411 Installation
411
Public Illumination Gallery
Summer of 1982
Contents
About
In the summer of 1982, Public Illumination Gallery put on a series of four one-person, one-week shows, which they called 411. Wojnarowicz was one of the artists invited to participate. His entire installation involved stencil work applied directly to the walls of the tiny storefront, along with a cassette player with an audio track.
According to Fire in the Belly: The Life and Times of David Wojnarowicz,
"David's imagery was all aggression and vulnerability. He used running soldiers in three sizes, a small burning house, many small bombers, a figure who holds one bent arm over his head, a large falling man, a rampaging wolf, the prone Hujar." Jeffrey Isaac, who was then going by the name Zagreus Bowery, was the director of the Public Illumination gallery. [1]
Installation view of 411 at Public Illumination Gallery
People
Isaac was the director of Public Illumination Gallery.
Sources
Carr, Cynthia Fire in the Belly: The Life and Times of David Wojnarowicz Fales, Wojnarowicz's papers, Box 82 (slides), slidebox 69 and 74 include images of this installation (slide box 69: documentation of Wojnarowicz's "Installation E” 1982: Public illumination picture gallery, June 82), as well as Box 84, slide sheet 94
Pages on Knowledge Base that link to this page
- Public Illumination Gallery (← links)
- Installation--Multimedia Installations (← links)
- Works on Paper--Stencils (← links)
- Isaac, Jeffrey (← links)
References
- ↑ Cynthia Carr, Fire in the Belly: The Life and Times of David Wojnarowicz (New York, Bloomsbury, 2012): 212.
