George Kuchar

Untitled weather study, Oklahoma

undated

Colored marker on paper

9 x 8 inches

Signed lower right

Good condition; unexamined out of frame

Domestic shipping $35

George Kuchar (1942-1911) was an underground film director and video artist known for manic comic melodramas and a lo-fi aesthetic. He also made paintings, drawings and transgressive cartoons on the side.

Kuchar made hundreds of films, and taught for many years at the San Francisco Art Institute. In the 1960s his films were shown alongside those of Andy Warhol, Kenneth Anger and Stan Brakhage in the burgeoning underground film scene. In the Critics Poll of the 100 best films of the 20th century, Kuchar's Hold Me While I'm Naked was ranked 52nd. The 1977 film I An Actress was selected by the National Film Registry. He maintained a lifelong interest in weather, making video diaries and atmospheric drawings like the one in this sale.

Kuchar's drawings and cartoons have been published in Arcade, and The New Yorker. A number of books on Kuchar have been published: The George Kuchar Reader by Andrew Lampert, 2014; George Kuchar (Underground Filmmaker Genius), V. Vale, Research Publications, 2013; The World of George Kuchar (Artist's Monograph), Essays by Steve Reinke and Gene Youngblood; Desperate Visions: The Films of John Waters and the Kuchar Brothers, Jack Stevenson; Pandemonium, Freaks, Magicians and Movie Stars, jack Stevenson, Living Color Productions.