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NiagaraNiagara materialized on the scene in the late 70's as front person for the noise band DESTROY ALL MONSTERS. Fellow band mates read like a who's 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 80's. Aside from singing and self-destructive stage habits, Niagara designed the band's posters, singles and album art. Her early cover art, done in pen & ink and gouache appear to be self portraits. Her fierce female depiction's of femme fatales plumb the depths of trash culture. " It's 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 70's.
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