THE ADDICTION

Shot in black and white in mid 90’s NYC, starring Lili Taylor and Christopher Walken, scored with golden age hip hop tracks, Abel Ferrara’s art house film exploits vampire tropes to explore religious themes of damnation, redemption and the collapse of a moral order. Backdrop of AIDS and addicts… Gritty, philosophical, visceral, adult horror business- Abel and Nicholas St. John doing their thing on the fringes. Available on YouTube and Amazon premium.

Annette Lemieux

This week’s art post features the great work of Annette Lemieux. She works in a variety of media and works in a theater of memory, examining aporias in accepted, dominant narratives. Check her work at her website.

SPIN 2017 Pigment inkjet on cotton

Left Right Left Right 1995 30 photolithographs

ANNETTE LEMIEUX Mon Amour 1987 Gelatin Silver, AP1/1

Fumeé 2015 ink prints on paper

AREA OF REFUGE 2017 Pigment inkjet on cotton

Black Mass, 1991, Latex, acrylic, oil on canvas

Untitled 1994, Photogravure and stencil

“She’s looked at archetypical images from art — 20th century art history, but also film — and edited them and tweaked them to give them new meaning, whether that’s cheeky or critical, She’s always taking something from the world and turning it on its head to give it new meaning.”

— Al Miner, Boston Museum of Fine Arts

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Mitchell Inns & Nash, Annette Lemieux

Whitney Museum, Annette Lemieux

Quote and Portrait Credit: WBUR, Annette Lemieux, Whose Art Addresses History And Politics, Wins MFA’s $10K Prize