James Kalm has been fascinated with the arc of Lee Lozano's posthumous career. She came to New York in the early 1960s, ran through every succeeding art movement (Ab-Ex, Pop, Minimalism and Conceptualism) like a marathoner, and collected friends and supporters from art world royalty. After an intense ten year career, she "Dropped Out" of the art scene in the early 1970s, floated around Downtown wraith-like for years, and spent a final desperate couple of decades in Texas, dying of cancer in 1999. Most of her oeuvre sat neglected in a barn in Pennsylvania for thirty years…This conversation at Hauser & Wirth with Jutta Koether, Jacquelline Humphries and Bob Nickas seems to skirt most of the troubling issues of this tragic artist's story, in favor of presenting Lozano as some kind of formalist/performance artist. Recorded 22 July 2015.
