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The Green Family Art Foundation is pleased to present Ian Lewandowski: Mighty Real, opening October 5, 2024, and remaining on view until January 26, 2025. Please join the Green Family Art Foundation for the opening reception of Ian Lewandowski: Mighty Real on Saturday, October 5, from 5 to 8 pm at 2111 Flora Street, Suite 110, Dallas, TX 75201. The opening reception is free and open to the public, no RSVP required. Complimentary valet parking and refreshments will be provided.
Mighty Real spans four years of photographs and a short film about The Saint, an underground members-only gay discotheque that stood between 1980 and 1988 in New York City’s East Village. Since 2020 Lewandowski has obsessively circled this place, interviewing and photographing surviving members, and extrapolating their recollections into staged constructed photographs. The Saint seems to have resisted its own documentation, perhaps rightfully so, and there is only scant physical evidence of its existence. The bulk of The Saint’s membership perished due to AIDS-related complications. The exhibition includes a new short film, Phoenix Rising, about the famed planetarium projector that hovered above the perfectly circular dance floor of The Saint, below a giant perforated steel dome.
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