Washington Garcia present Kalup Linzy

WASHINGTON GARCIA
16 TRONGATE
GLASGOW
G1 5EU

PREVIEW: SATURDAY 12TH APRIL 2008, 7PM – 9PM.
PERFORMANCE: SATURDAY 12TH APRIL 2008, 8PM.
OPEN: FRIDAY 11TH APRIL TO SUNDAY 27TH APRIL, 11AM – 5PM, (DAILY).



You are invited to the preview of Kalup Linzy at 16 Trongate, Glasgow - a new Washington Garcia venue.

Washington Garcia is pleased to announce, as part of the Glasgow International 2008, a newly commissioned body of work by New York based artist Kalup Linzy. This exhibition and exclusive performance will be shown in the City Centre location of 16 Trongate, an ex-retail space that offers a bold and unconventional Glasgow context for Linzy's first UK solo show.

Reveling in the Public/Private curatorial theme of this year's Gi festival, Linzy's work is a sophisticated play between pastiche and exposure, extroversion and masquerade – all in the public languages of TV Soaps, You Tube and MTV. As Rachel Wolff (New York Magazine) describes:

"[In his recent work] … 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.
[…] With new YouTube video stars popping regularly, Linzy (who received a Guggenheim fellowship this year) has been pegged as a key figure in a new generation of "queer video artists."

RACHEL WOLFF,
NEW YORK MAGAZINE, OCTOBER 15, 2007 "A PORTRAIT GALLERY OF TEN OF THE MOST PROMISING ARTISTS TO HAVE EMERGE FROM THE BOOM"

The work of Kalup Linzy touches on issues of black stereotyping, pop culture, art world politics and wigs. Glasgow will never be the same again.

Kalup Linzy is a New York based video and performance artist. Linzy graduated from the MFA program at the University of South Florida in 2003. He also attended The Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture video art workshop, and has been artist in residence at P.S. 1 in New York. In 2005 Linzy received a grant from the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation and was recently, named a Guggenheim fellow for 2007-2008. Kalup Linzy's recent work has been reviewed in The New York Times, Art in America, Artforum, ArtReview and ModernPainters. He is represented by Taxter & Spengemann, New York.


The WASHINGTON GARCIA committee is: Kendall Koppe, Ruth Barker, Douglas Morland.