Don’t miss the July/August issue of artscope magazine for my interview with artist Ryan Landry!
“Ogunquit, Maine-based Eric J. Taubert was dropping off some of his photographs for display at Bowersock Fine Art Gallery, in Provincetown, on Cape Cod, where he also visited with playwright Ryan Landry to talk about his paintings that have recently found favor thanks to social media.”
Read the rest of managing editor Brian Goslow’s Welcome Statement: https://artscopemagazine.com/2020/07/welcome-statement-july-august-2020/
Excerpt From The Artscope Magazine Article
There are many ways you may have stumbled across the name Ryan Landry over the past few decades. Perhaps from the extensive catalog of pop-culture-bordering-on-acid-trip parody pieces of theatre he’s produced in Provincetown, Boston, and NYC with his troupe, the Gold Dust Orphans. You know, the plays with names like “Thoroughly Muslim Millie”, “Brokelahomo”, and “The Ebonic Woman.”
Maybe it’s from Space Pussy; Landry’s recurring, glam-punk, celebrity-showcase of a rock band. Or it could be from Showgirls; the long-running, dripping-with-drag talent show Landry hosts on the tip of Cape Cod every summer.
Landry’s been name-checked by Andrew Sullivan in The New Republic. He took home the 2015 Boston Theater Critics Association’s Elliot Norton Prize for Sustained Excellence. He’s made the national news for adopting a dog that looks just like Salvador Dali. Most recently, you might even have seen him on HBO, reminiscing about being hired as a gay hustler by the notorious subject of the new documentary “Bully. Coward. Victim. The Story of Roy Cohn.”
But you very likely have not known Ryan Landry as a painter. At least, until now.
Read the Eric Taubert’s entire interview with Ryan Landry in the July/August 2020 Issue of Artscope Magazine: https://artscopemagazine.com/issues/july-august-2020/