Do you will have any of Greer’s work, Nan?
I used to be obsessive about Catholic artwork for a lot of, a few years. I had a group of bleeding hearts, so Greer made an anorexic Jesus for me. I’ve one other doll that’s a contortionist, however that is the one she made [Goldin lifts the Jesus figure to the screen] particularly for me.
Do you keep in mind when she made it?
Nicely, we have been residing collectively, so mainly 1981 to ’82—someday in that interval. Lots of people went by means of there in these years—like, 25 folks got here and went. She stayed for a yr.
You have been sharing an residence, however did you additionally socialize collectively?
She wasn’t actually a membership child, to the very best of my reminiscence. The remainder of us went to the Mudd Membership, which opened the identical week I moved to New York in ’78, on a regular basis. However I don’t recall her going to golf equipment a lot. Within the ’80s, we every did a whole lot of medication, however not collectively. Greer at all times laughed once I used to say, “You’re the solely individual I knew who may get hooked on MDMA.” I assume instances modified.
You talked about earlier how magazines have been necessary—that’s how I found Greer again within the ’80s within the UK. If I keep in mind accurately, it was a picture of her with [trans model and Steven Meisel muse] Teri Toye, maybe in The Face, or i-D, and Greer’s doll of Teri.
When Greer first got here into the downtown scene, she was the one brazenly trans artist. Generally I feel she felt like a freak—folks have been fascinated, however she additionally felt like that fascination had a twinge of vicariousness. When she met Teri, she idolized Teri, after which they began hanging out collectively round ’87. Teri and Patrick have been residing in my home for some time after their wedding ceremony, and so Greer and Patrick and Paul [Monroe], Greer’s ex-husband, have been hanging out collectively in my home. Paul had an enormous affect on Greer then. Her work was continuously in Paul’s retailer Einsteins. Most individuals keep in mind her dolls from these home windows.
