Limited edition MIX 23 t-shirts were designed by Carolee Schneemann, Scooter LaForge and Phoebe Legere.
Carolee Schneemann Scooter LaForge Phoebe Legere
Carolee Schneemann, multidisciplinary artist. Transformed the definition of art, especially discourse on the body, sexuality, and gender. The history of her work is characterized by research into archaic visual traditions, pleasure wrested from suppressive taboos, the body of the artist in dynamic relationship with the social body. Painting, photography, performance art and installation works shown at Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art; Whitney Museum of American Art; Museum of Modern Art, NYC; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; and most recently in a retrospective at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York entitled "Up To And Including Her Limits." Film and video retrospectives Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Museum of Modern Art, NY; National Film Theatre, London; Whitney Museum, NY; San Francisco Cinematheque; Anthology Film Archives, NYC.
In his paintings Scooter LaForge tranforms the gritty setting of urban existence into a land of enchantment, clmplete with secret gardens of delight and danger. The paintings present as recontextualized and updated fairy tales that seem to materialize from the imagination of his bewildered protagonists. Working in thick layers of brilliant hues, LaFo...rge offers bittersweet allegories for the emotional and psychological rollercoaster of life in a big city, reconciling wonderment and beauty with suggestins of danger, sorrow or pain. LaForge's paintings suggest a contemporary Candide, confronting protents of mortality while in pursuit of fleeting moments of beauty and joy.After receiving his painting degree at the University of Arizona, Scooter LaForge became legendary in the art scene in San Francisco. Having built up an impressive painting career in San Francisco, he packed up his bags and moved to New York City. Scooter lives and paints in his art studio in Manhattan's famous East Village.
Phoebe Legere is a dynamic performer on piano, accordion, cello, Native American flute, and synthesizer, with a four and half octave vocal range. Legere was still a teenager when she became the resident composer for the Wooster Group, which included Spaulding Grey and Willem Defoe. She was signed to Epic Records, had her Carnegie Hall debut as a composer and studied jazz with John Lewis of the Modern Jazz Quartet. Legere graduated from Vassar College, studied composition at the Juilliard School, studied piano at the New England Conservatory, and film scoring, orchestration and jazz arranging at the NYU Graduate School of Music Composition. Legere studied composition with Morton Subotnick, Wayne Oquin and Dinu Gezzo. Phoebe Legere opened for David Bowie on his National Tour in 1991. She led highly influential downtown bands, from Monad, to Ultra Monad To Blond Fox, Swingalicious. She has 10 CD's available for download on ITUNES.