Tommy Mew, Mongo Nikol, (Ben Mack), and Black Mountain College

Here is Rockstar himself, Mongo Nikol standing alongside abstract expressionist artist Tommy Mew. (Photo by none other than another equally notorious figure-slash-artist Ben Mack.)

What's the connect? Tommy Mew, living breathing painting lesser-known contemporary of such artists as Robert Rauschenberg, Roy Lichtenstein, Jasper Johns, Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, John Cage, and Marcel Duchamp, (there is obviously a big Black Mountain College link here), Tommy Mew was also my teacher.

Ben Mack and I visited him on our way to a presentation on performance art at Black Mountain College Gallery (ie the birthplace of contemporary PA in America) where I was, naturally, performing.

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