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Artist Statement:
RADIO AD: "Summer is almost
here and you will be the only
one not driving an S.U.V."
Ad in the LA Weekly: MINIMALLY
INVASIVE MICROSURGICAL
LIPOSCULTURING! You won't
believe how good you'll look!
(The Liposuction Institute of
Beverly Hills)
I have a friend whose biggest
dream is to be a feminine
little waifish thing instead
of a squat, overly muscled
bull dyke. The problem with
her dream is that she already
is a feminine little waifish
thing who looks like she just
stepped out of a Keene
painting. The squat, overly
muscled bull dyke exists only
in her mind. She's stopped
wearing baggy jeans slung low
and only wears skirts that
hide her legs completely.
Pre-empting rejection she
comes across as one of the
boys, except that she's the
only one of the boys who isn't
interested in sex, exuding no
sexuality, convincing us she
probably is lesbian,
furthering her conviction that
we see her that way because of
her body.
Ad in the LA Weekly: DIODE
LASER HAIR REMOVAL! We
understand that life is more
enjoyable when you are content
with your appearance! Our goal
is to help you feel good ...
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Artist Exhibitions:
2001: Group show, "Platinum
Oasis" w/ Ron Athey, Ann
Magnusen, Lydia Lunch, Kembra
Pfahler, etc., Los Angeles, CA
2001: Group show, The Creative
Center, North Hollywood, CA
2001: Group show,
"Neu-rotica", w/ Anthony
Ausgang, Becca, Justice
Howard, Dave Naz, etc., Holly
Matters Gallery, Los Angeles,
CA
1999: Group show, ...
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Artist Galleries:
Coming Soon!
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Collections:
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Commissions:
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Reviews for Geoff Cordner:
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"Cordner captures that space between breaths, where photography transcends documentation and morphs into the pure essence of being. A small moment in time where the subjects drop their natural defenses and instead of posing for the
shot, seem to exist forever, not trapped by their image, but for once, finally freed within it in."
Lydia Lunch
"Geoffrey Cordner is a thrift-shop visionary whose photographs capture the underbelly of pre-millennial America with a heart and ruthlessness that places him beyond trend and fashion, in a status all his own. Beyond his technical mastery, Cordner's particular genius is the way in which he inspires trust in his subjects, often those for whom all trust has been betrayed. Whether it's a smacked-out teenaged neo-punk or a sloe-eyed Hollywood hustler, Cordner goes beneath the ink and attitude to the damaged soul within. What Diane Arbus did for her gallery of mutants, and Nan Goldin did for her own crop of tormented hipsters, Geoff Cordner does for the denizens of his own outré universe. Having passed through international fashion and commercial advertising, album covers and rock'n'roll posters, this is a photographer who has abandoned the trappings of conventional success to bring us a world of savage, mind-blowing and relentless images the rest of us might never see." --JERRY STAHL, author of Permanent Midnight & Perv: a Love Story
"...some of the most incredible and visionary work seen during our tenure. Controversial, seeking, raw and indelibly modern, Cordner shoots from the hip and leaves the viewer with an elevated pulse, and a thick taste on the tongue of the morning after... Hard-hitting... drenched with black humor and asking big questions." --HEATHER CORRINA, Scarlet Letters
"A reprehensible, socially parasitic artist"--MS MAGAZINE
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