NOW GALLERY

"the now in contemporary art" Art in America, Annual Guide to Galleries + Museums + Artists - August 1987 (page 141)

1983 - 1989

1989 - now

Andy Warhol and Yoko Ono at Now Gallery photo: Baird Jones			Thomas Britt at Micro Perfrmances at Now Gallery (second from left)		- Majka Tylicki, Stefan Eins (Fashion-Moda Gallery owner) and Jacek Tylicki
			Mark Kostabi, Mag's Laren Stover and Sthepen Style at Now Gallery		Micro Show opening 1984

East Village - bordering Greenwich Village is a neibourhood in New York considered to be one of the strongest contributors to American art and culture in the XXth century. The Now gallery was founded in 1983 by Jacek Tylicki. Located in Manhattan's East Village, the Now Gallery featured the works of many the era's most influential artists.

A hub of the street art (graffiti) artists represented by galleries such as Fashion Moda in Bronx, the art scene moved then to East Village. Club 57, Fun Gallery, Gracie Mansion Gallery and Now Gallery where the early places crowded with visual artists, performance and musicians introducing the underground art into the mainstream artworld. At the height of the East Village " urban primitive" art scene there were over 200 galleries, many of which also served as performance spaces. Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring, where among them who were along the frequent galley openings

"Fueled by the inflated Reagan economy, drugs, sex, ambition, and idealism, for what now seems like one brief moment or a blip on the screen of art history, the East Village was the future of art.." writes John Perreault's in his Artopia Art Diary.

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artists

This is a listing of some of the Now Gallery artists participating in the shows during 1983 - 1989.

(Unfortunately the list is not complete. We apologize to the artists that are not listed.)