David Armstrong, Mark Morrisroe, Nan Goldin | “Daybook: Boston to New York@ClampArt,” Collector Daily

From Loring Knoblauch’s “Daybook” post on ClampArt’s “Boston to New York” exhibition for Collector Daily:

A jittering self portrait in saturated yellow. Nan Goldin in “Boston to New York” at ClampArt.

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Long-Eared Owl

2012

Signed and numbered, verso

Deep Matte (Digital C) print, painted frame (Edition of 3 + 2 APs)

19 x 15 inches

$1600.00, including mounting/framing

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Elf Owl

2012

Signed and numbered, verso

Deep Matte (Digital C) print, painted frame (Edition of 3 + 2 APs)

19 x 15 inches

$2,000, including mounting/framing

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Amy Touchette | “The Insiders,” New York Observer

From Amy Touchette’s article for the New York Observer:

One of the many remarkable attributes of New York is that no one can be an outsider here. It’s a city so diverse even “misfits” belong. It practically begs you to be yourself, and that’s extremely rare in this world—maybe getting rarer by the day. But anyone with any maturity knows that the sooner you start being yourself, the better, despite challenges that can result. I titled this series “The Insiders.” because these individuals seemed to understand the importance of being who they are. They had this inside information; they knew one of the greatest secrets to good living.

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David Armstrong, Nan Goldin, and Mark Morrisroe at the Whitney Museum

David Armstrong, Nan Goldin, and Mark Morrisroe at the Whitney Museum
Image: Copyright Estate of David Armstrong (1954-2014), “French Chris, Rue André Antoine,” 1980, Gelatin silver print.

All three artists in ClampArt’s current exhibition “Boston to New York” are simultaneously part of the Whitney Museum of American Art’s inaugural show “America Is Hard To See” in their new building at the end of the High Line in New York City (May 1 – September 27, 2015):

Drawn entirely from the Whitney Museum of American Art’s collection, “America Is Hard to See” takes the inauguration of the Museum’s new building as an opportunity to reexamine the history of art in the United States from the beginning of the twentieth century to the present.

On Floor 5 is a section of the exhibition titled “Love Letter from the War Front.” During the 1980s and 1990s, the AIDS epidemic caused nearly half a million deaths in the United States, becoming one of the most searing issues in American life and politics. The artistic community lost thousands, while even more friends, lovers, survivors, and family members faced lives transformed by grief, fear, indignation, and struggle with illness. Many artists made activist work bravely aimed at AIDS awareness and support for people fighting the disease.

Taken together, the works in this chapter offer a more intimate and poetic meditation on the AIDS crisis and the creative community it devastated. Some, made before the discovery of the HIV virus in 1984, were created by artists picturing other artists who were also their lovers, rivals, and friends. Mark Morrisroe’s sexually assertive self-portrait appears with his classmate David Armstrong’s tender rendition of his boyfriend, while Armstrong himself figures in their friend Nan Goldin’s stirring diaristic slideshow.

 

Whitney Museum of American Art
99 Gansevoort Street
New York, NY 10014
(212) 570-3600
http://whitney.org/Exhibitions/AmericaIsHardToSee

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Lindsay Morris | “A Weekend at Camp for Gender-Variant Children,” The New York Times

From the article from The New York Times:

The accompanying photos, part of a body of work by Lindsay Morris, were taken at an annual weekend gathering for gender-variant children and their families. The camp is organized by parents, and it moves to a different location each year. Most of the boys who attend dress and act ‘‘male’’ in their daily lives, and the gathering offers a safe haven where they can express their interpretations of femininity with like-minded boys, their parents and siblings.

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“Lindsay Morris: You Are You”

ClampArt is happy to present “Lindsay Morris: You Are You”—an exhibition of photographs to coincide with the release of the monograph of the same title from Kehrer Verlag (Hardcover, 112 pages, 11.25 x 11.25 inches, $50). This is the artist’s first solo show in New York City.

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“Lindsay Morris: You Are You”

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Short-Eared Owl

2012

Signed and numbered, verso

Deep Matte (Digital C) print, painted frame (Edition of 3 + 2 APs)

19 x 15 inches

$1600.00, including mounting/framing

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David Armstrong, Mark Morrisroe, Nan Goldin | “Boston to New York,” Photograph Magazine

From Carlo McCormick’s article for Photograph Magazine:

The picture that emerges here speaks of place, not simply as the conjunction of Boston and New York, but of myriad scenes that made up that moment that deeply informed the creative communities of both cities in that time. Rife with portraits of recognizable personages–artists like Pierson, Tabboo! (Tashjian), Greer Lankton, and Pat Hearn, then an artist before she transformed the art world as a dealer (and lots of sexy men), these portraits speak of the affinities within this outsider community and these artists’ need to capture that, yet there are also many self-portraits, speaking to the self-reflexivity within all the work. As a form of documentation, there is great power in these photographs of a subculture that time, drugs, and AIDS has long since extinguished, but the real potency is in how these artists see and feel their world–an emphatically direct photography so in situ that we’re reminded of how posed, staged and mediated this medium often is. It’s a diaristic paean to the ways that love, sexuality, gender, and lifestyle can exist within a group yet manifest a deeply personal expression within the artist.

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Janet Delaney | “Before Big Tech Took Over,” .Mic

From Zak Cheney-Rice’s story for .Mic:

San Francisco.

Few cities have changed so rapidly in such a short amount of time. According to the San Francisco Chronicle, the median rent climbed to $4,225 this month, the latest milestone in a housing boom that saw rental costs in the city rise 13.5% in 2014.

Gentrification has rendered much of the San Francisco Bay Area unaffordable to former residents, with an influx of young tech professionals dropping unprecedented amounts of money on homes and peppering the landscape with flannel, beards, coffee shops and Google buses.

Janet Delaney has been around to witness most of this. In an exhibition on display at the de Young Museum, her photo project—”Janet Delaney: South of Market”—is fueling conversations around just how much has shifted, and what it means for the future of the city.

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Frank Yamrus’ work in a three-person show at SF Camerawork

Frank Yamrus’ work in a three-person show at SF Camerawork

Frank Yamrus’ new series “A Sense of a Beginning” is included in a three-person show at SF Camerawork titled “Long-Term Survivor Project.” The other artists include Grahame Perry and Hunter Reynolds. The exhibition runs from June 4 to July 18, 2015.

In celebration of annual Pride month and in honor of National HIV/AIDS Long-Term Survivor Day (June 5th), SF Camerawork is proud to present the “Long-Term Survivor Project.” This is an exhibition and public programing series addressing the experiences of HIV survivorship in our society.

The exhibition features the work of artists Hunter Reynolds (New York), Frank Yamrus (New York), and Grahame Perry (San Francisco). The associated public programming includes two nights of documentary photography-based projects and roundtable discussions: “Portrait of Caring: Living With AIDS” at the Bailey-Boushay House by Saul Bromberger and Sandra Hoover on June 10th, and “The House of Bangy Cunts: Kiki Ballroom in New York” by Anja Matthes on July 14th. As a whole, the “Long-Term Survivor Project” explores the history of AIDS, the current state of health, diagnosis and treatment of HIV, and the more personal, humanistic stories of those living with the past and present realities of the disease.

Frank Yamrus’ “A Sense of a Beginning” is a series of solemn and stately portraits of long-term HIV survivors. Through this series Yamrus tells the story of survivorship as manifested not only in the lines and physical attributes of his subjects’ faces, which bear subtle testimony to the effects of HIV medications, but also as a factual declaration of presence. Each person depicted in the series is alive today thanks to a complex regimen of medication and years of struggle and determination. Long-term survivorship is a story of countless physician appointments, blood draws, continually shifting drug regimes and constant monitoring of T-cells and viral loads, in the midst of untold grief watching friends and loved ones die. Through the peak years of the struggle against AIDS may have faded into recent memory, survivors live on, bearing the impact of AIDS in their everyday lives.

SF Camerawork
1011 Market Street, 2nd Floor
San Francisco, CA 94103
415.487.1011
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Great Gray Owl

2012

Signed and numbered, verso

Deep Matte (Digital C) print, painted frame (Edition of 3 + 2 APs)

19 x 15 inches

$1600.00, including mounting/framing

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You Are You

July 9 – August 21, 2015

Opening reception:
Thursday, July 9, 2015
6:00 to 8:00 p.m.

ClampArt is happy to present “Lindsay Morris: You Are You”—an exhibition of photographs to coincide with the release of the monograph of the same title from Kehrer Verlag (Hardcover, 112 pages, 11.25 x 11.25 inches, $50). This is the artist’s first solo show in New York City.

“You Are You” documents an annual weekend summer camp for gender-nonconforming children and their families. This camp offers a temporary safe haven, where children can freely express their interpretations of gender alongside their parents and siblings without feeling the need to look over their shoulders.

In 2007, Lindsay Morris began attending the camp with a loved one and has continued to document the camp experience over the last seven years. It was with a great deal of courage that, in 2012, the camp parents and children agreed to have selected images published as a cover article for “The New York Times Magazine.” This started an important and timely dialogue in a public forum. Since then, the story has been published in France, Italy, Germany, Israel, Australia, and Eastern Europe, demonstrating a common global interest in the predicament of gender-independent youth.

Morris writes: “By sharing this unique story, I intend to reach beyond the confines of the camp to contribute to a dialogue about the crucial role that support plays in the lives of gender-nonconforming children. A lack of understanding of gender identity and the ways in which these children express themselves often lead to discrimination. Through these images the viewer will experience something different—a groundbreaking, heart opening place that serves as the backdrop for this important moment in history, where the first gender-creative childhoods are being freely expressed.”

Pygmy Owl

2012

Signed and numbered, verso

Deep Matte (Digital C) print, painted frame (Edition of 3 + 2 APs)

19 x 15 inches

$1600.00, including mounting/framing

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Joined

2013

Signed and numbered on label, verso

Archival pigment print

27 x 40 inches, image
(Edition of 5 + 2 APs)
$3200.00

20 x 30 inches, image
(Edition of 10 + 2 APs)
$2300.00

13 x 19 inches, image
(Edition of 10 + 2 APs)
$1500.00