Craig Stecyk In The MOCA

by The Editors on April 9, 2011

60729954When ever anyone thinks of skateboarding as something more than rolling around on a plank with wheels, thank Craig Stecyk. His Dogtown stories (and photos) took a bunch of Santa Monica kids and turned them into mythological heros with stories that carried a generation of readers far past the land of empty pools and smooth asphalt and into a world of possibilities.

Beginning April 17, 2011 some of Stecyk’s art will be featured in the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art’s Art in the Streets show at the Geffen Contemporary. Aaron Rose is the show’s associate curator. Ahead of the opening the Los Angeles Times asked Stecyk some questions. He answered.

I started shooting surfers in 1962 or ’63 — I was interested in documenting what I was seeing, and magazines weren’t doing it yet. The skate shots came later — just like there was demand for Miki Dora in surfing magazines, there was soon demand for Tony Alva. But I shot everything for no particular reason, which is what I still do today.

The info is sparse, but reading this makes us what to see the show that much more. Art in the Streets opens April 17, 2011, but MOCA members can attend the opening on Saturday evening, April 16, 2011 beginning at 7 PM. Household membership is $100 (enter STREETS for 10% off).

[Link: MOCA via LA Times]

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