DEGENERATE! (Click here to see photographs from show) On Feb 22, 1997, GalleryInsekt opened the "DEGENERATE!" show, highlighting the work of fifteen Boston-area artists. This group show was a collection of expressionistic, controversial, and compelling works of art. The exhibit was meant to be a reference to the 1937 Munich show "Entartete Kunst" (Degenerate Art.) The fifty-some works in the show were hung in a manner resembling the presentation of the Nazi's show intended to ridicule some of the most innovative and expressive modern artists of the day. The DEGENERATE! show at GalleryInsekt was a celebration of the survival of experimental and expressionist art. The opening featured three short films-- two by Ben Cunningham, and one by Lisa Bufano, a poetry and fiction reading, five short experimental music pieces coordinated by Ross Hamlin, a quick but shocking performance stunt involving an SS officer and two soldiers, and lastly an hour of Swing dancing. Approximately three hundred people attended the downtown opening, packing the loftspace gallery on Kingston Street. List Of works in the show: Abby Bender Despair oil Abby Bender Swan Song oil Hannah Barrett Legal Secretary, Loan Officer, Contractor, Chief Of Staff photo/collage Catherine Bodock Living Water color photograph Rev. Chris Korda Brigette mixed media Martin Ulman Pope John Paul II mixed media Matthew Linton Gender Series b&w photographs Jennifer Howland Hill Kindred Spirits toned photograph Jennifer Howland Hill Power Lunch b&w photograph Darius Lalas (untitled) mixed media Michael McConnell Papal Obscenities oil on canvas Jerry Hooten Frolic oil on paper Jerry Hooten Selbstbild linoleum cut Jerry Hooten Candle Dancers linoleum cut Tara Dearborn (untitled) b&w photographs Glenn Wurz Eat Me acrylic Ricardo Gonzalez Blacaman the Bad, Vendor of Miracles oil on canvas Ricardo Gonzalez Iāll Throw Myself In The Wastebasket On My Own oil on paper Travis Lindquist Apocalyptic Figure in Rubber mixed media Travis Lindquist Head Pounding Full Of Shit oil on wood JPM The Gaunt Welcoming Symphony blockprint JPM Portrait as Disproportionately Gaunt Survivor oil on canvas

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