Now Gallery was a New York City

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 art gallery

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 based in East Village, Manhattan

East Village, Manhattan

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 active in 1983 - 1989. An artist himself, director and owner Jacek Tylicki

Jacek Tylicki

Jacek Tylicki is an artist who settled in New York City in 1982.-Works:Tylicki's work is closely related to Land art, Installation, video and Photography...

, has been recognized as an important promoter of emerging artists.
Cooperating with Fashion Moda

Fashion Moda

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 in Bronx and along Fun Gallery, it introduced the New York Street art

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 and Graffiti

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 into the mainstream art world. The Now Gallery, crowded with visual artists, art performers, musicians and poets initiated the East Village art boom of the 1980s.
Among others, artists exhibited in the Now Gallery 1983 - 1989 include:

• Jean-Michel Basquiat
  Jean-Michel Basquiat
  Jean-Michel Basquiat was an American artist. His career in art began as a graffiti artist in New York City in the late 1970s, and in the 1980s produced Neo-expressionist painting.-Early life:...
  
  
• Mike Bidlo
  Mike Bidlo
  Michael "Mike" Bidlo is an American painter, sculptor and performance artist.-Life and work:Bidlo was born in Chicago, Illinois and studied at the University of Illinois , Southern Illinois University Carbondale , and at Teachers College at Columbia University in New York,...
  
  
• Stefan Eins
  Stefan Eins
  Stefan Eins Born in Prague, Bohemia, grew up in Vienna and Gresten, Austria. He settled in New York City in 1967. Eins graduated from the University of Vienna with a degree in Theology and he attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna from 1964-1967. He does not distinguish between creating art...
  
  
• Ron English
• Adam Cvijanovic
  Adam Cvijanovic
  Adam Cvijanovic is a painter based in New York City. He paints large-scale views of city suburbs and landscapes onto Tyvek sheeting, which can be easily transported from place to place...
  
  
• John Fekner
  John Fekner
  John Fekner is an innovative artist who created hundreds of environmental and conceptual outdoor works consisting of stenciled words, symbols, dates and icons spray painted in New York, Sweden, Canada, England and Germany in the 70s and 80s...
  
  
• Rodney Greenblat
  Rodney Greenblat
  Rodney Alan Greenblat, born August 23, 1960 in San Francisco, California, is an American graphic artist known best in the United States for the visual style of the computer games PaRappa the Rapper and UmJammer Lammy, and in Japan for his comic Thunder Bunny. He was also the character designer for...
  
  
• Keith Haring
  Keith Haring
  Keith Haring was an artist and social activist whose work responded to the New York City street culture of the 1980s.-Early life:...
  
  
• Mark Kostabi
  Mark Kostabi
  Kalev Mark Kostabi is an American artist and composer.-Early life:Mark Kostabi was born in Los Angeles on November 27, 1960 to Estonian immigrants Kaljo and Rita Kostabi. He was raised in Whittier, California and studied drawing and painting at California State University, Fullerton...
  
  

• Greer Lankton
  Greer Lankton
  Greer Lankton was an American artist, whose work was dedicated to creating life-like, posable dolls and figures. Greer Lankton was born Greg Lankton in Flint, Michigan, to a Presbyterian minister and his wife. It was during her rough childhood as a feminine boy that she began creating dolls."It...
  
  
• Valery Oisteanu
  Valery Oisteanu
  Valery Oişteanu is a Soviet-born Romanian and American poet, art critic, essayist, photographer and performance artist, whose style reflects the influence of Dada and Surrealism. Oişteanu is the author of more than a dozen published books of poetry, a book of short fiction, and a book of essays...
  
  
• Stefan Roloff
  Stefan Roloff
  Stefan Roloff is a painter, video artist and filmmaker, living and working in New York and Berlin. He is a pioneer of digital video and photography.- Life :...
  
  
• James Romberger
  James Romberger
  James Romberger is an American fine artist and cartoonist known for his depictions of New York City's Lower East Side.Romberger's pastel drawings of the ravaged landscape of the Lower East Side and its citizens are in many public and private collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art...
  
  
• Willoughby Sharp
  Willoughby Sharp
  Willoughby Sharp was an internationally known artist, independent curator, independent publisher, gallerist, teacher, author, and telecom activist. In 1968, Sharp co-founded Avalanche magazine with writer/filmmaker Liza Béar...
  
  
• Leonid Sokov
  Leonid Sokov
  Leonid Sokov is a Russian artist and sculptor. He lives and works in New York City.-Life and work:Sokov was born in Mikhalevo in the Tver region, Russia in 1941 and graduated from the Stroganov Institute now called the Moscow School of Art and Industry, in 1969. He emigrated to the United States...
  
  
• Krzysztof Wodiczko
  Krzysztof Wodiczko
  Krzysztof Wodiczko, born April 16th 1943, is an artist renowned for his large-scale slide and video projections on architectural facades and monuments...
  
  
• Martin Wong
  Martin Wong
  Martin Wong was a U.S. painter of the late twentieth century.-Early years:Wong was born in Portland, Oregon and raised in the Chinatown district of San Francisco, California. He studied ceramics at Humboldt State University, graduating in 1968...