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David & Peter McDermott & McGough

David & Peter McDermott & McGough (Born 1952/58) is active/lives in New York.  David Peter McDermott McGough is known for Collaborative painting, homophobia themes, text based.

James Fuentes, 55 Delancey Street, Through Oct. 23

In the East Village in the 1980s, the artists David McDermott and Peter McGough made a striking couple. They dressed as Victorian swells and lived in a home devoid of modern conveniences such as electricity and plumbing. Their art, like that of the British duo Gilbert and George, consisted both of a continuous, lived performance and of work — paintings, photographs, sculptures, films — that the performance produced.

A text-based painting in the 1987 Whitney Biennial brought them wide attention. Titled A Friend of Dorothy, 1943, it was composed entirely of old-time homosexual slurs: fairy, pansy, nellie, etc. Although in the present era of same-sex marriage, it’s easy to forget the stir the painting once caused, the artists set out to remind us in their current show at James Fuentes.

The painting’s words appear here again, but now woven into an outsize wool sweater, the suggestion being that they aren’t just   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 1981 characters.]  Artist bio

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