Curtis Cuffie
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Author: Cuffie, Curtis
Curtis Cuffie (1955-2002) was an artist from South Carolina, who found notoriety in the 1990s for the thrilling and surprising way he adorned the streets of New York’s East Village. This publication, the first on Cuffie, seeks to honor the artist by going backward to recover that which has been left behind. It places Cuffie’s own photographs and those of his companion Katy Able with pictures that photographers Margaret Morton and Tom Warren took of Cuffie and his art on the streets.Making use of whatever he could find to fashion works that were imaginative and real, Cuffie took the street for all it could provide: materials, an audience, a rhythm and a sense of the strange unexpectedness of public life. He was unhoused for stretches of his life, and his sculptures were viewed near to his outdoor quarters. His on-the-spot sculptures were woven into fences, hung from walls and sprawled along the Bowery and Cooper Square. Cuffie’s art was often removed by city sanitation, but new work would spring up soon after. Though little of his art survives today, a trove of photographs documenting it keeps him in the present.
ISBN 9781953691156. Blank Forms Editions. pb. 252 pages. 228 colour, 123 b/w ills. 27.3 x 20.3 cm.
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Curtis Cuffie (1955-2002) was an artist from South Carolina, who found notoriety in the 1990s for the thrilling and surprising way he adorned the streets of New York’s East Village. This publication, the first on Cuffie, seeks to honor the artist by going backward to recover that which has been left behind. It places Cuffie’s own photographs and those of his companion Katy Able with pictures that photographers Margaret Morton and Tom Warren took of Cuffie and his art on the streets.Making use of whatever he could find to fashion works that were imaginative and real, Cuffie took the street for all it could provide: materials, an audience, a rhythm and a sense of the strange unexpectedness of public life. He was unhoused for stretches of his life, and his sculptures were viewed near to his outdoor quarters. His on-the-spot sculptures were woven into fences, hung from walls and sprawled along the Bowery and Cooper Square. Cuffie’s art was often removed by city sanitation, but new work would spring up soon after. Though little of his art survives today, a trove of photographs documenting it keeps him in the present.
ISBN 9781953691156. Blank Forms Editions. pb. 252 pages. 228 colour, 123 b/w ills. 27.3 x 20.3 cm.
available