Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt

DANCING IN THE STREET 

window installation extended until November 25

Artist and Stonewall veteran Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt’s window installation Dancing in the Street part of Art in Odd Places 2019: INVISIBLE  festival along 14th Street  highlighting artists over the age of 60, curated by LuLu LoLo has been extended until November 25 at the 14th Street Framing Gallery, 225 West 14th Street, between Seventh and Eighth Avenues, Uptown side.   Window view daily 10am-6pm and via open grated gates in the evening. 

The backdrop of Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt's window installation Dancing in the Street is comprised of fourteen of his signature gold and silver chalices made from aluminum foil, plastic wrap, holographic tape, pipe cleaners, staples and colored marker set against a dark blue sky made from crinkled florist foil. They act like shimmering stars in the night sky. With sources ranging from Byzantine iconography to contemporary kitsch, these dazzling alternative materials are part of his unique visual language of reflection and refraction. Grounding the work are humbly built tenement buildings made from paper bags and magic marker. If you look closely at the center of the street, made of aluminum foil stained with brown shoepolish, you will find one of Lanigan-Schmidts "Lollipop Knick Knacks" representing two people dancing among his signature golden rats. 

Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt is represented in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and has exhibited extensively throughout the United States and Europe, including the Venice Biennales of 1980 and 1984, the Whitney Biennial of 1991 and the 1999 exhibition The American Century at the Whitney Museum. He has been an instructor in the M.F.A. Program of The School of Visual Arts in New York City since the mid-1980s. The artist has also served on the Governing Board of the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Skowhegan, Maine since 1992. In June of 2009 Lanigan-Schmidt was honored at the White House by President Obama for his courageous participation in the 1969 Stonewall rebellion. In 2011 he was awarded a prestigious Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Biennial Grant and in 2012 was the subject of the critically acclaimed retrospective, Tender Love Among the Junk, at MoMA P.S.1 curated by Peter Eleey.

For press inquires contact curator LuLu LoLo at aiopnyc@gmail.com
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Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt is represented by Pavel Zoubok Gallery Contact: Kris Nuzzi, Associate Director kris@pavelzoubok.com

  
Art in Odd Places (AiOP) presents visual and performance art in unexpected public spaces in the U.S and worldwide. Since 2005, AiOP has produced an annual festival along 14th Street in Manhattan, NYC from Avenue C to the Hudson River each October. Art in Odd Places reminds us that public spaces function as the epicenter for diverse social interactions and the unfettered exchange of ideas. http://invisible.artinoddplaces.org/index.html 
AiOP is a project of GOH Productions, www.gohproductions.org

 

(Photo credit: Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt, Dancing in the Street [window installation], photo by Paul Takeuchi)