In 2015, Luhring Augustine presented Atlas's The Waning of Justice, which featured video
of drag queen Lady Bunny and sunsets recorded during Atlas's residency at Captiva Island through the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation.
The Pavilion of Earth excels with works like Kosovar artist Petrit Halilaj's fabulous fabric moths, or Charles Atlas's fusion
of the drag queen Lady Bunny's monologue about the corruption of American politics with a series of neon sunsets that form a mosaic on a vast screen.
Not exact matches
Warhol's 1975 «
Ladies and Gentlemen» series
of drag queen portraits will feature, along with Mapplethorpe's 1938 photographic series and book «
Lady: Lisa Lyon», which records the female bodybuilding title holder in a number
of «gender - bending» costumes.
One went to Charles Atlas, a veteran media artist, for his multi-projection video «The Tyranny
of Consciousness,» which intermixes everyday images
of sunsets with a pointed political monologue by the
drag queen Lady Bunny.
I can date this picture precisely to Rome, late October, 1975, when Warhol showed his
Ladies and Gentlemen paintings (aka
Drag Queen paintings) in Ferrara and then went to Rome for a show
of his prints.
Guise & Dolls focused on several prominent bodies
of work from each artist's oeuvre: Warhol's «
Ladies and Gentlemen» series (1975)
of drag queen portraits, Christopher Makos's «Altered Images» series
of Warhol in
drag, Mapplethorpe's photographs
of lifelong friend and longtime muse Patti Smith that range from masculine to feminine and Mapplethorpe's photographic series and book
Lady: Lisa Lyon (1983)
of the female bodybuilding champion in numerous gender - bending guises.