Roberta@group exhibition
Punk Is Coming, a group exhibition about 1970's punk music and culture has opened from the last weekend at MOCA Westport in Connecticut.
Photographer Roberta Bayley as one of curators, the show includes photographs and video from the period, as well as artworks influenced by the movement.
Exhibition site; photos from left to right, Johnny Rotten/Sex Pistols,
Heartbreakers in far back and Pistols live in Texas.
What's impressive are many large photos by Roberta that are suspended in mid air!
They look awesome!
Left far back: Ramones live, Center: Rotten during the US tour, Right: Pistls live in Texas
Left: Billy Idol, Right far back: Elvis Costello
Costello, CBGB backstage. Too big for smartphone screen!
Left: Joey Ramone with surf board, Right: Debbie Harry, Blondie tour
Roberta took the above photo of Joey Ramone with surf board when she was the photographer for PUNK Magazine, and this one has been sold! And we learned from Roberta that it would be a present to Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam!!
Vedder has been known as the "biggest Ramones fan" (he joined the Ramones final show and performed with them too), and he loves surfing, too; so his friend and a renowned music producer Andrew Watt purchased this photo for him... This would make a perfect gift!
Roberta said "very cool", and we totally agree!
The exhibition is from March 26th to June 5th; you can find more details, including the list of more than 50 artists featured in the show, at the link below:
MOCA Westport Punk Is Coming Exhibition