#Steve Keene, Cover Artist for Silver Jews and Pavement, Announces New Book

Steve Keene, the painter behind the album art for Pavement’s Wowee Zowee and Silver Jews’ The Arizona Record, has a new book in the works. The Steve Keene Art Book: Live from Subliminal Projects LA, CA collects paintings that appeared in a 2016 show at Shepard Fairey’s Los Angeles gallery. There’s a crowdfunding campaign to see the project through to publication, see more on that here. 

In addition to his music-heavy subject matter and involvement in the 1990s indie rock orbit, Keene is known for his distinct production style, painting several dozen works at a time on pieces of plywood. According to a press release about The Steve Keene Art Book, Keene has created more than 300,000 works this way during his lifetime, with about 800 of them appearing in the book.