Civilian Warfare Studio
On May 1982, Civilian Warfare Studio was founded by Dean Savard and Alan Barrows. The two had previously gone to an art show at Fun where the art was hung on the walls of a small basement. Barrows had found this concept to be “kooky,” but the co-director of the gallery, Bill Stelling, suggested the two do it too. Savard came up with the name Civilian Warfare after he heard a woman yelling crazily about Russians and civilian warfare.[1] The gallery’s first location was in a tiny storefront of a used-to-be ice-cream store.[2] At the beginning, Savard and Barrows had trouble selling anything but as time passed, their reputation grew. Wojnarowicz had wanted the gallery to succeed because he found that the space felt like home. On September 15, 1982, he showed Science Lesson at their third group show titled, Hit and Run Art. The concept of the show was to have one artist per night. On top of Science Lesson, Wojnarowicz also showed stenciled on supermarket posters.[3] On June 4, 1983, he had his first one-man show at the gallery, showing paintings and prints on all types of found materials such as driftwood and supermarket posters.
Contents
Solo Exhibitions
1984
David Wojnarowicz
1983
David Wojnarowicz
Group Exhibitions
1985
Getting Off
1984
25,000 Sculptors from Across the U.S.A.
Fit to be Tied
1983
3 Person Show
1982
Hit and Run Art
Locations
1982
526 East 11th Street
New York, NY 10009
References
- ↑ Cynthia Carr, Fire in the Belly: The Life and Times of David Wojnarowicz (New York, Bloomsbury, 2012): 214
- ↑ http://www.nytimes.com/1983/06/26/arts/gallery-view-a-gallery-scene-that-pioneers-in-new-territories.html?pagewanted=all
- ↑ Sylvere Lotringer and Giancarlo Ambrosino, David Wojnarowicz: A definitive history of five or six years on the lower east side (New York, Semiotext(e), 2006): 11
