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Drag, gridiron and kids in tutus: America through the lens of Catherine Opie – in pictures

Bo (1994)

Bo was an alter-ego I had for a while, that only worked with that moustache. Back then, me and my friends would put on moustaches and ride our motorcycles to a lesbian bar in LA and we would offer women rides home. Drag was not really that big then – it was in a certain dyke subculture but not in LA – so they were all like, ‘Ahhh, I don’t know what to do with you!’The moustache went through the wash in my jeans pocket and got ruined, so Bo died. That really disturbed my girlfriend. She was like, ‘But I love Bo!’ We later broke up – maybe she liked Bo more than me!

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Performa Magazine and Downtown for Democracy invite you to ask a question to artist and activist Marilyn Minter on the occasion of the exhibition, Protest Factory at Deitch Projects, opening October 31.  Marilyn will be joined by documentary filmmaker Alexandra Pelosi and curator Alison Gingeras. 

5pm EST/ 2pm PST, Monday, October 29

Ask at performamagazine.tumblr.com/ask

Protest Factory

Jeffrey Deitch, 18 Wooster, NYC, 1-8pm, October 31 - November 6, 2019

Downtown for Democracy has taken over Deitch Projects. The concept is a hybrid space called the “Protest Factory,” which although located in New York City has the potential for national impact. Areas throughout the space will be activated to consistently draw crowds with an artist-run studio, readings, talks, artist-led sign making workshops, and exclusive merchandise.

Marilyn Minter has been the subject of numerous solo museum exhibitions including Pretty/Dirty at Brooklyn Museum in 2017; Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany in 2011; Green Pink Cavier at MoMA in 2010; SFMOMA in 2005. Her video Green Pink Caviar was exhibited in the lobby of the MoMA for over a year, and was also shown on digital billboards on Sunset Boulevard, LA, and the Creative Time MTV billboard in Times Square, New York. She recently photographed Lady Gaga for the New York Times Magazine cover. She was honored by Planned Parenthood in 2017 at the annual “Woman of Valor” luncheon for her advocacy for women’s justice and reproductive rights.  

Alexandra Pelosi is a journalist and documentary filmmaker, and the daughter of the House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi.  Her latest film, ‘Outside the Bubble: On the Road with Alexandra Pelosi,’ debuts on HBO October 29. 

Alison Gingeras is an American curator who has held positions at numerous institutions including the Guggenheim, Palazzo Grassi and the Pompidou. She was the co-organizer the HALT Action Group and the Dear Ivanka campaigns along with Marilyn Minter and Jonathan Horowitz.

Regen Projects is currently showing But I Woke Jus’ Tha Same, an exhibition of paintings and drawings by artist Christina Quarles. If her work seems familiar, she was also one of the artists featured in Hammer Museum's Made In L.A. 2018.

From the press release–

Quarles’ seductive paintings feature polymorphous figures arranged in contorted positions in space, rendered through expressive and gestural strokes that teeter on the edge of abstraction and representation. Referencing the history and techniques of painting, her work propels forward the limits of her chosen medium, and is informed by her multiply situated identity as a queer woman of mixed race. Dynamic compositions feature bold patterns and decorative motifs such as flowers, latticework, and plaid tablecloths – feminine tropes that reference domestic space. Yet the subjects in Quarles’ paintings simultaneously inhabit interior and exterior space. Perspectival planes both situate and fragment the bodies they bisect, representing the boundaries that demarcate a space from the individual, and expanding the limits and potential for representation.

Similar to her paintings, her drawings deftly combine pictorial elements using economy of line with cross hatching, and other modes of mark making, to create form and depth. Punctuating the picture plane, or outlining a figure, text additions in the form of puns or poetic wordplay often reference pop culture, situating the works in our time.

Drag, gridiron and kids in tutus: America through the lens of Catherine Opie – in pictures

Rocco (2012)

Rocco Kayiatos is a really interesting, cool person. He co-founded Original Plumbing, a really important early zine for trans men. A good friend of mine was making a documentary about Rocco and Amos [Mac, co-founder of Original Plumbing] and they were in talks to do a reality TV show that didn’t happen. My friend asked if I would do the promo shots. But after meeting Rocco I asked if he would formally sit for me. I love the lighting – it falls right on ‘Tender Hearted’.