Every month, Visual AIDS invites guest curators, drawn from both the arts and AIDS communities, to select several works from the Frank Moore Archive Project. This month, Sacha Yanow curates Why Do You Insist on Flaunting? featuring the artwork of Archive Artist Members; Robert Blanchon, Angel Borrero, Jerome Caja, Valerie Caris, Joe DeHoyos, Brent Nicholson Earle, Arnold Fern, Max Greenberg, Carlos Gutierrez-Solana, Keith Haring, W. Benjamin Incerti, Affreka Jefferson, John Lesnick, Tara Popick, Hugh Steers, Becky Trotter, Gregory Veney and David Wojnarowicz.
From the Curator's Statement: The Frank Moore Archive Project at Visual AIDS’s sole organizing principle—preserving a visual record of the workof artists who live or have lived with HIV/AIDS—separates it from other kinds of art-world spaces. The grouping creates a tremendous emotional, aesthetic and social power.... I found myself drawn to work that directly addresses the disease and its social and political causes – most especially the homophobia that pre-existed AIDS. In my selection are images that particularly moved me with their combination of beauty, humor, pain and defiance. The title, Why Do You Insist On Flaunting?, taken from Carlos Gutierrez-Solana's work, refers to the selected images' use of life-affirming vitality and "gayness" to disrupt the social and political status quo that perpetuates the crisis. (read more)
About the Curator:
Sacha Yanow is a NYC-based artist. She is the Director of Art Matters and previously served as Director of Operations at The Kitchen. She has performed in film, theater and dance works by many artists including Karen Finley, Julie Tolentino, Laura Parnes and Sarah Michelson. She is a writer and performer in the ongoing live lesbian serial Room for Cream at La Mama, and is a member of the Dyke Division of the Theater of a Two-Headed Calf. Most recently, she has been developing a series of solo video and performance “public service announcements”, the first of which will be included in the Little Theater evening at Dixon Place in February 2011. She is a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College and the William Esper Studio’s Actor Training Program.
image: Hugh Steers, Morning Terrace, 1992
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