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Lizzy Bougatsos
Solo exhibition
The Breeder Playroom
The Breeder announces its participation in remap 2 with the inauguration of playroom, an autonomous project space housed in the second floor of the gallery, with the first European solo exhibition of Greek-American artist Lizzi Bougatsos. Lizzi was born in Queens, New York and her practice incorporates sculpture, collage, installation, writing and performance. Since 2000, she has been a founding member and lead singer for the punk-rock band Gang Gang Dance.
According to the artist the creative process comes as a reaction to the various stimuli she receives, while the materials she is using for her works are found in the streets of New York and other cities she visits whilst on tour with her band. The installation Birdhouse for Humans (2007), a house made out of cardboard in human size, occurred from an equivalent bird house made by a homeless person in New York. Multicultural elements in her artwork and music are combined creatively and organically with each other. However, the key element of her work as an artist and a performer is “melancholy” since for Bougatsos it is synonymous to “beauty”.
At her solo exhibition at the playroom Lizzi Bougatsos will be presenting among other works
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Lizzi Bougatsos
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Lizzi Bougatsos
Lizzi Bougatsos, the lead singer for the band Gang Gang Dance, is an underground art and fashion icon. One of the "enfants terribles" in the downtown art scene, Bougatsos has performed with her band at the Whitney Biennial, been interviewed by publications such as The Village Voice and Paper Magazine, and in 2010 was commissioned by the Guggenheim Museum Young Collectors Council.
Bougatsos' work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at James Fuentes LLC, New York, and the Breeder, Athens, Greece. It has also been included in group shows at Reena Spaulings Fine Art, New York, NY; Gavin Brown Enterprises, New York, NY; Honor Fraser, New York, NY; Museo d'arte Contemporanea di Roma, Milan, Italy; and White Columns, New York, NY, among others. In 2004, she received the Rema Hort Mann Foundation Visual Art Grant, and in 2008, she was featured at the Whitney Biennial.
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