Adrien Lucas presents "Bad Exits"

Title: Keeps Rainin all the Time Birth: 4/7/15 Death: 7/17/59 Details: approx. 8x10 on paper, photo original shot by William Gottlieb in '47. Hand stitched with thread and embroidery floss, background tile ripped from a vintage Whiting & Davis handbag. Bad Exit: Lady Day died of cirrhosis of the liver. Her last day on earth was grim it makes me entirely blue. No humor could be pulled out for this portrait unlike a few others I have in this series.

Title: Pill Popper Birth: 6/1/26 Death: 8/5/62 Details: Approx. 8x10, pic ripped from magazine, original photo by Bert Stern ('62). I then hand stitched the paper with thread and added vintage Whiting & Davis handbag metal scales to background. Bad Exit: Suicide or Accidental Suicide, her death certificate states "acute barbiturate poisoning" but I think it may have been an accident overdose. We'll never know.

Title: Seconal Doll Birth: 7/10/22 Death: 6/22/69 Details: approx. 8x10, this is a picture of Judy from her last concert held in Copenhagen in '69, photographer unknown. Photo was hand stitched, sgraffito on photo, paper and French knots used for Seconal pill; background tiles are vintage Whiting & Davis handbag metal scales. Bad Exit: Accidental Overdose or Suicide by Seconal also know as Reds or Dolls. Death certificate listed as: an incautious self-over dosage" of barbiturates.

Title: 27 Club Birth: 12/8/43 Death: 7/3/71 Details: printed image appropriated from the internet and shot by Joel Brodsky in '67. Image was lined with Sharpie then hand stitched with thread and embroidery floss. Letters cut out from my many piles of mags. Bad Exit: I'd say alcohol abuse but there were two causes listed: heart failure and one that stated natural causes. No autopsy was performed but he died in a bathtub and was throwing up blood prior to his death.

Title: Lost Interest Sid Birth: 5/10/57 Sid Death: 2/2/709 Nancy Birth: 2/27/58 Nancy Death: 10/12/78 Details: photo appropriated from internet, photographer unknown, printed on old blue paper, inked by hand, then hand stitched with thread, embroidery floss, upholstery thread, and metallic thread, lettering lifted from my mags. Bad Exit: Sid - Suicide or Accidental Heroin Overdose / Nancy - Murder by knife or Accidental Stab Wound Bleed Out.

Title: The Night that River Died all the Girls on Sunset Cried Details: image appropriated from a Japanese fan magazine, photographer unknown, paper was then stitched, lettering from my mags, background tiles are vintage Whiting & Davis handbag metal scales. Bad Exit: accidental, drug-induced cardiac arrest otherwise known as a "California Speedball" (heroin and cocaine).

Title: She went out to Feed the Squirrels Birth: 5/28/44 Death: 4/6/98 Details: photograph inked and stitched with embroidery floss, photographer unknown, background vintage Whiting and Davis tiles, lettering from my magazine piles. Bad Exit: suicide by self inflicted gun shot.

Title: Gonzo said he'd do it Birth: 7/18/37 Death: 2/20/05 Details: photo appropriated from a magazine, photographer Michael Ochs, image was inked in black and then hand stitched in embroidery floss. Bad Exit: Suicide by .45-caliber handgun.

Title: Isabella Blow, How Did You Go? Birth: 4/11/58 Death: 5/7/07 Details: photo appropriated from a magazine and shot by photographer Miguel Reveriego, paper was then inked and hand stitched with thread, lettering lifted from magazines; background tiles are vintage Whiting & Davis handbag metal scales. Bad Exit: numerous suicide attempts, all of them very stupendous, rat poison ultimately did her in.