Mike Cockrill, Semaphore Walkout!, Semaphore, 10-Page Zine, 1986

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“Semaphore Walkout!”: 10-page stapled ‘zine, 7″ x 8 1/2″; with four-page stapled insert, 8 1/2″ x 11″.

Short story 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.

“Semaphore Walkout!,” front cover
“Semaphore Walkout!” back cover, with biographies of artists Cockrill and Hughes and antagonist Barry “Larry the Dealer” Blinderman

Front page of insert, featuring press clippings about Semaphore Gallery

East Village & Lower East Side East Village - Books and Periodicals Gallery Exhibitions Mike Cockrill Semaphore Soho/Tribeca Galleries Zines