Bob Mizer: Select Private Works 1942 - 1992

An upcoming exhibition at Exile, Berlin, reconsidering the work of Bob Mizer.

[all bob mizer. Tony Rome & Ron Nichols, 1971. Unknown (Marine), c. 1973. Richard Jolins, 1982. Nicky Blue, 1980.]

david byrne • true stories

three and a half stars

mark morrisroe

untitled (view from jersey city apartment), 1986

john stezaker

work by john stezaker. see more here.

[all john stezaker. top to bottom: dark star vi. 1979-83. untitled. 1985. dark star xiv. 1979-83. ]

marysia lewandowska

marysia lewandowska's 'open hearing' project "revisits the creative politics used by the greenham common women peace campaigners to force a public debate and the responses of the legal apparatus in front of this unprecedented act of so-called civil disobedience." see more here.

[all marysia lewandowska. open hearing. top to bottom: archive image from greenham common. 1984. archive image from greenham common. 1983. installation view (photo by steve blunt).]

ralph gibson

ralph gibson is an american photographer - and has made 40 books over the last 40 years or so, more here

farrell brickhouse

i knew farrell from days spent on the street in front of my studio at 65 w bway - everybody on the block knew farrell. he was quite a painter and not only did he have great tales about belushi the rest of the saturday night live cast descending on the block to have a snowy evening - but he had beaten our landlord out of paying rent and had won an extraordinary terms from him with his electric persitance - he got to live there. west broadway between murray and warren became farrell's block. i can still hear him screaming from half a block away at my brother because he had beeped his horn for me up on the 3rd floor. he was right. farrell , who is still an amazing painter , moved to warmer pasteurs on staten island several years ago - the block misses him - but i just came across some images of him - and the studio during his west broadway days and his presence came rushing back - and realized he is also quite a photographer and collector of photos more from farrell's "book of sources" album can be found here

jean-luc godard

JLG still going strong after more than 50 years. nobody combines text with photographs better than godard . more here

jane hammond

longtime new york city painter jane hammond work took a really interesting turn into photography and montage about 5 years ago. more here

[ Perpetual Love 2005 : when You Wish 2008 : face facts 2006 : graflex 2007 ]

christopher wool

christopher wool is an absolute master of many media but his greatest source of inspiration is likely the black and white photograph roughly printed by a xerox machine. his web site breaks down the various uses of black and white across the media spectrum. more here .

[absent without leave 1993:luhring augustine, new york 2004:los angeles 1997: fuckem 1992 enamel on aluminum]

valie export

in 1968 the austrian artist Waltraud Hollinger changed her name to valie export. export was the name of a popular cigarette brand. and in naming herself after a cigarette she seemed to want to light herself on fire with her work to keep up with other rather extreme viennese actionist artist of the time (people like günter brus, otto mühl, herman nitsch, and rudolf schwarzkogler ) who were cutting off limbs and whatnot to escape the bourgeoise or enter the annals of history. with her new name , valie export sought a new identity that was, she says, not bound “by her father’s name (lehner), or her former husband’s name (hollinger).” more here

theo altenberg

a few photographs from the multi-talented theo altenberg from his days in otto mühl's action analysis commune. more here and here

[ 1978-Aktionsanlyse : 1974-Kommune-Friedr : 1975-Kommune-Selbstdarstellung : 1976-Kommune-Friedrichshof ]

peter hujar

peter hujar looms larger every year that passes more here

[ ‘charles ludlum as camille’ 1974 : will (char pei) 1985 : greer lankton’s legs 1983 : snake on a chair ]

dan cook

"it's worth mentioning that none of the excitement you see in the photos has anything to do with the game--it's all about being on the fan cam." enter dan cooks fan cam here

lina bertucci

lina bertucci is an artist who has made some pretty great portraits of other artists. more here

[ janine antoni :haim steinbeck : jeff koons]

jim campbell

I first saw a work by jim campbell in 2001 at the bitstreams show at the whitney it was his picture of harry nyquist and it really stole the show. you have to kind of see them in person , because they function as much as a piece of sculpture or relief as it does an image. it is both. but the piece has stuck hard in my head ever since. if you get a chance to see one of his works in person or buy one one - do it.

more here

[ home movies, wave modulation, untitled (led explosion), 2010 - 1152 leds, custom electronics ]