Club 57

Club 57 was a nightclub located on 57 St.Marks streets. It opened around late 1970s and closed  down in 1983 because many artists moved to more expensive venues and AIDS came along. It was the hangout place for performers, artists, and musicians such as Madonna, Keith Haring, Cyndi Lauper, Charles Busch, Klaus Nomi, The B-52s, RuPaul, Futura 2000, Kenny Scharf, Frank Holliday, Staceyjoy Elkin, John Sex, Wendy Wild, The Fleshtones, Joey Arias, Lypsinka, Michael Musto, Marc Shaiman, Scott Wittman, Fab Five Freddy, Jacek Tylicki, and so on. It was in the basement of the Holy Cross Polish National Church on St. Mark's. Ann Magnuson was the manager and the one who hosted events. Many artists felt that it was their home and also their relationships with each other were like a family. There were resident DJ -Dany Johnson- and also several guest DJs.

Frank Holliday

Frank Holliday was born on May 2, 1957 in North Carolina. He went to California at the age of 18 and later moved to New York for School of Visual Arts. He is currently a professor in Parsons The New School for Design and is working on his abstract paintings. 

Frank Holliday became known in New York in the art world in the 1970s and 1980s. He was associated with the East Village Scene and Club 57. He has worked with Andy Warhol and was close with Keith Haring and Ann Magnuson. He was a teenager finding his own path and living his life having fun in New York City when it was abandoned, dangerous, and dirty. He was rebellious and his physical appearance was "the sexy bad boy." He wore tight black jeans and kept his look iconic in black and white.

Ruth Polsky

Ruth Polsky was born on December 5th, 1954, and was a famous music booker and promoter in New York City during the 1970's and 80's. She is known to have broke the post-punk New Wave music scenes in clubs like Danceteria, Limelight, and the Ritz. She also set up U.S. tours for bands like The Smiths, New Order, and Sisters of Mercy. On September 7, 1986 she was hit by a runaway cab and killed in front of the Limelight theater.

Greer Lankton

Greer Lankton is an East Village artist who was born in 1958 in Flint, Michigan, and is best known for her work in the field of mannequin art. In galleries such as P.S. 1 and Civilian Warfare, Lankton has exhibited her life-size dolls that depict AIDS victims, anorexics, the transgendered,and those considered outcasts in society. She has described her art as the "mix of fine and folk art". Presently, her work is exhibited in a permanent installation in the "It's All About Me, Not You" show at the Mattress Factory in Pittsburgh. 

David Wojnarowicz

David Wojnarowicz born on September 14, 1954 was a artist whose work consists of using various medias such as film, performance, photography and writing. David Wojnarowicz has never recied formal art training, and after dropping out of high school, he lived on the streets of New York City prostituting himself, and his experience during this period of his life can be seen in the comic book 7 Miles a Second. 

In the late 70's, he was in a band called 3 Teens Kill 4 and exhibited his work in various well known galleries in the East Village such as Ground Zero Gallery NY, Public Illumination Picture Galler and Civilian Warfare. Wojnarowicz often appeared  in or collaborating on works with artists like Nan Goldin, Peter Hujar, Luis Frangella, Karen Finley, Kiki Smith, John Fekner, Richard Kern, James Romberger, Marguerite Van Cook, David West , Ben Neill and Phil Zwickler. After he was diagnosed with AIDS in the late 80's, his work took on a sharp political edge. Not only was he an advocate and activist fighting for gay rights, he also challenged public arts funding. 

Jenny Holzer

She born in Ohio, 1950.

She was abstract painter first but in 1977, she exhibit her first text art work 'truism' and moved to public artist.

In early 1980  she start 'Protecct me from what I want' on Times Square board. After that she did a lot of big scale light projection art. In 1990 she got golden lion trophy. Her philosophy is 'language as art'. Development of technology advance her art work very much. For example LED technology make her art work more bigger. She also communicate with citizens by her art work. She give some messages and get comment about it. Her text are very simple but has powerful meanings. It contains a lot of things such as social and politics. It makes modern people to wake up from insensitivity about text and communication.

Andy Warhol

Andy Warhol is an American artist that was born on August 6, 1928 in Pennsylvania and died on February 22, 1987 in New York City. He was the creator of the visual art movement pop art, while he explored and experienced many types of art, such as drawing, painting, photography, sculpture, film and music. He had a studio called The Factory which was a gathering for him and his friends, most of them famous people, such as Eddie Sedgwick, Mick Jagger or Betsey Johnson. Moreover, he was a gay person that lived openly. Warhol was also religious and a practicing Ruthenian Rite Catholic, volunteering at homeless shelters in New York. Some of his famous works are "Campbell's Soup" or "Mona Lisa". Last but not least, he has a series of famous quotes, one of them being "In the future, everybody will be world famous for 15 minutes".