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New York in the 80s: Selections from the Barry Blinderman Collection
Fresh out of UPenn with an M.A. in art history, Barry Blinderman moved from Philadelphia to Manhattan in January 1980. Within a year of his arrival he began writing freelance for Arts magazine and became director of Semaphore Gallery in SoHo (and later, Semaphore EAST on 10th and Avenue B), championing dozens of artists who emerged during one of the most fertile yet turbulent decades in 20th century art. This exhibition of rare ephemera and art from 1980-1990 includes artists’ books, posters, zines, audio & video recordings, announcement cards, correspondence, limited-edition prints, photographs, drawings, paintings, and sculptures by the artists Blinderman exhibited, befriended, and wrote about while in New York.
Highlights of the exhibition include: Martin Wong’s byzantine Semaphore press release texts, in ink on cardboard; a letter from David Wojnarowicz detailing the premise of his infamous “A Fire in My Belly” video; Polaroids of Andy Warhol taken while interviewing him at the Factory; Rebecca Howland’s plaster Pentagon Plaque (for the Reagans); Robert Longo’s sketch of the Corporate Wars sculpture, penned on the verso of a Semaphore postcard; the paste-up for the Lady Pink’s 1986 Semaphore EAST billboard; Keith Haring’s chalk drawing of a bound couple, liberated from the Lexington IRT; and The Times Square Show silkscreen poster by Jane Dickson and Charlie Ahearn.
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Fresh out of UPenn with an M.A. in art history, Barry Blinderman moved from Philadelphia to Manhattan in January 1980. Within a year of his arrival he began writing freelance for Arts magazine and became director of Semaphore Gallery in SoHo (and later, Semaphore EAST on 10th and Avenue B), championing dozens of artists who emerged during one of the most fertile yet turbulent decades in 20th century art. This exhibition of rare ephemera and art from 1980-1990 includes artists’ books, posters, zines, audio & video recordings, announcement cards, correspondence, limited-edition prints, photographs, drawings, paintings, and sculptures by the artists Blinderman exhibited, befriended, and wrote about while in New York.
Highlights of the exhibition include: Martin Wong’s byzantine Semaphore press release texts, in ink on cardboard; a letter from David Wojnarowicz detailing the premise of his infamous “A Fire in My Belly” video; Polaroids of Andy Warhol taken while interviewing him at the Factory; Rebecca Howland’s plaster Pentagon Plaque (for the Reagans); Robert Longo’s sketch of the Corporate Wars sculpture, penned on the verso of a Semaphore postcard; the paste-up for the Lady Pink’s 1986 Semaphore EAST billboard; Keith Haring’s chalk drawing of a bound couple, liberated from the Lexington IRT; and The Times Square Show silkscreen poster by Jane Dickson and Charlie Ahearn.
Artists on show
- Alexander Kosolapov
- Andy Warhol
- Cara Perlman
- Charlie Ahearn
- David Wojnarowicz
- Donald Baechler
- Duncan Hannah
- Ellen Berkenblit
- Felix Pène du Bois
- Gran Fury
- Hannah Wilke
- Jane Dickson
- Janet McKiernan
- Jenny Holzer
- John Fekner
- Joseph Nechvatal
- Judge Hughes
- Keiko Bonk
- Keith Haring
- Lady Pink
- Marilyn Minter
- Marion Scemama
- Mark Innerst
- Mark Kostabi
- Martin Wong
- Michael Zwack
- Mike Bidlo
- Mike Cockrill
- Mimi Gross Grooms
- Nancy Dwyer
- Raymond Pettibon
- Rebecca Howland
- Rhonda Wall
- Rhonda Zwillinger
- Robert Colescott
- Robert Goldman
- Robert Longo
- Stephen Lack
- Sue Coe
- Tseng Kwong Chi
- Vitaly Komar & Alexander Melamid
- Walter Robinson
- Walter Steding
- William S. Burroughs
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