Neke Carson, “Glam Conceptualism, Interventional Performance, et aliis rerum A survey: 1949–2018”

One upon a time (say, the late ’60s and early ’70), transgressive art was actually, well, transgressive—which is to say, not the pantomime of edginess that marks much of the current art making claims to that distinction. But the work of Neke Carson truly fits the bill: Among other achievements, he perfected a method of painting with a brush stuck in his asshole. “Rectal Realism,” as Carson dubbed this approach, was just one aspect of his oeuvre, which is recalled here in another revival by gallerist-doing-God’s-work, Mitchell Algus.