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Marlene McCarty and
Donald Moffett:
ONE DAY: Alice Austen House,

March 1 - May 24, 2025
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Marlene McCarty and
Donald Moffett:
ONE DAY
: Alice Austen House

Current exhibition
March 1 - May 24, 2025
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    Marlene McCarty and Donald Moffett: ONE DAY, Alice Austen House

    Donald Moffett's two-person exhibition, ONE DAY at the Alice Austen House, Staten Island, New York. 

    The institution's press release follows: 

    Seminal artists Marlene McCarty and Donald Moffett debut a previously unseen photo series from the early 1990s at the Alice Austen House.

    Marlene McCarty and Donald Moffett’s collaboration began as members of Gran Fury—the AIDS activist collective and graphic arm of ACTUP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power). Public interventions were staged using the language of art and advertising to make visible the catastrophe and political crisis of the AIDS epidemic. It was this collision that inspired McCarty and Moffett to found Bureau—a trans-disciplinary design studio in New York City active in print, film titles, and pedagogy. Bureau existed from 1989 to 2001. ONE DAY in 1992, the partners were asked by Princeton University School of Architecture to design its Lecture Series Calendar. Princeton, founded in 1746 before the American Revolution, is one of the original nine colonial colleges. It was this fact that spurred McCarty and Moffett to a reimagining and queering of that early American History.

    In preparation for the project, McCarty and Moffett—dressed as pilgrims and women—headed to the North Fork of Long Island  with Bureau colleagues and friends for a photoshoot. The cameras were loaded with an unstable Polaroid 35mm positive film. While two photos were selected for the Princeton project, the hundreds of other slides were packed away. Time has worked its magic of decay. The film emulsion has become an active ingredient and additional participant in the narratives. For the first time since ONE DAY in 1992, newly produced archival pigment prints of ten performative tableaux will be exhibited at the Alice Austen House Museum.

  • Artworks
    • Donald Moffett and Marlene McCarty Untitled, 9:53 am, 1992/2025 Archival pigment print 6 x 9 in (15.2 x 22.9 cm)
      Donald Moffett and Marlene McCarty
      Untitled, 9:53 am, 1992/2025
      Archival pigment print
      6 x 9 in (15.2 x 22.9 cm)
    • Donald Moffett and Marlene McCarty Untitled, 9:52 am, 1992/2025 Archival pigment print 10 3/8 x 15 1/2 in (26.2 x 39.4 cm)
      Donald Moffett and Marlene McCarty
      Untitled, 9:52 am, 1992/2025
      Archival pigment print
      10 3/8 x 15 1/2 in (26.2 x 39.4 cm)
    • Donald Moffett and Marlene McCarty Untitled, 1:27 pm, 1992/2025 Archival pigment print 18 x 12 in (45.7 x 30.5 cm)
      Donald Moffett and Marlene McCarty
      Untitled, 1:27 pm, 1992/2025
      Archival pigment print
      18 x 12 in (45.7 x 30.5 cm)
  • Installation Shots
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    Installation view: Marlene McCarty and Donald Moffett: ONE DAY, Alice Austen House, New York, 2025

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    • Donald Moffett
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      Donald Moffett

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