Ultra-quick turnaround for a Halloween screening in Mississippi, 2020.
HCCAF 2021
The Pet (prototype)
Holy Wound poster in progress
Someday the poster for @joe_satana’s Holy Wound will be finished; someday the movie will be finished too.
A @khloaris production.
The Body is a Horror closing
Tomorrow night, Thursday, 7pm-9pm! Closing reception/ceremony (performances) for The Body is a Horror at Bullet Space, 292 E 3rd St., NY. This painting detail is larger on your phone than in real life.
Curated by @kitmills and @litttle_sisster
The Body is a Horror show opening
Tonight! 7pm-9pm! (I can guarantee I will be late)! The Body is a Horror at Bullet Space, 292 E 3rd St., NY. Curated by @kitmills and @litttle_sisster
The Body is a Horror
I haven’t shown any work in the US since mid-2018, so this feels like a good start to 2020!
@kitmills and @litttle_sisster included me in a group show that they organized and curated with @abcnorio. It’s about bodies, queerness, alienation, and revelry. Come and see us at Bullet Space in Alphabet City this month.
opening party: 1/10, 7-9pm
closing ceremony: 1/30, 7-9pm
HCCAF 2019
Rachel Antonoff FW19
Selected cows+ for toile, Rachel Antonoff FW19 (aka last year’s Christmas presents for the extended family). Oil on paper, watercolor on paper, hours in Photoshop. Now available printed on actual clothing through @rachelantonoff
(Click through)
Not-so-new studio, still slowly acclimating. Works that have been left in progress, in limbo.
Marfa Open Italia: Venice II
More Venice #friarjustin with @mayameissner for @marfaopen
On our first day in Venice, we stumbled into a Franciscan church, the Basilica di Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari. On our last day we returned, leaving a photo of our Franciscan friar, Justin, in the Madonna’s garden of artificial flowers steps away from the tomb of Titian. (In another mirrored experience, our first night in Venice concluded or began, depending on semantics or subjectivity, when we met an amateur artist named Tiziano with incredible hair and a broken hand).
Marfa Open Italia: Venice I
@mayameissner and I re-installed #friarjustin in another shed, this time in the garden at Associazione Awai in Venice (Biennale-adjacent! Kind of). We performed twice, exchanging strangers’ secrets that ranged from the absurd to incredibly painful.
I can’t yet comprehend everything I gained from this trip! I’m still recovering, but immense thanks to @sephitz/@marfaopen for organizing and Associazione Awai for hosting. more photos later. Better documentation eventually. Included here is an installation shot of works by @leonhelio, @zach_morriss and @hiro.tanaka.7545 in the wonderful buggy hot lizard-filled garden; follow them for more and better pictures of their work. #marfaopen #marfaopenitalia
Marfa Open Italia: Ferrara
Thank you Ferrara and Factory Grisù for a wonderful start to our #friarjustin project!
Last night @mayameissner and I had our first performance experience, facilitating an exchange of secrets between strangers. Our visitors wrote their secret on the back of a photograph, receiving in return the secret of a stranger to carry with them. These secrets were written in English, Italian, German, and Albanian, by children, by adults, by the elderly.
Friar Justin’s life, as it exists in the photographic keepsake evidence that we found in garbage bags, was one of generosity and spiritual comforting. By encouraging others to let go of the things that burden us in this life, and anonymously take on the secrets of others, we hope to continue the theme of that life. .
Now we're packing it all up and will be building the next instantiation in Venice this week. #marfaopen #marfaopenitalia
Marfa Open Italia: Ferrara
Performance with @mayameissner for #marfaopen #marfaopenitalia is actually tonight (May 25, 20:00-22:00). Spazio Grisù, Via Mario Poledrelli, 21, 44121 Ferrara FE, Italy.
Come give us your secrets.
Marfa Italia: Ferrara
Again, thanks Maya Meissner for being motivated to style this shot (I assisted)—
Here's another behind the scenes look at what @mayameissner and I have been working on for #friarjustin! The fabric in these dresses and scarves were custom painted based off of wallpapers seen in the photographs we found in the garbage. The style is mod catholic school teacher, but with a flamboyant patterned twist. We will be wearing these outfits for our performance tonight at Spazio Grizu in Ferrara, Italy. #marfaopen #marfaopenitalia
Marfa Open Italia: Ferrara
Hello Ferrara! Come see @mayameissner and me at Grisù later this week for #marfaopen Italia.
Madonna malocchio
Madonna malocchio, pt. I & pt. II. Oil on paper, 7”x10” each, 2019.
Impregnated by all that she sees in the world, she gives birth through the tear ducts of the third eye that spans her torso. Her joy is born as flesh and blood and bone, and her sorrow is salt-water that she casts into the sea. The water level keeps rising.
Today is my birthday; when my mother was the age that I am now, she was pregnant with me.
A Love Nest
A Love Nest (Fivesome)