{"id":1735,"date":"2010-05-20T11:23:34","date_gmt":"2010-05-20T18:23:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp\/2010\/05\/_in_the_mid-1980s_when\/"},"modified":"2010-05-20T11:23:34","modified_gmt":"2010-05-20T18:23:34","slug":"_in_the_mid-1980s_when","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/2010\/05\/_in_the_mid-1980s_when.html","title":{"rendered":"Kurt Cobain &#8211; the artists who were there"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the mid-1980s, when Kurt Cobain was a high-school dropout with a guitar, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gregkucera.com\/wheeler_nirvana.htm\">Alice Wheeler<\/a> was a punk girl with a camera, enrolled in Evergreen. They met in Olympia, both drawn to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.statemaster.com\/encyclopedia\/Olympia-music-scene\">music scene<\/a>. Later, when everybody wanted to take his picture, he&#8217;d clear the room but let her stay. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.charlespeterson.net\/\">Charles Peterson<\/a> was the only punk-rock intellectual to graduate from Bothell High School in 1981.<br \/>\nBy the time he enrolled at the University of Washington, he had a Hasselblad tattooed on his left arm and was heavy into the Seattle music scene. He remembers the faculty telling him he was wasting his time photographing rock and roll.<\/p>\n<p>Now at the Seattle Art Museum curated by Michael Darling, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seattleartmuseum.org\/exhibit\/interactives\/kurt\/default.asp\"><i>Kurt<\/i><\/a> surveys Cobain&#8217;s profound influence on visual art. (Review to follow.) Wheeler and Peterson are the only artists in the show who knew him.<\/p>\n<p>Peterson&#8217;s interest is motion,<br \/>\nthe way the crowd looked when the music hit it and the way the musicians<br \/>\nfolded their bodies around the sound to push it out from the stage and<br \/>\ninto the world. When he zeroed in on an individual, it was to count the cost.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"kurtpetersondrum.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/kurtpetersondrum.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0pt auto 20px;\" height=\"525\" width=\"350\" \/>Wheeler cares about relationships, hers to the subject, the subject to the camera, and the subject to the field.<\/p>\n<p>Wheeler, early days:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"kurtcobainalicekid.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/kurtcobainalicekid.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0pt auto 20px;\" height=\"590\" width=\"400\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"kurtcobainalicekid3.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/kurtcobainalicekid3.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0pt auto 20px;\" height=\"305\" width=\"450\" \/>Wheeler, a couple of years later:<\/p>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"kurtcobainaliceglam1.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/kurtcobainaliceglam1.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0pt auto 20px;\" height=\"325\" width=\"480\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"kurtcobainaliceglam2.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/kurtcobainaliceglam2.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0pt auto 20px;\" height=\"571\" width=\"400\" \/><br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"kurtcobainaliceglare.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/kurtcobainaliceglare.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0pt auto 20px;\" height=\"334\" width=\"480\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the mid-1980s, when Kurt Cobain was a high-school dropout with a guitar, Alice Wheeler was a punk girl with a camera, enrolled in Evergreen. They met in Olympia, both drawn to the music scene. Later, when everybody wanted to take his picture, he&#8217;d clear the room but let her stay. 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