
A central figure of the 1980s East Village scene gets a well-deserved posthumous retrospective. A transgender woman, Greer Lankton appears as a fresh-faced, smiling beauty queen in photographs by friends like Peter Hujar and Nan Goldin. Her works explore gender and identity politics in a gleefully dark collection of handcrafted dolls, some life size, some replete with miniature Chanel purses or spilled guts. The dolls, some of which represent real-life figures like Diana Vreeland and Candy Darling, also served as avatars of the artist and her circle.