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KEYS TO OUR HEART (2008) BY KALUP LINZY
Kalup Linzy is an American video and performance artist currently living and working in Brooklyn. Born in 1977 in Stuckey, Florida, Linzy graduated from the MFA program at the University of South Florida in 2003. He also attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and in 2005 received a grant from the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation. In 2007, he was named a Guggenheim fellow and in 2008 he received a Creative Capital Grant and a fellowship from the Jerome Foundation. Linzy's best known work is a series of video art pieces satirizing the tone and narrative approach of television soap opera. Linzy performs most of the characters himself, many of them in drag. Linzy also performs on stage using many of the same characters. His work has been reviewed in The New York Times, Art in America, and Artforum. In 2007, New York Magazine named him one of the ten most promising artists. For more information visit www.kaluplinzy.net.

 
 
USER COMMENTS
I think there is some nice shots here.
ALEX    19-01-2009
would you call it a period drama? I love it!
donnie    19-01-2009
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