I may go again visit Mr. Shepard Fairey's Subliminal Projects gallery soon as a new art exhibition by the late Dee Dee Ramone was announced by the LA Times, to mark the 10th anniversary of the famous musician’s death.
A Memorial Exhibition, which will run from October 26th through November 17th, will feature 19 canvases, five paintings on wood and one mixed-media work on card stock, and some of the works are in fact collaborations between Dee Dee and artist-musician Paul Kostabi and his widow, Barbara Zampini.
The work was completed toward the end of his life before he died from heroin overdose in 2002. Fairey has said that the art uses ‘punk culture’s sense of humor and antagonism’, whereas Dee Dee Ramone’s website is describing the paintings are 'highly reflective of his personality through their rebellious, dynamic, eccentric, and comedic aesthetic’.
I remember going to a similar exhibit at La Luz De Jesus Gallery in 2010, where Johnny Ramone’s paintings and drawings were on display as well as numerous photographs of the band. The art was colorful and cartoonish, and seeing the picture I was able to find, Dee Dee's looks quite similar. Like in 2010, I hope many Ramones-related celebrities and musicians will show up… last time Shepard Fairey was hanging out with Russell Brand! So it may be another interesting evening.