A Roundtable on Greer Lankton Convened by Francesca Granata, with Elspeth Brown, Freyja Hartzell, and Cyle Metzger.
Greer Lankton (1958–1996) was an artist associated with the 1980s East Village, whose practice spanned categories of performance, sculpture, fashion, and craft and who is best known for the creation of dolls. In the first half of the 1980s, Lankton exhibited her dolls primarily in East Village art g...
| Published in: | Art Journal Vol. 85; no. 1; pp. 96 - 122 |
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