Final days to see LEE BROZGOL 1977–1981—an exhibition that returns the artist’s paintings to the lost world that shaped them.
In a West Village long since transformed, ghosts linger in brick, beam, and shadow. In this show, history isn’t just context, it’s material.
On view through July 13 at 150 Barrow Street, New York, NY
With gratitude to Alex Meurice of Foreign & Domestic and the Estate of Lee Brozgol for their support in bringing this project to life.
'Fire at the Everard Baths' (1977)
oil on canvas, 60 x 48 in
On May 25, 1977, a fire broke out at the Everard Baths in Manhattan’s flower district. Nine men were killed. Dozens were injured. There was no working sprinkler system.
Brozgol painted this work that same year.
At the center, a pale figure is lifted by a red eagle, echoing Michelangelo’s Ganymede. But here, he rises not to Olympus, but through flames, chaos, and falling bodies.
Around him, the scene unravels into collapse. Is he ascending or being offered? Saved, or sacrificed?
Brozgol gives us a myth recast as memorial. A moment of queer elevation framed by loss.
From LEE BROZGOL 1977–1981, now on view at the former Keller Hotel through July 13.
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‘Death of a Porno Star’ (1979)
In Lee Brozgol’s lurid altarpiece, the holy cross gives way to center stage. Grieving saints are recast as dancers and a mourning pimp; sacred oil is replaced by nail polish and perfume. Mourning robes become fishnets and heels, and stained glass now a cracked vanity mirror, adorned with faded family photos.
The painting mythologizes an alleged overdose at a Times Square strip club, reportedly front-page news that year. Casting this backroom tragedy as a pageant of grief and glamor, Brozgol offers up a devotional for a fallen world.
Now on view as part of LEE BROZGOL 1977—1981
150 Barrow Street, NYC
Wed–Sun, 12–7PM
Organized in collaboration with Foreign & Domestic and the estate of Lee Brozgol
Tommy Malekoff’s 'Desire Lines' (2019) is now on view at the Portland Museum of Art as part of Painting Energy: The Alex Katz Foundation Collection.
On view through September 14.
Join Tommy for an artist talk at the museum on Friday, July 11 at 12pm
@tommymalekoff@portlandmuseum
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#portlandmuseumofart
Now on view — LEE BROZGOL 1977–1981
The exhibition brings together seven previously unseen paintings made at the close of a vanished New York—erotic, violent, sacred and profane.
Installed inside the former Keller Hotel, once home to the city’s oldest leather bar, the show unfolds in dialogue with the long-erased Christopher Street Piers just beyond its walls.
Grateful to Alex Meurice of Foreign & Domestic and to the artist’s estate—Alizah, Fury and Royal—whose trust and support made this possible.
Open Wed–Sun, 12–7pm, through June 15
150 Barrow Street, NYC
📸: Francis Louvis
Opening May 7, 12-7pm—150 Barrow Street
LEE BROZGOL 1977–1981 brings together seven never-before-seen paintings from an early, incandescent period in the late artist’s practice. Made between 1977 and 1981, these works chart a vanished New York—erotic and violent, sacred and profane—across personal and mythic registers. Installed inside the former Keller Hotel—once home to Keller’s, the city’s oldest leather bar—the presentation unfolds in dialogue with the lost site of the Christopher Street Piers, Manhattan’s iconic queer sanctuary, just beyond the exhibition’s walls.
Organized in collaboration with Foreign & Domestic and the estate of Lee Brozgol.
Photo: Christopher Street Piers, Lee Brozgol, 1980. 35mm photograph.
🔥 Reissued & Remastered 🔥
Part garment, part document—the RAMMELLZEE: RACING FOR THUNDER long sleeves are back. Celebrating the sold-out first edition of the definitive monograph (2nd edition out now) and the artist’s major retrospective currently on view at The Palais de Tokyo in Paris (traveling to CAPC Bordeaux in 2026).
Teaming up again with LQQK Studio, we’ve refined the screen-printing process for a softer touch and richer detail. Limited run—available now online.
Also restocked: The Garbage Gods poster, in both yellow and black, originally distributed at Rammellzee’s 2018 retrospective at Red Bull Arts New York.
Link in bio.
RAMM:ELL:ZEE's Garbage Gods–captured by Harley Weir and styled by Akeem Smith—
for More Or Less magazine issue no. 08 - AW 2024
Thanks to the estate of Rammellzee, Jeffrey Deitch Gallery, and Jaime Pearlman
On View:
Tommy Malekoff
The Bluffs, 2024
February 4–10, 11–7pm
Cordoba 23a, Roma Norte, Mexico City
4k video and sound
7:37 min, continuous loop
📷: Ramiro Chaves
Elara Press presents the original soundtrack to Tommy Malekoff’s critically acclaimed multi-channel video installation, ‘Forever and Forever’—an exhibition we debuted in 2022 at an abandoned site in the bowels of Rockefeller Center.
Composed by Malekoff and musician Joe Williams, the soundtrack weaves together environmental sounds from the South Florida landscape into a dense collage, creating instruments out of weather alert sirens, car audio subwoofer competitions, and a minimalist mantra extracted from a cherished local club song.
Side B of ‘Forever and Forever’ features the original 18-minute track in reverse.
link in bio to read more about the exhibition
Design by 12:01 @1201.am
Mastering by Stephan Mathieu @studioschwebung
Lacquer by Kassian Troyer at D&M, Berlin @dubplates.mastering
