Neke Carson paints Andy Warhol documentation of portrait session at the Factory. Photo by Anton Perich, Within the mix of drawings, photographs, newspaper clippings, flyers, books, and sculpture, the most compelling pieces for my purposes were a sculpture of a black satin pillow creased and indented as if kneeled on, and a series of drawings of inventions, such as a trampoline stretched from twelve hanged humans and miniskirts made out of presidential scalps.
Mingling peer-to-peer group therapy with a think tank and a party, Pillow Talk explores the intersections of sex, love, community, and communication from the privacy of hotel suites and apartments.
The series services art and art-adjacent people, so it was natural for a gallery opportunity to arise. In one, called The War Between the Clean and Dirty People , a gang of slime covered pin-ups battle similar but spotless figures who wield hoses, wearing shower heads as halos.
For fifteen years, up until a few years ago when he moved to Sag Harbor, Carson ran Tuesday and Thursday-night performance events out of the Gershwin Hotel, where Poet Laureates shared the stage with pop stars, fine artists, film actors, opera singers, and kink performers.
He was in one penthouse. A couple of houses down was Antonio Lopez, an incredible fashion illustrator. Absolutely fabulous.
