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Press Releases – Saturday, April 13, 2019
Plastic Crimewave featured in ROCKED & ROLLED
Sub-Title: The Secret History of Chicago Music
ISM Location: Lockport
For Immediate Release:
ILLINOIS STATE MUSEUM -LOCKPORT
Contact: John Lustig-Director
Illinois State Museum presents
ROCKED & ROLLED
Featuring Artist Plastic Crimewave aka Steve Krakow
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
{Lockport, Illinois, April 13, 2019} – {Illinois State Museum-Lockport} announces the next exhibition, ROCKED & ROLLED featuring music themed art, photography, sculpture installation and illustration from seventy-two (72) emerging and established artists and photographers from Illinois. The artwork is being paired with geodes, minerals, and fossils from the Illinois State Museum Geology Collection.
Featuring exhibiting Artist Plastic Crimewave aka Steve Krakow a noted Chicago artist, musician, and historian whose drawings have been featured in the Chicago Reader under the banner of “The Secret History of Chicago Music” and also on WGN Radio in Chicago. This is his first viewing with the Illinois State Museum.
Exhibition dates, May 1, 2019 through October 6, 2019
OPENING RECEPTION Sunday MAY 5, 2019- 2:00pm until 4:00pm
Plastic Crimewave’s secret history is a combination of hard core research and a complete immersion into underground and popular comics. The drawings exhibited demonstrate a direct process as intimate as any acoustic guitar solo. This exhibition is a celebration of music through the eyes of art in direct conversation with the rocks, minerals and fossils from the world renowned Geology Collection of the Illinois State Museum. We are seeking to elevate the material by contrasting the nature of earth’s explosive structure with the culturally defining music created in the last fifty (50) years. Timeless rocks meet timeless rock stars!” John Lustig-Director, Illinois State Museum-Lockport
Curator for ROCKED & ROLLED
John Lustig john.lustig@illinois.gov
Steve Krakow plasticcw@hotmail.com
ILLINOIS STATE MUSEUM website https://www.illinoisstatemuseum.org
Images are available by request.
ILLINOIS STATE MUSEUM-LOCKPORT located at
201 W.10th Street, Norton Building-Lockport, Illinois, 60441
Public hours, W-F, 9:00 am until 5:00pm,
Saturday, Sunday from 11:00 am until 5:00pm
Contact Person: John Lustig
Contact Email: john.lustig@illinois.gov
Contact Phone: 8158387400
My Kind of Sound, The Secret History of Chicago Music-Compendeium by Plastic Crimewave aka Steve Krackow. Published by Curbside Splendor-Chicago 2015
Original pen and ink illustrations originally published in the Chicago Reader and featured in the book are on view in the ROCKED & ROLLED Exhibiton
Release File (pdf): skpr.pdf
Release File (doc): skpr.docx