Psychedelicatessen: A Powerful Dose of Art by Steve Marcus

Psychedelicatessen: A Powerful Dose of Art by Steve Marcus
From June 22, 2025 – October 19, 2025
Take a long, strange trip into NYC artist Steve Marcus’s cartoon universe of kosher folk art with a new series of works inspired by a fusion of psychedelic hippie culture of the 1960s, Judaism, and Jewish Culture. Marcus’s hand-drawn works on paper and handmade objects are colorful and comical flashbacks that take the viewer on a mystical tour on the magic bus down an irreverent, fun, and insightful road, revealing his quirky sense of humor and passion for his own roots and culture. Marcus’s new project seamlessly marries his Jewish spirituality with his past involvement in the counterculture and the cannabis reform movement, putting a modern spin on Jewish subjects and life that form alternative culture classics for new generations of modern Jews. Turn on, tune in, drop in, and enjoy, laugh, and space out on Steve Marcus’ kabbalistic Jewish artwork inspired by underground comics, Hasidism, and the psychedelic art of the free love era. Shalom and Ahava.
Born in the month of August in 1969, also known as the Summer of Love, Steve Marcus takes the viewer out of this world with the artwork he creates in his studio on the Lower East Side, one of New York City’s most important and historic Jewish neighborhoods which was once the stronghold of the Yiddish Theatre, the Fillmore East and other popular and unpopular cultural and religious touchstones.