JERRY THE MARBLE FAUN & KARLHEINZ WEINBERGER
OUTSIDER ART FAIR
Booth A10

Metropolitan Pavilion, New York
March 3 - 6, 2022

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Thursday, March 3, 12pm — 8pm

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Friday, March 4, 11am — 8pm
Saturday, March 5, 11am — 8pm
Sunday, March 6, 11am — 6pm

SITUATIONS and the Karlheinz Weinberger foundation bring together two iconic gay legends for the first time, Jerry the Marble Faun and Karlheinz Weinberger. In a celebratory presentation of rebellion, the pleasures of youth, and the male gaze. Jerry the Marble Faun’s stone carvings and ceramic sculptures are drawn from a blend of fantasy and life experience, while Weinberger’s photography captured groups viewed as outcasts in post-war Europe. Both as artist and subject matter, how societal misfits freely express themselves becomes a clear narrative. As gay men, Jerry found solace from an abusive home life with Big and Little Edie at Grey Gardens, and Weinberger identified with the young Swiss rebel’s marginalization. Jerry and Weinberger found a way to capture their shared mutual ‘other-ness’ through artmaking. Jerry the Marble Faun will feature a stone carving in white alabaster and his latest series of horse heads, named after various horses and boyfriends from his time working as a logger in Maine. Presented alongside Jerry’s ceramics are a series of Weinberger’s homoerotic photographs of working class hotties, rebel teens, and motorcycle jackets.

JERRY THE MARBLE FAUN (born 1955, Brooklyn, NY) lives and works in Queens, NY. He began hand­-carving stone in 1987 and has most recently pursued ceramic sculpture. Jerry is well known as the Bouvier­-Beales’ handyman from the Maysles brothers’ 1975 documentary Grey Gardens. While living at Grey Gardens, Edith “Little Edie” Bouvier-­Beale gave Jerry the nickname “the Marble Faun,” which Jerry accepted as a fated path to art making. In addition to sculpting stone, Jerry worked as a gardener for the royal family of Saudi Arabia, with Wayland Flowers and his puppet, Madame, during their cabaret acts in the ’70s, and for twenty years as a taxi cab driver in New York City.

Jerry the Marble Faun held his first exhibition in 2014 at Jackie Klempay Gallery, Brooklyn and has since appeared in exhibitions at SITUATIONS, New York; Canada, New York; Andrew Edlin Gallery, New York; Sculpture Center, Queens; 2nd Floor Projects, San Francisco; The Elaine de Kooning House, South Hampton, Geary Contemporary, New York, Bureau of General Services/Queer Division, New York; amongst others. Jerry participated in the Shandaken Project's residency program at Storm King Art Center in New Windsor, NY. His artwork has been featured in renowned publications such The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Art Forum, The New Yorker, and more. Jerry the Marble Faun’s work is held in the collection of The Folk Art Museum, New York City.

KARLHEINZ WEINBERGER (1921-2006, Zurich, Switzerland) immersed himself in photography outside of work to escape the monotony as a warehouse stock manager. Weinberger captured his subjects with a distinctly gay male gaze, both carnal and artistic. He got his first camera in the 1930’s and from 1948 - 1967, he produced photographs for gay underground magazine Der Kreiss. In the 1950’s he began photographing “rebels” or the Halbstarken, known in Switzerland for their outrageous hairstyles, tattoos, and self-made fashions, such as large belt buckles featuring Elvis Presley, large pendants made of bolts, chains, and bullets, and jackets emblazoned tough imagery and the names of their motorcycle gangs. 

Self-taught, Weinberger rarely exhibited his photographs until his “discovery” in the 1980’s. Since then, his work has been the focus of exhibitions in Europe and the United States. Solo exhibitions include SITUATIONS, NYC; Museum fur Gestaltung, Zurich; Swiss Institute, NYC; Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, NYC; Mark Fox Gallery, LA; The Photographers Gallery, London; Galerie Anita Dosch, Zurich; Fotogalerie Siemens-Albis, Zurich; Fotogalerie Migros Klubschule, Zurich. Other notable exhibitions include Overnight to Many Cities, 303 Gallery, NYC (curated by Collier Schorr) and Seitenblicke. Die Scweiz 1848 bis 1998 – eine Photochronik, Swiss National Museum, Zurich.