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MUSEUM QUALITY DARKROOM PRINTS:
"Noir Blatant," 2005 - This well-known photo of the raven-haired beauty holding a baby alligator was done as a tribute to master photographer Man Ray. 20"x24" on fibre paper, signed by the photographer in a white border surrounding the image. Ships to the USA only.
"THE DAMNED, 1998" - A 20"x24" darkroom print on fibre paper of the line-up that recorded Grave Disorder: Patricia Morrison, David Vanian, Captain Sensible, Garrie Dreadful and Monty Oxymoron. This image was used by The Damned as their publicity photo. Also pictured in the photo is the photographer's now-deceased skull-headed son, Baby Gonquin. The print is a slightly different crop than the image presented below, printed to the edges of the paper without a white borders. Signed and dated by the photographer.
LIMITED EDITION SIGNED AND NUMBERED DIGITAL PRINTS:
BELOW: Patti Smith and her band onstage at CBGB with special guest Michael Stipe; May 1, 2005. A limited edition of 25 high-quality digital prints on 20"x24" matte paper, slightly sepia-toned, numbered and signed by Nikolai. A small number of darkroom prints (less than 6) exist in different sizes, unnumbered, and this digital print run of 25 will be the final time that prints will be made of this image. The white bar across the photo below will not appear on the actual prints as the scan below is only meant as a representation of the image and not the actual signed and numbered print itself. Ships to the USA only. $165, shipping included.
FORMER EXHIBITION PRINTS FROM CBGB:
The following pieces of artwork are exhibition prints that were displayed in CBGB 313 Gallery in the club's final years during or after Nikolai's stint working at the venue as a curator:
"THE MISFITS - JERRY ONLY AND DOYLE, 1997 -
A former CBGB exhibition print, this 20"x24" portrait of Jerry and Doyle taken around the time of the Misfits reunion is printed on fibre paper, mounted onto archival backing and comes to you in the matt and approximately 25" x 31" frame that it was displayed in at CBGB 313 Gallery. The solid, black frame has some battle scars but, again, it's the original frame it was displayed in at the club. Shipped without glass to the anyplace within the USA - $675. NOTE: This print is also available unframed and unmounted at a lower price (see further down on this page).
PAINTINGS / SCULPTURES / ASSEMBLAGES:
"EVERYTHING I LEARNED ABOUT TAXIDERMY (I LEARNED ABOUT TAXIDERMY)" - A 12" x 12" sculpture/painting on canvas by John Nikolai. Acrylic, wood, glass eye, feathers on canvas; 2006. This little bird appeared in the 2006 CBGB art exhibition "Sex, Death and Rock 'n' Bones" but was not for sale as it's a piece that Nikolai holds very near and dear to his heart. After all these years, it's time for the little bird to fly the coop...Ships to the USA only.
"A Symphony of Punches / A Rhapsody In The Kisser" is a huge (36" x 48"; weighing, I think, about 30 pounds) sculpture/assemblage on canvas which was lovingly constructed in tribute to Jerome "Curly" Howard, Larry Fine and Moe Howard, collectively known as the most famous incarnation of The 3 Stooges. Antique boxing gloves, prosthetic eyes, a sacrificial violin and repeated viewings of The 3 Stooges' hilarious second short film, "Punch Drunks," released in 1934 plus hundreds of hours of labor went into finishing the piece which massacred not only a violin but also a famous quote from George Bernard Shaw - "Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned." To see the piece in greater detail, click here to open up a much larger version. This piece is available for pick-up only from the artist's home in Providence, Rhode Island. Shipping it would be insanely expensive and while loading it into a van or large vehicle would not be difficult, packaging it would be a nightmare.
"DEE DEE RAMONE, NYC, 1997" A one-of-a-kind acrylic painting of Dee Dee Ramone based on a photo Nikolai took of him onstage in 1997. Approximately 9" x 12" on canvas, this painting was exhibited at MIT in January 2011. Price with shipping to the USA included: $450. Price with shipping to within the UK included: $500.
"Keith Morris" - a portrait painted by John Nikolai in January 2011 based on a photo he took of Keith Morris in 2000. If you're reading this, you most likely know that Morris is the singer of OFF!, formerly of both Black Flag and The Circle Jerks. Acrylic on canvas and approximately 9" x 12", this painting was exhibited at MIT in January 2011.
"Johnny Rotten" - a painting by Nikolai based on one of his photos of Rotten onstage with the Sex Pistols in 2002. Acrylic on canvas and approximately 12" x 16". Signed by Nikolai. Price with shipping to the USA included: $125. Price with shipping to within the UK included: $175.
BOOKS:
MIDNIGHT SNACK - Unlucky Ladies in the Fridge
Text from the abduction journals of Robyn DeCradle. Foreword and photos by John Gonquin Nikolai.
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Available in two different book covers. Chose l'il Coco, the Spam Princess or the larger than life Deidrababe!
MIDNIGHT SNACK - Unlucky Ladies in the Fridge, softcover, 8" x 10", 192 pages;
$49 includes postage/handing for media mail delivery within the USA; $64 postage/handling to England; e-mail coldcoldhearted@hotmail.com for shipping rates to other countries.
For 13 months, French Canadian hillbilly and serial abductor Robyn DeCradle imprisoned over one hundred unlucky ladies in his filthy kitchen refrigerator. At the same time, DeCradle kept photographer John Nikolai captive in his crawlspace, repeatedly cattle-prodding him into the kitchen and forcing him to take "purty pitchers" of his victims. The degradation that these unfortunate females endured is dragged out of the icebox and into the light in this chilling collection of photographic evidence. Covered in pasta, hit with pies, fed circus peanuts and tied, taped, and chained up inside the fridge, they were forced to be the frigid playthings of a depraved lunatic. Accompanying over 175 photos are snippets of text from DeCradle's abduction journals, offering insight into the unnatural lust, sinister urges and twisted brain of the most notorious serial abductor in French Canadian history.
Above: The back cover: Robyn DeCradle makes abduction victim Laney Durden breakfast.
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