Check out the new NIGHT GALLERY for Niagara's newest available originals...
THE SAVAGE ONES
Savage Pencil aka Edwin Pouncey came through Detroit and stayed at Niagara's dream house.
NIAGARA on HGTV
"JUST OUTSIDE DETROIT MEET A PUNK ROCK / ARTIST WITH A
SOFT SPOT FOR VINTAGE DECOR"
NIAGARA WILL BE FEATURED ON "OFFBEAT AMERICA" MONDAY NOVEMBER 20TH AT 6:00PM EASTERN. CHECK YOUR LOCAL LISTINGS!!!
Click Niagara's house for more information.
"JUST OUTSIDE DETROIT MEET A PUNK ROCK / ARTIST WITH A
SOFT SPOT FOR VINTAGE DECOR"
NIAGARA WILL BE FEATURED ON "OFFBEAT AMERICA" MONDAY NOVEMBER 20TH AT 6:00PM EASTERN. CHECK YOUR LOCAL LISTINGS!!!
Click Niagara's house for more information.
FINALLY NIAGARA'S FAVORITE PAINTING
AS A SILK-SCREEN. "I HAD A LOT OF PEOPLE BUGGIN ME...SO HERE IT
IS...TAKE IT AND LIKE IT ''...........NIAGARA
SUPER LIMITED SMALL RUN IN MONOCHROMATIC
SCHEME... $125 OR FREAK OUT VERSION IN COLOR (EVERY ONE IS SLIGHTLY
DIFFERENT) MARKED AS 1/1 ARTIST PROOF $250 (available in the SHOPPE
now!!!)
SUPER LIMITED SMALL RUN IN MONOCHROMATIC
SCHEME... $125 OR FREAK OUT VERSION IN COLOR (EVERY ONE IS SLIGHTLY
DIFFERENT) MARKED AS 1/1 ARTIST PROOF $250 (available in the SHOPPE
now!!!)
New print by world famous Aussie Cartoonist Rick
Chesshire available now on the PRINTS PAGE.
"Absinthe Makes the Heart Grow Fonder". Check
out more of Niagara's originals in the GALLERY.
NEW PRINTS
New photo series by fetish photographers Eric
Kroll & Chris Gustafson. Available now in the SHOPPE.
New photo series by fetish photographers Eric
Kroll & Chris Gustafson. Available now in the SHOPPE.
BOOKSIGNING and ARTSHOW at RIVERS EDGE in Wyandotte, Michigan
Saturday, February 25, 7-11pm
2024 Biddle Ave, Wyandotte, Michigan, 48192
Click here for directions: BACK FROM OZ
NIAGARA'S BOOK AVAILABLE NOW!!!
Niagara's new book BEYOND THE PALE published by 9mm Books can now be purchased in the SHOPPE. CLICK HERE to order a copy.
Rock n roll is the best. When I first hit Ann Arbor in 82 and played a gig at Joe's Star Lounge, Niagara showed up. I was stunned as I had known of Niagara as motor city sweetheart for years, and along with the Stooges, she embodied the trans love energy of Detroit. She was the real deal, real rock n roll USA. And her presence was a commitment for me to forever kick out the motherfucking jams. Niagara is forever.
-Thurston Moore, SONIC YOUTH
"A fast-paced think piece that straddles the parallel universes of art & music"
-Jamie O'Shea, editor Juxtapoz Magazine
"It was what it was, it is what it is"
-Ron Asheton, guitarist DESTROY ALL MONSTERS & THE STOOGES
"A fascinating document, a must for any cultural archivist"
-John Holmstrom, founder of PUNK Magazine, writer High Times
Here's a review in the March 2006 issue of JUXTAPOZ:
Niagara's new book BEYOND THE PALE published by 9mm Books can now be purchased in the SHOPPE. CLICK HERE to order a copy.
Rock n roll is the best. When I first hit Ann Arbor in 82 and played a gig at Joe's Star Lounge, Niagara showed up. I was stunned as I had known of Niagara as motor city sweetheart for years, and along with the Stooges, she embodied the trans love energy of Detroit. She was the real deal, real rock n roll USA. And her presence was a commitment for me to forever kick out the motherfucking jams. Niagara is forever.
-Thurston Moore, SONIC YOUTH
"A fast-paced think piece that straddles the parallel universes of art & music"
-Jamie O'Shea, editor Juxtapoz Magazine
"It was what it was, it is what it is"
-Ron Asheton, guitarist DESTROY ALL MONSTERS & THE STOOGES
"A fascinating document, a must for any cultural archivist"
-John Holmstrom, founder of PUNK Magazine, writer High Times
Here's a review in the March 2006 issue of JUXTAPOZ:
NIAGARA IN DETROIT NEWS &
METROTIMES
Both the DETROIT NEWS and Detroit's METRO TIMES pay a visit to the underworld with Niagara and live to tell about it.
DETROIT NEWS article
METRO TIMES article
Both the DETROIT NEWS and Detroit's METRO TIMES pay a visit to the underworld with Niagara and live to tell about it.
DETROIT NEWS article
METRO TIMES article
JUST IN TIME FOR THE HOLIDAYS...
The Baby Doll Lunch
Box is new in the Shoppe. This Proto-type will go into limited
production and be available signed by Niagara. The original sold for
$1000.00 to the singer of the band The Dwarves. The knock-offs will be
sold for $99.00 while they last. Available soon -- you can pre-order now.
The Baby Doll Lunch
Box is new in the Shoppe. This Proto-type will go into limited
production and be available signed by Niagara. The original sold for
$1000.00 to the singer of the band The Dwarves. The knock-offs will be
sold for $99.00 while they last. Available soon -- you can pre-order now.
THE
SILVER OPIUM SERIES
For Immediate Release
For the first time in nearly three years CPOP Gallery is thrilled to announce the return of one of Detroit s most popular and internationally recognized artists of the last decade, and the signature artist who helped put CPOP on the map- the one and only Niagara. It s a one-woman exhibition in which she unveils the most recent works in her evolving series entitled, In Opium Dreams, as well as the release of her new hardcover retrospective bio/art book, Beyond The Pale from 9mm Press. Commencing with an opening soiree on Saturday, October 15 from 7 PM until 11PM, with a special invite-only buyers preview from 6 PM until 7 PM, the exhibit will run through the end of November. The Artist will preside over the opening night festivities to sign and personalize copies of her book.
As the avant-garde chanteuse with the now legendary Destroy All Monsters (which spawned such art novas as Mike Kelly and Jim Shaw, and included guitar innovator, Ron Asheton and his brother Scott from The Stooges), Niagara charted new territories, pushing the boundaries of punk into sublime abstraction while peers such as Debbie Harry and Patti Smith exploited it's commercial side. DAM fearlessly dove headfirst into the dark murky waters of both musical and commercial uncertainty. By eschewing the pop format for noise, sexiness and artless abandonment, Niagara and mates solidified their place as true pioneers of art/noise rock.
Along the way of these rock-diva exploits she became a famous painter. Melding a sincerely Warholian aesthetic with a post-pulp style Niagara portrayed a hard-boiled world where out-of-control women are in control. Niagara's femme dominated world-view and a bold, emotional, even violent palette of angry reds and near-death knell blues caught the attention of not only Detroiters, but also art lovers around the world. Exhibits outside of Detroit followed in New York, Los Angeles, Tokyo, Sydney and back around to San Francisco and Dallas, which were all smashing successes. The Niagara-girl was the dangerous debutante of the late 20th Century, a product of the Me-Generation with a decidedly Why-Generation orientation.
Producing cultural and artistic icons of mass appeal can be nicely rewarding. It also can become boring and redundant? the challenge met? now what? She depicted the modern American female anti-hero as beautiful, strong, violent, and a little bit nuts, in other words? irresistible. But as all things in the temporal world will do, they evolve? even the Niagara-girl.
In Opium Dreams presents the Niagara-girl all grown up. Bored with the messy violence and its accoutrements, Niagara has traded in the Mossburg streetsweeper for the lure of the poppy. Her once bold lines have been delicately refined through a sensitive hand, and the lighter touch is now embellished with exotic eastern appliqué and silver or gold leaf, while the colors, though more subdued, still convey dark
emotion. In these newer works, less is even more, through an intoxicating balance of flash and filigree, which her earlier work never really touched on. So in a word, Niagara s work has matured, conceptually, stylistically and commercially. Madison Avenue and Hollywood have utilized her work to increase the mass-appeal and street-cred of their own product. Coffee cups bear her images, as do T-shirts, panties, zippo lighters and other rive gauche accessories for both men and women. In Opium Dreams finds Niagara at a creative crossroads; confident to now let her works do the talking, while scaling back on the image making process. Without a doubt this current series the most involved and important work of her career. It s somewhat a return to her beginnings with DAM- pushing artistic and social limits. It s only about the painting now. Her personal anarchy has evolved into a justly deserved nihilism. As every great artist knows, the conflict is within, not without. So maybe in the true Midwest punk tradition, it's really a de-evolution.
CPOP Gallery
4160 Woodward Avenue
Detroit, MI 48201
313 833-9901
Hours:
Tues-Thurs Noon till 7PM
Fri-Sat Noon till 8PM
Sunday 1PM till 5PM
For Immediate Release
For the first time in nearly three years CPOP Gallery is thrilled to announce the return of one of Detroit s most popular and internationally recognized artists of the last decade, and the signature artist who helped put CPOP on the map- the one and only Niagara. It s a one-woman exhibition in which she unveils the most recent works in her evolving series entitled, In Opium Dreams, as well as the release of her new hardcover retrospective bio/art book, Beyond The Pale from 9mm Press. Commencing with an opening soiree on Saturday, October 15 from 7 PM until 11PM, with a special invite-only buyers preview from 6 PM until 7 PM, the exhibit will run through the end of November. The Artist will preside over the opening night festivities to sign and personalize copies of her book.
As the avant-garde chanteuse with the now legendary Destroy All Monsters (which spawned such art novas as Mike Kelly and Jim Shaw, and included guitar innovator, Ron Asheton and his brother Scott from The Stooges), Niagara charted new territories, pushing the boundaries of punk into sublime abstraction while peers such as Debbie Harry and Patti Smith exploited it's commercial side. DAM fearlessly dove headfirst into the dark murky waters of both musical and commercial uncertainty. By eschewing the pop format for noise, sexiness and artless abandonment, Niagara and mates solidified their place as true pioneers of art/noise rock.
Along the way of these rock-diva exploits she became a famous painter. Melding a sincerely Warholian aesthetic with a post-pulp style Niagara portrayed a hard-boiled world where out-of-control women are in control. Niagara's femme dominated world-view and a bold, emotional, even violent palette of angry reds and near-death knell blues caught the attention of not only Detroiters, but also art lovers around the world. Exhibits outside of Detroit followed in New York, Los Angeles, Tokyo, Sydney and back around to San Francisco and Dallas, which were all smashing successes. The Niagara-girl was the dangerous debutante of the late 20th Century, a product of the Me-Generation with a decidedly Why-Generation orientation.
Producing cultural and artistic icons of mass appeal can be nicely rewarding. It also can become boring and redundant? the challenge met? now what? She depicted the modern American female anti-hero as beautiful, strong, violent, and a little bit nuts, in other words? irresistible. But as all things in the temporal world will do, they evolve? even the Niagara-girl.
In Opium Dreams presents the Niagara-girl all grown up. Bored with the messy violence and its accoutrements, Niagara has traded in the Mossburg streetsweeper for the lure of the poppy. Her once bold lines have been delicately refined through a sensitive hand, and the lighter touch is now embellished with exotic eastern appliqué and silver or gold leaf, while the colors, though more subdued, still convey dark
emotion. In these newer works, less is even more, through an intoxicating balance of flash and filigree, which her earlier work never really touched on. So in a word, Niagara s work has matured, conceptually, stylistically and commercially. Madison Avenue and Hollywood have utilized her work to increase the mass-appeal and street-cred of their own product. Coffee cups bear her images, as do T-shirts, panties, zippo lighters and other rive gauche accessories for both men and women. In Opium Dreams finds Niagara at a creative crossroads; confident to now let her works do the talking, while scaling back on the image making process. Without a doubt this current series the most involved and important work of her career. It s somewhat a return to her beginnings with DAM- pushing artistic and social limits. It s only about the painting now. Her personal anarchy has evolved into a justly deserved nihilism. As every great artist knows, the conflict is within, not without. So maybe in the true Midwest punk tradition, it's really a de-evolution.
CPOP Gallery
4160 Woodward Avenue
Detroit, MI 48201
313 833-9901
Hours:
Tues-Thurs Noon till 7PM
Fri-Sat Noon till 8PM
Sunday 1PM till 5PM
The
Brink checks out Niagara.
NOW AVAILABLE: SIGNED IGGY &
THE STOOGES ART SHOW PRINTS
You can now purchase an Iggy Pop & the Stooges Art Show print signed by Iggy Pop and the stooges!!
You can now purchase an Iggy Pop & the Stooges Art Show print signed by Iggy Pop and the stooges!!
NO. 14
The French Rock & Folk Magazine puts Destroy All Monsters at No. 14 on their list of "901 Chansons". Check it out here.
The French Rock & Folk Magazine puts Destroy All Monsters at No. 14 on their list of "901 Chansons". Check it out here.
NIAGARA LAUNCHES NEW WEBSITE
Welcome to the new official site of Niagara. Check out the gallery for over 150 Niagara paintings. The music section features rare Destroy All Monsters photos, MP3's and video clips. The Niagara Shoppe now lets you purchase prints and Niagaraland merchandise directly from niagaradetroit.com.
Welcome to the new official site of Niagara. Check out the gallery for over 150 Niagara paintings. The music section features rare Destroy All Monsters photos, MP3's and video clips. The Niagara Shoppe now lets you purchase prints and Niagaraland merchandise directly from niagaradetroit.com.
