I spent yesterday afternoon with Ivory Serra, son of my good friend Tony Serra ( I’ve known Ivory and his twin brother Shelter since a few days after they were born). Ivory’s a working photographer, worked with Annie Liebovitz for a while, and knows the NYC art scene. (It’s quite wonderful that Ivory and Shelter, coming from this little town of 3000 people, have survived and thrived in NYC, and as artists.)
We went to some bookstores and a few galleries. I can’t find my notes on which gallery this was , or the sculptor, but he’s quite famous, and these are ultra expensive (prices not listed, but Ivory thinks maybe $150,000). It was a great afternoon, we started out at Grumpy’s coffee house on West 20th, and then went to all these places I would not have known about otherwise.
About Lloyd Kahn
Lloyd Kahn started building his own home in the early '60s and went on to publish books showing homeowners how they could build their own homes with their own hands. He got his start in publishing by working as the shelter editor of the
Whole Earth Catalog with Stewart Brand in the late '60s. He has since authored six highly-graphic books on homemade building, all of which are interrelated. The books, "The Shelter Library Of Building Books," include
Shelter,
Shelter II (1978),
Home Work (2004),
Builders of the Pacific Coast (2008),
Tiny Homes (2012), and
Tiny Homes on the Move (2014). Lloyd operates from Northern California studio built of recycled lumber, set in the midst of a vegetable garden, and hooked into the world via five Mac computers. You can check out videos (one with over 450,000 views) on Lloyd by doing a search on YouTube:
I spent yesterday afternoon with Ivory Serra, son of my good friend Tony Serra ( I’ve known Ivory and his twin brother Shelter since a few days after they were born). Ivory’s a working photographer, worked with Annie Liebovitz for a while, and knows the NYC art scene. (It’s quite wonderful that Ivory and Shelter, coming from this little town of 3000 people, have survived and thrived in NYC, and as artists.)
John Chamberlain @ Gagosian; more like $450,000.00-$750,000.00
Ivory Serra is a great photographer. His photo of Andy Kessler skating through NYC traffic is still mindblowing. IF you have not seen it, I'm sure you would dig it.
Nice photos – like the sculpture! I was able to find on Google Ivory's photo of Andy Kessler. Very nice!
If you want a TINY coffeehouse experience in NYC, try Abraco Espresso 86 East 7th St. Ask for Jamie. Take photos. It is so worth a visit. http://www.abraconyc.com
Always best to be shown around by a local to really see a place.
As for the 'artwork', looks more like 'NYC autowreck' to me and would have no value in my hands. To each their own, however.
New York is boring. Can't wait till you get back to the real world.
the artist is John Chamberlain