“They all look different but they’re all basically me and facets of my personality. I’ve always drawn old men, even when I was a young kid. I used to go out to the Bowery and draw these old guys. Always done while I’m blitzed. Never touch them straight. I write like that, too. Some things come out of me that would never come out of me straight. Never. The sculptures I would never do any other way but straight. That’s dangerous shit, man.”

We all know of Alan Vega as the voice behind Suicide, the sinister electro punk duo who created some of the most perverted, pioneering and progressive music to have been created during the twentieth century. However it is lesser known that Vega is also a defined fine artist having been practicing within the fine art world for decades. So it is of great excitement to discover that Vega’s first exhibition in a decade in New York is currently on show at Invisible Exports.

Now at the age of 78, discovering Vega’s artistic career can seem overwhelming in its vast experience. Studying under Ad Reinhardt Seligman while at Brooklyn college. After that he then became involved with the activist collective Art Worker’s Coalition, which lobbied aggressively for museum reform and even barricaded MoMA, and with the Project of Living Artists, an anarcho-residency-performance space which emerged from it.

Visit this captivating exhibition of a true cultural icon before it closes on the 29th of Marc.