I find the idea that we write alone laughable, even egotistical. Poetry is a palimpsest that has been endlessly rewritten—it’s a social space we share with others.
—
Jen Bervin
Veil Portraits by Alf Young
- Michael McClard by Betsy Sussler
- Paul Bowles by David Seidner
- Clinton Street: Olivier Mosset and Fred Brathwaite
- Georgia Marsh by Betsy Sussler
- Duncan Hannah by Simon Lane
Interviews
- Evening by Barry Yourgrau
- The White Shirt by Burt Barr
- I.T.I.L.O.E. by Constance DeJong
- Baltimore 1969 by Cookie Mueller
- Now Here Nowhere by Craig Gholson
- Principia Martindale by Edward Swift
- Pillow Talk by Gary Indiana
- Is It Hemingway Or Is It Memorex by Glenn O'Brien
- Some Photographs and Brian by Jane Warrick
- D.S. Part II of Desire, A Play by Kathy Acker
- Entrapment by Liza Béar
- Summer 1980 by Luc Sante
- Words Without Pictures by Lynne Tillman
- Donkey Work by Matthew Fleury
- Harry At Work by Michael Kozlowski
- Untitled Story by Mindy Stevenson
- The First Poem I Ever Wrote by Peter Schjeldahl
- Nervous and Joking Joseph by Richard Elovich
- Gray Pants by Rosemary Moore
- The Concertina Earring by Simon Lane
- The Hour of the Fey by Terence Sellers
First Proof
- Susan Rothenberg by Mary Heilmann
- Un Tour D’Horizon by Richard Armstrong
- Michael Alfe and Dru Kim
Artists on Artists
- Two Videotapes by Mark Magill
Editor's Choice
- Lizbeth Marano, Louisa Chase, Jan Hashey, Elizabeth Pardi, Jenny Snider, Guy Goodwin, Mitch Fox, Kristen Huntley, Terry Winters, Moira Dryer, V. Alzamora, Bob Gober by Elizabeth Murray
- Altar of Good Fortune by Jack Barth
- Graffiti by Kiely Jenkins
- Terminal Bar by Jane Dickson
- Agony of the Feet by Jean Michel Basquiat
- Untitled Sculpture by Robert Hudson
- #45 by Robert Mangold
- It was Very Hot the Day I Decided to Wash the Car… by Jessica Lenard
- Two Paintings by Robin Bruch
- Round #13 by Joe Zucker
- Shitting and Laughing by Ross Bleckner
- Burnt Umber by John Egner
- Devil’s Gate on the Sweetwater after 1870… by Shelley Kaplan
- Regular Painting #33 by John Ford
- Monk and Bedding by Stephen Mueller
- Untitled Painting by Terry Winters
- O.B. by Tom Butter
- Moondance #2 by Abbott Burns
- Skellital Sea by Adolf Benca
- Cruciform with Red Marks by John Torreano
- Bwana’s Night by Jonathan Lasker
- Cathexsis 48 by Joseph Kosuth
- Julian Schnabel, Installation at Mary Boone Gallery by Alan Kleinberg
- Keith Haring by Tseng Kwong Chi
- Still Life by Kevin Larmon
- Two Paintings by Walter Robinson
- Anya Phillips by Walter Steding
- Four Drawings by William Wegman
- Untitled by Kit Grover
- For Djuna Barnes by Lan Payne
- Veil Portraits by Alf Young
- Untitled Painting by Betsy Berne
- Bobbie Oliver by Mimi Thompson
- Archaic Head by Brett DePalma
- Jack Rabbit by Cara Perlman
More
Taylor Mead. Photo by Bert Pence. Courtesy of John Leon Gallery
Alf Young makes portraits by suspending, one at a time, several lengths of sheer fabric in front of his subject. Tracing the person’s image onto the fabric. Each of the layers of lines are slightly out of sync. The images seem to stir. He is showing them at the newly established John Leon Gallery this October.
Related
MOLLY, MERCY, MADELINE,
MYRA, MAGGIE, MEREDITH,
MARLEY, MAGDA, MARGARET,
MINDY, MILLIE, MAGDALA,
MYRNA, MOIRA, MARIANNE,
MARLA, MAURA, MARIGOLD,
MEGHAN, MARY, MILLICENT,
MAITE, MAPLE, MITZI.
Oil painting on linen of a woman in a dress; The Web by Catherine Howe.
Originally published in
BOMB 4,
Fall 1982
Georgia Marsh, Paul Bowles, Michael McClard, Olivier Mosset & Fred Brathwaite, and Duncan Hannah. Cover by Mary Heilmann.
