Stefan Eins, Gary Gilmore, Nicole, Xerox, 1980

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Stefan Eins, Gary Gilmore drawing of Nicole Baker, 1980;  photocopy appropriation by Eins for the Times Square Show; signed by Eins, 17 x 11 in.

Stefan Eins, Signed Art Work, Times Square Show, 1980
One of a series of xerox copies that Eins made from an illustration in Norman Mailer’s book The Executioner’s Song.   Eins included one of these Xerox appropriations in the Times Square Show (1980) as documented in the photo below.
Stefan-Eins-Photocopy-in-the-book
Picture in center shows Eins’ piece installed at the Time Square Show (from Steven Hager, Hip Hop, New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1984, p. 65).
Stefan Eins Times Square Show Xerox and Photocopies

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Stefan Eins: the Enigma Behind 3 Mercer Street and Fashion Moda, 1970–80

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As the founder of two idiosyncratic, do-it-yourself art spaces, Stefan Eins played a central role in shaking up the insular, overly-intellectualized art world of the 1970s in favor of a more socially-engaged, multi-cultural art with broader public appeal. …