Pat Place (born 1953) is an American artist, photographer, and musician noted for her work as a founding member and guitarist of no wave bands James Chance and the Contortions and
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and
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. She came to
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in 1975 to pursue a career as a visual artist.
Place’s photography work was displayed in 2008 at the "No Wave, Post Punk, Underground New York 1976-80" exhibition curated by
Thurston Moore
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and
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at KS Art, and at the group exhibition "Happy Vacation" at Thrust Projects, both in New York City.
She was also involved in the no wave cinema scene, appearing in some of Vivienne Dick's movies co-starring with
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and other musicians from New York's late 1970s and early 1980s
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community.
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Place was the original guitarist and one of the founding members of
the Contortions
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, one of the central bands in the New York no wave music scene.
She then formed the
Bush Tetras
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She participated in
Maggie Estep
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's song and video for ''Hey Baby'', from her 1994 album ''No More Mister Nice Girl''.
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Carlo McCormick
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