![]() ![]() The Steve Keene Art Book comes from Hat and Beard Press and Tractor Beam, produced by the Apples in Stereo manager Dan Efram. Now, he’s finally got his art collected in book form, with a lavish new anthology. Ozuna, Charlie Puth, and All the Songs You Need to Know This Week By now, he’s the El Greco of vinyl fanatics. ![]() But wherever you see a Steve Keene painting, you know you’re invited into a room worth visiting. He cranks out his high-speed iconic artwork from his Brooklyn home studio. (It would’ve looked odd if it didn’t.) He’s painted album covers for his old friends in Pavement (their 1995 classic Wowee Zowee), the Silver Jews, and the Apples in Stereo. ![]() The Zoe Kravitz reboot of High Fidelity used Steve Keene artwork to set the scene. Even if half of my pictures get thrown in the garbage over the years, there’s still 150,000 of them out there, hanging in people’s kitchens or bathrooms.” He’s been doing it this way for over 30 years, becoming the ultimate indie rock painter. “That means somebody really cared about this shit for however long they spent making it.” “It’s handmade,” he says with his easy grin. Keene’s most famous for painting album covers on plywood panels, dozens per week, then selling them absurdly cheap. Right now, he’s adding a few blond streaks to Iggy Pop’s hair on the cover of the first Stooges album. Steve Keene, possibly the world’s most prolific painter, is hard at work, even though the gallery’s hosting a retrospective of his work. #Album cover wall art ideas windowsThe afternoon sun streams through the windows of the Brooklyn art space ChaShaMa. ![]()
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