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Feb 7, 2019 · That installation, as well as her life’s work, is sustained by G.L.A.M., the Greer Lankton Museum Archives, overseen by her life partner Paul Monroe. On Valentine’s Day, Monroe, together with artist and LGBTQ activist Zackary Drucker, Lena Dunham, and friends, will present short films by Lankton alongside the work of Drucker.
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Lankton married designer Paul Monroe in 1987 in New York City. Nan Goldin was their wedding photographer. Greer and Paul met in 1981 introduced by Peter Hujar who was later Paul's best man at their wedding. They started dating in 1982 and then lived together from 1984 to 1992, when Greer went to rehab in the Midwest.
Jan 6, 2016 · January 06, 2016. Text Laura Allsop. Every year on his birthday, designer Paul Monroe mysteriously receives a long-lost doll made by his late wife, the artist Greer Lankton. “This has been going on for the past five or six years. I’ll be searching for something, but then it just arrives on that exact day.
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Mar 30, 2018 · Paul had brought a little bit of his old store’s magic to gray Seattle. He and I became friends that day, and I learned that all the dolls I had seen were the work of his late wife, Greer Lankton, and represented just one corner of the singular universe she willed into existence during her 38 years.
Feb 15, 2019 · Yet designer Paul Monroe, whom she married in 1987, also remembers her as a “happy-go-lucky individual filled with giggles and romance.”. As he recently told Artsy by phone, “I don’t like when she comes across as gloomy.”.
May 2, 2024 · She created elaborate storefront window displays at Einstein’s, a local boutique run by Paul Monroe, who would become her husband. Beyond mere mannequins, Lankton’s dolls enacted bawdy tableaus which saw them smoke, vacuum their apartments, expose themselves, passionately embrace, and bicker.
In 1987, she married artist Paul Monroe, whom she met in 1981 and had been living with since 1984. Eventually, Lankton returned to Chicago to try and get off drugs. Lankton’s final exhibit – “It’s About Me …
