Final vinyl
July 14, 2008 at 10:39 am by Michelle Ye Hee Lee in Scene & Herd
THE VINYL SHOW AT NEW STREET GALLERY: It’s the vinyl countdown.
“Portrait of Frank Sinatra as a Chinese Sage” wouldn’t be the first thing most people would think paint out old vinyl disc, but that’s what’s been so great about the Vinyl Show – New Street Gallery’s series of shows and silent auctions featuring work by local artists who let their creativity run wild on 12-inch vinyl canvasses.
Saturday’s show featured a variety of media, from paint and acrylic to the more unconventional – vintage porn, cut-outs of Dr. Seuss characters, plastic plants, feathers and cork. Some artworks carried messages of love and commercialism and were melted and decorated to the point the original disc was nowhere to be seen.
New Street co-founder Meshakai Wolf says the vinyl records are an easy, cheap way to level the playing field for artists. Despite the series’s knack for pulling audiences, Saturday’s show was the series’ and the gallery’s last hurrah. Wolf says he plans to focus on New Street’s record label and literary journal after the gallery closes. It’s time, he says, to move on from the financial struggle of maintaining a public gallery space.
(Photo by Dustin Chambers)
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