Kalup Linzy
Mascotte, FL and Brooklyn, NY

Artist's Statement

In a multidisciplinary practice that includes videos, performances, music, collages, paintings, and photography. Linzy creates satirical narratives inspired by television soap operas, telenovelas and Hollywood melodramas. Bringing an irreverent approach to stereotypes of race, gender and sexuality, he performs, most often in drag, a series of recurring roles. With the intention to create videos and performances that are at once comic, raunchy and poignant, fusing dramatic intensity with melodramatic irony, he serves as writer, director, cinematographer, editor and in a distinctive strategy, voice and overdub the dialogue of multiple characters. He also performs live and creates collages, paintings and photography as these characters.