{"id":686,"date":"2022-05-10T13:45:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-10T13:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.nysmusic.com\/2022\/2022\/05\/10\/the-rock-and-roll-circus-art-show-comes-hudson\/"},"modified":"2022-05-10T13:45:00","modified_gmt":"2022-05-10T13:45:00","slug":"the-rock-and-roll-circus-art-show-comes-hudson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.nysmusic.com\/2022\/2022\/05\/10\/the-rock-and-roll-circus-art-show-comes-hudson\/","title":{"rendered":"The Rock and Roll Circus Art Show Comes to Hudson"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Since the 1960s, the worlds of art and rock music have been joined at the hip. Now some of the finest art inspired by rock music, and much of it created by musicians themselves, has come to Hudson in a new gallery show, The Rock and Roll Circus<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The exhibition is the brainchild of gallerist\/musician Luis Accorsi and his wife, Haleh, who relocated from NYC to Hudson a couple of years back to open\u00a0The New Gallery<\/a>.\u00a0 An art dealer since 1988,\u00a0 the Venezuela- born Accorsi may be best known for his efforts to breakout some of the NYC\u2019s now world-renowned graffiti artists. The list of artist he championed includes Keith Haring, Crash, Futura and LA 2, whose wildly colorful Fender Stratocaster is a centerpiece of the exhibit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cThis exhibition is circled around the notion that music and the visual arts are often intertwined and never far from each other,\u201d says Accorsi. \u201cIn a song, there\u2019s a story and that story becomes a visual reference for us \u2013 all in a quest for the pure and the sublime.  All of the artists in this show have an interdisciplinary approach to life.  They all stand against the fossilized notion that an artist can only be a great artist in one discipline.  And this work certainly demonstrates their position.\u201d  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The New Gallery\u2019s latest exhibit includes 38 works in total, from photography, sculpture, painting and poster art to fashion illustration, collage, animation cels and even sheet music.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Highlights include a lithograph of a Wes Wilson poster made for a performance by Andy Warhol\u2019s Exploding Plastic Inevitable with the Velvet Underground<\/a> and Nico at the Fillmore in San Francisco, one signed by Warhol himself.  There\u2019s also an original poster from Jimi Hendrix\u2019s legendary New Year\u2019s performance with his Band of Gypsies at the Fillmore East and a unique, uncut 2-up poster by Rick Griffin for a Hendrix performance at Royal Albert Hall. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Also showcased and available for purchase are limited edition prints from several famous photographers. These include Francesco Scavullo\u2019s 1969 portrait of Janis Joplin, lithographs of Richard Avedon\u2019s psychedelicized, individual portraits of The Beatles shot for Look Magazine<\/em> in 1967, a Harvey Wang\u2019s stage shot of Klaus Nomi, a Robin Rice performance snap of Patti Smith circa 1979 and Christophe Von Hohenberg portraits of Britney Spears and Debbie Harry, the latter taken at Andy Warhol\u2019s memorial in 1987. Hudson\u2019s own music notable, Melissa Auf Def Maur, is represented with a self-portrait shot while performing in Capetown, South Africa with The Smashing Pumpkins in 2000.  Beatles\u2019 fanatics will want to peruse the original animation cels from their 1968 film, Yellow Submarine<\/em>, featured in the New Gallery\u2019s collection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ramones\u2019 devotees will be stopped dead in their tracks by Punk Mag<\/em>azine co-founder John Holmstrom\u2019s pen and ink study for the cover art for their Rockets to Russia<\/em> album.  Even more incredible (and unsettling!) is Dee Dee Ramones\u2019 \u201cHorror Hospital,\u201d an acrylic and silk screen on canvas painting of someone getting a lobotomy\u2026 with an ice pick!  Famed director and sometime musician Jim Jarmusch is here with a 2021 collage of two guitarists in performance, while Beacon-based Richard Butler, the front man of The Psychedelic Furs, showcases a dramatic 2005 painting of fashion model-turned-victims advocate Marla Hanson.  Also included are works from Mark and Paul Kostabi, producer\/engineer Marc Urselli, djs Dmitry Wild and Mark Prosser, Alvaro Segura, Fernando Batoni, Tom McGill, Stella McNicol, fashion designer Stephen Sprouse and a page from a score by composer John Cage. Prices begin at $400 and run to $10,000+.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Like the musicians themselves who dabble in art, gallerist Accorsi is also busy with his latest musical project, the old school NYC punk-inspired Toxic Tito.  Check out his latest video shot at Catskill\u2019s Avalon Lounge, \u201cI Don\u2019t Like You,\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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