Who are Catherine Opie and Eileen Myles?
Two influential feminist voices in conversation
"If you have admired for years Catherine Opie and Eileen Myles as celebrities of American photography and punk poetry, respectively – and as icons of lesbian feminist culture – you probably already have tickets to their Glasstire "Off Road" talk."
"Maybe more than you think you want to know about Catherine Opie appeared a few weeks ago in Ariel Levy's profile of her in The New Yorker, starting with that Madonna and Child-inspired opening self-portrait, nude, with her infant son sucking her breast just below the scar of that "Pervert" cutting she did on herself years ago, during her sadomasochistic days.And maybe you think you know all you need to know about Opie's friend Eileen Myles from that Amazon show "Transparent," written by Myles' girlfriend Jill Soloway, which has a poet character based on her.
If you have admired the women for years as celebrities of American photography and punk poetry, respectively – and as icons of lesbian feminist culture – you probably already have tickets to their Glasstire "Off Road" talk Saturday."— Molly Glentzer, Apr. 28, 2017
Read the full article at the Houston Chronicle website.