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After Hours: Greer Lankton Archives
Hallett and Corfman will provide insights into Lankton's installation at the Mattress Factory, her creative practice, and her life as an artist. Participants will also have the unique opportunity to view a selection of dolls, drawings, photographs, and letters from the Archive.
FREE FOR MEMBERS.
$15 FOR NON-MEMBERS.
Drinks and light bites will be provided. Please contact [email protected] with any questions.
ABOUT S. BROOK CORFMAN
S. Brook Corfman is the author of My Daily Actions, or The Meteorites, one of The New York Times Best Poetry Books of 2020, a finalist for the Leslie Feinberg Award for Trans and Gender-Variant Literature, and the winner of the Fordham University Press POL Prize, chosen by Cathy Park Hong. She is also the author of the poetry collection Luxury, Blue Lace, chosen by Richard Siken for the Autumn House Rising Writer Prize, and several shorter works. In 2024 she received the Lyric Poetry Award from the Poetry Society of America and a PhD in Critical and Cultural Studies from the University of Pittsburgh, where she wrote a dissertation on the relationship between gender transition and artmaking practices.
ABOUT THE GREER LANKTON COLLECTION
The Greer Lankton Collection is an assemblage of materials comprising over 15,000 items in eight series; artwork, ephemera, periodicals, photographs, photo albums, slides and negatives, journals and correspondence documenting the life and work of American artist, Greer Lankton.
The collection highlights how this seminal artist was relating to issues of sexuality, gender-identity, transfeminism, iconography, pop culture and consumerism, alongside battles with abuse, mental health issues, anorexia, drug addiction, and the AIDS crisis which surrounded her.
The collection dates from the artist's birth in 1958 to untimely death in 1996, shortly after her installation, “It’s All About ME, Not You” opened at Mattress Factory. Thanks to the generosity of the Lankton family, both her installation and archive were donated to the Mattress Factory, the former in 2009 and the latter in 2014 – events also detailed in the archive.
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