Kalup Linzy
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Kalup Linzy is video and performance artist living and working in Brooklyn, New York.
Kalup Linzy’s clever and unique voice lampoons and satirizes various forms of film & television such as Hollywood tearjerkers and soap operas. He deals with highly charged themes such as gender, sexuality, race, class, and popular culture. His takes on these issues are eloquently fused into his delightfully raunchy videos and performances Conversations Wit De Churen, Diva in Distress and All My Churen. Multi-tasking as a writer, director, actor, and editor, his film approach recalls the early styles of John Waters, Andy Warhol, and George C. Wolfe. Using multi-layered characters and subplots that weave through the works, he constructs powerful critiques of the laws of romance and desire, family and trust, truth and hypocrisy. He manages to go for the jugular with uproarious humor, while at the same time his keen sense of truth is unwaveringly present. We the viewers are forced to confront the ways we deal with our own yearnings and acknowledge the dirty little secrets that everyone knows. Whitfield Lovell, visual artist
Linzy's work has been exhibited in major museums throughout the world including The Studio Museum in Harlem, Museum of Contemporary Art, Australia, and P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center in Long Island City, New York. In addition, his work has been reviewed in The New York Times, Art in America, and Artforum. He is currently represented by Taxter and Spengeman Gallery in New York. Video clips of the artist's work can be seen at http://www.youtube.com/user/kklinzy
