Using her bare breasts as paintbrushes, Berlin, beginning in the ’70s, made “tit prints,” in which her pigment-laden aureoles produced forms that resemble balloons and angelfish.
Even more scandalous are three of the chapbooks in which she kept drawings she cajoled artists into making of their penises.
She was making the ‘tit prints’ without thinking of burning her bra.
What really matters is what is in the work.”Like Powell, Berlin in many of her Polaroids documented the Warhol entourage.
The show concludes with homages to Berlin made by artists today, including Francesco Clemente, Jenna Gribbon and Jane Kaplowitz.
Persons:
Jasper Johns, Leonard Cohen, Dennis Hopper, Robert Smithson, Brice Marden, ” Gingeras, “, ”, Warhol, Gingeras, Willem de Kooning, John Cage, Francesco Clemente, Jenna Gribbon, Jane Kaplowitz
Locations:
Berlin, Powell