Second Tuesdays presents Performance Artist Kalup Linzy

Event Date

Tuesday, February 9 2010 : 6:30pm – 8:00pm

Location

The Center

Description

Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Reception 6PM, Program 6:30PM, $10
Second Tuesdays presents Performance Artist Kalup Linzy

Kalup Linzy, is a video and performance artist who presents himself with a fabulous mix of southern culture, daytime soap opera, and shady black gay culture. He stars in his self-written melodramatic tales of love and flama, usually in drag. His video "Sweet, Sampled, and Left Ova" (originally produced for Proenza Schouler and featuring Chloe Sevigny and James Ransone) premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2010.

In 2007, Linzy was named a Guggenheim Fellow and, that same year, New York Magazine named him one of the ten most promising artists. He has been reviewed in The New York Times, Art in America, and Artforum. His work is included in public collections of the Museum of Modern Art, Studio Museum in Harlem, and Whitney Museum of American Art.

Linzy has an MFA from the University of South Florida. Holland Cotter of The New York Times said "I don't mean to spoil the fun by adding that he laces his work with shrewd home truths about race, class, sex, love, family, and stereotyping. He does, but you can ignore all that if you want. You cannot easily ignore Mr. Linzy, though."

Rachel Wolf, art critic for The Daily Beast, says that "Linzy is doing to daytime soaps what John Waters did to his Baltimore childhood. Part Richard Pryor, part RuPaul, Linzy writes, directs, and stars (wigged, heeled, and often scantily clad) in this series of shorts that are tender and vulgar, hilarious and heartfelt.”

The gay activist Keith Boykin called Kalup "talented, clever and creative" but, with respect to his drag diva characters, "makes me feel a little guilty."

For more information see www.KalupLinzy.net and www.youtube.com/user/kklinzy.

About The Second Tuesday Lecture Series
The Second Tuesday Lecture Series is the oldest cultural program of The Center. Since 1985, more than 140 speakers have made presentations in the arts, academia, and politics. Speakers representing every major cultural award, including the Pulitzer Prize, the Grammy Award, the Academy Award (The Oscars), Broadway's Tony Awards, the Lambda Literary Award, and the National Book Award, as well as the UK Booker Literary Award, have made presentations. Through this program, Larry Kramer spoke about the plight of the AIDS Crisis in March 1987, thus beginning ACT-UP, the largest direct action AIDS organization in the world.