Not the latest Spam in your Inbox but the title of an exhibition of paintings by Liz Renay, shown at work, above.
According to Art News's review of her show at Deitch Projects, New York, Renay was the girlfriend of gangster Mickey Cohen. In 1959, she was jailed for three years when she refused to snitch on him before a grand jury. The show, according to the reviewer, was made up of two markedly different halves. First came Renay's paintings, of which she apparently produced around 150 during her jail term, all of them terrible. The second half comprised her publicity photographs, scrapbook pages of press clippings with her penciled notes, and a display case packed with bizarre trophies from her archive in the Burlesque Hall of Fame.
Have a look at the show on the Deitch site and judge for yourself. Is this further proof that prison simply doesn't work?
1 comment:
This lady was married a total of seven times, being divorced five times and widowed twice. It will be interesting to see her artistic work.
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