HOOP HEAD
photo by George Bonanno
HOOP as "THE KING OF ART" & THE ROYAL HOOPMOBILE
Actress PENELOPE PALMER and the METROPOLITAN HOOPMOBILE

            HOOPMOBILE "LIBERACE EDITION" from the site http://huntergatherernyc.com/
Artist LISA INGRAM enjoying my 1941 PACKARD "LUXURY LIMO"


                                                                    FINNED FIAT

                                                             HOOPMOBILE WHEELIE

HOOPARAMA

RECORD RIDE

                                                 SODA POP ART LAWNMOWER

                                                                       I SAID I

TIME MACHINE 2002

                                                          TIME MACHINE 2000

                                                                   HELI-HOOP

                                                                  CANVERTIBLE

                                                          CAN VAN

                                                          CAR OF THE FUTURE

                                                               HI TEK HOOP

                                                                        SPIN ART
       MUSICMOBILE photo by J. Phillip O'Brien http://www.flickr.com/photos/yojimbot/

                                                     HOOP SPHINX

                                   VOODOO VOLKSWAGEN & HOOP WITH SELF PORTRAIT

                                                                MOSAICMOBILE

                                                 CUTTING EDGE LAWNMOWER

                                                           SUPERHERO HOOP

                                                           HOTWHEELS

                                                                MATCHBOXMOBILE

                                                                     EXTREME HOOP
                                                                                                                                                                        
GOOD LUCK TRUCK
COMMUNICATIONS CAR


                                            
Portrait of HOOP by Billy Name
Portrait of HOOP by Christopher Lynch
                                                          Portrait of HOOP by Ellen DeNuto
                                                              http://www.ellendenuto.com/
Portrait of HOOP
From the book "NEW YORK CHARACTERS" by Gillian Zoe Segal


                                    Portrait of HOOP with his artwork by AVAGRAFFITI
Portrait of HOOP by Bokov
LITTLE HOOP
LITTLE HOOP"S ARTWORK
BABY HOOP
THE ORIGIN OF HOOP

HOOP and MINNIE with the KING MIDGET
PRESS AND CRITICS QUOTES ABOUT HOOP

SUN - "WACKY"
NEWSDAY - "WILD"
CNN - "HEADS TURN"
SPIN - "SUCCESSFUL"
STAR - "IN MUSEUMS"
NY ARTS - "BRILLIANT"
WABC NEWS - "UNIQUE"
FIBERARTS - "UNUSUAL"
ART TIMES - "TOP NOTCH"
DAILY NEWS - "A TALENT"
FOX NEWS - "KING OF ART"
RICHARD BEY - "A GENIUS"
NEW YORK POST - "CRAZY"
TAIWAN TV - "FLAMBOYANT"
CAR AND DRIVER - "ARTISIAN"
MODEL NEWS - "PROVOCATIVE"
LARK BOOKS - "THE ULTIMATE"
GREG KINNEAR - "I ADMIRE HIM"
UPN 9 NEWS - "HOOP'S THE MAN"
TIME OUT NEW YORK - "FAMOUS"
NEW YORK OBSERVER - "MANIAC"
NIPPON TELEVISION - "GORGEOUS"
PARADE - "A NEW ART MOVEMENT"
ABRAMS PUBLISHERS - "VISIONARY"
AQUARIAN - "MASTERPIECE EXHIBIT"
COVER ARTS NY - "AWARD WINNING"
ASSOCIATED PRESS - "INTERESTING"
NEW YORK TIMES - "EXTRAORDINARY"
VILLAGE VOICE - "FAMOUS ARTWORK"
SHOW BIZ - "THE ONE AND ONLY HOOP"
COAGULA ART JOURNAL - "LEGENDARY"
GERALDO RIVERA - "NICE JACKET HOOP"
EDDIE FISHER - "WOW, THAT'S SOMETHING"
NIGHT - "DRIVING FORCE IN CREATING ART"
ON THE AVENUE - "AVANT GARDE MARVEL"
MTV - "SOMETHING YOU DON'T SEE EVERYDAY"
SOLO MUSEUM SHOWS


Chelsea Art Museum - NY - "Techno-Visionary"
Trenton Museum - NJ - "HOOP Retrospective"
Stamford Museum - CT - "Synthetic Plants"
Stamford Museum - CT - "In Memory of Tiny Tim"
Danielson Art Museum - CT - "Celebrity Graves"
Paterson Museum - NJ - "Hero City Installation"
Paterson Museum - NJ - "Celebrity Fingerprints"
New England Museum for Contemporary Art - CT - "Prints"
New England Museum for Contemporary Art - CT - "Symbols"
Long Island Museum of Science and Technology - NY - "Memorials" 

GROUP MUSEUM EXHIBITS

Museum of Modern Art - NY - "Life of the City"
Queens Art Museum - NY - "Spiritual Flushing"
Paterson Museum - NJ - "Cutting Edge Show"
Paterson Museum - NJ - "New Jersey Artists"
Texas Artist's museum - TX - "Fifth Art Annual"
Montclair Art Museum - NJ - "Strokes of Genius"
FusionArts Museum - NY - "Let There be Light"
FusionArts Museum - NY - " Then and Now"
IF Muzeum - Poland - "Inner Spaces Show"
Morris Museum - NJ - "Collecting Fine Art"
Morris Museum - NJ - "Fine Arts Annual"
Islip Art Museum - NY - " TreeMendous"
Islip Art Museum - NY - "Copy Cat"
Noyes Art Museum - NJ - "Biennial"
PS 1 Art Museum - NY - "China Show"
Newport Art Museum - RI - "Ourchitecture"
Holter Art Museum - MT - "ANA 30"
(Curated by New Yorker art critic  Peter Schjeldahl)
American Museum of Natural History - NY - "From Trash to Art"
Stamford Museum - CT - "The East Village Comes to Stamford"
Chattahootchie Valley Art Museum - GA - "La Grange National"
Washburn Historical Museum - WI - "Realities of Time and Place"
Hamilton- Von Wagoner Museum - NJ - "Artists and Thier Works"
Museum of Cartoon Art - NY - "Cartoon Imagry in East Village Art"
Nassau County Museum of Fine Art - NY - "Best of the East Village"


OTHER INTERESTING SHOWS
New Jersey Center for Visual Arts - NJ - "International"
(Curated by William Zimmer - New York Times art critic)
Real Art Gallery - NY - "HOOP's House of Horrors"
(Curated by Charlie Finch - Art .Net art critic) 
ABC No Rio Gallery - NY - "East Village Alive"
(Curated by Baird Jones - Art . Net art critic)
Brooklyn Art and Historical Center - NY - "Bed"
Andrus Gallery - Carnegie Hall Bldg - NY - "Symbols"
Here Theater and Art Center - NY - "Weird New Jersey"
Cork Gallery / Lincoln Center - NY - "Bumper to Bumper"
Fashion Moda - South Bronx NY - solo show - "Assembleges"
William Carlos Williams Center for the Arts - NJ - "Man and Woman"
Robert Wood Johnson University - NJ - "Museum of Computer Art Show"
FusionArts Museum - NY - "HOOP - A One Man Show with Twelve Women"
A FEW BOOKS

Weird Cars (Gunnell)
The New Mosaics (Lark)
For All Time ( Continuum) 
Wild Wheels (Pomegranate)
New York Walks ( Time Out)
New York Arts Guide (Japan)
New York City Guide (German)
FiberArts design Book 5 (Lark)
FiberArts Design Book 6 (Lark)
New York Characters (W.W.Norton)
Spray Can Art (Thames and Hudson)
up From the Trenches (Feva-Fusion)
New Jersey - Art of the State (Abrams)
New Jersey curiousities (Globe-Pequot)
The Sculpture Reference (Sculpture Books)
Weird New Jersey Roadside guide (Weird NJ)
Mickey Mouse - The Evolution - The Phenomenon) (Disney)





Photograph by Harrod Blank http://www.artcaragency.com/