I Spy: Serving up Pulp art at Abraço

Britpopsters Pulp has returned for its first stateside tour in 12 years, playing last night and tonight at the Kings Theatre in Brooklyn. 

In addition, Mark Webber, the band's guitarist, is releasing a personal history titled "I'm With Pulp, Are You?" (Hat & Beard Press) in November. 

Webber lived briefly on Seventh Street in the late 1990s. Yesterday, he stopped by Abraço, 81 E. Seventh St. between First Avenue and Second Avenue, to check out the artwork that Steve Keene created of Pulp's classic 1995 record Different Class. (The artwork is up for auction.) 

This might sound like Pulp fan fiction, but ... Cecilia Ghidotti, a fan who traveled from the UK to see the Brooklyn shows, came to Abraço while Webber was there. And a photo proves it  (thanks, Daniel Efram) ...

The Pulp art is expected to be up at the coffee shop through the end of the month.

Checking out the reasonably priced art of Steve Keene at Public Gallery

Steve Keene's "SK Art Show" opened Thursday at Public Gallery. 

And a nice-sized crowd turned out to see what the prolific Brooklyn-based artist had for sale... most of the pieces are marked at a 2-for-$5 price point. (Thanks to EVG reader Kerri Savage for the pic!)

You can read our previous post here or here for more on Keene, whose work includes album covers for Pavement.

Public Access is at 105 Henry St. near Pike Street. Gallery hours this weekend — Saturday-Sunday noon to 6 p.m. 

Details on Steve Keene's 'SK Art Show'

Steve Keene, the prolific Greenpoint-based painter perhaps best known for his 1990s album covers for Pavement and the Silver Jews, among many others, is holding an in-person show for four days only starting Thursday at the Public Access gallery on the Lower East Side. 

Details via the EVG inbox ...

Be advised, this is no traditional art gallery show. 

Art fans will get the full Steve Keene experience as the "one-man art factory" packs Public Access with dozens, if not hundreds of LP-sized works, all for sale via his custom-made donation box: Hundreds of paintings. For sale. Cheap. 

Keene is beloved for his deep ties to the 90s indie rock scene, where he started out selling his album cover homages at merch tables all over NYC, ultimately becoming known as much for his cheery, automated style as for his everyman prices of just $5 - $10 per painting.

The show will feature some advance copies of "The Steve Keene Art Book," the first monograph of his work that's due out on June 14. East Village resident Daniel Efram, a longtime Keene collaborator, is producing the artbook. (Efram has also shared photos with EVG through the years.) 

Public Access is at 105 Henry St. near Pike Street. Gallery hours: Thursday 6-8 p.m.; Friday 2-6 p.m.; Saturday-Sunday noon to 6 p.m. 

Art by Steve Keene; images courtesy of Daniel Efram 

Previously on EV Grieve: 

• Behind the first book featuring the work of artist Steve Keene