Many of the guests in cherry custard come into mixing via non-traditional routes (filmmaking, curation, writing, performance, poetry, and so on), so it only felt right to cast a spotlight over those who have inspired host christeeeene’s experimental artistic practice so far. Not only those that use mixes within their visual practice, but those who use words to inform their mixing. The reader, the writer, the artist, the activist, the poet and performer; they’re all here and they’re all cherries.

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Ralph Lemon (b. 1952) is a multidisciplinary artist, the founder of the Ralph Lemon Dance Company (1985-1995), and one of the most significant figures to emerge from New York’s postmodern performance scene in the last 30 years. Lemon has long garnered accolades for his multifaceted practice, pushing the boundaries of performance to include installation art, drawing, painting, sculpture, photography, film and video. He is the author of The Geography Trilogy, (1997, 2000 and 2004), a three-part compendium of performances, writings, scores, drawings, and photographs surveying three continents and addressing history, race, and the power of memory. He had one-person exhibitions at The Kitchen (2007), the Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans (2008) and the Studio Museum in Harlem (2012), and was included in MoMA’s Performance Exhibition Series, a program of live performance in conjunction with the exhibition On Line: Drawing Through the Twentieth Century (2011). The museum published the artist’s first monograph, Ralph Lemon, by Thomas J. Lax (2016). He was the subject of a 20-year survey, Ceremonies Out of the Air, curated by Connie Butler and Thomas J. Lax at MoMA PS1, November 2024–March 2025.

Photo credits: Ralph Lemon

Untitled, 2018
archival pigment print
10 x 7 1/2 in. (25.4 x 19.1 cm)
frame: 10 7/16 x 7 15/16 x 1 3/8 in. (26.5 x 20.2 x 3.5 cm)
Edition of 5, 1 AP