Editing No wave (section)

===Visual art===
[[Visual arts|Visual artists]] played a large role in the no wave scene, as visual artists often were playing in bands, or making videos and films, while making visual art for exhibition. An early influence on this aspect of the scene was [[Alan Vega]] (aka Alan Suicide) whose electronic junk sculpture predated his role in the music group Suicide, which he formed with fellow musician [[Martin Rev]] in 1970. They released ''[[Suicide (1977 album)|Suicide]]'', their first album, in 1977.

Important exhibitions of no wave visual art were [[Barbara Ess]]'s ''[[Just Another Asshole]]'' show and subsequent compilation projects and [[Colab]]'s organization of ''[[The Real Estate Show]]'', ''[[The Times Square Show]]'',{{sfn|Masters|2007|p=19}}<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.timessquareshowrevisited.com/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120830204010/http://www.timessquareshowrevisited.com/|url-status=usurped|archive-date=30 August 2012|title=Times Square Show Revisited|website=www.timessquareshowrevisited.com}}</ref> and the ''Island of Negative Utopia'' show at [[The Kitchen (art institution)|The Kitchen]].<ref>{{Cite book|last=Boch|first=Richard|title=The Mudd Club|publisher=[[Feral House]]|year=2017|isbn=978-1-62731-051-2|location=Port Townsend, Washington|page=332|oclc=972429558}}</ref><ref>Goldstein, Richard, "The First Radical Art Show of the '80s", ''[[Village Voice]]'' 16, June 1980, pp. 31–32</ref>

No wave art found an ongoing home on the [[Lower East Side]] with the establishment of [[ABC No Rio]] Gallery in 1980, and a no wave punk aesthetic was a dominant strand in the art galleries of the East Village (from 1982 to 1986).<ref name="ReferenceA"/>