The Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art recently announced the institution’s acquisition of works by Bob Mizer along with important pieces by contemporary artists Ryan Trecartin and Rodney McMillen.
The Mizer artwork includes two double-sided “catalog boards” of historical importance used in the production of catalogs of his thousands of images. “Mizer’s work is now within the walls of another major public institution,” said Dennis Bell, founder of the Bob Mizer Foundation. “As a result of our close collaboration with New York’s Invisible- Exports gallery and their groundbreaking solo Mizer exhibition last January, we are showing new audiences that Bob Mizer’s creative output is more Americana than anyone previously thought. Bob Mizer is a true artist.”
EXHIBITION: Bob Mizer: ARTIFACTS
INVISIBLE-EXPORTS is pleased to present Bob Mizer: ARTIFACTS, the New York solo debut of work and objects by Bob Mizer.
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Most widely known as a photographer-filmmaker, independent publisher, and midcentury iconoclast, Bob Mizer (1922-1992) was an erotic auteur and a lyrical chronicler of the pre-Stonewall demimonde.
In his meticulously staged idiosyncratic private work, Mizer revealed himself as a conscientious artist of intimacy and depth, a visionary stylist of the male-on-male gaze as it was refracted through a culture suffused with masculine iconography, which yet stymied and redirected the vectors of desire.
Even twenty years after his death, Bob Mizer still has scores of friends, new and old. With their help, we've reached over 150% of our stated goal on Kickstarter.com! We'll be moving forward now and acquiring quite a bit of photographic preservation supplies, storage furniture, and more. Thanks so much for your donations!
The bulk of photographer Bob Mizer's estate was unceremoniously thrown in the dumpster in 1992 after he died in Los Angeles. Fifty-year-old boxes of correspondence, studio props and personal artifacts from one of America’s most controversial artists are gone forever. Luckily the core of his life's work, consisting of about one million photographic negatives and thousands of 16mm films and videotapes, survived this irresponsible action and was boxed up and locked in storage for the next decade.
Now that is where you come in. Together, we can get proper archival storage materials and save it! Here's the main page link and a couple others.
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/den-bell/the-1000000-photos-of-bob-mizers-athletic-model-gu
or the SHORT LINK>>> http://kck.st/MagrQu
The video on YouTube: http://youtu.be/OIk45wEe8HY
BMF on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/BobMizerFoundation
Bob Mizer wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Mizer
Exile is pleased to present Bob Mizer: Select Private Works 1942-1992, featuring a special selection of private photos by American photographer and visual mastermind Bob Mizer, exhibited now for the very first time. Consisting of 26 modern custom Cibachrome prints carefully produced in strictly limited editions from never before seen vintage Kodachrome film positives, the exhibition gives an initial insight into this artist’s extensive personal work and creative process.
