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Lily Van der Stokker - How I Went to New York – 1983-1992

Les Presses Du Reel 2022 ISBN 9782378962937 Acqn 32344
Hb 16x21cm 184pp col ills £28

Lily Van der Stokker's illustrated autobiography of her life in New York in the 1980s, when she
opened a gallery in the East Village. "The story I am going to tell is a story that Jack had said
several times we should make a film of. In those days I was never interested in writing down
everything, but here it is: With a girlfriend I decided to travel to New York. It was meant to not be
a short holiday. We thought it was the coolest place to go to. If we could survive in New York, that
would be the ultimate challenge. I told more than Jack intended me to tell, but I did it the way he
said it: 'Write it down, the Six Street Gallery story and all the things that happened with you,
because it sounds like a movie.'" Dutch-born van der Stokker (1954, Hertogenbosch), active
artist-gallery owner on the East Side of New York in the 80's, now lives between Amsterdam and
New York. She developed pictorial murals with happy candy-coated slogans that incited acid
sarcasm from her contemporaries.

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