Album Cover Sticker Art Show Opens Tomorrow

Record Collection opens on First Friday, November 6 with a reception from 5:00 PM to 8:00 PM, and runs through the weekend.

Artist Noah Scalin presents Record Collection, a pop-up retrospective exhibition of album cover sticker art running November 6–8 at local record store Vinyl Conflict. The show brings together original collages and limited-edition prints from Scalin’s decade-long exploration of children’s stickers as a fine art collage medium.

Over the past ten years, he has recreated over a dozen influential album covers, beginning with large-scale interpretations of Public Enemy’s It Takes A Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back and Bruce Springsteen’s Born In The USA. As his technique evolved, Scalin pushed the medium to its limits, realistically replicating album art at actual vinyl dimensions (12 x 12 inches) across genres ranging from heavy metal to hip hop, retro favorites and modern classics.

“This is the first time I’m showing all of these works in one location and I couldn’t have asked for a better setting than Vinyl Conflict,” says Noah about this exhibition. “I grew up flipping through the bins in record stores and it’s a dream come true to have my artwork be a part of that experience here”

Noah’s exploration with this medium began 10 years ago, after being inspired by watching his then two year-old daughter playing with stickers, overlapping them without consideration of their images. Aside from music related works he has used the medium to create portraiture, a series of reproductions of images of extinct birds from Birds of America, and most recently, his largest sticker work to date: a 10 foot by 5 foot, life-size recreation of Frederic Edwin Church’s painting Heart of The Andes.