Shop Studios New York City

Shop Studios, New York City is an film production location, multi service art and window design company and home to MOCA (Museum of Contemporary Art) which mounts art exhibitions in coordination with its mobile app. Shop studios was founded by Jacques Rosas and Eric Stedding on West 49th street before moving to its current location on West 39th street in the burgeoning Hudson Yards neighborhood.
History
Rosas saved much of his earnings as one of Manhattan's first pedicab drivers and then with his partner Eric Steding, rented a small studio and turned it into a rapidly growing art production company. Eventually they moved the business to a large multistory building on 49th Street before relocating to and even larger one on 39th Street West. Several major audiovisual production companies have filmed in the complex, such as Disney, NBC, CBS and ABC . In particular, Shop Studios has set up shop windows for Armani Exchange and Yves Saint Laurent.

In April 2017, a "Pop Up" exhibition produced by Red Splat Productions and Gallery X took place at Shop Studios to present unpublished works by street artist Richard Hambleton a contemporary of Keith Haring and Jean Michel Basquiat . The exhibition was held in conjunction with the 2017 edition of the Tribeca Film Festival and a preview of the documentary "Shadowman".
Founders

Jacques Rosas (born 1959 in Stockton, California) is an American artist, political activist, entrepreneur and co-founder of the art production company Shop Studios. Eric Stedding is an artist and designer who has designed a multiplicity of exhibitions at the Fashion Institute of Technology.
 
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