The Bad Artists Imitate, The Great Artists Steal : Olek’s Crochet Art exhibition
August 21st, 2011 by Mr. C
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- shopping cart on 20th st. by high line stairs
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- rocking horse!
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- Boxing gloves!
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- suspended in living space!
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- hair salon!
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- Inspired by balloon girl(banksy)
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- Shopping cart
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- sled
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- Suspended!
The Bad Artists Imitate,The Great Artists Steal
Exhibition at the Jonathan Levine Gallery @ 529 West 20th Street NY, NY
Tuesday-Saturday August 10th-27th 11am-6pm
Artist: OLEK
Folks, only one more week left to get a glimpse of NYC’s own crochet artist extraordinaire Olek with her solo exhibition: The Bad Artists Imitate, The Great Artists Steal! You might have seen some of her crochet art in the streets of the east village and lower east side. Her works include yarn inspired sculptures, canvases, yarn covers for shopping carts, bicycles, & everyday objects. Olek even crochet ‘bombed’ the famous bull sculpture by Wall Street! She wrapped the entire greedy beast with yarn! Her latest work includes covering the “Walk Man” sculpture created by Scott Taylor at Tompkins Square Park with her signature knit work, but the piece had to be taken down because it was vandalized. Olek also did a crochet tribute to Banksy by knitting his well known “Balloon Girl”. Check out some of her work at the Jonathan Levine Gallery if you can, it’s amazing! FYI: “The Bad Artists Imitate, The Great Artists Steal” was a quote by Pablo Picasso. Banksy had an art piece with a stone inscribed with this quote, but crossed out the crediting of Pablo Picasso’s name to input his own.
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