"Qor Corporation: Lionel Ziprin, Harry Smith and the Inner Language of Laminates"

As an adjunct to her show at Maccarone, Carol Bove, along with Philip Smith, has organized this survey of the work of Lionel Ziprin, a little-known cultural figure on the Lower East Side during the 1950s and ’60s. An associate of Harry Smith (of Anthology of American Folk Music fame), Ziprin was a sometime filmmaker and graphic artist who was particularly enamored of the design potential of Mylar—even launching a company, Qor Corporation, to pursue the same. Some of the resulting mock-ups, prototypes and sketches are on view.