Semaphore Walkout! Artist Statement By Mike Cockrill, Semaphore, 1986
“Semaphore Walkout!”: 10-page stapled ‘zine, 7″ x 8 1/2″; with four-page stapled insert, 8 1/2″ x 11″.
“Break In!”: 6-page stapled ‘zine, 7″ x 8 1/2″.
Two short stories self-published by artist Mike Cockrill upon the closing of Barry Blinderman’s Semaphore Gallery. In retrospect, Cockrill’s semi-fictional diatribe is a rare marker of the end of the East Village art scene. The Fun Gallery had closed the year before, and the following year Gracie Mansion Gallery would move to SoHo.
![](https://gallery98.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/cockrill-semaphore-front-700x854.jpg)
![](https://gallery98.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/cockrill-semaphore-back-700x584.jpg)
![](https://gallery98.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/cockrill-semaphore-insert-front-659x1000.jpg)
![](https://gallery98.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/cockrill-break-in-front-700x840.jpg)
![](https://gallery98.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/cockrill-break-in-back-700x853.jpg)