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GREER LANKTON PHOTO ARCHIVE 2

At the funeral of East Village artist Greer Lankton, held just over ten years ago in November 1996, her grieving parents displayed a family picture showing an ordinary middle-class mother and father, brother and sister all standing on a beach in khaki shorts, tees and walking shoes. Their hair was blowing and their suntanned faces were all smiling for the camera. Posing next to the group of happy hikers was the youngest child. Pretty, pale and model-thin with neatly coiffed blonde hair, she wore a stunning black Chanel outfit accessorized with jewelry, high heels and red lipstick. It was Greer Lankton. Only weeks earlier, the sickly but still glamorous Lankton had attended the opening of "It’s about Me. . . Not You," a modest retrospective installation at the Mattress Factory in Pittsburgh. Lankton’s sculpted dolls, mounted body parts, photographs, paintings, heroine shrines and memorabilia were displayed in a perfect reconstruction of her tiny studio apartment in Chicago. A minor scandal erupted over the nude photo of Greer that graced the exhibition’s poster, but the fuss only added to the crowds and critical acclaim.    ( GREER LANKTON, A MEMOIR - by Julia Morton - complet text here ) GREER LANKTON MENU