The East Village art scene in the 1980s was driven by avant-garde artists who understood the only way to make their way in the world was to do it for themselves. Hailing from all corners of the country, they descended on the Lower East Side, a then-predominantly Puerto Rican and Eastern European neighbourhood, setting up storefront galleries, like that run by artist Tim Greathouse (1950–1998).
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With the establishment of his galleries Oggi Domani and Greathouse, the West Virginian native set forth to bring photography into focus, curating early exhibitions for artists Zoe Leonard, Jimmy De Sana, Ken Schles, Kathe Burkhart, and Ann Messner. But less known was Greathouse’s work as an artist himself; this month, Greathouse’s rarely seen drawings, paintings, and vintage photographs are now being celebrated in a new exhibition Tim Greathouse: Albeit at Daniel Cooney Fine Art in New York.
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