Art’s bad boy of the ’80s, Mark Kostabi, continues to host jam periods at his Chelsea townhouse.
After we reported that the artist returned from a Florida artwork opening to search out buddies gathered in his townhouse to fete him and play tunes into the night time — we hear he just lately hosted his personal shindig the place musician friends together with Michelle Shocked, Manhattan Switch’s Janis Siegel, Barry Manilow percussionist David Rozenblatt, jazz nice Tommy Campbell, and extra performed.
Kostabi was on his Steinway live performance grand with the group that entertained visitors, together with Suzanne Vega, mannequin Demi Ramos, restaurateur Shelly Fireman, producer Steve Garrin, supervisor Gene Luntz, spoken phrase whiz Poez the Poet, and Director of Martin Lawrence Galleries Robert L. Sparks, who co-hosted.
A spy stated: “Usually Kostabi’s events go until four a.m., however this time he needed to shut it down at 1 a.m.,” since he needed to catch an early flight to Texas for a present at Park West Gallery.
“He kicked out the final visitor, an artwork collector, who was discovered sleeping half on a settee and half on the ground in Kostabi’s five-story tower of decadence.”
At a earlier bash in Could, Kostabi returned to NYC solely to be shocked by a celebration at his home. He’d simply returned from “two profitable artwork reveals at Park West Gallery in Florida, plus a three-day trip in Puerto Vallarta, the place he slept in a cliff-side open-air cave at a luxurious resort,” a pal stated.
Amongst 30 visitors ready in his pad at a celebration — additionally hosted by Martin Lawrence Galleries — had been rock photog Bob Gruen, Weapons N’ Roses drummer Frank Ferrer, and jazz participant Campbell, who all serenaded Kostabi and the group.
Kostabi later joined a jam session on his Steinway. He’d made his debut as an orchestral composer at Carnegie Corridor in 2019.
His brother Paul Kostabi is a founding member of commercial rock act White Zombie.
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