Matt Starr (visual artist)

Matt Starr is an Americsn visual artist, conceptual comedian, and experimental filmmaker known for among other works "Amazon Boy" and "My Annie Hall".[1]

Biography

Starr obtained his BFA in studio art from the University of Indiana.[2]

In 2015 Starr created and marketed a line of clothing called "Babycore" inspired by outfits he wore during his early childhood.[3]

In 2016 Starr enacted and documented the permance piece "Amazon Boy" which was included in the piece of "Art on Amazon" in the March 2020 issue of Art in America. [4]

In 2017 to celebrate the fortieth birthday of the film classic Starr along with theater director and often artistic partner Ellie Sachs did a truncated remake of Woody Allen's Annie Hall with a cast of octogenarians from the Lennox Hill Neighberhood House.[5]  The idea for the project arose from Starr's relationship with his grandmother in whom he noticed a measurable cognitive  decline due to alzheimer's. Allen himself approved of the project and even suggested other films to be remade.[6]  The effort was funded with a Kickstarter campaign. [7] In Starr and Sachs' version of the film Alvy Singer is played by the then 94 year old Harry Miller a designer for TV and stage who won two Emmys during his career for his work on the CBS soap opera Guiding Light.[8][9][10]

In April of 2018 Starr and Ellie Sachs created the instillstion "The Museum of Banned Objects", in the gallery at Manhattan's Ace Hotel, sponsored by Planned Parenthood, in a commentary pn access to birth control.[11]

gollark: PotatOS?
gollark: If you don't, you're committing treason.
gollark: Oh, so give me... any of the pieces, then. A screenshot, or dump it in my endermailbox.
gollark: Though it's not that secure if you only used *obsidian*.
gollark: It fits on a piece of paper? Neat. Now give me a copy.

References
  1. https://soaad.indiana.edu/news/2018/2018-03-02-nytimes-matt-starr%20.html
  2. https://soaad.indiana.edu/news/2018/2018-11-21-matt-starr-new-yorker.html
  3. https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2015/jan/26/babycore-adult-baby-clothing-matt-starr-artist
  4. https://www.artnews.com/gallery/art-in-america/aia-photos/art-on-amazon-photos-1202680003/
  5. https://observer.com/2017/11/artist-matt-starr-remakes-annie-hall-with-cast-of-retirees/
  6. https://www.indiewire.com/2018/03/my-annie-hall-short-film-senior-citizens-woody-allen-1201934591/
  7. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/02/nyregion/the-woody-allen-reboot-you-wont-see-at-the-oscars-or-maybe-anywhere.html
  8. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/my-annie-hall-a-remake-of-the-woody-allen-classic-starring-seniors/
  9. https://www.timesofisrael.com/an-annie-hall-remake-starring-two-senior-citizens/
  10. https://riverdalepress.com/stories/harry-miller-follows-emmys-guiding-light-to-riverdale,70522
  11. https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2018/04/museum-of-banned-objects-ace-hotel-new-york
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