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Interviewee:

Blake, Nayland, 1960-  Search this

Interviewer:

Fialho, Alex, 1989-  Search this

Names:

ACT UP San Francisco (Organization)  Search this

Visual Arts and the AIDS Epidemic: An Oral History Project  Search this

Extent:

59 Pages (Transcript)

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Pages

Interviews

Sound recordings

Date:

2016 November 25-26

Scope and Contents:

An interview with Nayland Blake, conducted 2016 November 25-26, by Alex Fialho, for the Archives of American Art's Visual Arts and the AIDS Epidemic: An Oral History Project, at Blake's home in Brooklyn, New York.

Blake speaks of growing up in a bi-racial family in New York City; visiting museums, art exhibits and shows, and going to the theatre with their parents; attending Charlotte Moorman's Avant Garde Festivals as a teenager; relating their emerging sexuality to the television shows Batman, The Addams Family, and Star Trek; the decision to attend Bard College; the influence of Times Square Show; co-organizing Bard's first gay and lesbian alliance; attending California Institute of the Arts and the different culture they experienced there; their struggle to make explicitly gay work without it being beefcake; not feeling connected to a gay community in Los Angeles but feeling camaraderie with other artists; their decision to move to San Francisco; first hearing about HIV/AIDS while at CalArts and experiencing the first loss of a friend in San Francisco; the undercurrent of more and more men testing positive in their community; the long two-week wait to receive test results; the generational split within the gay community and how that was squashed by the epidemic; the subjects of mortality and mourning in gay art and how that changed the reception of gay artists; the gay and lesbian shows Extended Sensibilities and Against Nature; the organization of ACT UP San Francisco and subsequent split into ACT UP SF, ACT UP Golden Gate, and ACT UP San Francisco; the "imperiled and heightened physicality" Blake began using in their work; participating in Art Against Aids on the Road; directly addressing the frequency of AIDS deaths in their piece Every 12 Minutes; the social network of caregivers that rallied to support those dying from AIDS through home care and food delivery; curating In A Different Life; the pleasure in curating shows; The Shreber Suite installation pieces; purchasing Wayland Flowers' puppet Madame at auction; being a child of the '60s and believing sex is an expression of one's cultural identity; feeling attacked by the dismissive and oppressive Republican government in the 1980s; the extensive symbolism and meaning in their bunny themed work; the technology boom's affect on the Bay Area and their return to New York City; the show Double Fantasy about their relationship with their partner Philip Horvitz; teaching at International Center for Photography and their work in the kink community; the distance their students have to the HIV/AIDS epidemic; and their identification as an American artist. Blake also recalls Jeff Preiss, Cliff Preiss, William Hohauser, Debra Pierson, Nancy Mitchnick, Jake Grossberg, Robert Kelly, Kathy Acker, Gerry Pearlberg, Kathe Burkhart, Judie Bamber, Catherine Opie, Nancy Barton, Julie Ault, William Olander, Robert Glueck, Kevin Killian, Dodie Bellamy, D-L Alvarez, Stephen Evans, Michael Jenkins, Richard Hawkins, Ann Philbin, Rick Jacobsen, Amy Sholder, David Wojnarowicz, Rudy Lemcke, A.A. Bronson, Philip Horvitz, and others.

Biographical / Historical:

Nayland Blake (1960-) is a performance artist and installation artist in New York, New York. Alex Fialho (1989-) is a curator and arts writer who is the Programs Director for Visual AIDS in New York, New York.

General:

Originally recorded as 4 digital wav files. Duration is 5 hr., 49 min.

Provenance:

This interview is part of the Archives of American Art Oral History Program, started in 1958 to document the history of the visual arts in the United States, primarily through interviews with artists, historians, dealers, critics and administrators.

Topic:

Installations (Art)  Search this

Performance artists -- New York (State) -- New York -- Interviews  Search this

African American artists  Search this

Genre/Form:

Interviews

Sound recordings

Sponsor:

Funded by the Keith Haring Foundation.

Identifier:

AAA.blake16

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw97a70d548-59b6-40ed-83e3-54d0fb340c9c

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-blake16

Interviewee:

Wilson, Anne, 1949-  Search this

Interviewer:

Riedel, Mija, 1958-  Search this

Subject:

Nanette L. Laitman Documentation Project for Craft and Decorative Arts in America  Search this

Type:

Sound recordings

Interviews

Citation:

Quotes and excerpts must be cited as follows: Oral history interview with Anne Wilson, 2012 July 6-7. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Topic:

Women artists  Search this

Theme:

Women  Search this

Chicago's Art-Related Archival Materials: A Terra Foundation Resource  Search this

Record number:

(DSI-AAA_CollID)16058

(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)311365

AAA_collcode_wilson12

Theme:

Women

Chicago's Art-Related Archival Materials: A Terra Foundation Resource

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_oh_311365

Interviewee:

Wilson, Anne, 1949-  Search this

Interviewer:

Riedel, Mija, 1958-  Search this

Creator:

Nanette L. Laitman Documentation Project for Craft and Decorative Arts in America  Search this

Names:

Nanette L. Laitman Documentation Project for Craft and Decorative Arts in America  Search this

Extent:

98 Pages (Transcript)

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Pages

Sound recordings

Interviews

Date:

2012 July 6-7

Scope and Contents:

An interview of Anne Wilson conducted 2012 July 6 and 7, by Mija Riedel, for the Archives of American Art's Nanette L. Laitman Documentation Project for Craft and Decorative Arts in America, at Wilson's home, in Evanston, Illinois.

Biographical / Historical:

Interviewee Anne Wilson (1949- ) is a fiber artist and installation artist in Chicago, Illinois. Interviewer Mija Riedel (1958- ) is an independent scholar in San Francisco, California.

General:

Originally recorded as 7 sound files. Duration is 5 hr., 15 min.

Provenance:

This interview is part of the Archives of American Art Oral History Program, started in 1958 to document the history of the visual arts in the United States, primarily through interviews with artists, historians, dealers, critics and administrators.

Restrictions:

For information on how to access this interview contact Reference Services.

Occupation:

Fiber artists -- Illinois -- Chicago  Search this

Topic:

Women artists  Search this

Genre/Form:

Sound recordings

Interviews

Sponsor:

Funding for this interview was provided by the Nanette L. Laitman Documentation Project for Craft and Decorative Arts in America.

Transcription of this oral history interview was made possible by a grant from the Smithsonian Women's Committee.

Identifier:

AAA.wilson12

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw911222f03-ae2a-4775-8c69-d3f84ee5c4af

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-wilson12

Interviewee:

Murch, Anna Valentina, 1948-2014  Search this

Interviewer:

Riedel, Mija, 1958-  Search this

Subject:

United States. General Services Administration. Design Excellence and the Arts Oral History Project  Search this

Type:

Sound recordings

Interviews

Citation:

Quotes and excerpts must be cited as follows: Oral history interview with Anna Valentina Murch, 2010 May 21-22. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Topic:

Women artists  Search this

Theme:

Women  Search this

Record number:

(DSI-AAA_CollID)15824

(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)290223

AAA_collcode_murch10

Theme:

Women

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_oh_290223

Interviewee:

Gómez-Peña, Guillermo, 1955-  Search this

Interviewer:

Franco, Josh T., 1985-  Search this

Subject:

Pandemic Oral History Project  Search this

Type:

Interviews

Video recordings

Citation:

Quotes and excerpts must be cited as follows: Oral history interview with Guillermo Gómez-Peña, 2020 September 11. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Topic:

Pandemics  Search this

COVID-19 (Disease)  Search this

Latino and Latin American artists  Search this

Theme:

Latino and Latin American  Search this

Record number:

(DSI-AAA_CollID)21995

AAA_collcode_gomez20

Theme:

Latino and Latin American

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_oh_21995

Interviewee:

Blake, Nayland, 1960-  Search this

Interviewer:

Fialho, Alex, 1989-  Search this

Subject:

Visual Arts and the AIDS Epidemic: An Oral History Project  Search this

ACT UP San Francisco (Organization)  Search this

Type:

Interviews

Sound recordings

Citation:

Quotes and excerpts must be cited as follows: Oral history interview with Nayland Blake, 2016 November 25-26. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Topic:

Installations (Art)  Search this

Performance artists -- New York (State) -- New York -- Interviews  Search this

African American artists  Search this

Theme:

African American  Search this

Record number:

(DSI-AAA_CollID)17406

(DSI-AAA_SIRISBib)384314

AAA_collcode_blake16

Theme:

African American

Data Source:

Archives of American Art

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:AAADCD_oh_384314

Creator:

Kushner, Robert, 1949-  Search this

Names:

98 Green St. Loft  Search this

Clocktower Gallery  Search this

Kitchen, The  Search this

Paula Cooper Gallery  Search this

St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery (New York, N.Y.)  Search this

Goldin, Amy  Search this

Solomon, Holly  Search this

Extent:

4.6 Linear feet

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Sound recordings

Video recordings

Place:

SoHo (New York, N.Y.)

Date:

1967-2011

Summary:

The papers of the artist Robert Kushner measure 4.6 linear feet and date from 1967 to 2011. The collection documents primarily the early career of Robert Kushner through performance videos and other media artworks, correspondence, notes, lab records, inventories, an exhibition proposal, and subject files regarding critic Amy Goldin.

Scope and Contents:

The papers of the artist Robert Kushner measure 4.6 linear feet and date from 1967 to 2011. The collection documents primarily the early career of Robert Kushner through performance videos, other media artworks, correspondence, notes, lab records, inventories, an exhibition proposal, and subject files regarding critic Amy Goldin.

Performances and artworks comprise the bulk of the collection and include video recordings, sound recordings, and motion picture films documenting works by Robert Kushner created between circa 1967 and 1982. Most of the video footage documents live performances of Kushner's pageants and fashion shows that took place between 1972 and 1981, primarily in art spaces in the SOHO district of New York City. In addition to live performance documentation, videos and films include four moving image artworks, recorded music used in performances, and publicity including a television news magazine segment featuring Kushner and his edible costumes. Paper documentation of Kushner's video recordings includes correspondence, notes, lab records, performance programs, edit worksheets, and inventories of Kushner's performance videos. An exhibition file contains documentation of the development of a proposed exhibition from 1999-2000 entitled "Pret-a-porter: Robert Kushner, performance and fashion, 1970-1980."

Subject files compiled by Robert Kushner regarding critic Amy Goldin (1926-1978), Kushner's former teacher and close friend, contain mainly photocopies and a few original documents. Included are published and unpublished writings, letters to and from Goldin, photographs, and biographical material. A small amount of original primary sources related to Goldin are also found.

Arrangement:

Collection is arranged in 3 series:

Series 1: Performances and Artwork, 1967-1988 (Boxes 1-4, FC 6-7; 3.7 linear feet)

Series 2: Video Documentation and Exhibition Proposal, 1988-2002 (Box 4; 0.2 linear feet)

Series 3: Research Material on Amy Goldin, 1971-2011 (Boxes 4-5; 0.7 linear feet)

Biographical / Historical:

Robert Kushner (1949- ) is a New York, N.Y.-based painter of the Pattern and Decoration movement and an installation artist who began his career as a performance artist.

Kushner was born in Pasadena, California in 1949 and studied visual arts at the University of California at San Diego, La Jolla in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Kushner met and worked closely with the critic Amy Goldin at UCSD, and his work was strongly influenced by her scholarship and thinking about non-Western visual cultures, particularly regarding Islamic decorative art.

Kushner began his work with fashion, costume, and performance in the early 1970s in New York City. He performed and exhibited in the many SOHO art spaces that emerged at that time supporting avant garde and experimental art, such as the 98 Greene Street Loft, the Kitchen, The Clocktower, St. Mark's Church, and Paula Cooper Gallery. The work evolved from the creation of soft sculptures using found materials, to the creation of costumes and fashion "lines" with nontraditional materials, including fresh food, which he presented in the performance genres of pageants and fashion shows, using models to exhibit his works before live audiences. In 1973, art dealer Holly Solomon became a champion of his work. He was a founding member of the Pattern and Decoration movement beginning in the mid-1970s, and his performance, costume, and paintings are strongly associated with that movement.

Kushner has exhibited his work widely, with major exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, and the Philadelphia Institute of Contemporary Art. Kushner's work is included in the permanent collections of the Brooklyn Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the National Gallery of Art, among many others. He is represented in New York by the DC Moore Gallery.

Provenance:

Donated 2013 by Robert Kushner.

Restrictions:

Use of original papers requires an appointment and is limited to the Archives' Washington, D.C. Research Center.

Topic:

Painters -- New York (State) -- New York  Search this

Performance artists -- New York (State) -- New York  Search this

Pattern and decoration (Art movement)  Search this

Genre/Form:

Sound recordings

Video recordings

Citation:

Robert Kushner papers, 1967-2011. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Sponsor:

Funding for the preservation of the video and sound recordings and motion picture film digitization was provided by Bridget Moore.

Identifier:

AAA.kushrobe

See more items in:

Robert Kushner papers

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw9461894b1-9774-4831-b4de-493e481e4633

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-kushrobe

Creator:

Klausner, Betty  Search this

Names:

Anglim, Paule  Search this

Barlow, Francis Hill  Search this

Berkson, Bill  Search this

Bourne, Agnes  Search this

Brandt, Damon  Search this

Dunn, Douglas  Search this

Garrels, Gary  Search this

Gorney, Jay, 1896-1990  Search this

Hatch, Ann  Search this

Ireland, Barbara  Search this

Ireland, David, 1930-2009  Search this

Ireland, Judy  Search this

Ireland, Marsha  Search this

Ireland, Shaun  Search this

Koss, PierPaolo  Search this

Levy, Leah  Search this

Lewallen, Constance  Search this

Linhares, Philip E.  Search this

Melchert, Jim, 1930-  Search this

Myers, Jeannie  Search this

Pinegar, Richard  Search this

Reed, Jane  Search this

Reynolds, Jock  Search this

Storr, Robert  Search this

Tanner, Marcia  Search this

Thompson, Mark, 1952-  Search this

Tingle, Alta  Search this

Tsujimoto, Karen.  Search this

Extent:

3 Linear feet

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Date:

1987-2004

Scope and Contents:

Research material including interviews, writings, photographs of works of art and printed material regarding conceptual artist David Ireland for the book "Touching Time and Space: A Portrait of David Ireland" by Klausner. Interviews are with Ireland as well as Paule Anglim, Robert Atkins, Bill Berkson, Frances Hill Barlow, Agnes Bourne, Damon Brandt, Douglas Dunn, Gary Garrels, Jay Gorney, Ann Hatch, Barbara Ireland, Judy Ireland, Marsha Ireland, Shaugn Ireland, P. Koss, Leah Levy, Connie Lewallen, Phil Linhares, James Melchert, Jeannie Myers, Richard Pinegar, Jane Reed, Jock Reynolds, Robert Storr, Marcia Tanner, Mark Thompson, Alta Tingle, and Karen Tsujimoto. Most, but not all, are transcribed. Writings include drafts and notebooks. Printed material includes exhibition catalogs and newspaper clippings.

Biographical / Historical:

Betty Klausner: Art historian, San Francisco, Calif. David Ireland: Conceptual and installation artist, San Francisco, Calif. b. 1930

Provenance:

Donated 2007 by Betty Klausner.

Restrictions:

Use of original papers requires an appointment and is limited to the Archives' Washington, D.C., Research Center. Contact Reference Services for more information.

Occupation:

Art historians -- California -- San Francisco  Search this

Topic:

Conceptual art  Search this

Women art historians  Search this

Identifier:

AAA.klaubett

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw991371fab-b516-479b-bf24-e9ec85ccefd0

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-klaubett

Interviewee:

Gómez-Peña, Guillermo  Search this

Interviewer:

Franco, Josh T., 1985-  Search this

Names:

Pandemic Oral History Project  Search this

Extent:

1 Item ((23 min.), digital, mp4)

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Interviews

Video recordings

Date:

2020 September 11

Scope and Contents:

An interview with Guillermo Gómez-Peña conducted 2020 September 11, by Josh Franco, for the Archives of American Art's Pandemic Oral History Project at Gómez-Peña's home in San Francisco, California.

Biographical / Historical:

Guillermo Gómez-Peña (1955- ) is a Chicano performance artist, arts educator, installation artist, and activist in San Francisco, California. Gómez-Peña was a founding member of Border Arts Workshop and is the executive director of La Pocha Nostra.

Provenance:

This interview is part of the Archives of American Art Oral History Program, started in 1958 to document the history of the visual arts in the United States, primarily through interviews with artists, historians, dealers, critics and administrators.

Restrictions:

This interview is open for research.

Rights:

The Archives of American Art makes its Oral History Program interviews available for non-commercial, educational and personal use unless restricted by donor restrictions, including but not limited to access and publication restrictions. Quotation, reproduction and publication of the audio is governed by restrictions. If an interview has been transcribed, researchers must quote from the transcript. If an interview has not been transcribed, researchers must quote from the audio recording. Please refer to the Smithsonian's Terms of Use for additional information.

Occupation:

Performance artists -- California -- San Francisco  Search this

Installation artists -- California -- San Francisco  Search this

Educators -- California -- San Francisco  Search this

Political activists -- California -- San Francisco  Search this

Topic:

Pandemics  Search this

COVID-19 (Disease)  Search this

Latino and Latin American artists  Search this

Genre/Form:

Interviews

Video recordings

Sponsor:

This interview received Federal support from the Latino Initiatives Pool, administered by the Smithsonian Latino Center.

Identifier:

AAA.gomez20

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw9027e7ef2-e875-4a60-a06c-832a7bc07a77

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-gomez20

Creator:

Matsumoto, Masashi  Search this

Names:

Dickey, Terry P. -- Interviews  Search this

Labaudt, Marcelle, 1892-1987 -- Interviews  Search this

Linhares, Philip E. -- Interviews  Search this

Loeffler, Carl E., 1946- -- Interviews  Search this

Maclay, David, 1946- -- Interviews  Search this

Marioni, Tom, 1937- -- Interviews  Search this

Wettersten, Ansel -- Interviews  Search this

Williams, Helen -- Interviews  Search this

Extent:

0.01 Linear feet (1 folder containing 8 items)

Type:

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Date:

1976

Scope and Contents:

A 15-page speech, l976, in which Matsumoto discusses 7 alternatives to the "traditional museum setting" for exhibiting in the San Francisco area; and transcripts of interviews with the directors of the 7 alternative galleries, including Ansel Wettersten of the Capricorn Asunder Gallery, Madame Labaudt of the Lucien Labaudt Gallery, Terry Dickey of the Galerie de la Raza, Carl Loeffler of the La Mamelle Art Center, David Maclay and Helen Williams of the Open Studios, Phil Linhares of the Emanuel Walter Gallery in the San Francisco Art Institute, and Tom Marioni of the Museum of Conceptual Art.

Provenance:

Donated 1976 by Elsa Cameron.

Restrictions:

Use of original papers requires an appointment and is limited to the Archives' Washington, D.C., Research Center. Microfilmed materials must be consulted on microfilm. Contact Reference Services for more information.

Occupation:

Installation artists -- California -- San Francisco  Search this

Painters -- California -- San Francisco  Search this

Function:

Art museums -- California

Identifier:

AAA.matsmasa

Archival Repository:

Archives of American Art

GUID:

https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/mw9f84217a2-e7de-4be4-85e9-0dc67238d1b5

EDAN-URL:

ead_collection:sova-aaa-matsmasa