Sunny Bak + Cey Adams in Miami

[gumkojima]

There is a new Sunny Bak, Cey Adams, Jimmy Henderson, Venice Art Crawl art show at Studio 18 in Pembroke Pines, Florida on September 5th from 7-9p.

Sunny's work will include rare and never-before-seen photographs of the Beastie Boys, Andy Warhol and other luminaries from New York's 80s, creative, downtown Manhattan scene printed on a variety of media. All pieces will be available for purchase.

Sunny will be giving a talk at Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale that morning hosted by Business for the Arts of Broward.

Please share this and help spread the word. Links:

www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1470910149823243&set=a.1396403363940589.1073741839.100007128159197&type=3&theater

www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1440283832885875&set=a.1396403363940589.1073741839.100007128159197&type=3&theater

www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1449297925317799&set=a.1396403363940589.1073741839.100007128159197&type=3&theater

[gumkojima]

For the sake of the artists involved and spreading the gospel of the band, please help spread the word about this debut show in Miami by re-posting the postcard image with the venue, date and time to any and all your social media platforms.

Thank you.

[b-grrrlie]

Your links don't work. Bet they're private photos...

[gumkojima]

Thanks for letting me know, b-grrrlie.

Try these flickr addresses:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/gumkojima/14852582394/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/gumkojima/14668351790/

[gumkojima]

Here is Sunny's new Kickstarter. We are hoping to tour this exhibit around the South and up the East Coast to Brooklyn, New York in time for MCA Day next year. Oscilloscope Laboratories has been kind enough to re-post it to Facebook at re-tweet it.

Please help by contributing or at least re-posting / re-tweeting. Thank you!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1375456174/beastie-bak-rock-paper-photo-exhibition-tour

[gumkojima]

Sunny will be interviewed by the Executive Arts Director, Caroline Breder-Watts, of Miami’s local NPR affiliate, WLRN / The Miami Herald. Link to follow.

Sunny is also now confirmed to hold a special talk for South Florida Artists at the Forre Fine Art Gallery on Las Olas Boulevard in Fort Lauderdale on Saturday, September 6th from 6-9p hosted by the Broward Arts & Cultural Division.

General audiences are also invited to attend. Hors d’oeuvres and wine will be served.

Please pass this information along to anyone you know who might be interested in attending any of these events.

Also, please contribute and / or repost Sunny’s Kickstarter so that she can tour this show beyond its South Florida debut. She is hoping to take it up the East Coast to arrive in time for next year’s MCA Day in NYC and beyond...

[beasties#1fan]

Here is Sunny's new Kickstarter. We are hoping to tour this exhibit around the South and up the East Coast to Brooklyn, New York in time for MCA Day next year. Oscilloscope Laboratories has been kind enough to re-post it to Facebook at re-tweet it.

Please help by contributing or at least re-posting / re-tweeting. Thank you!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1375456174/beastie-bak-rock-paper-photo-exhibition-tour

yup I pledged :D

[gumkojima]

Thank you, beasties#1fan!

Just got Sunny’s photos with Cey’s designs overlain on them this morning for framing. Includes lots of Beastie Boys shots, of course, but also includes a super-rare shot of Yoko Ono and Any Warhol!

The further this exhibit travels, the more never-before-seen photos Sunny will print.

Please donate to the Kickstarter so that we can all see more of Sunny’s photos from her vault and so that this exhibit can tour the U.S., Europe and beyond. Do it for Sunny, Cey and MCA to whom the show is dedicated.

[gumkojima]

BREAKING NEWS: Three reporters for the Sun Sentinel are working on stories for the talks and exhibit including a feature. Please help spread the word as this show is just beginning to bloom! Links to follow...

[Kid Presentable]

Honest query: why should anybody be interested in this?

[gumkojima]

Great question. Thanks for asking.

Because this is a message board for Beastie Boys fans.

Because it involves photos of the band that have never been seen before—documents of their early years.

Because some of the photos feature design work by one of their long-time graphic artists making them one-of-a-kind and collectable.

Because it features two artists who have been long-time, close, personal friends of the band who are dedicating the show to the memory of their friend Adam Yauch and who have the blessings of the remaining members.

Because there is a lot left to learn about this collective of artists and the mark they have left behind by meeting and speaking with members of their extended family.

Because depending on its success, it may travel to a venue near you.

Because others in the industry who hold an interest in this topic are excited by this exhibit—Oscilloscope Laboratories, for example.

Because others in the art word are excited about the materials involved.

[Kid Presentable]

There it is! :cool:

[gumkojima]

Thanks for the support, Kid!

[gumkojima]

Here is an interview with Sunny Bak in The New Times (a South Florida entertainment paper owned by the Village Voice):

http://blogs.browardpalmbeach.com/countygrind/2014/09/beastie_boys_photographer_sunny_bak_none_of_us_rea lly_realized_that_it_was_history_in_the_making_int erview.php

[gumkojima]

Follow Sunny Bak’s South Florida events and see her photos of them here:

https://www.facebook.com/allan.baldwin2

[gumkojima]

Thanks to Mic To Mic for spreading the word, today!

[gumkojima]

Here is a feature article in the Sun Sentinel:

http://www.southflorida.com/events/go-guide-blog/sf-sunny-bak-exhibits-photos-of-beastie-boys-adam-yauch-20140904,0,4768409.story

[gumkojima]

Here is another Sun Sentinel article on the exhibit:

http://touch.sun-sentinel.com/#section/-1/article/p2p-81272111/

[gumkojima]

The conversation tonight was fantastic. Many old friends of hers were on hand.

The works on display tonight included photos printed on wood and aluminum by Rock Paper Photo, new media for her.

This concludes the South Florida leg of the exhibit. The works will be on display at Studio 18 in Pembroke Pines and Forre Fine Art Gallery in Ft. Lauderdale until October 8th.

Please help the exhibit make it to the next stop by supporting her Kickstarter. The further the tour goes, the more never-before-seen photos she can print.

www.kickstarter.com/projects/1375456174/beastie-bak-rock-paper-photo-exhibition-tour

Thank you.

[M|X|Y]

Her kickstarter video needs to be more compelling. I've actually shown it to two other people who asked, "so what's the money for?"

She says it covers logistics, but it still seems a little unclear.

The video is boring... it doesn't compel me to donate :(

[gumkojima]

Thanks for the feedback, M|X|Y. I'll let her know.

In the mean time, let me explain on her behalf. We are talking about negatives that Sunny shot during the "License To Ill” tour. It was not clear to her or anyone around them at the time that they were going to be what we know them to be today. Sunny was already a full-time, highly successful and sought-after photographer. Madonna, for example, was asking Sunny to do her photoshoot… and this is after “Like A Virgin” was already out. Her infamous “lesbian” cover for Newsweek magazine remains one of their top 10 selling issues. Take a look at her website for her complete bio:

http://www.sunnybak.com/about.html

These negatives are not something Sunny sat on thinking she’ll pull them out one day—it was NOT a marketing scheme. She was (and is) a busy celebrity, fashion and fine art photographer, so she put them in storage and continued on with her career. Around the time that Yauch was diagnosed and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction was imminent, Sunny pulled out her negatives and sorted through them with Yauch and Cey. They decided together which ones might be print worthy.

As many of us here know, she and Cey worked on some classic photos that were already in the public sphere together and displayed them at Rush Arts Gallery (Russell Simmon’s gallery in NYC) and the Ivy Brown gallery in honor of the Beastie Boys’ induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. She and Cey are continuing to collaborate on some of the photographic prints, and Sunny is printing some on wood and aluminum—a new medium for her.

She is now prepared to print many never-before-seen negatives from that historic time. Her “vault” not only includes the Beastie Boys, but also Jackie Onassis, Madonna, Elizabeth Taylor, Dustin Hoffman, Hugh M. Hefner, Yoko Ono, Andy Warhol, et al.

It takes a lot of money to scan, clean up, print, ship, insure, travel, find local transportation, accommodations, etc. I can’t emphasize enough just how much money is involved in putting together the one exhibit here in Miami much less tour the whole thing around. If anyone works in the arts exhibiting their work, they also know that relying on sales to fund all of this is a crap shoot at best. Sunny needs the funding in order to get these historic negatives from their box to galleries.

As a fan or, better yet, a student of the Beastie Boys, what they accomplished, the Manhattan circle of interconnected creatives I mentioned above, art, etc., I find it exciting that if her Kickstart does get funded, she will have the resources to bring to light historical photos that I’ve… we’ve... never seen before. Otherwise, Sunny continues with her photography career and her role as the president of the really interesting Venice Art Crawl, and we don’t get to see all these photos until someone steps in and helps.

Speaking of her Venice Art Crawl, she is hoping to take select artists from that group on tour as well. They include up-and-coming Venice Beach artists one of whom is already collected by Perry Farrell of Jane’s Addiction and the founder of the Lollapalooza music festival in Chicago. Another is a featured artist at Saatchi online. She brought some of their works here, and I think they’re fantastic. Sunny is looking to make artists exchanges with the cities to which she travels. She is using the career and platform she created to lift up other artists in Venice Beach and everywhere she goes. The stories she tells about the folks she’s shot and her own story is absolutely enlightening.

I hope this helps. Please pass it on. I will encourage her to enhance her Kickstarter video.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1375456174/beastie-bak-rock-paper-photo-exhibition-tour

[M|X|Y]

im not saying the money isn't needed - put that all in the video. No one is going to look into it enough to find these answers.

good luck!

[gumkojima]

Thanks again, M|X|Y.