>Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte
>
>At 08:55 AM 8/9/96 -0600, you wrote:
>>Does anyone on list know of contemporary artists working with gun
>>imagery? I should add, I am primarily, if not exclusively, looking for
>>artists in the western states.
>>I am curating an exhibition on contemporary representations of the gun
>>(commenting on that Western mystique/myth, don't you know), and as a
>>recently transplanted Easterner living in the West, would appreciate any
>>leads.
>>
>>The exhibition is entitled, "The Armory Show," of course...
>>
>>Barbra Brady
>>Curator
>>Art Museum of Missoula
>>Missoula, Montana
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Vito Acconci is the name that springs instantly to mind. He's done a lot of
gun stuff; he now lives in New York, but I don't know where he's from.
Might be the west. Also Robert Longo. He's done some great huge gun
drawings, available through Metro Pictures in New York.

Elizabeth Licata
Castellani Art Museum
Niagara University
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