I believe that each of us is given one sentence at birth, and we spend the rest of our life trying to read that sentence and make sense of it.
—
Li Young Lee
Corner Basher by Liz Larner
- Christopher Guest by Lynn Geller
- John Heys by Allen Frame
- Ketan Mehta by Ameena Meer
- Kevin Spacey by Amos Poe
- Marvin Heiferman by Saul Ostrow
- Bharati Mukherjee by Ameena Meer
- Maureen Connor by Amanda Means
- Deborah Eisenberg by Craig Lucas
- Hillary Johnson by Patrick McGrath
- Kazuo Ishiguro by Graham Swift
- Robert Gober by Craig Gholson
- Isaac Mizrahi by Elizabeth Cannon
Interviews
- Tinian by Charlie Smith
- The Robbery by Deborah Eisenberg
- Guppies by Kelvin Christopher James
- Three Poems by Ruth Danon
- Three Poems by Thomas Bolt
First Proof
- Chair by James Raglione
- Perfuming the Sultan’s Bed Chamber by Jeff Perrone
- Couch by John Chamberlain
- troubled by Laurie Parsons
- Corner Basher by Liz Larner
- Untitled Painting by Michael Scott
- Star Trek, Neo-Geo: The Next Generation by Steve DiBenedetto
- Floor Lamp with Palm Lake by Bryan Hunt
- Cairene by Paul Mogensen
- Two Works by Cady Noland
- Hanukkah Lamp by R. M. Fischer
- Diningroom Table and Chair by David Deutsch
- Sofa Parzival by Robert Wilson
- Untitled by David Ortins
- Chair and Ottoman by Roy Lichtenstein
- David Seidner by Betsy Sussler
- Freeze by Steve DiBenedetto
- Desk Set by Donald Judd
- Untitled (Stockade) by Steven Parrino
- Samoa by Forrest Myers
- Domestic Abstractions by Tony Tasset
- You’re Seeing Less Than Half The Picture by Guerrilla Girls
- Furniture Designed by Artists by Ursula Helman
More
Liz Larner, Corner Basher, 1988, steel, stainless steel, electric motor, speed control, 10 feet tall. Courtesy of 303 Gallery.
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“I just wanted to be sure I didn’t get caught not expressing what I thought was important to me. That can easily happen, because you can easily get discouraged by not being allowed to participate, or just being ignored, when you know your work is beyond ignoring.”
Chat Travieso on creating in New York City, his adaptation of the found object and the importance of an optimistic attitude to the future.
Originally published in
BOMB 29,
Fall 1989
Featuring interviews with Kevin Spacey, Robert Gober, Deborah Eisenberg, Christopher Guest, Isaac Mizrahi, Kazuo Ishiguro, Marvin Heiferman, Bharati Mukherjee, John Heys, Maureen Conner, Hillary Johnson, and Ketan Mehta.
