POSE: Kalup Linzy / 2010 Out 100 Portfolio / Out Magazine / November 2010

The 16th Annual Out 100

BY OUT.COM EDITORS

Distilled through the lens of three distinctly different gatherings -- Studio 54, the Stonewall Riots, and Truman Capote's Black and White Ball – Out Magazine chronicles the 100 LGBT movers and shakers who made big impressions on the cultural and social fabrics. Video and performance artist Kalup Linzy adds texture to the magazine’s fabrication of  Capote’s (in)famous ball:

Photos by Larry Fink

Kalup Linzy - Artist

Kalup Linzy has parlayed a childhood obsession with soap operas into a successful career as a video and performance artist whose work is included in the public collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum, and the Studio Museum in Harlem. In his short films (e.g., Da Young and da Mess, All My Churen), Linzy comments on race, sexuality, friendship, and love, often singing and usually playing multiple characters in drag. His Southern-inflected, category-defying, hysterical oeuvre has drawn comparisons to everyone from Cindy Sherman to Eddie Murphy and has led to collaborations with the likes of James Franco and the designers behind Proenza Schouler.