The Stuckism

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was started in

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in 1999 to promote

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and oppose

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."The Stuckists Punk Victorian"

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, National Museums Liverpool. Retrieved 15 November 2008."Glossary: Stuckism"

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. Retrieved 16 September 2009. This was mentioned in the

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media, but the first Stuckist presence in US was not until the following year, when former installation artist, Susan Constanse, founded a

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chapter. In 2001, a

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branch staged a demonstration against a "tacky" city art project; and

Jeffrey Scott Holland Jeffrey Scott Holland, (born May 13, 1966), is an artist, writer and musician living both in New York City and in Louisville, Kentucky. He is an active member of the Stuckist and Remodernist art movements, holding a traveling exhibit of Stuckis ...

, a Kentucky artist, organized a traveling show of Stuckist paintings. In 2002,

Jesse Richards Jesse Richards (born July 17, 1975) is a painter, filmmaker and photographer from New Haven, Connecticut and was affiliated with the international movement Stuckism. He has been described as "one of the most provocative names in American underg ...

and others founded a Stuckist gallery in New Haven, and staged a protest against the Iraq War. In 2004, Richards,

Terry Marks Terry Marks is a Stuckist artist in New York City. She was one of the US artists in the show ''The Stuckists Punk Victorian'' at the Walker Art Gallery during the 2004 Liverpool Biennial. She is also a tattooist and actor for film and televisi ...

and others took part in ''

The Stuckists Punk Victorian ''The Stuckists Punk Victorian'' was the first national gallery exhibition of Stuckist art.Moss, Richard"Stuckist's Punk Victorian gatecrashes Walker's Biennial Culture24, 17 September 2004. Retrieved 3 December 2009. It was held at the Walker A ...

'' show in England. In 2005, Richards staged a show of Stuckist and Remodernist groups in New York. In 2009, Nick Christos and others founded a student group in Miami. As of June 2010, there are 40 Stuckist groups in USA."Stuckist groups: USA"
Stuckism.com. Retrieved June 17, 2010.

UK origin

The anti-

and pro-

art movement, Stuckism, was founded by Charles Thomson and

Billy Childish Billy Childish (born Steven John Hamper, 1 December 1959) is an English painter, author, poet, photographer, film maker, singer and guitarist. Since the late 1970s, Childish has been prolific in creating music, writing and visual art. He has le ...

in 1999, and named after an insult from

YBA The Young British Artists, or YBAs—also referred to as Brit artists and Britart—is a loose group of visual artists who first began to exhibit together in London in 1988. Many of the YBA artists graduated from the BA Fine Art course at Goldsm ...

artist, Tracey Emin. The founding group in London had 13 members."Introduction"
Stuckism.com. Retrieved 16 September 2009. In 2000, it was decided that other artists should be free to start their own groups also, named after their locality. Thomson, Charles, "A Stuckist on Stuckism" in: Milner, Frank, ed. ''The Stuckists Punk Victorian'', p.20, National Museums Liverpool 2004, . Essay available online a
stuckism.com
Stuckism has since grown into an international art movement of 209 groups in 48 countries, as of November 2010. The initial UK group was covered in the US media:"Stuckist media appearances"
Stuckism.com. Retrieved 21 September 2009. On 25 September 1999, CNN International covered the first London Stuckist show, ''Stuck! Stuck! Stuck!'' of "a radical new art movement". In the October issue of the Virgin Atlantic inflight magazine, ''Hotair'',

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said of the Stuckists, "there is a serious point to all this ... 'Brit Shit', as they refer to the work of Emin and her cohorts, has become all shock and no value." In June 2000, '' ARTnews'', New York, covered the Stuckists.

US Stuckism

In 2000,

Susan Constanse Susan is a feminine given name, from Persian "Susan" (lily flower), from Egyptian '' sšn'' and Coptic ''shoshen'' meaning "lotus flower", from Hebrew ''Shoshana'' meaning "lily" (in modern Hebrew this also means "rose" and a flower in general), ...

founded the first US group. The

Stuckists—the second group to be founded outside the UK. This was announced in the ''

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'', November 1, 2000: "The new word in art is Stuckism. A Stuckist paints their life, mind and soul with no pretensions and no excuses." Later that month, the paper looked at Constanse's show of work, ''Personal Thunderstorms'', and said, "She believes conceptual art has alienated most viewers; art shouldn't be a private language; and that it should speak of the human condition."Venkatasubban, Sharmila
"Personal Thunderstorms"
''

'', November 15, 2000. Retrieved from the Internet Archive, September 21, 2009. In May 2001, the

Stuckist group protested with placards, such as "Art-vertising is bad for the soul" and "Tacky and lame", against "Pigs on Parade", large fiberglass pigs which had been installed in the city and decorated by artists to make money for charity. Their objection was to commercial devaluation of art through "an insidious trend in corporate art-vertising. It appeals to the lowest public tastes by providing a kitschy, totally predigested and inoffensive McArt for the masses", especially as social or ethical comment is banned from the designs. King 5 News mentioned the group (with a "glib chuckle"), but otherwise the event went unreported. In 2001,

of the mid-Kentucky Stuckists organised a traveling show of Stuckist paintings in the US."International Stuckists"

, National Museums Liverpool. Retrieved September 21, 2009. In 2001, Terry Marks contacted Charles Thomson after hearing about Stuckism on the radio; he visited her in NYC that spring, and she has participated in exhibitions with various Stuckist groups in the UK, US, Spain, France, Australia, & Iran.

affiliated with the Stuckist art movement in 2001, and in 2002 with others founded a gallery as the first Stuckism center in the US, helping to organize shows. The center opened its doors with a show entitled "We Only Want to Do Some Fucking Paintings."Milner, Frank (2004). ''The Stuckists Punk Victorian'', p. 132. National Museums Liverpool, To "highlight the fact that the Iraq War does not have the support of the United Nations, thus violating a binding contract with the UN", ''The Clown Trial of President Bush'' took place at 7 p.m. on March 21, 2003 on the steps of the New Haven Federal Courthouse, staged by local Stuckist artists dressed in clown costume, led by

Nicholas Watson Nicholas Watson (born July 9, 1977) is a social entrepreneur based in Pennsylvania, USA. He was previously a producer and writer in film and television. He co-founded the New Haven Stuckist art group. Social Enterprise career Nicholas Watson ...

and Tony Juliano. One of the participants was "a public defender for the state of CT. He thought it would be cool to dress up with us as clowns and do the thing. He ended up playing the clown judge. The courthouse that he works at is a block away from the federal courthouse where we did this."Donar, Erin
"'Stuckists' protest war with art"
, ''

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'', March 27, 2003. Retrieved November 10, 2008. Simultaneously the Stuckism International gallery run by them opened a ''War on Bush'' show, including work from Brazil, Germany and the UK, while the London equivalent staged a "War on Blair" show. '' The Yale Herald'' reported it with the headline, "Stuckists scoff at 'crap,' war". Richards took the opportunity to comment, " Duchamp would go over to the Yale University Art Gallery and he would say, 'This is crap,' and he would go paint a picture."Bass, Jordan
"Stuckists scoff at 'crap,' war"
, '' The Yale Herald'', 28 March 2002. Retrieved 15 November 2008. In 2004, US Stuckists

, Tony Juliano,

, Jesse Todd Dockery, Brett Hamil and Z.F. Lively were included in the Stuckists' first show in a national museum, ''

'' in the

, England, during the 2004 Liverpool Biennial. In 2005, Richards curated '' Addressing the Shadow and Making Friends with Wild Dogs: Remodernism'', the first

Remodernism Remodernism revives aspects of modernism, particularly in its early form, and follows postmodernism, to which it contrasts. Adherents of remodernism advocate it as a forward and radical, not reactionary, impetus. In 2000, Billy Childish and Charle ...

exhibition in the US to include work from all of the Remodernist groups, including the Stuckists, the Defastenists, Remodernist Film and Photography, and Stuckism Photography."Addressing the Shadow and Making Friends with Wild Dogs: Remodernism"
stuckism.com, 2005. Retrieved on August 20, 2009 from the Internet Archive of August 3, 2005. The show took place at the CBGB 313 gallery. In 2006, Richards was one of the artists in ''The Triumph of Stuckism'', a show at

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Hope Street Gallery, curated by

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at the invitation of Professor Colin Fallows, Chair of Research at Liverpool School of Art and Design, and part of the Liverpool Biennial."The Triumph of Stuckism"

, 2006. Retrieved on August 20, 2009 from the Internet Archive store of April 14, 2006. Richards left the Stuckist movement in 2006. Sherwin, Brian
"Art Space Talk: Jesse Richards"
Myartspace, November 24, 2006. Retrieved May 4, 2008. Also in 2005, Tulsa Stuckist,

Allen Herndon The Stuckism art movement was started in London in 1999 to promote Figurative art, figurative painting and oppose conceptual art. are not a political group; we are painters ... Politics destroyed the spiritual aspects of Surrealism.L.A. Stuckist group
"Against national chauvinism in art"
Stuck in L.A., 17 December 2006. Retrieved 13 April 2010. The Los Angeles Stuckists group responded that this was a "strange definition" and that "the primary objectives of the Remodernist movement consists of uprooting postmodern thought and institutions. That is no small undertaking, and the process in large part has been, and will continue to be, an intensely political one." In 2009, a group of students, led by Nick Christos, from Florida Atlantic University, founded the Miami Stuckists group and staged an exhibition at Grace Cafe & Galleries in Dania Beach of paintings, described by '' The Miami Herald'' as "forceful, compelling, spiritual, hopeful and obvious".Soler, Eilenn
"Stuckists display art"
'' The Miami Herald'', August 29, 2009. Retrieved September 21, 2009. Christos exhibited a picture of a clown missing one ear as a portrait of Damien Hirst, whose "work implies no ideas and is boring", Christos said. He continued: "Stuckism is a renaissance of modernism—it's re-modernism. We paint what we see." Other members of the group are Andrew Ackerman, and Ilya Alekseyev. By November 2010, 40 Stuckist groups had been founded in the US.

Shows

;Group shows *2001 Travelling show (Richmond, Los Angeles, Seattle, Orlando, New Haven) *2002 Stuckism (Fringe Gallery, New Jersey) *2002 We just Wanna Show Some Fuckin' Paintings (Stuckist Gallery, New Haven) *2003 The War On Bush (Stuckist Gallery, New Haven) *2004 The Stuckists Punk Victorian In the Toilet *2005 '' Addressing the Shadow and Making Friends with Wild Dogs: Remodernism'' ( CBGB's 313 Gallery New York) *2009 New Life: The Premiere Exhibition of the Miami Stuckists *2010 Stuck in Fort Lauderdale: The Raving Reactionary Miami Stuckist Daubers ;Solo shows Some solo shows promoted as Stuckist include: *Terry Marks (New York)

US Stuckist groups

These are shown in order of foundation with date of founding and founder(s). *The Pittsburgh Stuckists (2000),

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*The Central Kentucky Stuckists (2001),

*The Seattle Stuckists (2001), Brett Hamil, Jeremy Pum

*The New Haven Stuckists (2001),

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*The New Orleans Stuckists (2001), Barry "The Scatmuncher" Goublerbr>
*The New York Stuckists (2001),

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*The Minnesota Stuckists (2001), Dan Murph

*The Delaware Stuckists (2001), Wilson Lakanuki *The San Diego Stuckists (2001), Joe Mors

*The Chicago Stuckists (2001), Richard J. Cronbor

*The Connecticut Stuckists (2002). Tony Julian

*The Florida Stuckists (2002), Selena'liund

*The San Francisco Stuckists (2003), Frank Kozik *The Long Beach Stuckists (2003), David Mark Danno

*The Austin Texas Stuckists (2003), Vanessa Rossett

*The Albany NY Stuckists (2004), Mark Wilson *The Philadelphia Stuckists (2004), Anthony D. Palumbo *The St Louis Missouri Stuckists (2004), Kim Richardso

*The Kentucky Mooleyville Sculpting Stuckists (2005), Meg White, Don Lawle

*The Minneapolis Stuckists (2005), S.R. Michau

*The Reno Stuckists (2006), Peggy Clydesdal

*The Chicago Loop Stuckists (2006), Yoshi (Gakumei Yoshimoto) *The Los Angeles Stuckist Group (200

*The Olympia (Washington) Stuckists (2006) Joseph Coon and Vince Verbatim *The Oklahoma City Stuckists (2006), Colin Newma

*The Colorado Springs Stuckists (2006), David Graha

*The Tulsa Stuckists (2006), Allen Herndon aka A. Sea Herndonbr>
*The Phoenix Stuckists (2006), Chris Hard

*The Central Illinois Stuckists (2007), Robin Grant *The Orange County of California Stuckists (2007), Nick Treadwa

*The Amarillo Texas Stuckists (2008), Mardy Lemmon

*The Missouri Valley Stuckists (2008) Floyd Anthony Alsbac

*The Savannah Stuckists (2008), Zach Ryal

*The Fort Lauderdale Stuckists and St. Remy, Provence (2009), Jaff Noël Seija

*The Lower East Side New York Stuckists (2009), Mike Rimbau

*The Jacksonville Stuckists (2009), Virginia Ando

*The Missoula Stuckists (2009), Dylan R. Fre

*The Miami Stuckists (2009), Nick Christo

*The Boston Massachusetts Stuckists (2010), David Fichte

*The Lansing Stuckists (2010), Steev Lockhar

Notes and references

External links

Stuckism International official site
Includes audio and slide show

{{Stuckism Stuckism American art movements