Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt "Tender Love Among the Junk"
MOMA PS1
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Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt’s mixed-media constructions, collages, and installations are marked by a trashy opulence concocted from household items and dollar stores. Mimicking Byzantine decoration with cellophane, aluminum foil, tinsel and glitter, Lanigan-Schmidt (American, b. 1948) pioneered a maximalist aesthetic in the late 1960s that explored gay sexuality, class struggle, and religion. Mingling high with low, and sacred with profane, Lanigan-Schmidt bucked the reductive tastes of conceptualism and minimalism that dominated his youth, creating a radically decorative practice that, despite its influence, has never been properly assimilated into the history of American art.
[Image: Thomas Lanigant-Schmidt "The Infant of Prague as a Personification of Liberation Theology" (1986) Mixed media on pane. 49 x 36 in. Courtesy International Collage Center]
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from November 18, 2012 to April 01, 2013