Mark Tambella, "Fag Rag"
Drawings by Mark Tambella published in Fag Rag Magazine from 1975 to 1978
About: Fag Rag was an American gay men's newspaper, published from 1971 until circa 1987, with issue #44 being the last known edition. The publishers were the Boston-based Fag Rag Collective, which consisted of radical writers, artists and activists. Notable members were Larry Martin, Charley Shively, Michael Bronski, Thom Nickels, and John Mitzel. In its early years the subscription list was between 400 and 500, with an additional 4,500 copies sold on newsstands and bookstores or given away. During its run, Fag Rag published interviews with, and writing by, prominent gay and bisexual authors including William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, John Giorno, Christopher Isherwood, John Wieners, Arthur Evans, Allen Young, Maurice Kenny, Gerard Malanga, John Rechy, Ned Rorem, and Gore Vidal.
BIO
Mark Tambella is a New York-based visual artist. He is a painter, installation artist, environmental and site-specific designer, and artist-in-residence with La MaMa ETC and Pioneers Go East Collective, and a member of Great Jones Repertory Company. His paintings have been exhibited in more than 35 solo and group exhibitions at La MaMa’s Gallery (NYC) from the 1980s to the present. Additional solo exhibitions at the John Davis Gallery in Hudson, NY (2008–2018), Chashama Gallery in Harlem (group exhibition, 2013), Marmara Manhattan Gallery (2005), Portrait Show/PS122 (NYC), a benefit show for St Vincent’s Hospital (NYC). His work emphasizes devised groupings of people and places, including gay life and queer-identifying artists, impressionistic “plein air” work, and portraits of his neighborhood and creative-hood family. Published art: BOMB Magazine/Absolute Tambella, Fag Rag, and Gay Sunshine (San Francisco). Illustrations for Lilac Cure and Markings, poetry chapbooks by Richard George-Murray, and My Stone Is Not Dead by Piotr Zbigniew Gawelko. Tambella has been a guest teacher at Williams College (Williamstown, MA), teaching drawing and painting technique. Education: Visual School of the Arts (1973).
Drawings by Mark Tambella published in Fag Rag Magazine from 1975 to 1978
About: Fag Rag was an American gay men's newspaper, published from 1971 until circa 1987, with issue #44 being the last known edition. The publishers were the Boston-based Fag Rag Collective, which consisted of radical writers, artists and activists. Notable members were Larry Martin, Charley Shively, Michael Bronski, Thom Nickels, and John Mitzel. In its early years the subscription list was between 400 and 500, with an additional 4,500 copies sold on newsstands and bookstores or given away. During its run, Fag Rag published interviews with, and writing by, prominent gay and bisexual authors including William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, John Giorno, Christopher Isherwood, John Wieners, Arthur Evans, Allen Young, Maurice Kenny, Gerard Malanga, John Rechy, Ned Rorem, and Gore Vidal.
BIO
Mark Tambella is a New York-based visual artist. He is a painter, installation artist, environmental and site-specific designer, and artist-in-residence with La MaMa ETC and Pioneers Go East Collective, and a member of Great Jones Repertory Company. His paintings have been exhibited in more than 35 solo and group exhibitions at La MaMa’s Gallery (NYC) from the 1980s to the present. Additional solo exhibitions at the John Davis Gallery in Hudson, NY (2008–2018), Chashama Gallery in Harlem (group exhibition, 2013), Marmara Manhattan Gallery (2005), Portrait Show/PS122 (NYC), a benefit show for St Vincent’s Hospital (NYC). His work emphasizes devised groupings of people and places, including gay life and queer-identifying artists, impressionistic “plein air” work, and portraits of his neighborhood and creative-hood family. Published art: BOMB Magazine/Absolute Tambella, Fag Rag, and Gay Sunshine (San Francisco). Illustrations for Lilac Cure and Markings, poetry chapbooks by Richard George-Murray, and My Stone Is Not Dead by Piotr Zbigniew Gawelko. Tambella has been a guest teacher at Williams College (Williamstown, MA), teaching drawing and painting technique. Education: Visual School of the Arts (1973).
Drawings by Mark Tambella published in Fag Rag Magazine from 1975 to 1978
About: Fag Rag was an American gay men's newspaper, published from 1971 until circa 1987, with issue #44 being the last known edition. The publishers were the Boston-based Fag Rag Collective, which consisted of radical writers, artists and activists. Notable members were Larry Martin, Charley Shively, Michael Bronski, Thom Nickels, and John Mitzel. In its early years the subscription list was between 400 and 500, with an additional 4,500 copies sold on newsstands and bookstores or given away. During its run, Fag Rag published interviews with, and writing by, prominent gay and bisexual authors including William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, John Giorno, Christopher Isherwood, John Wieners, Arthur Evans, Allen Young, Maurice Kenny, Gerard Malanga, John Rechy, Ned Rorem, and Gore Vidal.
BIO
Mark Tambella is a New York-based visual artist. He is a painter, installation artist, environmental and site-specific designer, and artist-in-residence with La MaMa ETC and Pioneers Go East Collective, and a member of Great Jones Repertory Company. His paintings have been exhibited in more than 35 solo and group exhibitions at La MaMa’s Gallery (NYC) from the 1980s to the present. Additional solo exhibitions at the John Davis Gallery in Hudson, NY (2008–2018), Chashama Gallery in Harlem (group exhibition, 2013), Marmara Manhattan Gallery (2005), Portrait Show/PS122 (NYC), a benefit show for St Vincent’s Hospital (NYC). His work emphasizes devised groupings of people and places, including gay life and queer-identifying artists, impressionistic “plein air” work, and portraits of his neighborhood and creative-hood family. Published art: BOMB Magazine/Absolute Tambella, Fag Rag, and Gay Sunshine (San Francisco). Illustrations for Lilac Cure and Markings, poetry chapbooks by Richard George-Murray, and My Stone Is Not Dead by Piotr Zbigniew Gawelko. Tambella has been a guest teacher at Williams College (Williamstown, MA), teaching drawing and painting technique. Education: Visual School of the Arts (1973).