Performances

BEST PERFORMANCE ARTIST, MALE
David Rohn
Artist and Performer David Rohn has developed his diverse original characters through time and perspiration. Whether as a transvestite at an Eighth Street motel, as Katzenjammer, an art collector showing his collection in the Design District,as himself (at a moving performance at the Snitzer Gallery last summer), or more recently as Esperanza, (the tallest and purest bride in history) in his 'Marry Me (Western Union)' series at Carol Jazzar Contemporary Art. Rohn is always intense, unpredictable, and witty. Above all , he's authentic.
Miami Sun Post . The Best Of... July 2 2008.

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"Polivalencia, arrojo, y dificultad de ejecucion de 'Marry Me (Western Union)' hacen de David Rohn el mejor performer de Miami."
-Alfredo Triff en 'Maqueta teatral y extasis beatifico nupcial' Miami Herald May 25 2008.

(On kicking Herb and Kitty Katzenjammer (David Rohn and blow-up wife Kitty) out of the Miami Basel Art Fair in 2002):

"Kicking David Rohn out of the Basel Art Fair is like kicking Saint Francis of Assisi out of the Vatican"
-Francis Einspruch in ARTBLOG.net December 2002.

"...a faintly smarmy, husky woman whose taste runs to clunky Italianate jewelry and an orange cape trimmed i leapord , Gretchen Bender greeted visitors during her performance with a sales pitch for cottages lining an artificial lake in a phantom developement. She gave them a tour through one 'mode cottage' called 'le chateau del pueblo' that s now an annex of Miami s Dorsch Gallery.
rohn s redecoration of this house, with it s sagging florsand quirky architectural details is a tour de force. It blithely comments on the vices of cookie cutter developementsas well as on gender stereotypes and pretentious faux European taste."
Elisa Turner , Brooke Dorsch Gallery Performance by David Rohn Miami Herald Jan 15 2002