Towards the end of the show Arno over at Abril gives me the phone number of one of a group of GUSD educators who also happen to be GSA advisors. They stumbled across the show at his gallery (ACE/121 was closed) and wanted to talk about a collaboration.

 

I connect with the educator. She brings to hers and other GUSD-GSA’s the idea of doing a joint art show. It is decided and planning will begin February 2019. It will be a multi-generational art show that gives students a chance to show with professional artists in an art gallery. We meet after school hours with participating GSA advisors through the planning process. The meetings are led by the GSA advisors. Students participate during a few - not - all of the meetings. We arrive, we meet for an hour, we leave. We have no direct or unsupervised interaction with the students. The students don’t know I’m an artist, I never mention it, they never see my art. I do not have lessons with them or otherwise interact with them beyond these supervised planning meetings.

 

 

12/11/2018 - Good Reading Copy - John McIntyre, who will later do a longer LARB interview, includes in this article Pink Jerkoff Boy, writing, “On the other, we have nudes that carry the force of an imperative, as in Untitled(EO1) or Pink Jerk Off, as if to both assert his identity and satisfy the eternally intrusive..”