Meet Niagara at the preview night June 23 6pm - contact us for an invite
Show runs June 24 - July 22

Niagara materialized on the scene in the late 70s as front person for the noise band DESTROY ALL MONSTERS.

Fellow band mates read like a whos who, including Mike Kelley, Jim Shaw - big time artists, Ron Asheton - Iggy and the Stooges guitarist, Mike Davis - MC5 bass player.

Niagara took Destroy all Monsters from noise to punk in the 80s. Aside from singing and self-destructive stage habits, Niagara designed the bands posters, singles and album art.

While D.A.M was performing on stage at the Second Chance in Ann Arbor, Madonna was waiting on tables. Indeed, Debbie Harry, Patti Smith and Chrissie Hynde borrowed from the Niagara punk prototype. Her presence was described in Rolling Stone as "a cocktail of Valium, Tuinal and Nervine" and Spin wrote her "laissez-faire delivery carries much more punch than a conventional singer." Niagara has said that she started performing so that "people would leave me alone".

Her early cover art, done in pen & ink and gouache appear to be self portraits. Her fierce female depictions of femme fatales plumb the depths of trash culture. "Its the men who cry in my paintings," Niagara muses. She later showed "Warholistic" use of colour on her large canvases and actually met Andy Warhol in the late 70s.

Colonel Galaxy, Niagaras promoter/body guard comments, Niagara paints off register to make it look like a bad silk screen but she does it with such precision, people still think theyre done by machine. Warhol would love it.

Niagara hits the UK for the first time with her retro noir flavour of tough women, guns and witty quips.
Exclusively at the show will be Signed Copies of Niagaras book Beyond The Pale and limited edition Greeting Cards.

See more Niagara Art at RGG Click Here