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| Booklet for an exhibit that Alex curated at the Institute of Contemporary Art |
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Alex: I curated this exhibition called "Sticker Shock" and that was essentially a show of artists' decals. There was some skateboard type of stuff involved with that exhibition. This guy who runs the Alleged gallery in New York, named Aaron Rose, and another artist named Phil Frost, did a collaboration of all kinds of skate stickers on refrigerator doors. Kind of an homage to skateboard decal culture. For the most part the show was about artists who make their own stickers. Some of them had relations to the skate world, like the Andre the Giant guy, Sheperd Fairey, who does skate himself and doing the Andre the Giant sticker phenomenon, that sort of has a skateboard element to it, at least in terms of the people who were originally involved with that whole sticker campaign ...
SK8TC: He printed skateboards for a while ... Alex: Yeah. So he was represented in the show and then in a separate area I had these museum exhibition cases, little plexiglass uh what would the word be, you know, little museum exhibition cases sort of separate from the art on the walls. Various commercial art stickers, from skateboard stickers, to old wacky pack stickers from the 70s that fine arts people originally did the drawings for. They're sort of like the 70s version of the Garbage Pail Kids that I collected as a kid, and some old funky hot rod stickers, things like that that are really fun. So that was my first full fledged curatorial effort at the museum of contemporary art in Philly, where I work. |