The “Unframed” event at Chelsea’s Charles Cowles Gallery, sponsored by the AIDS Community Research Initiative of America (ACRIA) and presented by Domino magazine, drew a number of collectors looking to buy hard-to-acquire signed works for a fraction of their retail values. Artists such as Chuck Webster, Lou Reed, and Donald Baechler, and Peter Gerakaris. Carlton DeWoody’s “Artist […]
Garbage Gang Kids Revisited
The “Unframed” event at Chelsea’s Charles Cowles Gallery, sponsored by the AIDS Community Research Initiative of America (ACRIA) and presented by Domino magazine, drew a number of collectors looking to buy hard-to-acquire signed works for a fraction of their retail values. Artists such as Chuck Webster, Lou Reed, and Donald Baechler, and Peter Gerakaris. Carlton DeWoody’s “Artist Pail Kids” was the highlight of the evening putting a spin on the classic eighties trading cards from Garbage Gang Kids into famous artists and gave them funny names (i.e., Cindy Furman, Candy Warhol).
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They cornered the trading card market with these ideas. I’m happy to see the concept revisited on a large scale with Andy Warhol as the representation.