1.Joseph F Lovett, curated by Mary Barone “Gay Sex in the 70s” Issue 21
Curator’s Note: Tom Bianchi’s Polaroids from the 70s were the beginnings of his career as a photographer. When I interviewed him for my film GAY Sex in the 70s, we looked over the Polaroids that I watched him take 30 years ago. I was struck by how they captured the sensuality of the era. I was so happy to be able to use them in the film and to show a selection of them in zing.
Joseph F Lovett, Director of GAY Sex in the 70s www.gaysexinthe70s.com, www.tombianchi.com
2. Jane Hart “Hollywood 101” Issue 15
Curator’s Note: Jane Hart is a curator, publisher, and artist who resides in Beachwood Canyon, Los Angeles —the location of the Hollywood sign. From somewhat humble origins, this now historic structure has become one of the most photographed an iconic landmarks on the planet. Each day, countless individuals throng to the intersection of the small cul-de-sac where Ms. Hart lives and works—which provides a prime vantage point for capturing images of the sign nestled up above in the hills.
3. Misaki Kawaii “Vitamin Island” Issue 22
Curator’s Note: thanks for putting my works in this issue! when I was little, my mom was looking for me in home. she found me playing in the toilet. after that day, my mom put lock on the toilet door. I love tropical ocean!
4. Luis Miguel Suro & Rodolfo Riviera “Language of Flowers” Issue 20
Curator’s Note: I invited Rodolfo Rivera to join this artist project by asking him to realize a series of decorative oil/canvas flower patterns for ceramics, a practice he has been realizing in the last 40 years in my father’s ceramic workshop in Tlaquepaque, I intend to demonstrate that a painting, strategic for decorative and visual purposes only, can, by switching materials (like oil/canvas), open a strong reference to the presence of flowers and nature’s interpretation in the history of art.
5. Enoc Perez “Form & Memory” Issue 22
Curator’s Note: Enoc Perez is an artist living and working in New York City.
6. Lawrence Seward “Drawings Bad Good” Issue 19
Curator’s Note: These drawings were plucked out of a couple of sketch books in an attempt to get a job doing a wall mural. Some of them are drawings for sculptures and others are simply illustrations of ideas. The selection process resembled roulette with the result looking like a BINGO card partially filled. Still, I hope these drawings elicit a pleasurable uncomplex response much like eating a good doughnut or swatting a pesky fly with a rolled up newspaper.
7. Marisa Aragona “Sunday” Issue 19
Curator’s Note: Marisa Aragona, 27, has wildly curly hair and always eats cherries on her birthday. Originally hailing from the Washington DC area she recently relocated to San Francisco after a seven year stint in NYC where she received her BFA from the School of Visual Arts. She is now studying at the San Francisco Art Institute for her MFA and “getting back to nature” in beautiful California. Marisa’s favorite photographic subjects include birthday cakes and girls in their panties. Look for Marisa’s work in this Fall’s current Photo Review. Look for Marisa with her camera and/or sipping a Shirley Temple. Recent exhibition include NYC’s PS122, The Independent Artists Organization and Seattle’s Photographic Center Northwest. You can reach Marisa at marisaaragona@hotmail.com
8. Faile “Faile” Issue 18
Curator’s Note: Faile is a constantly evolving idea and interpretation through art and design, a creative group of three young heads from the USA, Canada, and Japan, who celebrate this exploration as a team. Faile can be contacted through faile.net.
9. Karin Bravin “Proposal” Issue 25
Curator’s Note: In 1986 I was hired by the Peggy Guggenheim Collection to work for the Venice Biennale’s American Pavilion. One of the highlights of my time there was a friendship that developed with James Lee Byars. He was a fixture in Venice and had the capacity to find beauty in even the most mundane aspects of the city. He often would draw my eye to small, quiet details most would overlook. Each time I saw him, he would urge me to approach the Guggenheim with his idea for a site-specific project; it was poetic and beautiful and would have transformed the experience of passing in front of the Peggy Guggenheim Collection while on The Grand Canal. Subsequently, and probably not coincidently, I have spent the last decade, working with artists on various site-specific installations and curating in the public realm. For my zing project, I have asked six artists to envision their dream site-specific artwork. It didn’t need to be feasible—as long as they could render it with sketches, Photoshop, diagrams or text. While these particular projects may or may not come to fruition, the logistics and realization of an actual aesthetic intervention is an exciting process. Facilitating site-specific work that enables viewers to see and think about space and context differently than they have before is an artist’s greatest calling and challenge. The artists selected have all made extremely successful installations or projects in the public sphere, both indoors and outdoors. Thank you: William Corwin, Rachel B Hayes, Fabian Marcaccio, Melissa McGill, Jason Middlebrook, Jean Shin, and James Lee Byars.
10. Gaston Karquel, curated by Geraldine Postel & David Magnin—Collection David Magnin, Issue 25
Curator’s Note: David Magnin is an art collector and merchant born and raised in the French Alps. He collects contemporary art, and design, specializing in Charlotte Perriand over the last 20 years. From this quest of expertise in collecting Perriand, he discovered the photos of Gaston Karquel whom over a period of 30 years followed the Modernists from Le Corbusier, Jean Prouvé, Charlotte Perriand, and also UAM (Union of Modern Artists). Among the photos Magnin acquired was this series of “Megève: Two Days in the Summer of 1948.”
For the past two years David Magnin has collaborated with Geraldine Postel, a free electron wearing many hats in the fields of art and publishing. From associate publisher of referent art & fashion magazines over the years, she has occupied the roles of an artist, curator, art or advertising director. This curatorial project entitled “Megève: Two Days in the Summer 1948” by Gaston Karquel, is born from an edit of these Gaston Karquel images and will celebrate its anniversary with an exhibition in Megève in the Museum of l’Ermitage du Calvaire, where some of these images were taken 70 years ago.
11. Patricia Cronin “Classified” Issue 16
Curator’s Note: Patricia Cronin is a New York based artist. She moved a lot as a child and ever since has been searching for that perfect home. In keeping with this theme, she is currently overwhelmed with a three ton marble mortuary sculpture funded by Grand Arts, Kansas City, Missouri. It will be exhibited there, at The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut, and ultimately, at her final resting place. Unless, of course, someone buys it, which might help pay for some real estate that would come in handy while she’s still alive. She teaches at Columbia University and School of Visual Arts.
12. Harrison Haynes “Mobile Acres” Issue 19
Curator’s Note: I’m writing to you from Woodinville, Washington where my band is recording some music. The studio is a renovated horse-barn and it’s reminding me of where I grew up: the rural outskirts of the North Carolina Piedmont, somewhere between the suburbs and the country. My parents’ friends, and my friends as well since my folks took me everywhere with them, were DIY redneck-hippies: welders and carpenters that listened to ZZ Top and burned big vanilla scented candles in their outhouses. They hosted demolition derbies, volleyball parties, big oyster roasts every fall, and homemade fireworks on the fourth of July. (The fireworks were made by a lunatic blacksmith, so the finale was the detonation of a homemade bomb underneath an anvil, and the resulting spectacle of a 300 pound block of steel soaring upwards into the night sky.)
13. Anna Knoebel “Kaiser Collectible” Issue 22
Curator’s Note: My good friend Danielle Kalinoski introduced me to Robert Kaiser in Jamaica. “Robert collects Modern homes,” she said. Intrigued (who wouldn’t be?), I flew to Orlando to see for myself. Tom Sibley came along so we could create this project for zing. We spent the weekend enjoying Robert’s unique and superbly restored home, nestled in a quiet community near those infamous theme parks. To experience Robert’s home yourself (as a vacation rental), email him at rlk@designage.net (http://www.themodernhouse.net/tmh/holiday).
14. Walter Robinson “Big & Beautiful” Issue 23
Curator’s Note: BURGER KING My original idea was for Walter Robinson to show his paintings of cheeseburgers in a series at Haunch of Venison Gallery this summer as an enhancement of Andy Warhol’s Soup Cans, 50 years after Campbell’s by Warhol first shocked the world. But as it turns out, a single cheeseburger was enough, as everyone at last week’s Haunch party posed in front of just one juicy Wallyburger for paparazzo Billy Farrell.
The Wallyburger becomes more excessive the more you examine its contents: drip equivalence achieves stasis in the paint Robinson meticulously applies, the tomatoes rolling into cheese in the imagery and the automatic Pavlovian drool which ensues. Never underestimate the power of a burger, even a painted one. Hamburglar Beth DeWoody couldn’t resist, requesting another Wallyburger for an upcoming London show that she is curating.
Only Walter Robinson shall suffer from too much surburgerrealism. To look at one Wallyburger is a trip to Wendy’s. To paint them is to be, and want to devour, the whole franchise. —Charlie Finch, New York, July 29, 2012.
Editor’s Note: The above curators’ notes are taken from the print issue in which the project was published. Therefore please note links and email addresses are dated and may be broken.
New York, New York
July 2026