Vittoria Benzine on Barbara Nitke
Office Magazine
May 15, 2024
Porn’s golden age plays out across the walls of Storage APT — a bohemian art apartment on Bowery. Onyedika Chuke christened his Tribeca art space’s outpost in February with about a dozen photos from Barbara Nitke’s American Ecstasy series, captured on porn sets throughout the 1980s. Some prints are on paper, others on aluminum, lending a proper silver screen. But, even admiring collectors are shy, I learned, about living alongside explicit imagery. Storage APT, or “art presentation template,” as Chuke says, highlights how well Nitke’s sexy shots play in situ.