Sometimes known as Brigid Polk because of her “needle” work, Warhol acolyte Brigid Berlin greeted guests at Glenn Horowitz's 64th street gallery for a show of her needlepoint. (See “Chelsea Girls” where she pierces herself and others.) Looking radiant in Sarah Palin red and black, and recently out of rehab, Berlin sat in a flower festooned chair priced at $175,000, posing for photographers as her managers and documentary filmmaker friends Vincent and Shelly Fremont led visitors around her pillows displayed in plexiglass cases. Created mainly from headlines in the New York Post: Tim Russert's death as well as William F. Buckley's, the most sordid were somehow made more outrageous fashioned into these decorative needlepoint pillows. “Read My Lips: Obama Slams Pig Swill” is in the works. Berlin traces the entire front page, pictures and all. She says that sometimes she sews round the clock and sometimes she does nothing for six months. No matter, the pillows are truly a statement of our times. Included also in the exhibition are polaroids and other documents of Berlin's life. Filmmaker and cultural bad boy icon John Waters perused the scene, kissing Bridget hello, and reading letters from her parents on the gallery's first floor. Now that he's had commercial and mainstream success-see “Cry Baby” and “Hairspray” on Broadway--he says he has a reality television show in the works. What's it called? “Gone Bad,” his pencil thin mustache widens and arches upward into a grin.
Regina Weinreich
Graphic Design: Salpeter Ventura
The needlepoint in the Berlin show was all designed and painted by Woolworks Needlepoint NYC. Brigid had the original idea for the newspaper covers, but she did not paint or stitch the designs. Woolworks also designed the zinnia chair for her. So much for staying up all night stitching!
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