ARTBOOK BLOGEventsStore NewsMuseum Stores of the MonthNew Title ReleasesStaff PicksImage GalleryBooks in the MediaExcerpts & EssaysArtbook InterviewsEx LibrisAt First SightThe Artbook 2024 Gift GuidesArtbook Featured Image ArchiveArtbook D.A.P. Events ArchiveDATE 12/5/2024 The Primary Essentials x Artbook Pop UpDATE 11/21/2024 NYPL Jefferson Market presents Neal Slavin with Kevin Moore on 'When Two or More Are Gathered Together'DATE 11/16/2024 Kaleidoscopic and dynamic, Orphism comes to the GuggenheimDATE 11/13/2024 From Belly Dancers to Bingo EnthusiastsDATE 11/11/2024 Know your propaganda!DATE 11/9/2024 Yumna Al-Arashi pays poetic tribute to her great-grandmother and an ancient tattooing practiceDATE 11/7/2024 Long before social media, Sophie Calle fearlessly oversharedDATE 11/6/2024 Holiday Gift Guide 2024: For the Lover of LettersDATE 11/6/2024 A shudder of American self-recognition in 'Omen'DATE 11/5/2024 Holiday Gift Guide 2024: Where Form Meets FunctionDATE 11/3/2024 Holiday Gift Guide 2024: For the Film BuffDATE 11/2/2024 Holiday Gift Guide 2024: Artful Crowd-PleasersDATE 11/1/2024 Holiday Gift Guide 2024: Stuff that Stocking | EVENTSJAMES LUCAS | DATE 3/8/2011Mark Morrisroe Opening at Artists Space, March 5, 2011On Saturday, March 5, 2011, the first U.S. retrospective exhibition of Mark Morrisroe's work opened at Artists Space in New York. The heartbreaking show features photographs, polaroids, and ephemera, including issues of the punk zine Dirt, which Morrisroe co-founded with friend Lynelle White around 1975. A major monograph published by JRP accompanies the exhibition which, in a different form, was first mounted at the Kunsthalle Zurich under the direction of Beatrix Ruf. A contemporary of Jack Pierson, Nan Goldin, and David Armstrong, Morrisroe (1959-1989) documented his life and the lives of friends, hustlers, and lovers in photographs - Polaroids, "sandwich prints," hand-painted photograms - which beautifully capture the urgency and ephemerality of the post-punk scene in Boston and New York in the 1970s and 80s. In attendance at Saturday’s event were intimates such as Jack Pierson (known to Morrisroe as Jonathan) and admirers Collier Schorr, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, and Joan Jonas. The evening ended underground at the SubMercer lounge. |