The Batcave

The artist found a way to supplement his income since the San Francisco art game was famous for eating its young. In the 70’s he acquired an antique Italian made Lambretta motor scooter and found himself years later as the unofficial guidance counselor and mechanic for a youth sub-culture revival known as the “Mods”. His … Continue reading

Trans Magazine Interview

Trans Magazine Interview (Spring 1988) Justin Lepanto with Walter Alter JL Walter, most observers would agree that your artistic career has drawn its share of heat from the art establishment, and, interestingly, from the avant garde underground, as well. you’ve characterized yourself as a “pariah among pariahs”. your iconoclasm is apparent, particularly in your writings … Continue reading

Retro – The New Prefix

the primitivo-nostalgiac frame of reference from which contemporary artists speak contains a number of clandestine Fascist premises. most analytic tracts on post-modern art fail to enumerate and appraise those unstated factors. primitivist trends, from the proto-cubist “Les Demoselles” to neo s & m, self-mutilatory performance, ritualistic autism and all the stick, feather and bone fetishes … Continue reading

New Watercolor

a revolution in efficiency waiting for spare parts vanishing in the rear view