#Joe Mama Nitzberg

[funstealer]

Carol Christian Poell tanned 'parkachute' vest with built-in raincoat $5,575, and Julius cotton and cashmere ribbed T-shirt, $350, both at Atelier; Trussardi pleated trousers, $695 Barneys; hooded sleeveless sweater, $509, and long distressed leather boots, $1,528, both at Rick Owens. Photo: Joe Mama Nitzberg for The New York Times’ article “When Fashion Goes for Broke” “These designers are really like artists — that’s how guys see them,” he said. “They feel they’re not doing it just to have another rack of clothes to sell. These are clothes that not everyone is going to have, and there’s a growing cachet in that.”

[surra-de-bunda]

“I was going to wear Versace to the Golden Globes in 2000 – it was already in my wardrobe – but the dress I ended up wearing was from John Galliano’s contentious Christian Dior haute couture collection that was “inspired” by homelessness [the New York Times described it as “tasteless chic”]. My good friends Arianne Phillips [the costume designer] and Joe Mama-Nitzberg [the artist] called me and said: “You have to wear couture!” I didn’t really get couture until this. My mind was blown – I thought: 'This is what they were talking about.'

The dress arrived and it was ridiculous. It was straight up and down and had twine on it. On the twine there was a book of matches, glass, all this taxidermy. I remember thinking: 'OK, it’s crazy-looking, but I’ll make it work.’”

[fuckyeahcourtneylove]

Rare photo of Courtney, Joe Mama Nitzberg and Melissa Auf der Maur. Circa 1998.

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"Joe Mama-Nitzberg [the artist]"

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[miss-rosen]

JOE MAMA-NITZBERG: PICTURE NOT PORTRAIT A Miss Rosen Interview

“Camp taste is, above all, a mode of enjoyment, of appreciation—not judgment. Camp is generous,” Susan Sontag wrote in her seminal 1964 essay Notes on “Camp.”

It is here that we begin—and return—in the work of Joe Mama-Nitzberg’s new exhibition, Picture, not Portrait, currently on view at Grant Wahlquist Gallery, Portland, ME, through November 11, 2017. The exhibition presents a selection of recent works that open questions and create space for dialogue about the interplay between technology, memory, identity, and the curious legacy of postmodernism.

Mama-Nitzberg is generous in his approach, simultaneously exploring and critiquing the complex ideas that most would prefer to put into reductive, didactic boxes of thought. Here, nothing is quite what it seems but all the better for us, as it opens up spaces for interrogation that are more often than not silenced.

The works in the exhibition peel back the layers of perception to expose the complications of reality, of the simultaneous spaces that are at one contradictory and complementary. Here, we are liberated from the authority of the absolute, free to experience the work in whatever way we wish. Mama-Nitzberg offers insight into his process, allowing us to see the ways in which are can be a vehicle for debate, discussion, and contemplation.

Read the Full Story at Miss Rosen

Top Artwork: Untitled (Elite Detachment Sontag), 2017. Pigment print on canvas. 36 x 24 inches. Courtesy of the artist and Grant Wahlquist Gallery.

Bottom Artwork: Untitled (Henri Matisse by Carl Van Vechten 1), 2017. Framed archival pigment print, 23.875 x 19.625 inches (framed). Courtesy of the artist and Grant Wahlquist Gallery.

[abbeywilliamsstudio]

UPCOMING:

Conversation with curator Joe Mama-Nitzberg and artist Abbey Williams Tuesday, September 11, 4:30 - 6:30 pm at The University at Albany Museum. UAM will be hosting a talk with curator Joe Mama-Nitzberg and artist Abbey Williams for a conversation about the work in the exhibition “Mickey Mouse has grown up a Cow” along with topics like parenting, technology, Andy Warhol, and everyone’s 15 minutes of fame. This event is free and open to the public and light refreshments will be served.

Click here to join the event on Facebook.

[abbeywilliamsstudio]

Great (2015) and OMG (2016) are up now at 

the University of Albany Museum in:

Mickey Mouse has grown up a Cow

Curated by Joe Mama-Nitzberg June 29 – September 15, 2018

Videos by artists including Kalup Linzy, Yoshie Sakai, Frances Stark, and Abbey Williams present differing points of view in addressing the representation of children and parenting and engage in dialogues often attributed to the work of Andy Warhol.

https://www.albany.edu/museum/exhibitions/20171129_mk.shtml