JULIA GORTON | Nowhere New York + You Are The Show, LA
JULIA GORTON | NOWHERE NEW YORK + YOU ARE THE SHOW, LA (an open portrait studio)
ARTIST'S RECEPTION + BOOK SIGNING: October 7, 6–9 PM
EXHIBITION: October 5–14, 2023
OPEN PORTRAIT SESSIONS with Julia Gorton!
Julia Gorton's latest self-published book NOWHERE NEW YORK | Dark, Insulting, + Unmelodic captures her photos of New York's No Wave scene, 1976–1980, a fleeting time with unique style.
Gorton's vision of a flourishing artistic and diverse downtown Manhattan in the moments before AIDS, crack, Disney, and condos changed everything forever, focuses on musicians and friends including Debbie Harry, Patti Smith, Tom Verlaine, David Byrne, Lydia Lunch, Iggy Pop, James Chance, Richard Hell, Anya Phillips, and many others less well known but certainly just as memorable. Shot in her Lower East Side apartment, in all-night diners, illegal after-hours clubs, on totally empty streets, and in the dingy pits and bars where the music was played.
For this exhibition Julia embraces the DIY aesthetic she started in during the late 1970s presenting several bodies of work utilizing photocopy, fax machine prints, projection, and collage, unframed and raw. Series featured, You Are The Show (London, Alabama, Florida), Beat It (reproductions from her No Wave zine from back in the day), Nowhere New York, Pretty In Punk and Post Pink.
In addition to the exhibition, Julia will be holding OPEN PORTRAIT SESSIONS where she will spend three days in the gallery making portraits of whoever shows up. These portraits will be displayed on October 14th as an entirely new exhibition titled YOU ARE THE SHOW, LA.
LOOKING FOR: Punks, Artists, Musicians, Weirdos, Anarchists, Psychobillies, Skaters, Tattoo Artists and collectors, Goths, Go-Go Dancers, Art Damed Weirdos, Miscreants, Etc. – subjects that are part of the local creative scene and other subculture types for portraits.
Show up and be photographed. Dates and times are listed below. NO APPOINTMENT NEEDED, just show up and wait your turn. Plenty to see and new friends to meet while you wait.
POSTRAIT SESSIONS:
October 8, 12–4 PM
October 10, 1–5 PM
October 12, 1–5 PM
CLOSING EXHIBIT:
October 14, 12–6 PM + installation of images from the open portrait sessions with special musical guests 