An age of excess not just in art but fashion, music and society, the Eighties is now recognized as a decade of wildly creative and lasting originality. Internationally renowned painter Eric Fischl, one of the heroes of the epoch, is the curatorial advisor for this multi-media extravaganza, which revisits the East Village scene where he and Keith Haring, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Julian Schnabel, Cindy Sherman, April Gornik, Kenny Scharf, Robert Mapplethorpe, and Robert Longo were among the superstars. Fischl’s brilliant keynote for the show: “When I think about the 80s I think about the energy, the confusion, the passions and the fault lines. At that time, no one knew who was going to last, who was better, everything was just pushing everything else.”
Keith Haring, Subway Drawing, ca. 1984
Photographed by Tseng Kwong Chi, Courtesy © Muna Tseng Dance Projects, Inc.
That 80’s Show
March 18, 2019 – July 7, 2019-
Keith Haring, Subway Drawing, ca. 1984 Photographed by Tseng Kwong Chi, Courtesy © Muna Tseng Dance Projects, Inc.
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Keith Haring exhibition announcement and drawing, Courtesy of Hal Bromm Gallery, New York
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Annette Lemieux, The Human Comedy, 1987, oil and graphite on canvas, Courtesy of the Artist and Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York
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Basquiat in New York, 1987, Photographed by Tseng Kwong Chi, Courtesy © Muna Tseng Dance Projects, Inc.
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Gallery 2, L-R: Jonathan Lasker, Jean-Michel Basquiat
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Bryan Hunt with one of his Airships
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Jenny Holzer, Inflammatory Essays, 1979-1982, Courtesy of the artist
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Eric Fischl with his Portrait of Jerry and Roberta, c. 1987-1989, oil on linen, Courtesy of the artist. Photo: @fischlstudio
