Performer, Photographer, Writer, Nightlife Diva, Fashionista, Badass bitch. She has a day job, barely sleeps, and is illegally blonde at large on the Upper East Side. Writer and Journalist
Visco currently writes freelance for Interview Magazine and Hyperallergic. She had a weekly column and wrote about the arts for New York Press from 2006 until 2011 when it stopped publishing. She’s also publish
ed pieces in Vice, Out Magazine, Fit Yoga Magazine, Gay City News, New York Blade, The Villager,West Side Spirit, Our Town, The Chelsea Clinton News, Beyond Race, and The Columbia Review. She hosted a radio show on WKCR FM on the arts. Gerry holds a BA in Literature, an MFA in Writing, an MS in Journalism from Columbia University, and an AAS from FIT. She’s currently writing a memoir about her colorful life as muse, fag hag, renegade, and rent girl, in the gritty glamorous world of New York City during the 1970s and 1980s. Performer
Gerry Visco has performed in numerous films and live productions, such as The Last Brucennial, “FCKNLZ on Broadway” at the Museum of Arts and Design, Yes, Nix in Performa 13, Reverse Gallery, Pussy Faggot, Vandam, the R Bar, Dixon Place, Ron Athey at Participant Gallery, Theater for the New City, Cameo Gallery, The Wild Project, the Creative Time Gala, Envoy Gallery, The Slipper Room, Berlin Fridays, the Bowery Electric, Chantal’s House of Shame in Berlin, on television in “Oddities,” assorted cool music videos like Sharon Needle’s “Call Me on the Ouija Board” and Ssion’s Luvv Bazaar, and in several full-length feature films, including Woody Allen’s “Stardust Memories,” Abel Ferrara’s recent “4.44 Last Day on Earth,” and “Hellaware.”
Photographer
Gerry Visco’s photographs have been exhibited at Munch Gallery, Strange Loop Gallery, Round Hole, Square Peg: Art With A Manifesto at Photo LA, Bushwick Open Studios, Banzai art show, Salon No. 15, Chelsea Eye Gallery, Envoy Enterprises Gallery, Artflux, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Gallery U in Montclair, NJ and in Detroit, Michigan and appeared in New York Magazine, Interview, Hyperallergic, The Village Voice, The Daily News, Out Magazine, One (Bulgarian Art Journal), the Gothamist, and Gawker. Her nightlife photographs were featured in The Fun: The Social Practice of Nightlife in NYC published by The Museum of Arts and Design and edited by Jake Yuzna. The Village Voice named her Bravest Nightlife Photographer of 2010. Nightlife Diva
Gerry Visco went out to some of the legendary parties of the 1970s and 1980s like the Mudd Club, Danceteria, Studio 54, Area, The Tunnel, Xenon, Palladium and so forth. She took a hiatus in nightlife due to her relationships but began to cover nightlife for New York Press from 2006 until 2011. As a result, she became a nightlife personality herself and has hosted and performed at numerous parties such as My Chiffon Is Wet, Vandam, Ra Ra party at Le Souk, Critters at The DL, Kayvon Zand’s Dorian Gray, Trey La Trash’s Dizzyland and Bless This Mess and has attended and taken photos of numerous parties and events in New York City. Gerry Visco links:
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/gerryvisco/
http://twitter.com/gerryvisco
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http://www.youtube.com/user/gerryvisco
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