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During the 1990s, Joe Ben Plummer (1968-2004) hosted bingo nights and tended bar at Max Fish, the Lower East Side's legendary watering hole, hangout of skaters and assorted downtown oddballs. Around the neighborhood he found discarded scraps of wood onto which he burned images of sports heroes, portraits, sayings and jokes, described with simple charred lines to which he occasionally added washes of color. Plummer learned pyrography, the art of pressing a heated metal point into wood, at childhood summer camp, and, as his audience remained limited to friends and family, it wasn't until his recent death that the size of his oeuvre came to light. He was better known as a ...