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With his traveling Portrait Studio, Tom Warren photographed the artists, gallerists, publishers, and writers who redefined New York’s avant-garde.

Interview by Sara Rosen for Blind Magazine, The 1980′s Art Scene in New York. Pulpo Gallery, Hatje Cantz.

The 1980’s Art Scene in New York shipping March 1st from Amazon. Tom Warren Portrait Studio/Visual Journal.

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Tom Warren documented the downtown art scene, when life in the East Village was a haze of parties, gallery openings and activism.

My new book according to Vice. Recommend ordering from Pulpo Gallery.

The book is almost out. Here's a peek and a way to order from Pulpo Gallery, shipping from Germany. In the US you will not be charged for VAT. The publisher is planning a New York event for March, details to follow. I've requested US distribution, we'll see. Twice as many negatives were scanned then what made the book. If you are not in the book, hopefully the future will bring more. Not sure how I did it, but I took a lot of portraits especially in the 1980's. And I was on groove. Thank you!

In New York of the 1980s art was happening on the streets and in the clubs. Artists, critics, collectors, dealers, and curators were all attracted to the city of contrasts. They formed a vibrant art community and became the favored subjects of the omnipresent photographer, Tom Warren.

This is the complete online exhibit. Very soon the book will be out.

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Our online viewing rooms give art lovers, curators and collectors from around the world an opportunity to experience our exhibition program remotely. Discover our virtual art platform 24/7.

Launched today, Infinite View, my show at Gibson Contemporary curated by David Gibson.

John & Yoko Unfinished Music No. 2: Life With the Lions

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Loft 1979 40 Years in NY Best in 2020

Rene Ricard at the Red Bar 1982 in Summer of 1982, curated by Dan Cameron at Johannes Vogt Gallery 958 Madison Ave NY June 5 through July 5. Artist statements at the desk.

VJ 734 Paris 2015 09 24 Tres melancolique

Morton Feldman String Quartet II Pellegrini Quartet God Records Six LP Box

Well worth the price of admission. A subtle and sustained six hour piece, recorded in 2000 during a live performance. I prefer the Pellegrini interpretation over the Ives Quartet recording from 2001, hat(now)ART CD. The Pellegrini subtly more dynamic. The engineering is better too. I love this set. Edition of 300.

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Harry Bertoia 100th Anniversary Tribute set very nice indeed! Vinyl, DVD, Booklet and hand crafted box.

http://www.importantrecords.com/imprec/expimprec

The Wojnarovicz portrait was shot at Semaphore Gallery, Barry Blinderman let me use the space because he was interested in showing the results and I had held my Portrait Studio at Semaphore in the Spring which was also an exhibit. The collaboration show never happened, I distributed several prints to artists but never followed up to see the project through. If it wasn’t for James Poppitz of Fashion Moda, this collaboration wouldn’t have happened. (see the catalog of David Wojnarovicz, “History Keeps Me Awake At Night”) As I shot the photograph in June 1983 David asked me to frame the shot spaciously to allow him room to paint on. I did so, the only studio portrait I ever did like that. I shot a horizontal but when Giant Photo of Union Square printed it they took the liberty of orienting it from landscape to portrait cropping in the sides. Such is fate, it was gone with. I think James Poppitz picked the print up from the lab and delivered to David (as well as to the three other artists involved). I collected David’s from David. We met in the gas station parking lot along the Bowery that is now the B Bar and Grill. David brought up Peter Hujar, which made me think of Bidlo’s Factory at PS1 where I first met Peter. We had an excellent visit, the best I had with David. David said had we had this before he would have put more into the collaboration. I think it’s agreed it came out fine.

Tom Warren Portrait Studio at Fashion Moda South Bronx March 1983. I went up to the Moda in December 1982 as the Portrait Studio, to an event by Ansen Seeno. There was a scene at the Moda, a bit of Paradise in the Ghetto. The Portrait Studio melted into it, ate it up. I’ve never seen installation shots of my show, don’t have much of an image of it in my mind. Judging from portraits I took while the show was up and what was in the background, I either created totems of 20”x16” prints or a grid of them. integrating the photos with the other art on the walls, it was a three person exhibit. I had printed two 70”x52” Blow-Ups of group shots of the “Crew” from that December night, which were hung high, maybe one above the entrance. I returned to the Moda during the show and also periodically for the next two to three years to take portraits. Always a rewarding experience. The portraits were taken for the Community, that was the Modem Operondus of the Portrait Studio. I made it up there on a weekday afternoon during the show. After school the place filled up with kids, some of whom were in the photos. Wow, a nice place to be. Years later maybe in 2008, attending a South Bronx event I snuck out to a pizza restaurant. As I enjoyed my slice the place filled up. I wondered if it was remembered what I had done at the Moda back in the early 1980’s.

It’s the 80s as you’ve never seen it before. Explore the iconic decade when artwork became a commodity and the artist, a brand.

I have seventeen Portraits I took at Mike Bidlo’s performance of Andy Warhol's Factory in April 1984 at PS1, LIC, NY projected digital files to 55″x38″ monitor, through May 13th.

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