{"id":5395,"date":"2026-06-07T21:46:51","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T21:46:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ninachildress.com\/?p=5395"},"modified":"2026-06-08T13:26:25","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T13:26:25","slug":"2023-i-%e2%9d%a4%ef%b8%8f-pat-colin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ninachildress.com\/?p=5395","title":{"rendered":"2023 \u2014 I \u2764\ufe0f Pat & Colin"},"content":{"rendered":"

A solo show by Nina Childress<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Presented by Nathalie Karg Gallery | Booth C11<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

At The Art Show 2023, on view November 2 \u2013 5<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Nina Childress and Pat Hearn first crossed paths in early 1980s Paris, France. Pat, at the time, had embedded herself within the artist-run collective L-Usine Pali-Kao. Amongst the series of events she organized was a performance by Nina under her stage name \u201cNina Kuss,\u201d the singer of the punk group Lucrate Milk. A few years later in New York, the two \u201cpunks\u201d were formally introduced as Pat, owner of the newly opened Pat Hearn Fine Art and Nina, the emerging French-American painter. Pat asked Nina to paint one flower bouquet and one portrait of her. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Since 1980, Nina Childress has been examining the structural elements of Western popular culture and the nature of celebrity and nostalgia within it. She has developed several series inspired by illustrious personalities within literature, philosophy, feminism, and the silver screen, among others. For The Art Show 2023, she pays tribute to the iconic and beloved art dealers of 1980’s New York, Pat Hearn and Colin de Land. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Pat was relentlessly elegant. Casually captivating, she was always adorned with her curation of designer and vintage accessories, often referred to as \u201ca bohemian Holly Golightly\u201d while her adoring chihuahua \u201cChi-Chi\u201d trailed behind her. In reference to Colin de Land, filmmaker John Waters wrote that \u201cno one wore bags under his eyes with such panache.\u201d His scruffiness, framing his deep brown eyes and his ubiquitous cigarette, was also accompanied by his undeniable charisma. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

For this presentation, Nina Childress reflects on the world of Colin & Pat. Before she was an art dealer blazing her gallery\u2019s way through then-deserted neighborhoods of Manhattan, Pat was a performer, notorious among friends for her fearlessness. In his early years, Colin also moonlighted as fictitious American artist John Dogg with collaborator Richard Prince, later exhibiting Dogg\u2019s work at his own gallery, American Fine Arts, Co. Colin was the anti-dealer, with a \u201cpoet-like disaffection with industry,\u201d as writer David Rimanelli noted.. In her written tribute to Pat, artist Mary Heilmann reflects on Pat and \u201cthe dada sense of fun that stayed with her even as her art-world stature grew.\u201d <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Pat and Colin were married in City Hall after twelve years together. In 2000, Pat passed away from cancer. In 2003, Colin passed from the same disease. As David Rimanelli wrote in his tribute to the two in <\/span><\/span><\/span>Artforum, <\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span>\u201cThey added to the world\u2019s supply of good things.\u201d <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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