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RUBBISH AND DREAMS: The Genderqueer Performance Art of Stephen Varble

Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art

Date:
September 29, 2018–January 27, 2019
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Price: Suggested Admission $9
Type of event:
Panel Discussion ,
Member ExArtist Member Exhibition
Location:
Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art
26 Wooster St
New York, NY , 10013
United States
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De Sana Varble Onlooker Lr

Jimmy DeSana, Untitled (Stephen Varble performing Gutter Art with onlooker), 1975, Silver gelatin print (2018). © Jimmy DeSana Trust.

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Rubbish and Dreams: the Genderqueer Performance Art of Stephen Varble, is an exhibition focusing on this performance artist who became iconic in 1970s New York for his disruptive interventions into galleries, public spaces, and financial institutions. Varble would engage in unauthorized and impromptu performance wearing elaborate costumes made from street trash, food waste, and stolen objects. His work was decidedly anti-institutional and he disrupted the business of art in the 1970s. For these reasons, he was soon written out of history, and no substantive piece of writing on his practice has been published for 40 years. This exhibition draws on a number of private archives in telling Varble’s story for the first time.

Curated by David Getsy

Opening September 29, 4-6PM


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Stephen Varble in the Slide Dress performing as part of Geoffrey Hendricks' Attic Clouds at the Summit Art Center, New Jersey

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