PHOEBE LEGERE RIDES INTO THE BAY AREA SINGING
FROM THE STAGE OF HER GIANT
ALTERNATIVE ENERGY ART VEHICLE
WHO: Fun,
Fascinating, Phenomenal
WHAT: Gorgeous Performance
Artist Rides Into Town Singing From Stage of Her Alternative Energy Art Vehicle
WHERE:
~The SAFEhouse Arts performance of “Marijuana Lollipop” May 9th t 9 p.m. 1 Grove at
Market St., San Francisco
~The Monkey House, May 10th
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GORGEOUS
PERFORMANCE ARTIST RIDES
INTO TOWN SINGING
FROM STAGE OF HERALTERNATIVE
ENERGY ART VEHICLE
Phoebe Legere’s Ride-Able
Eco Sculpture
Valued At More
Than One Million
Dollars
NEW YORK, NY—Phoebe Legere is a transmedia artist who works
in the space between Art, Music, Ecology and Engineering.
Phoebe
Legere creates renewable Energy Art with a message:
Love Is Your Power.
Phoebe
Legere will exhibit her new Alternative Fuel 15-person Ride-Able Sculpture at
the May 15 – 17 Maker Faire, San Mateo Event Center.
The Shamancycle is a Monster Eagle with flaming
eyes, all created from up-cycled metal from car crashes. “I have repurposed the
agony and death of twisted metal I found in junk yards and I have transformed
it into giant sculpture that is a symbol of vision and freedom.” The art vehicle has been valued at more than
one million dollars.
In the
recent HBO documentary on Hilary
Knight and Phoebe Legere, writer-producer pop culture icon Lena Dunham said,
“Phoebe Legere is a genius. We adore Phoebe Legere.”
Phoebe
Legere is a legendary East Village activist who founded an Urban Museum for
Visionary Art with a teaching outreach program called the NY Underground Museum . Legere is the creator of a free Festival Art & Music Camp for high poverty, underserved
children.
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| One of Phoebe's Early Drawings/Conceptualization for The Shamancycle |
Phoebe
Legere is forging a link between curators, artists and communities. “My parents
are both painters. They trained me. I did my first oil painting at age 5. My
grandparents were musicians. I wrote my first song at age 6. My early exposure
to the arts saved my life. Today my community arts activism is an integral part
of my art practice. My place of production is an exhibition/performance space
called the NY Underground Museum. My
motto is, “Celebrating Visionary Art and
Music, Nurturing the Artists of Tomorrow.”
Phoebe
Legere writes songs and paints
daily. Legere does paintings of giant nude women,
men and animals that are embedded with digital music. Legere’s erotic-punk
paintings celebrate the human body, the sacredness of relationships and the
non-objective reality of Time as Being.
Phoebe
Legere is also a trained musician. She is a songwriter, conductor and writer of
symphonies who has set her autobiography of her life as a
teenage runaway to music.
Photo Opp & Interview Opp
-The SAFEhouse Arts, May 9th , 9 p.m.
Phoebe will perform her
“Marijuana Lollipop” Show. 1 Grove at Market Street, San
Francisco.
-Maker Faire, San Mateo Event Center:
May 15 – May 17
Phoebe
Legere directs her own videos and films. From her earliest video, “Marilyn Monroe” to “The Shamancycle Story” to “Gay National Anthem,” Legere uses video as the perfect blend of
sound and image. Her newest single,
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| Phoebe films Shamancycle riders at Burning Man. |
“OK, Cupid,” and video were entirely
recorded on an Apple iPhone 6.
Phoebe
Legere creates conversations that question performance, gender and artistic
norms. Come meet her at the Maker Faire
or attend a show!
Legere
is the president of FD, a
sustainable, for profit company that has developed a new media delivery system
for Interdisciplinary artists. Request a FD of Legere’s art and music or follow
the links to see her paintings, listen to her song, “Love Is Your Power” from the GAY
CD or to learn more about the non-profit NY Underground Museum.
ABOUT PHOEBE
LEGERE:
PHOEBE LEGERE is a transdisciplinary artist. Her all-grrl rock band,
Monad opened for David Bowie on
his national tour. Her song “Marilyn
Monroe,” from cult film Mondo New
York was a hit on college radio.
Legere was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in Music for her work The Waterclown, performed with the Cleveland Chamber Symphony.
Legere was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in Music for her work The Waterclown, performed with the Cleveland Chamber Symphony.
In
2014 Phoebe Legere received the prestigious Acker Award for Excellence in the Avant Garde. .She is the
host and head writer of Roulette TV,
a show about the extreme frontier edge of Art and Music. Last week Legere
appeared painting, singing and acting in an HBO special produced by Lena
Dunham.
On May 16 and
17th Legere will appear singing from the stage her alternative-energy
15-person ride-able sculpture, The Shamancycle
at the Bay Area Maker Faire.
The New York Times raved:“Legere plays the piano with enormous authority in a style that encompasses Chopin, blues, ragtime, bebop and beyond, and she brings to her vocal delivery a four octave range, and an extraordinary palette of tonal color and meticulous phrasing.”
The New York Times raved:“Legere plays the piano with enormous authority in a style that encompasses Chopin, blues, ragtime, bebop and beyond, and she brings to her vocal delivery a four octave range, and an extraordinary palette of tonal color and meticulous phrasing.”
Provincetown Magazine wrote: “Often copied, never equaled, Phoebe
Legere is a transmedia virtuoso force who zaps the listener into a new reality.
Legere personifies the divine feminine; her multi-octave voice has been
compared to Edith Piaf, Aretha Franklin
and Maria Callas. Legere is nuclear,
spinning, multidimensional create force not to be missed.” Interview Magazine called her “a
genius.”
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