Death Can Be a Canny Career Move

Artsy Editors
Aug 19, 2013 2:07AM
The Self Mutilation Bootleg 2 (The Open Grave), 2003
Gagosian Gallery
Spin-Out Vortex 2, 2000
Gagosian Gallery
Hell's Angels, 1985
Gagosian Gallery

"For years, when the artist Steven Parrino wasn’t jamming power chords on his electric guitar or tinkering with his motorcycle in his garagelike studio in Brooklyn, he was recycling his unsold paintings: twisting them into eccentric new shapes, smashing their stretcher bars or stabbing them repeatedly with scissors."

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