and the American Movie Channel (AMC).

INSTALLATION PHOTOS: NANCY SMITH