Sat, Mar 08
|New York
Grand Opening of Cornflakes & More
Join us for the grand opening of Cornflakes & More, an exhibition by Bobby Grossman, featuring John Holmstrom and Shepard Fairey! RSVP only
Time & Location
Mar 08, 2025, 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM
New York, 170 Forsyth St, New York, NY 10002, USA
About the event
“Wish I was a Kellogg's Corn Flake floatin' in my bowl ..." That's how the Simon and Garfunkel song begins.
July 1975, I was enjoying my summer break from RISD – running wild in New York City. Then I came down with mono which left me camped out in bed for the summer listening to music, watching TV, reading and creating art. I clicked through channels for shows like Columbo, The Brady Bunch and Supermarket Sweep, and drank Coca Cola while browsing magazine favourites: Creem, Crawdaddy, Rock Scene, Interview and Rolling Stone. I read the recently published The Philosophy of Andy Warhol while playing Lou Reed's latest album Metal Machine Music. This is when I created my first Corn Flakes box collage. I appropriated a Mick Rock photograph of Lou Reed fashioning Vivienne Westwood for a paste up and my first pop art Kellogg's Corn Flakes box. My friend David…
