Artist’s Resume

Phoebe Legere

PHOEBE LEGERE is a transmedia artist. Interview Magazine called her ‘a genius.’ Billboard Magazine raved, ‘She is the female Frank Zappa!’ Legere studied Art with Linda Nochlin. jazz with John Lewis of the Modern Jazz Quartet. painting with Larry Rivers, writing with Hunter Thompson, composition with Morton Subotnick. Legere was signed to Epic Records, had her Carnegie Hall debut and opened for David Bowie on his National Tour. She led downtown artrock bands: Monad, Blondfux, 4 Nurses of the Apocalypse. Legere was resident composer of the Wooster Group; she made films and wrote Hello Mrs. President, Her symphonic poem, The Waterclown, music co-composed with Morgan Powell, was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in music. Legere won a NYSCA grant to write The Queen of New England, an opera about the Massachusetts Native American holocaust. Legere invented an assistive device for disabled children called the Sneakers of Samothrace. Legere has released eleven CDs of original music, and has appeared on National Public Radio, CBS Sunday Morning, PBS City Arts, and Charlie Rose. In 2013 Legere created Shamancycle, a 15 person Monster Eagle bicycle that runs on Alternative Energy. Legere’s most recent total art synthesis, Shakespeare and Elizabeth (2014) ran for 3 weeks (soldout) at TNC. Two of Legere’s paintings were recently added to the Leslie- Lohman Museum collection. Legere’s new play about the fashion industry is called Schmatta! It is a commission from Theater for the New City. NYC. It will be a multi-media play with songs that examines the child labor in America and abroad. Phoebe Legere’s play SPEED QUEEN, The Joe Carstairs Story featured Legere as Queer pioneer and cross dresser Joe Carstairs wearing wearable sculpture and flying through the space singing.

Artist Statement:
My transmedia art operates in the space between ecology, engineering, painting, drawing, sculpture, alternative energy, dramatic text, projected visuals, dance, trans-genre music, performance art, new technologies and sculptural costuming; I announce new social formations and multivalent visual/musical prophecies. I am a meta-gender and meta-genre artist. I create conversations that question performance, gender and artistic norms.
I was a founding member of the Monad Artrock Collective. We performed political experimental Live Art at the Times Square Show, ABC No Rio, No Se No, A’s Performance Loft, Storefront for Art &Architecture.
I am now a member of Las Artistas Salvajes de Loisaida, an art action collective. We use the New York Underground Museum as an experimental laboratory for social and personal transformation. We believe that art, culture and creativity are critically important to our neighborhood and to humanity across the globe. Our radical interdisciplinary nonconformism speaks of new blood, ancient culture, structured freedom and communal creation in action.
Soundart: https://soundcloud.com/phoebelegere/reading-from-my-autobiography