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Although we never knew Greer, she was a dear friend of a friend.

There is very little on her life or her work online, so I wanted to start a topic for people who may have known her to remember her and her work.

Here is the most comprehensive article I could find: http://detnews.com/showtime/98...xhibits/exhibits.htm

Satori
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I saw her big titted sculpture at a Whitney Annual which included more G&L artists than ever before, curated by an exceptional gay artworld celeb, Klaus Kertess, and was delightfully surprised that a trans-artist was included in the show, especially in an art climate that was and still is, although administered by art fags and women, in many ways predominantly macho,(compare prices of male artist's work with that of females-- even after women's lib!)
I was anxious to see more of her work but had no knowledge of any public or more comphrehensive exhibits in the Metropolitan Area (the art center of world!)

I guess no NY gallery picked her up...Hmmmmmm!

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Jojo's site is now up.

You can now see many of his dolls. He learned his dollmaking craft from Greer. You will see a lot of her style reflected in his work, and there are a couple of pictures of her with her dolls on Jojo's bio page.



http://jojochicago.com

XXXOOO
Satori

[This message was edited by Zazoo and Satori on 06-07-02 at 11:57 PM.]

[This message was edited by Zazoo and Satori on 06-11-02 at 11:01 PM.]
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Wow! JoJo's work is amazing on its own and an incredible tribute to his artistic mother, as well.
I believe either Gracie or Pat Hearn handled a lot of Greer's work at the time, in addition to Paul's store, Rose.
I own a small ink and watercolor painting by Greer that is one of my absolute treasures. And one of her few forays into two-dimensional expression. She was a true visionary.
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In the late 80's I used to live about a block away from Einsteins and I must say the store was incredible. You could see some of the best Greer dolls in the Einsteins window: Candy Darling, Divine, Peggy Moffitt, Diana Vreeland. Not only was the boutique full of vintage Chanel and Pucci, but Greer's husband, Paul Monroe, designed beautiful surreal jewelry. Bracelets made of pills, necklaces reflecting with hundreds of mirrors, tiny buckets of champagne on ice swinging from earrings. The first time I saw Greer in there, she looked exactly like Twiggy-except that she was wearing a black Chanel dress and pearls!The mix of characters parading in and out of the store was insane. Pyramid queens, strippers, east village wierdos, and eccentric older Bergdorf shoppers! One time Iggy Pop was in there at the same moment as an upper east side socialite was wondering which Schiaparelli brooch to buy. What a wild period of time, I wish somebody would do a book on them!
i meet greer in a drag bar in chicago called CHEEKS. well i walked up to her and said whats a nice lady like you doing in a place like this.? she was looking like a chanel model. she said in her hamous raspy voice 'i'm one of the gyrl's too'.then we sat and i told her i was a puppet maker and she told me she was a doll maker. and we were together ever since. stich and bitch was what we did every day for almost 9 years .until two weeks before thanksgiving almost 5 years ago now. she was raped and beaten in her building and draged out into a dumbster where a jogger found her moaning and took her to the hospital.when the police asked what she was doing. she told them that she had a art show coming up(the andy warhol mattress factory)and she was just trowing out garbage. they told her she deserved it because of the way she was dressed. just wearing a t-shirt and boxers and combat boots.she was in the dumbster for almost a day. having had a bad sex change could not be fucked"sorry" he had riped her and when blood is left in the body for that amount of time she got toxic shock sindrome . her doctor said he could have helped her but she didnt want to take the time off from her art and she didnt want to cancel the show so she pushed on .when she came back from the andy warhol factory opening two weeks later she died . a very special part of my life is gone.she will be missed the rest of my life. i would love to do a book for her...so she is not forgoten....if anyone has pics or anything maybe this can come true?.thank you for reading
the andy warhol mattress factory still owns " its all about me...not you"by greer its a great show if you ever get to see it. it was the last thing she did.when the andy warhol factory came to her she didnt know what to do ....so she gave them her apartment. it was only 10 by 10 box and packed full of the most wonderful things you have ever seen....they have a small portrait of greer doing crack ....that is sad but but hauntingly her...i have her siamese twins and a bust of therin(who is part of the movie "party monster" and it has some of his very own pubic hair on it) that her parants threw away and i found,and a fairie named muffin( that was greer's nickname).i am most blessed for ever meeting her and her taking me under her wing.she has given me a talent that will last my life ...and now i have a show in chicago if your in town for the opening friday augst16 7-11 at the las manos gallery...i would love to see you there....my portrait of greer will be on display as well as a 10 foot doll i have named silky jumbo after a club personality he saw it last night for the first time and i scared him...i love being me....kisses from chicago
That's one reason why we started The Downtown Costume Institute. STUPID families from STUPID places throwing out BRILLIANT art made by BRILLIANT people after they died.
When Madame died for example, her family came from some god-forsaken American toilet and raped her appartment. They threw out EVERYTHING. Sixty something years of magic gone in an instant! They refused to believe that Madame was gay (and dressed in drag). The Metropolitan Museum begged for those costumes (as did alot of other people) The family would just hang up. This has happened so many times. It's heartbreaking.



MADAME
photographed by Michael James O'Brien in Paris.
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i would give greer's wedding dress and some of my things if they would be taken care of...even thou when i show my greer doll i made... she wears the dress.i always worry about what will happen to my thing if i was too cross over...my brothers wouldnt want it.it is very beautiful her wedding dress she made it herself...thou she took part of it when she did the opening at the mattress factory...and cut one of the panels to make a shall...i need to get it repaired...but still lovely
greer was raped by her grandfather (her mothers father).when greer told her mother greer was told she made it up and i quess the mother (lynn)hated her ever since then.then the mother forged the sex change documents and had the sex change done out of state and the church that greer's father was and is the paster of payied for the change....because they could see having a daughter and not a gay son...greer allways regreted getting the change....but then her mother sexually abused her after the change with a dialater...sick woman. i have just learned she has cancer ....i still talk to greer's father.this is the real hedwig story i think ....greer would have loved that movie. she would tell me about andy warhol and the factory and i didnt belive her until i saw andy warhols america and she was in it ....then i was like yippes who do i know. paul monroe greer's husband and julie numare have just opened a salon in hollywood called goo... and i have been offered a job ? paul is also a doll maker.god bless the mother boards....kisses

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