Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt was born on 1948 and is an American artist who took part in the 1969 Stonewall uprising in New York City, which was a historic turning point in the movement for Gay liberation and LGBT rights.
19 Facts About Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt
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Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt is on the faculty of New York City's School of Visual Arts.
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The impressive model was featured in a local paper while Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt was a student at St Elizabeth School.
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Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt applied to, but was rejected by Cooper Union.
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Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt participated in at least one of Smith's performances, "Withdrawal from Orchid Lagoon", and was interviewed in the documentary Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis.
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Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt, who is openly gay, was present at the Stonewall riots in June 1969 when patrons of a gay bar in New York City's Greenwich Village spontaneously fought back against a violent police raid; the uprising became a turning point in the fight for LGBT rights in the United States.
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Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt is one of the few recognized Stonewall veterans still living.
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Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt appears in the 1995 film, Stonewall, in a documentary segment.
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In recognition of the 40th anniversary of the Stonewall riots, Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt was among those invited to the White House to meet with Michelle and Barack Obama.
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Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt began by exhibiting his art in his own apartment; an early major exhibit in 1969 was titled The Sacristy of the Hamptons.
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Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt's work has received critical acclaim, despite not being very widely known.
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Many artists, including a generation of Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt's students, have been repeatedly amazed, inspired and guided by its panache, rapier-sharp wit, subversiveness and opulent beauty.
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Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt's work has been likened to the religious-themed tinfoil-covered thrones of art brut artist James Hampton.
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Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt is sometimes grouped with the Pattern and Decoration art movement, though he says that is "retrospective craziness".
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Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt's art is noted for its incorporation of Catholic iconography.
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Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt has been referenced as an antecedent to Jeff Koons in the intentional use of kitsch in art.
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Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt's work has been included in major art museum survey exhibits.
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Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt's art was in the 1984 Venice Biennale, and his trip there inspired his 1985 Venetian Glass Series.
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From November 18,2012, to April 7,2013, Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt's art was the subject of a retrospective at MoMA PS1.